7 must-read thriller books like The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

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The Rich People Have Gone Away

By: Regina Porter

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

1. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Cover of Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" by Emily  Raboteau

2. Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse"

By: Emily Raboteau

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author and critic Emily Raboteau uses the lens of motherhood to craft a powerfully mo… read more

Similar categories in Emily Raboteau's Lessons for Survival: Mothering Against "The Apocalypse" book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • audiobook
Cover of Liars by Sarah Manguso

3. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

4. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Playground by Richard Powers

5. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

Similar categories in Richard Powers's Playground book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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6. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

Similar categories in Jo Hamya's The Hypocrite book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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7. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's The Sons of El Rey book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Hum

By: Helen Phillips

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wif… read more

Similar categories in Helen Phillips's Hum book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

10. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Colored Television

By: Danzy Senna

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dark comedy about second acts, creative appropriation, and the racial identity–industrial complex… read more

Similar categories in Danzy Senna's Colored Television book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

12. The Rich People Have Gone Away

By: Regina Porter

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn, 2020. Theo Harper and his pregnant wife Darla head upstate to their summer cottage to wai… read more

Similar categories in Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) by Jean Hanff Korelitz

13. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Someone Like Us by Dinaw Mengestu

14. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

Similar categories in Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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15. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

Cover of This Great Hemisphere by Mateo Askaripour

16. This Great Hemisphere

By: Mateo Askaripour

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck : A speculative novel about a young wom… read more

Similar categories in Mateo Askaripour's This Great Hemisphere book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
Cover of Guide Me Home (Highway 59, #3) by Attica Locke

17. Guide Me Home (Highway 59, #3)

By: Attica Locke

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the final novel in the "timely and evocative" (NPR) Highway 59 trilogy, from Edgar Award-winning… read more

Similar categories in Attica Locke's Guide Me Home (Highway 59, #3) book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell

18. Sky Full of Elephants

By: Cebo Campbell

4.01

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college prof… read more

Similar categories in Cebo Campbell's Sky Full of Elephants book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

19. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg

20. A Reason to See You Again

By: Jami Attenberg

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's A Reason to See You Again book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of We're Alone: Essays by Edwidge Danticat

21. We're Alone: Essays

By: Edwidge Danticat

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Tracing a loose arc from Edwidge Danticat's childhood to the COVID-19 pandemic and recent events in… read more

Similar categories in Edwidge Danticat's We're Alone: Essays book and Regina Porter's The Rich People Have Gone Away

19 Best fiction books like The Rich People Have Gone Away by Regina Porter

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Liars

Sarah Manguso

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Long Island Compromise

Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Playground

Richard Powers

4.35

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19 Best fiction books like Liars by Sarah Manguso

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All Fours

Miranda July

3.81

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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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Bear

Julia Phillips

3.38

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Same As It Ever Was

Claire Lombardo

4.00

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