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Books like The Silent Patient
The best books like The Silent Patient are The Woman in the Window, In Cold Blood, and The Psychopath Test. The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides is about silence and confession, obsession, trauma and repression. 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.
- The Woman in the Window
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A.J. Finn · Thriller
Anna Fox is a child psychologist who hasn't left her Manhattan brownstone in ten months.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - 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 thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Psychopath Test
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Jon Ronson · Psychology
Jon Ronson is a journalist who starts investigating a strange series of anonymous books sent to academics around the world, and ends up spending a year exploring psychopathy, the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, and the question of whether the diagnostic categories psychiatry uses are tools for understanding people or labels that do damage of their own.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Daniel Kahneman · Psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow is Daniel Kahneman's account of the two cognitive systems that govern human thought.
A kindred thriller read.
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.
Shares obsession and unreliable narration with The Silent Patient.
Read the summary → - The Maidens
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Alex Michaelides · Thriller
The Maidens opens on Mariana Andros, a group therapist living in London, still raw from the sudden death of her husband.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - The Snowman
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Jo Nesbø · Thriller
Detective Harry Hole of the Oslo Police is drawn to a series of disappearances connected by one detail: a snowman appears outside each woman's home before she vanishes.
Both dig into obsession.
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 → - Barbarian Days
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William Finnegan · Memoir
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of a life spent surfing — from his childhood in Los Angeles and Hawaii through decades of obsessive searching for waves across the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and eventually the cold waters of New York.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - Fermat's Enigma
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Simon Singh · Science
In 1637, Pierre de Fermat scrawled a note in the margin of a mathematics book claiming to have found a proof that no three positive integers can satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer value of n greater than 2 — but that the margin was too narrow to contain it.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - Moby-Dick
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Herman Melville · Literary fiction
Moby-Dick opens with one of the most famous sentences in American literature — "Call me Ishmael" — and immediately establishes a voice that is learned, digressive, sardonic, and strange.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - November 9
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Colleen Hoover · Contemporary fiction
Fallon and Ben meet in a diner on November 9th, the day Fallon is leaving Los Angeles to move across the country.
Both dig into obsession.
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Books like The Silent Patient: quick answers
What are the best books like The Silent Patient?
The best books like The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides are The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Verity by Colleen Hoover, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Silent Patient, such as silence and confession, obsession, trauma and repression.
What should I read after The Silent Patient?
A natural next read after The Silent Patient is The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn. A kindred thriller read. Other strong choices are In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
What books are similar to The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides?
The Silent Patient centers on silence and confession, obsession, trauma and repression. Books with a similar feel include The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Psychopath Test by Jon Ronson, Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Verity by Colleen Hoover, The Maidens by Alex Michaelides — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
