In 2012, gillian flynns third novel, gone girl, was published. The last mention in this list of alternative books like gone girl on amazon is luckiest girl alive which was published in the year 2015. Gone girl, the latest novel from gillian flynn, tells a story of lies, manipulation, and revenge. I used that strategy in the first part of this book as the author withholds vital information as to what is really going on. Like every person i knew during the summer of 2012, i read gone girl as if my life depended on it. But you likely knocked out both of those books before the calendar flipped over to 2. Gone girl revamps gender stereotypes for the worse. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, gillian flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. If you are a serial reader, id suggest you haul ass to goodreads, recommendations galore. Get your read on and prepare for major chills down your spine. Aug 14, 2019 when i was looking for the recommendations for books like gone girl, ruth ware was one of the highly recommended authors everywhere, especially in the psychological thriller genre. Now your sleepless nights are spent yearning for another gillian flynn bookand could the days until the gone girl movie comes out be going by any slower.
The story follows nick and amy, a couple who are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. Accurate or not, gone girl s revised stereotypes, like their muchdecried predecessors, will doubtless leave their mark, since the film looks like being even more successful than the book. Although the books in this list arent exactly similar to gone girl book or even the girl on the train, if you enjoyed those books, you will definitely like some of the following. Leaving the theatre, you have to ask yourself how connected these ideas are in real life. Dec 05, 20 the novel is full of mirrors and dead ends, just like gone girl, and it has a psychotic girl at its heart. Mar 14, 2018 loved the book, gone girl by gillian flynn.
Oct 06, 2016 gone girl by gillian flynn if youre the rare person who has read the girl on the train but not gone girl, we need you to pull over immediately. Its just that there are so many stories to choose from, which you already know if you, like millions of other readers, rapidly inhaled novels like gone girl and the girl on the train over the. I loved the way amy was portrayed and how she won in the end. Amy also became married to writer nick dunne after meeting him at a party, bonding with. In publishing terms that means its a monster, gigantic hit, but that. Sep 25, 2014 gillian flynns gone girl first a novel, now a buzzy movie starring ben affleck, in theaters oct. Gone girl author gillian flynn talks murder, marriage, and con games gone girl author gillian flynn to write her first young adult novel amazon picks its 10 best books of 2012. Youll love this one if youre looking for themes of twisted depravity classic to books like gone girl. Amy dunne rosamund pike is the hidden main villainess of the 2014 film gone girl, as well as the 2012 gillian flynn novel of the same title. Gone girl gillian flynn, 2012 crown publishing 432 pp. Enthralling books like gone girl everyone should read at least once. Heralded as the next gone girl by critics and readers alike, the girl on the train is a fastpaced novel of suspense and deception. I read it at the beach, i read it while eating a salad at work, i read it past my bedtime. Amy dunne gone girl the female villains wiki fandom.
From a chilling debut by angie kim to the newest title by ruth ware, this list of books like gone girl will give you the psychological thrills you. Books that perform well based on their reader engagement are published by inkitt in different formats and channels. The books turnedmovies have been compared lately after the success of gone girl and the upcoming release of the girl on the train, but in fact, the differences are more apparent than the. Oct 08, 2014 gone girl is a fantasy, of course, and it takes place in a dream world, not reality. The pair falls on hard times when they both lose their jobs. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Now that i have read this book, i can conclude that the woman in cabin 10 is a mustread for the gillian flynns fans and soon to be ruth wares fans.
Jan 02, 2017 in 2012, gillian flynns third novel, gone girl, was published. If you loved gone girl, try reading these 9 other books, too. The first half of the novel tells the story of lotto and mathildes whirlwind romance and ensuing 20. Nine exhilarating recommendations for readers looking for more books like gone girl by gillian flynn. Gillian flynns gone girl first a novel, now a buzzy movie starring ben affleck, in theaters oct.
The prominent theme is the degradation of lust into a dangerous and potentially violent obsession. Like gone girl, luckiest girl alive tells the story with a series of flashbacks that shed light on the characters present situations. The best books to read if you liked gone girl purewow. Sep 24, 2015 like gone girl, this novel features a duplicitous female protagonist with dark secrets and a disturbing knack for storytelling. The chicago tribune proclaimed that her work draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but. Gillian flynns gone girl was released in paperback last week nearly two years after its initial release. Enthralling books like gone girl everyone should read at least. Several parallels have also been drawn between gone girl and luckiest girl alive by jessica knoll, a fairly decent read, in the same genre but cannot hold a candle to flynn. While amy starts off innocent, the protagonist of luckiest girl alive is the opposite.
Online and instore available instore filter results. Despite being her debut work, the novel turned out to be new york times best seller in the category of mystery novels. The famous speech from gillian flynns 2012 novel gone girl. Apr 17, 2018 if you are still longing for twisted endings and dark themes, here are five books like gone girl to feed your addiction. From strange disappearances to troubled husbandandwife relationships, these books like gone girl are sure to keep you in suspense until. Rosamund pike as amy dunne in gone girl gone girl probably the weirdest movie ive ever seen. Ever since i read it last year i have been on the hunt for similar books. The genre has moved beyond just works with the word girl in the title much to our relief. I would love to read books with more villains like her. Find books like gone girl from the worlds largest community of readers. Once youve zoomed through it, youll want to try these pageturners next. In the girl before, jane has recently been approved to rent a spectacular house with an extreme set of rules. The story reveals how difficult it is as a married woman in terms of conceiving children and bad husband.
