9 Top mystery books like The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas

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The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo…

If you liked the mystery plot in The Sleepwalkers by Scarlett Thomas , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Jaded

By: Ela Lee

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more

Similar categories in Ela Lee's Jaded book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"

-Ela Lee, Jaded

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2. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

Similar categories in Miranda July's All Fours book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

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3. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Main Character

By: Jaclyn Goldis

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bestselling thriller author arranges a luxury train trip that is not what it appears to be in thi… read more

Similar categories in Jaclyn Goldis's The Main Character book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Man's Best Friend

By: Alana B. Lytle

3.13

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A failed actress must decide how much she will give up—and what lies she will overlook—in order to … read more

Similar categories in Alana B. Lytle's Man's Best Friend book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Life had been shallow in his absence, but she'd been able to breathe."

-Alana B. Lytle, Man's Best Friend

"The following weekend delivered that unhappy combination of cloud cover and oppressive humidity."

-Alana B. Lytle, Man's Best Friend

"It seemed to El like there were two kinds of loss. There was loss you might see coming, and maybe it did break your heart. But then there was loss so unexpected, so incomprehensible that the pain was…"

-Alana B. Lytle, Man's Best Friend

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6. The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • gothic
  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • greece
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7. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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8. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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9. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langan's A Better World book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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10. The Winner

By: Teddy Wayne

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more

Similar categories in Teddy Wayne's The Winner book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Garden

By: Clare Beams

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a secret garden with unknown powers fuels this page-turning and psychologically th… read more

Similar categories in Clare Beams's The Garden book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • gothic
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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13. Look in the Mirror

By: Catherine Steadman

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

🎧Listening Length 8 hours, 13 minutes Nina, still grieving from the loss of her father, discove… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Look in the Mirror book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She reassures herself: sometimes the only way out is through. She knows this fact as implicitly as she knows how to stand and walk and run as fast as she possibly can. She learned it young. Sometimes…"

-Catherine Steadman, Look in the Mirror

Cover of Liars by Sarah Manguso

14. 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 Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • 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

15. 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 Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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16. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. 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 Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • 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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18. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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19. State of Paradise

By: Laura van den Berg

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing fun house of uncanniness hidden in Florida’s underbelly, from a reality-warping stor… read more

Similar categories in Laura van den Berg's State of Paradise book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

Similar categories in Halle Butler's Banal Nightmare book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Audacity

By: Ryan Chapman

2.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A bracing satire about the implosion of a Theranos-like company, the end of a relationship, and lif… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Chapman's The Audacity book and Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction

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