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Flynn’s got two other novels under her belt — both worthy works — but neither that are anything near her breakthrough. For that, we recommend these: ### Tana French, In the Woods  Penguin Group French’s universe of related murder mysteries, all set in Dublin, first appeared between the pages of 2007’s _In the Woods_, about two different murders in the same place, two decades apart. The story’s solution should be simple, or something like obvious: One of the detectives investigating the new case is also the only surviving witness to the first murder, 20 years before. But everything is tangled together, and French, like Flynn, has a gift for luring readers into the dark while chasing for the truth. ### Ruth Rendell, 13 Steps Down  Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Rendell has been writing novels for more than 40 years with an unflagging psychological acuity and a serpent’s sense of the dark humor to be mined beneath society’s façades. In _13 Steps Down_, Rendell sets a socially isolated and violent young man against his equally isolated and nosy old landlady. What unites them — and haunts them — are the ghosts of the men and women who they worship to the brink and beyond. ### Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None  HarperCollins Publishers Perhaps Christie’s most acclaimed mystery, _And Then There Were None_ is as tick-tock precise as a Rube Goldberg machine. It gathers 10 mysterious strangers on an island before, one by one, they are just as mysteriously murdered. Christie has never been bloodthirstier, or more righteous. ### Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs  Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The most famous passage in Flynn’s _Gone Girl_ explains its main character’s disdain for “cool girls,” those women who appear endlessly appealing and appeasing by going along with whatever the men are doing and saying. It’s a passage that’s nothing less than savage in its truth-telling. Messud’s _The Woman Upstairs_ extends it for more than 300 pages. Starring 42-year-old teacher Nora Eldridge, the novel is no conventional thriller. But it swallows _Gone Girl_s’ gender-minded anger and wit like a spark, roaring back out a flame. ### Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres  Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Smiley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 1991 work is a modernization of Shakespeare’s tragedy _King Lear_, transposed from an ancient kingdom to a sprawling Midwestern farm and now told from the perspective of the daughters instead of their elderly father. It’s as tricky and satisfying as _Gone Girl_, and it’s talking about many of the same things in the same way, like the unknowability of the love between two people. Like Flynn, Smiley builds huge twists on years of small lies and silence. The result is a literal revelation: Every detail of the classic story startles anew. ### Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?  Little, Brown and Company The epistolary hit of 2012, Semple’s _Where’d You Go, Bernadette?_ seems as light as _Gone Girl_ is dark — a fond tweak of West Coast neuroses. But that’s not all: As the book traces a daughter’s search for her mother, Semple draws us in deeper to the frighteningly large risks and rewards of motherhood, marriage and — best of all — storytelling. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3426149/books-like-gone-girl/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3426149/books-like-gone-girl/"},"headline":"A Gone Girl Reading List: What to Pick Up After Finishing the Book (Or Movie)","datePublished":"2014-09-25T14:00:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:41.055Z","description":"Six more books to satisfy your craving for Flynn's indescribable smash","url":"https://time.com/3426149/books-like-gone-girl/","keywords":["Books","movies","gone girl"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Adam Carlson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/adam-carlson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/books/","name":"Books"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3426149/books-like-gone-girl/","name":"A Gone Girl Reading List: What to Pick Up After Finishing the Book (Or Movie)"}}]}] ```