If you liked gillian flynns dark and suspenseful gone girl, then you have to read paula hawkinss pageturner the girl on the trainand vice versa. Rachel sees the same couple breakfasting on their deck each morning as she passes by in her commuter train. I would like to say something good about this book but for the life of me i cant think of a single thing. Goodreads members who liked the girl on the train also liked. If your teens have read or will see the girl on the train in theaters and need more books featuring unreliable protagonists, have them check out these. She commutes into london for work on the same schedule each work day. Gone girls these three readers bicker and argue, like the three narrators in the girl on the train, about which book is better, this one or gone girl.
Books like girl on the train list could never be completed without this literature marvel for sure. The kind worth killing by peter swanson swanson the girl with a clock for a heart takes readers to. I liked the girl on the train, a good light summer read or page turner. So youve ridden the train, youve unearthed all those lies and secrets, but what do you read next. If youre heavily into the book its adapted from, femaleled thrillers in general, or the fabulous emily blunt, youve probably been looking forward to the girl on the train movie for a long time. Heres some readalikes to keep you on the edge of your seat. While the novel already received the bigscreen treatment and youve probably read the next gone girl a. It looks like we arent alone the book hasnt spent much time sitting around on our shelves. It tells the story about a woman lo blacklock who is a journalist for travel magazine. The girl on the train is one heck of a journey, one that i would recommend everyone to go on. If you like the girl on the train by paula hawkins central. One day she is offered a week on luxury cruise for a travel editorial and this is when her life takes a turn.
The girl on the train by paula hawkins has barreled its way onto the book scene and it hasnt slowed down yet. These psychological thrillers like hawkins the girl on the train will stay. Told in alternating perspectives much like the girl on the train, the good girl will draw you in and wont let you go until you know the fate of. Check out these great thrillers like the girl on the train, including paula hawkinss newest release, into the water. If you liked gone girl and the girl on the train by nvdpl adult librarians a staffcreated list. The girl on the train was one of those books that seemed to completely. Hawkins seems to be paying tribute to the directors imagery in films like strangers on a. In paula hawkins bestselling psychological thriller the girl on the train, rachel watson is on a boozefueled downward spiral.
I read it around the same time as gone girl and gillian flynns dark places. Vanity fair the girl on the train has more fun with unreliable narration than any. Why this is one of our books to read if you liked girl on the train. Paula hawkins debut novel, the girl on the train, took the world by storm when it was published in 2015 and stayed on the new york times bestseller list for four monthsdebuting at number one and holding the top position for consecutive weeks. Mary kubica writes an emotional story of a kidnapped girl, mia, and her mothers relentless search to find her daughter. Anna, too, comes to seem less like an innocent victim and more like a vindictive troublemaker. Ani suffered as a teen at the hands of her fellow students at a prestigious. The girl on the train by paula hawkins, paperback barnes. No question, the most popular thriller so far this year is paula hawkins slowburning psychological thriller, the girl on the train. Dreamworks picked up the rights to the girl on the train before the book even came out. Use the alphabetical lists below to look up a favorite book or author and then click see readalikes to discover similar books. The girl on the train starring emily blunt comes to theaters october 7th.
They all seemed to have deep psychological problems which came together to result in the murder that is the central theme. A girl on the run, a hidden past, a twenty year secret, and someone sinister who knows about it allif you like books like girl on the train, look no. Find books like the girl on the train from the worlds largest community of readers. Like all good crime writers, leonora knows shes safer in her apartment than in the great outdoors. So, lets say you loved the girl on the train, but you finished it and were like, decent book, but the girltotrain ratio was off. What to read after the girl on the train whsmith blog. The girl on the train by paula hawkins penguin books.
A nosy woman on the train witnesses something odd and decides to look into it further. The problem with the book, though, was that it was also frequently a hokey mess, and tate taylors new adaptation of the girl on the train takes the worst parts of the novel excruciating. If you havent already read girl on the train, go out and get it. Her blackouts make her unreliable to both the reader and her friends, though shes still convinced she can solve a womans disappearance. If youve worked your way through the girl on the train and are looking for. Janet maslin, the new york times the girl on the train marries movie noir with novelistic trickery.
The new york times marries movie noir with novelistic trickery. Like gone girl, this novel features a duplicitous female protagonist with. But you likely knocked out both of those books before the calendar flipped over to 2016. As with any twisted book, the ending is a fraught topic. With a gone girl adaptation in theaters this friday, now seems like a good time to either reread gone girl, or immerse yourself in a new set of satisfying psychological thrillers. Here are insanely compelling and sweatinducing books like the girl on the train that will appease your adrenalineloving literary appetite until the film is released. The story centers on rachel, a 32yearold alcoholic who is still obsessed with her exhusband toma man who left her for another woman, anna. If you want to get involved in our book club, keep an eye out on site. Its just that there are so many stories to choose from, which you already know if you, like millions of other readers, rapidly inhaled novels like gone girl and the girl on the train over the. The girl on the train, here are twelve novels to pick up next. Vanity fair the girl on the train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since gone girl. The girl on the train is a fastpaced novel of suspense and deception. Told in alternating perspectives much like the girl on the train, the good. Read it, then invite your book club over to watch the hitchcock film.
There was not a single character in the book that a reader could like. Gone girl, then you have to read paula hawkinss pageturner the girl on the trainand vice versa. Based on the best selling novel by the same title by paula hawkins, the girl on the train features an unreliable protagonist that may or may not have murdered someone. The protagonist of the girl on the train is much younger. The question and answer section for the girl on the train is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel. Books to read if you loved the girl on the train she reads.
The girl on the train by paula hawkins riverhead hardcover, hardcover, 9781594633669, january 2015, 336pp. The girl on the train is a gimmick, surrounded by good looking actors, in a story that seems inconsequential at best. In july of 20, rachel watson is a female on a locomotive, a. Books to read if you like the girl on the train popsugar. As the narration jumps between quinn and alex, youll feel like these. It is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership. This one has additional strife in pining for her ex and is a lush, as well, with a fantasy about true love, seen through the train window a perfect couple, together in a london back garden. The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other peoples lives, from the author of into the water. For better or worse, the girl on the train film keeps the ending mostly the same as in the book, save for. From strange disappearances to troubled husbandandwife relationships, these books like gone girl are sure to keep you in suspense until the very last page.
Theres a whiff of agatha christie and a dollop of gone girl with plenty of blind alleys that we happily wander up and get lost. Goodreads members who liked girl on a train also liked. Gone girl and the girl on the train were two of the most popular books of the last few years. If your favorite thing about the girl on the train is the train, youre in luck. There is a spot on the track where the train stops or slows down at the signal and she gets a good view of a couples garden. The girl on the train is one of those delicious thrillers that can be devoured in four sittings, thats two return journeys on a typical train trip. If you liked gillian flynns dark and suspenseful gone girl, then you have to read paula hawkinss pageturner the girl on the train and vice versa. Here you can find handpicked readalike recommendations for more than 4000 contemporary books and 3000 authors. The girl on the train is a woman who has become usual now. The girl on the train is a hokey mess the atlantic. The girl on the train is all anyone can talk about. Mystery books to read if you like the girl on the train.
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