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Books like The Snowman
The best books like The Snowman are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Poet, and In Cold Blood. The Snowman by Jo Nesbø is about serial violence and pattern, self-destruction, fatherhood and abandonment. 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 Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson · Thriller
Mikael Blomkvist is a financial journalist in Stockholm who has just lost a libel case brought by a billionaire industrialist.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Poet
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Michael Connelly · Thriller
Jack McEvoy is a crime reporter in Denver whose twin brother, a homicide detective, apparently kills himself.
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 → - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe · History
Say Nothing opens with a scene that sets its register precisely: Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, is dragged from her Belfast flat by a gang of masked strangers in December 1972 and never seen alive again.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson · History
The Devil in the White City tells two stories that unfolded simultaneously in Chicago in 1893.
A kindred thriller read.
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 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 obsession.
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 obsession.
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 → - Freedom
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Jonathan Franzen · Literary fiction
Walter and Patty Berglund are the kind of liberal couple that makes their neighbors slightly uncomfortable — too earnest, too visibly trying, their St.
Both dig into self-destruction.
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.
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Books like The Snowman: quick answers
What are the best books like The Snowman?
The best books like The Snowman by Jo Nesbø are The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Poet by Michael Connelly, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Snowman, such as serial violence and pattern, self-destruction, fatherhood and abandonment.
What should I read after The Snowman?
A natural next read after The Snowman is The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson. A kindred thriller read. Other strong choices are The Poet by Michael Connelly, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.
What books are similar to The Snowman by Jo Nesbø?
The Snowman centers on serial violence and pattern, self-destruction, fatherhood and abandonment. Books with a similar feel include The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, The Poet by Michael Connelly, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Maidens by Alex Michaelides — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
