21 must-read thriller books like The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard

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The Nothing Man

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with seri…

"Fiction only really worked if it was built like a lattice through which you were repeatedly offered glimpses of absolute truth."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, The Nothing Man

"Fiction only really worked if it was built like a lattice through which you were repeatedly offered glimpses of absolute truth."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, The Nothing Man

"Fiction only really worked if it was built like a lattice through which you were repeatedly offered glimpses of absolute truth."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, The Nothing Man

If you liked the thriller plot in The Nothing Man by Catherine Ryan Howard , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. She's Not Sorry

By: Mary Kubica

3.81

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's She's Not Sorry book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. 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 Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • 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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4. 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 Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • 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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5. 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 Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. If Something Happens to Me

By: Alex Finlay

3.79

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open… read more

Similar categories in Alex Finlay's If Something Happens to Me book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Strange Sally Diamond

By: Liz Nugent

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father… read more

Similar categories in Liz Nugent's Strange Sally Diamond book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • audiobook
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9. Someone in the Attic

By: Andrea Mara

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From a #1 internationally bestselling author comes an atmospheric, chilling novel about a family wh… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Mara's Someone in the Attic book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People trust people with dogs. They do. There’s an inherent belief that dog people are good people."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

"They’re keen to help and intrigued too, she can see, in that way people are when there’s drama but no personal risk."

-Andrea Mara, Someone in the Attic

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10. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

Similar categories in Marcus Kliewer's We Used to Live Here book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Nightwatching

By: Tracy Sierra

3.86

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The Fallon Spring Reads Book Club Pick A mother is forced to the breaking point when her life an… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Sierra's Nightwatching book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

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17. The Family Experiment

By: John Marrs

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and bril… read more

Similar categories in John Marrs's The Family Experiment book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Look Closer

By: David Ellis

4.21

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

"Simon and Vicky couldn't seem more a wealthy Chicago couple with a stable, if unexciting, marriag… read more

Similar categories in David Ellis's Look Closer book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The brilliance of the law is that it's not concerned with one person but with a system applicable to all. It protects the guilty so it can protect the innocent."

-David Ellis, Look Closer

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20. That's Not My Name

By: Megan Lally

4.12

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and … read more

Similar categories in Megan Lally's That's Not My Name book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. The Nothing Man

By: Catherine Ryan Howard

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

At the age of twelve, Eve Black was the only member of her family to survive an encounter with seri… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man book and Catherine Ryan Howard's The Nothing Man

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • audiobook
"Fiction only really worked if it was built like a lattice through which you were repeatedly offered glimpses of absolute truth."

-Catherine Ryan Howard, The Nothing Man

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Mary Kubica

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