21 must-read fiction books like The Last Word by Taylor Adams

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The Last Word

By: Taylor Adams

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the a…

"Being seen burdens you with an image you have to maintain."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

"Being seen burdens you with an image you have to maintain."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

"Far worse things can happen to you than some stranger hurting your feelings on the internet."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

"Far worse things can happen to you than some stranger hurting your feelings on the internet."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

If you liked the fiction plot in The Last Word by Taylor Adams , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell

1. None of This Is True

By: Lisa Jewell

4.12

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

Cover of Good Bad Girl by Alice Feeney

2. Good Bad Girl

By: Alice Feeney

3.66

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes bad things happen to good people, so good people have to do bad things. Alice Feeney, ret… read more

Similar categories in Alice Feeney's Good Bad Girl book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Only One Left by Riley Sager

3. The Only One Left

By: Riley Sager

4.14

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Ho… read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's The Only One Left book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You're never alone when there's a book,' she used to say. 'Never ever."

-Riley Sager, The Only One Left

Cover of Home Is Where the Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose

4. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's Home Is Where the Bodies Are book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Listen for the Lie

By: Amy Tintera

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more

Similar categories in Amy Tintera's Listen for the Lie book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

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6. The Quiet Tenant

By: Clémence Michallon

3.85

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Aidan Thomas is a hard-working family man and a somewhat beloved figure in the small upstate New Yo… read more

Similar categories in Clémence Michallon's The Quiet Tenant book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m sorry,"

-Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

"This is the story I tell myself. No one’s around to tell me it doesn’t make sense. It starts out as a tribute and ends in selfishness. It isn’t about her. Not really. It’s about me and the parts of m…"

-Clémence Michallon, The Quiet Tenant

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7. The Drowning Woman

By: Robyn Harding

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously twisted story of friendship, retribution, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Harding's The Drowning Woman book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. No One Can Know

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The author of What Lies in the Woods returns with a novel about three sisters, two murders, and too… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's No One Can Know book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A pregnancy wasn’t a promise."

-Kate Alice Marshall, No One Can Know

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9. What Lies in the Woods

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.96

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Naomi Shaw used to believe in magic. Twenty-two years ago, she and her two best friends, Cassidy an… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's What Lies in the Woods book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Nothing good comes from digging up old trouble."

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

"But why should she be able to leave the woods, when I never had?"

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

"Don't worry. She does this. She likes to go out to the woods to think."

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

"When it comes to relationships, if you could take it or leave it, leaving is always the right choice"

-Kate Alice Marshall, What Lies in the Woods

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10. Darling Girls

By: Sally Hepworth

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all. For as long as they… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's Darling Girls book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She didn’t do well out of her routine."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"[…] the dogs burst out into the night in search of nocturnal animals to torment."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"She had a very specific routine that she had to follow if she was to have the slightest hope of drifting off."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"Today had involved far too much talking. Norah appreciated the great wonder of communication as much as the next person, but she despised it in excess."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

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11. The Stranger Upstairs

By: Lisa M. Matlin

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A social media influencer with a secret past buys a murder house to renovate, but finds more than s… read more

Similar categories in Lisa M. Matlin's The Stranger Upstairs book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Soulmate

By: Sally Hepworth

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A thrilling, addictive novel about marriage, betrayal, and the secrets that push us to the edge... … read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's The Soulmate book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Kill for Me, Kill for You by Steve Cavanagh

13. Kill for Me, Kill for You

By: Steve Cavanagh

4.20

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Silent Patient and Gone Girl, a razor-sharp and Hitchcock-inspired psychological th… read more

Similar categories in Steve Cavanagh's Kill for Me, Kill for You book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

Similar categories in Simone St. James's Murder Road book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Word by Taylor  Adams

15. The Last Word

By: Taylor Adams

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the a… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Adams's The Last Word book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"Being seen burdens you with an image you have to maintain."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

"Far worse things can happen to you than some stranger hurting your feelings on the internet."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

Cover of The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda

16. The Only Survivors

By: Megan Miranda

3.55

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

A decade ago, two vans filled with high school seniors on a school service trip crashed into a Tenn… read more

Similar categories in Megan Miranda's The Only Survivors book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

17. The Writing Retreat

By: Julia Bartz

3.43

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding… read more

Similar categories in Julia Bartz's The Writing Retreat book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
"At thirteen I learned from Roza's stolen book that girls don't have to be sweet little creatures, that they could in fact be angry and dark and sexual."

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"Where did one's power lie in a world that stripped it from you, over and over again? How could we reclaim it when dominant forces dangled it over our heads, shouting, "only the strong survive?"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"That was the way of the world: if you were a woman, then you had a job to do, and that was to pretend to love everyone else walking all over your body, leaving imprints on your face. You were suppose…"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

Cover of A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) by Peter  Swanson

18. A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)

By: Peter Swanson

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Swanson's A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of She Started It by Sian Gilbert

19. She Started It

By: Sian Gilbert

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Lucy Foley and Liane Moriarty, She Started It is a hot, twisty summer debut thriller ab… read more

Similar categories in Sian Gilbert's She Started It book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Middle of the Night by Riley Sager

20. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

Similar categories in Riley Sager's Middle of the Night book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • horror
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Dark Corners (Rachel Krall, #2) by Megan Goldin

21. Dark Corners (Rachel Krall, #2)

By: Megan Goldin

3.84

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Terence Bailey is about to be released from prison for breaking and entering, though investigators … read more

Similar categories in Megan Goldin's Dark Corners (Rachel Krall, #2) book and Taylor Adams's The Last Word

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

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None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

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Good Bad Girl

Alice Feeney

3.66

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Home Is Where the Bodies Are

Jeneva Rose

3.86

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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