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Books like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The best books like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd are In Cold Blood, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time, and The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie is about unreliable narration, complicity and guilt, secrets and respectability. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote · Memoir
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time
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The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time
Maria Konnikova · Psychology
Maria Konnikova has a PhD in psychology and writes about it for a wide audience.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
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The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
Ben Macintyre · History
Ben Macintyre tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became the most important British spy of the Cold War.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - Death on the Nile
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Agatha Christie · Mystery
A luxury Nile cruise becomes the setting for one of Agatha Christie's most accomplished locked-room puzzles.
A kindred mystery read.
Read the summary → - Homegoing
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Yaa Gyasi · Historical fiction
Homegoing begins in eighteenth-century Ghana with two half-sisters who never meet.
Both dig into complicity and guilt.
Read the summary → - Mistborn: The Final Empire
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Brandon Sanderson · Fantasy
Mistborn: The Final Empire opens with a premise that inverts a thousand years of genre convention: the Dark Lord won.
Both dig into trust and betrayal.
Read the summary → - Shutter Island
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Dennis Lehane · Thriller
It is 1954, and U.S.
Both dig into complicity and guilt.
Read the summary → - The Atlas Six
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Olivie Blake · Fantasy
Six of the world's most powerful young magicians are recruited by the Alexandrian Society, a secret organization that has preserved forbidden knowledge since antiquity.
Both dig into trust and betrayal.
Read the summary → - The Lies of Locke Lamora
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Scott Lynch · Fantasy
The Lies of Locke Lamora is set in Camorr, a fantastical city modeled roughly on Renaissance Venice, complete with canals, noble families, crime lords, and a complex social order that the protagonist has spent his life learning to exploit.
Both dig into trust and betrayal.
Read the summary → - The Silent Patient
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Alex Michaelides · Thriller
Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband five times in the face and then never speaks another word.
Both dig into unreliable narration.
Read the summary → - The Turn of the Key
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Ruth Ware · Thriller
Rowan, a young nanny, writes a series of letters from prison to a solicitor she hopes will take her case.
Both dig into unreliable narration.
Read the summary → - Verity
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Colleen Hoover · Thriller
Lowen Ashby is a struggling author hired to ghostwrite the remaining books in bestselling thriller writer Verity Crawford's series, while Verity recovers from a traumatic brain injury.
Both dig into unreliable narration.
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Books like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: quick answers
What are the best books like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd?
The best books like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie are In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time by Maria Konnikova, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, such as unreliable narration, complicity and guilt, secrets and respectability.
What should I read after The Murder of Roger Ackroyd?
A natural next read after The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. A kindred mystery read. Other strong choices are The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time by Maria Konnikova, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie.
What books are similar to The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie?
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd centers on unreliable narration, complicity and guilt, secrets and respectability. Books with a similar feel include In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It Every Time by Maria Konnikova, The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre, Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