If you liked gillian flynns dark and suspenseful gone girl, then you have to read paula hawkinss pageturner the girl on the trainand vice versa. The psychological thriller tells the story of nick dunne, a man who is suspected of murdering his wife, amy, after she goes missing. Gone girl s toxic mix of sharpedged wit and deliciously chilling prose creates a nervefraying thriller that confounds you at every turn. Jun 20, 2017 116 of 432 results for books like gone girl skip to main search results amazon prime. Then youll definitely want to check out these 10 books to read if you loved gone girl. Luckily, 2015 has been kind to those of us who love gillian flynn books and are always looking for books to read with a similar appeal.
Gone girl by gillian flynn is one of my favorite books. It wont take too long to fly through the telling of the strange disappearance of amy dunne. Gone girl is an example of mystery, suspense, and crime genres. Girl on the train author shoots down gone girl comparisons. Youll start with, its about a husband whose wife goes. Jan 11, 2017 if gone girl was the last book you breezed through, here are ten books with great plot twists youll probably love. I would love to hear about suggestions for similar books. If your favorite part of gone girl was the twisted romance and slow uncovering of dark secrets, pick up the betrayal by laura elliot. Both books are full of shocking twists, unreliable narrators, and manipulative story lines.
The novel is full of mirrors and dead ends, just like gone girl, and it has a psychotic girl at its heart. The best summer books to read in 2019 readers digest. Aug 05, 2014 gone girl will soon be appearing on the big screen, thanks to director david fincher and stars ben affleck and rosamund pike flynns two previous novels are also being adapted for the screen. If you are still longing for twisted endings and dark themes, here are five books like gone girl to feed your addiction. A novel of suspense that explores the complexities of marriage and the. Despite coming from a psychopaths mouth, theres something very spoton and accurate about the nowfamous cool girl passage in gillian flynns thrillerturnedcinemahit, gone girl. Ive been on the hunt for books like gone girl ever since i finished gillian flynns bestselling book. Movies like gone girl if you like gone girl you are looking for psychological, surprise ending and tense movies about with mystery, missing person, police investigation, investigation, femme fatale, disappearance and manipulation themes of drama, mystery and thriller genre shot in usa. The girl on the train paula hawkins freak jennifer hillier among the missing morag joss the dinner herman koch you should have known jean korelitz the good girl mary kubica defending jacob william landay medical reconstructing amelia kimberly mccreight a line of blood ben mcpherson confessions kanae minato the secret keeper kate morton. Gone girl and the girl on the train were two of the most popular books of the last.
The senior girl s guide to girl scouting good girl bad girl the bad boys girl gone girl mean girl girl the gone girl the new girl new girl tea girl wow girl the girl in the box top end girl girl in the box xl girl how to kiss a girl playboy girl how to draw a girl i am malala how one girl i am that girl book good girl bad girl. Gone girl is a psychological and witty thriller about a hatefilled pair who make the macbeths look like ozzie and harriet. The movies are categorized with psychological thriller. This is a mystery novel by american author jessica knoll.
Gone girl by gillian flynn thug notes book summary and. Jan 30, 2015 what the majority of the books on this list have in common, aside from being page turning thrillers, is a comparison to gone girl. Best psychological thrillers books like gone girl refinery29. How the twist was so shocking and how the characters were so perfectly written. What the majority of the books on this list have in common, aside from being page turning thrillers, is a comparison to gone girl. Elizabeth littles dear daughter is no different, being called. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, new york times bestseller gillian flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. Flynn adapted this monologue for the 2014 movie version of her book. Psychological thrillers continue to be popular, following the success of the book and adaptations of bestsellers like gone girl, the girl on the train, and big little lies. Dead girl running by christina dodd kellen adams just wants to escape her former life and the year she cant remember so when she gets the chance to start a new life at a remote resort in the pacific northwest, she takes it. Having been immersed in so many mystery books and television plots you usually go with the strategy of who is the least likely suspect as a mystery unfolds. From topping the new york times bestseller list to becoming a box office hit, it is clear that audiences everywhere were entranced by gillian flynns gone girl. Then youre definitely going to love this selection of thrillers. Here are some books that i have come accross that i liked.
Sep 29, 2014 like every person i knew during the summer of 2012, i read gone girl as if my life depended on it. May 31, 2019 5 books like gone girl if youre obsessed with psychological thrillers now. At the same time i feel like i am more like nick in personality. Nov 09, 2014 gone girl by gillian flynn is one of my favorite books. If youve read gone girl you remember the feeling you had when it was over. Aug 17, 2017 as with gone girl, the marriage at the heart of fates and furies is a multifaceted beast. Every book thats been called the new gone girl stylecaster.
The psychological thriller tells the story of nick dunne, a man who is suspected of murdering his. Well, its hard to find something so great again but we did it, we found a few books like gone girl. They are twisty, captivating and will leave you on the edge of your seat. I actually like this the best of frenchs novels, but its kinder than a gillian flynn novel. In this, frenchs first book, detective rob ryan is assigned to a murder that occurred in the same woods where he, as a child, witnessed a terrible crime whose details hes blacked out. Luckiest girl alive by jessica knoll like she did withgone girl, reese witherspoon has also signed on to produce a bigscreen version of this cantputitdown novel, written by former. Mar 06, 2017 since then, a lot of books have been termed as the new gone girl, however, most of them have ended up disappointing. You ran out and bought sharp objects and dark places and read them in two sleepless nights. Jan 17, 2018 psychological thrillers continue to be popular, following the success of the book and adaptations of bestsellers like gone girl, the girl on the train, and big little lies. With a taut, twisty plot that has the uninitiated screaming no spoilers. Like gone girl, this novel features a duplicitous female protagonist with dark secrets and a disturbing knack for storytelling. If you liked gone girl and the girl on the train north vancouver.