The Grownup
By: Gillian Flynn
3.56
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless frau…
Want to Read $ 6.99"She is an incredibly intelligent idiot"-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
"She is an incredibly intelligent idiot"-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
"People want passion. People want a sense of purpose."-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
"People want passion. People want a sense of purpose."-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
If you liked the thriller plot in The Grownup by Gillian Flynn , here is a list of 28 books like this:
1. Sour Candy
By: Kealan Patrick Burke
3.65
Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition
At first glance, Phil Pendleton and his son Adam are just an ordinary father and son, no different … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
"Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out."-Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy
2. Come Closer
By: Sara Gran
3.65
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more
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- mystery thriller
- novella
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
"What we think is impossible happens all the time."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."-Sara Gran, Come Closer
3. Blonde Hair, Blue Eyes
By: Karin Slaughter , Carolina Caires Coelho
4.12
Format: 29 pages, ebook
A missing girl in the news reminds Julia Carroll of herself: nineteen, beautiful, blonde hair, blue… read more
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- mystery thriller
- short stories
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- audiobook
4. The Grownup
By: Gillian Flynn
3.56
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless frau… read more
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- mystery thriller
- novella
- suspense
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"She is an incredibly intelligent idiot"-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
"People want passion. People want a sense of purpose."-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
"... it’s a nice day’s work when you make a lot of people smile."-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
"But I felt, for once, decent. Not telling-myself-I-am decent, but just decent."-Gillian Flynn, The Grownup
5. We Have Always Lived in the Castle
By: Shirley Jackson , Jonathan Lethem
4.32
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not l… read more
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6. A Short Stay in Hell
By: Steven L. Peck
4.22
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
An ordinary family man, geologist, and Mormon, Soren Johansson has always believed he’ll be reunite… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
"Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"Strange, how a moment of existence can cut so deeply into our being that while ages pass unnoticed, a brief love can structure and define the very topology of our consciousness ever after."-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
"I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what of it? After a billion years there is nothing left to say, and you wander apart, un…"-Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell
7. You Should Have Left
By: Daniel Kehlmann , Ross Benjamin
3.44
Format: 113 pages, Kindle Edition
From the internationally best-selling author of Measuring the World and F, an eerie and supernatura… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
"Ehe. Das Geheimnis ist, dass man sich ja doch liebt. Ich würde nicht ohne sie sein wollen - selbst ihr Schauspielerlachen würde mir fehlen. Und sie nicht ohne mich. Wenn man einander nur nicht unterd…"-Daniel Kehlmann, You Should Have Left
8. 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
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- 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
9. 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
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
10. 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
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- 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
11. 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
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
12. 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
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- 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
13. 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
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- 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
14. Feed Them Silence
By: Lee Mandelo
3.52
Format: 105 pages, Hardcover
Lee Mandelo dives into the minds of wolves in Feed Them Silence, a novella of the near future.What … read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
15. Rouge
By: Mona Awad
3.56
Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more
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- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."-Mona Awad, Rouge
"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"-Mona Awad, Rouge
"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"-Mona Awad, Rouge
16. Comfort Me with Apples
By: Catherynne M. Valente
3.59
Format: 103 pages, Hardcover
Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their ho… read more
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- mystery thriller
- novella
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Why doesn’t He love me like He loves you?"-Catherynne M. Valente, Comfort Me with Apples
17. Ankle Snatcher
By: Grady Hendrix
3.74
Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition
Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
18. My Husband
By: Maud Ventura
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In this suspenseful and darkly funny debut novel, a sophisticated French woman spends her life obse… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"When it comes to love, I’ve learned nothing: I love too intensely and I’m consumed by my own love (analysis, jealousy, doubt)—so much that when I’m in love, I always end up slightly extinguished and …"-Maud Ventura, My Husband
19. Helpmeet
By: Naben Ruthnum
3.41
Format: 94 pages, Paperback
It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more
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- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet
20. This Is Where We Talk Things Out
By: Caitlin Marceau
3.77
Format: 93 pages, ebook
This Is Where We Talk Things Out by Caitlin Marceau, author of Palimpsest: A Collection of Contempo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- thriller
- adult
21. I'm Thinking of Ending Things
By: Iain Reid
3.55
Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition
Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in t… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Reality only happens once." (P. 48)"-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"It hurts, all of it, but we feel nothing."-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"Every story is made up. Even the real ones."-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
"I actually want to be older. I’m happy to age, seriously."-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things
22. Bright Young Women
By: Jessica Knoll
4.02
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women
23. The Christmas Guest
By: Peter Swanson
3.63
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
An American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hal… read more
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- mystery thriller
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
24. The Fury
By: Alex Michaelides
3.38
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneo… read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Character is fate"-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
"Love is mutual respect, and constancy- and friendship"-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
"Do not despair at being different. For that very difference, initially such a source of shame, so humiliating, and painful, will one day become a badge of honor and pride"-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
"I'd never seen Lana lose control. I won't say it wasn't frightening; but then, uncontained emotion is always distressing to be around, isn't it? Particularly when it's from someone you love."-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
25. Foe
By: Iain Reid
3.71
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. … read more
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"-Iain Reid, Foe
"I’VE BECOME MORE AWARE OF MYSELF. BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION. NOW THAT I KNOW I’M LEAVING, I SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. I’VE BEEN AWARE OF LITTLE THINGS THAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED BEFORE. “LIKE WHAT?"-Iain Reid, Foe
"I’ve been told these old barns are physical reminders of an older life, when things were different. They need upkeep. They need to be restored. It would be a tragedy if the one in this field is ablaz…"-Iain Reid, Foe
"I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house. ‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’ Anybody can remember details if you ask them…"-Iain Reid, Foe
26. Nestlings
By: Nat Cassidy
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Paperback
Nat Cassidy is at his razor-sharp best again with his horror novel Nestlings, which harnesses the c… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Grief is the space between two states of being: who you were and who you are. It’s an excruciatingly long, unlit hallway. A staircase you have to crawl down, one interminable flight at a time."-Nat Cassidy, Nestlings
27. Night of the Mannequins
By: Stephen Graham Jones
3.34
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more
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- mystery thriller
- novella
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins
"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins
"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins
28. Black Sheep
By: Rachel Harrison
3.60
Format: 289 pages, Hardcover
A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep
"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep
29. Bunny
By: Mona Awad
3.50
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. … read more
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- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"The pink pony inside me weeps softly."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Oh, Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"We think of it as art meets life, Bunny. We’re putting art into the world."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?"-Mona Awad, Bunny
30. How to Sell a Haunted House
By: Grady Hendrix
3.68
Format: 419 pages, Hardcover
Grady Hendrix takes on the haunted house in a thrilling new novel that explores the way your past—a… read more
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- mystery thriller
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
"Nice clean cut," Santos said, and Louise almost said thank you but managed to stop herself."-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
"Mom and Dad could've done it," he said. "They were grown-ups. We're just . . . tall children."-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
"But if we weren’t related, if we met today, we wouldn’t choose to be friends. We’re different people with different values, and we’re also adults who can choose who we want to spend our time with…"-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
"There were so many dolls in there, waiting for her. Somewhere, in a less rational part of her brain, Louise felt that nothing could look so human and exist for so long without starting to develop tho…"-Grady Hendrix, How to Sell a Haunted House
31. 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
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- mystery thriller
- suspense
- fiction
- horror
- mystery
- thriller
- adult
- audiobook
