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Books like Verity
The best books like Verity are The Woman in the Window, Lincoln in the Bardo, and The Virgin Suicides. Verity by Colleen Hoover is about unreliable narration, obsession, grief. 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 → - Lincoln in the Bardo
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George Saunders · Literary fiction
Lincoln in the Bardo takes place over a single night in February 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln visits the crypt where his eleven-year-old son Willie has just been buried.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Virgin Suicides
- Conversations with Friends
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Conversations with Friends is told by Frances, a twenty-one-year-old Dublin student who performs spoken-word poetry with her best friend and ex-girlfriend Bobbi.
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.
Shares obsession and grief with Verity.
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.
Shares unreliable narration and obsession with Verity.
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.
Shares obsession and deception with Verity.
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 → - A Fatal Grace
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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.
Both dig into grief.
Read the summary → - A Grief Observed
- A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers · Memoir
Dave Eggers's debut memoir about losing both parents to cancer within five weeks and raising his younger brother Toph while trying to start a literary magazine in San Francisco in the mid-1990s arrived in 2000 with unusual self-consciousness about its own nature.
Both dig into grief.
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Books like Verity: quick answers
What are the best books like Verity?
The best books like Verity by Colleen Hoover are The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Verity, such as unreliable narration, obsession, grief.
What should I read after Verity?
A natural next read after Verity is The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn. A kindred thriller read. Other strong choices are Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney.
What books are similar to Verity by Colleen Hoover?
Verity centers on unreliable narration, obsession, grief. Books with a similar feel include The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, The Maidens by Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
