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Books like The Silkworm

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith is about literary world and ambition, vengeance and humiliation, obsession and creativity. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Cuckoo's Calling
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    The Cuckoo's Calling

    Robert Galbraith · Mystery

    The Cuckoo's Calling was published in 2013 under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith and received modest but positive reviews before an anonymous tip revealed the author was J.K.

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  2. In Cold Blood
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    In Cold Blood

    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.

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  3. A Fatal Grace
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    A Fatal Grace

    Louise Penny · Mystery

    A Fatal Grace is the second novel in Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, set in the fictional Quebec village of Three Pines.

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  4. Bird by Bird
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    Bird by Bird

    Anne Lamott · Self-help

    Bird by Bird is Anne Lamott's guide to writing and the creative life, grown from a course she taught at UC Davis and developed over years of writing novels, essays, and journalism.

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  5. A Is for Alibi
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    A Is for Alibi

    Sue Grafton · Mystery

    Kinsey Millhone is a private investigator in Santa Teresa, California — Grafton's fictionalized Santa Barbara — recently divorced for the second time and living alone in a small apartment she describes with genuine affection.

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  6. And Then There Were None
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    And Then There Were None

    Agatha Christie · Mystery

    Ten strangers are invited to an island off the Devon coast under various pretexts.

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