17 best-selling suspense books like The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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The Silent Patient

By: Alex Michaelides

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photo…

"We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Love that doesn't include honest doesn't deserve to be called love."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Sometimes it takes courage, you know, and a long time, to be honest."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

If you liked the suspense plot in The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Behind Closed Doors

By: B.A. Paris

3.98

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. H… read more

Similar categories in B.A. Paris's Behind Closed Doors book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"What colour was Millie's room Grace?' 'Red, Millie's room was red."

-B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors

"Do I detect a renewal of your fighting spirit? I'm so glad. To tell the truth, I've been getting quite bored. Bring it on, Grace--I'm waiting for you."

-B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors

"I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine"

-B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors

"I cry even harder, thinking of how it could have been, of how I thought it would be. For the first time, I want to give up, to die, because suddenly everything is too much and there is no solution in…"

-B.A. Paris, Behind Closed Doors

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2. Then She Was Gone: A Novel

By: Lisa Jewell

3.54

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single fathe… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's Then She Was Gone: A Novel book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

3.24

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when sh… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. It Ends with Us

By: Colleen Hoover

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

SOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE MOST Lily hasn't always had it easy, b… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Pretty Girls

By: Karin Slaughter

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

#1 internationally bestselling author Karin Slaughter returns with a sophisticated and chilling psy… read more

Similar categories in Karin Slaughter's Pretty Girls book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

6. The Girl on the Train

By: Paula Hawkins

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every day the same Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she ratt… read more

Similar categories in Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

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7. 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 Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • 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

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8. The Teacher

By: Freida McFadden

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author Freida McFadden comes a chilling story of twisted secret… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Teacher book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Locked Door

By: Freida McFadden

4.05

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Some doors are locked for a reason… While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Locked Door book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. The Coworker

By: Freida McFadden

3.79

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Two women. An office filled with secrets. One terrible crime that can't be taken back Dawn Schif… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Coworker book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Local Woman Missing

By: Mary Kubica

4.14

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

People don’t just disappear without a trace.... Shelby Tebow is the first to go missing. Not lon… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kubica's Local Woman Missing book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

12. The Silent Patient

By: Alex Michaelides

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photo… read more

Similar categories in Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Love that doesn't include honest doesn't deserve to be called love."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Sometimes it takes courage, you know, and a long time, to be honest."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

Cover of Never Lie by Freida McFadden

13. Never Lie

By: Freida McFadden

4.09

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the … read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's Never Lie book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"my mother always said that the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead"

-Freida McFadden, Never Lie

"After all, my mother always said that the only way two people can keep a secret is if one of them is dead."

-Freida McFadden, Never Lie

Cover of The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) by Freida McFadden

14. The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

By: Freida McFadden

4.32

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile polit… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"No puedo fiarme de nadie, salvo de mí misma."

-Freida McFadden, The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

Cover of The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2) by Freida McFadden

15. The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2)

By: Freida McFadden

4.24

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

As he continues showing me their incredible penthouse apartment, I have a terrible feeling about th… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid's Secret (The Housemaid, #2) book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The Inmate

By: Freida McFadden

4.06

Format: 388 pages, Kindle Edition

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men's maximum-se… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Inmate book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Ward D

By: Freida McFadden

4.01

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.Amy has been dreadin… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's Ward D book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Perfect Marriage

By: Jeneva Rose

3.97

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Would you defend your husband if he was accused of killing his mistress? Sarah Morgan is a succe… read more

Similar categories in Jeneva Rose's The Perfect Marriage book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) by Freida McFadden

19. The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3)

By: Freida McFadden

3.90

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

“You must be our new neighbors!” Mrs. Lowell gushes and waves across the picket fence. I clutch my … read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid Is Watching (The Housemaid, #3) book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • psychological thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1) by Holly  Jackson

20. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

By: Holly Jackson

4.32

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

Everyone in Fairview knows the story. Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murde… read more

Similar categories in Holly Jackson's A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1) book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"He's innocent"

-Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

"I don’t trust coincidences."

-Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

"We’re a team, remember. You and me."

-Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

"Real men wear floral when trespassing"

-Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, #1)

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21. Verity

By: Colleen Hoover

4.31

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Hoover's Verity book and Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No one is likable from the inside out."

-Colleen Hoover, Verity

"The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe."

-Colleen Hoover, Verity

"I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me."

-Colleen Hoover, Verity

"Don’t focus on why you’re playing the game. Just focus on the finish line."

-Colleen Hoover, Verity

19 Top fiction books like The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

Transform Your Habits

Behind Closed Doors

B.A. Paris

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Then She Was Gone: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

3.54

Transform Your Habits

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid

3.24

It Ends with Us

Colleen Hoover

3.66

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20 best-selling fiction books like The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose

Transform Your Habits

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Teacher

Freida McFadden

3.94

Transform Your Habits

The Wife Upstairs

Freida McFadden

4.12

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