Gone girl was adapted for a screenplay in the year 2014. Like gone girl, luckiest girl alive tells the story with a series of flashbacks that shed light on the characters present situations. Ever since i read it last year i have been on the hunt for similar books. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. On a warm summer morning in north carthage, missouri, it is nick and amy dunnes. If you like gone girl you might like similar books the girl on the train, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the lovely bones, the help, sharp objects.
Flight behaviour and the lacuna are magnificent books. Luckily, there is no shortage of these sorts of books. Like nick in gone girl, all evidence points to mikebut the reality of the situation is far more frightening. I expected to enjoy gone girl, but i wasnt expecting to admire it. The ten books that just might rival flynns chilling tale. Gone girl is one of those unique novels that are full of characters that are all deeply flawed, most of which are utterly unlikable by the storys end.
Here are some books that i have come accross that i liked. Numbers just some mere numbers she steps back when her eyes meet any soul. Despite the fact that flynn wrote the screenplay for david finchers new film, there are a. Gillian flynn author of gone girl, dark places and sharp. Earlier this year, many fans of gillian flynns 2012 thriller gone girl were dismayed to learn that the author had changed the storys ending for the film adaptation.
For years, camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the halfsister she barely knows. A novel is a wonderful book filled with suspense and crisp details. 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. If you liked gone girl and the girl on the train north vancouver. The genre has moved beyond just works with the word girl in the title much to our relief.
If you like gone girl you might like similar movies whiplash, the grand budapest hotel, the imitation game, mad max. While amy starts off innocent, the protagonist of luckiest girl alive is the opposite. Find books like gone girl from the worlds largest community of readers. You could imagine the skull quite easily is just the kind of sentiment you wish serial killers would keep to themselves. The tale of a disappearance and the web of suspicion it casts over a small town and its apparently orderly citizenry, flynns novel has met with both. Books that perform well based on their reader engagement are published by inkitt in different formats and channels. Here are 12 followup reads for the girl on the train that arent gone girl to fill the hole that hawkins left. 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. 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. I categorized it as an airport read, fun and forgettable.
Ive been on a mission to find other books to read that are similar to gone girl. This is so rare to discover the excellent pieces of literature like these books which are a rare combination of suspense and drama. Ive read gone girl, girl on the train, sharp objects, in a dark dark wood, and just finished all the missing girls super good if youve never. Like every person i knew during the summer of 2012, i read gone girl as if my life depended on it. 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.
So opens gillian flynns novel gone girl, creepily enough. Stories similar to gone girl books, stories, and novels like gone girl by gillian flynn. Youll start with, its about a husband whose wife goes. Gone girl is deserving of all the praise and trill. Since gillian flynns gone girl came out, tons of new novels have feverishly been compared to the bestseller. Major differences between the gone girl book and movie. Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our huge database of real readers favorite books to provide book recommendations and suggestions for what to read next.
She avoids eye contacts just to stay away from those awful, haunted numbers. Here you can find handpicked readalike recommendations for more than 4000 contemporary books and 3000 authors. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. Ive been on the hunt for books like gone girl ever since i finished gillian flynns bestselling book. Handpicked recommendations to other books that have a similar writing style or theme to 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. Gillian flynns gone girl first a novel, now a buzzy movie starring ben affleck, in theaters oct. Gone girl is a story about men and women who live double lives not because theyre secret agents or jewel thieves but because as human beings theyre incapable of being who they appear to be gone girl is a hall of mirrors where everything is an empty reflection, including the people who live there its content may be postmodern, but it. After having children, myriam decides to continue her career as a lawyer. It seems like every new thriller with a strong female protagonist is the next gone. As the title says, im looking for mystery type books similar to these.
A woman is murdered in a quiet dublin suburb and staged to look like a suicide. For the people who find their best friend in books, this is a must that they go through books like gone girl at least once in their life. She and her husband search for a perfect nanny who can look after their son and daughter. Enthralling books like gone girl everyone should read at least. The first mention in books like gone girl is before i go to sleep which also happens to be the first novel by s. This astounding book compels readers to exercise their. Books like gone girl, girl on the train, etc hello.
Use the alphabetical lists below to look up a favorite book or author and then click see readalikes to discover similar books. What the majority of the books on this list have in common. Books with unreliable narrators and rollercoaster plot twists all come together in this list of our favorite psychological thrillers. Ani is pretty unpleasant to begin with, and we become more sympathetic to her as we learn more about the tragic events. The film had gone by the same name and was directed by one, david fincher. If you like gone girl or even if like me you dont and want a similar thriller genre tana french has written five books that are great. Gone girl s premise, frankly, didnt do much for me. If you are still longing for twisted endings and dark themes, here are five books like gone girl to feed your addiction. Ive read at least ten books described as the next gone girl and not one of them was the same caliber, writing or tonewise. In gone girl, flynn introduces the readers to a newly wedded couple, amy, and. Detective frankie sheehan is nervous to investigate as her last. Lucky for you, women write some of the best twisty, keepyouupatnight mysteries.
Luckily, they meet louise, a nanny who is quiet, polite and so good with children. I apologize if this has been asked before but i couldnt find a post on it. I read it at the beach, i read it while eating a salad at work, i read it past my bedtime. But once youve read flynns gone girl, and her other books, dark places and sharp objects, to which can you turn for delicious, dark and twisty thrillers featuring complicated females and. Each book follows a new protagonist who was a supporting character in the previous novel. Gone girl by gillian flynn is one of my favorite books.
Interview with gillian flynn when i think of my wife, i always think of her head. Gone girl and the girl on the train were two of the most popular books of the last. Start typing the title or the author of a book you like, and click on the link underneath which matches best. Its also one of the first things nick dunnethe handsome, smarmy, admittedly dishonest narrator of the opening chapter of gillian flynns gone girltells us about the finely shaped head of his wife, amy. Our list of books like gone girl contain solely new releases. But dont be surprised to see some changes in the onscreen adaptation of the beloved gillian flynn book. Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter camille preaker faces a troubling assignment. Best psychological thrillers books like gone girl refinery29. All locations of nvdpl are closed until further notice but were still here to help. The next gone girl is just the new standard marketing term for psychological thrillers, especially ones having to do with marriagesfamily life. If you want to read more such alternative books like gone girl then the list which i have prepared for our readers might help you out in this. This book is one of the best performing novels by gillian flynn. The best thing about books similar to gone girl is that they surprise you in all possible ways.
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