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Books like Big Little Lies

Liane Moriarty · 2014 · Australia · literary fiction · mystery
★ 4.15 Hardcover · 623 ratings

Three women in a wealthy Australian seaside community become entangled in a death at a school trivia night, and the investigation reveals the lies underneath their perfect lives.

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12 books for readers of Big Little Lies

My Lovely Wife

Samantha Downing · 2019 · US 96% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 174,844 ratings
shares: commercial, suburban, suspenseful · easy read, plain prose

A suburban couple with two children keep their marriage exciting with a secret game of choosing women to kill, until a body turns up that changes the rules.

The Husband's Secret

Liane Moriarty · 2013 · Australia 95% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 744,418 ratings
shares: suburban, Australian, ensemble · easy read, fast-paced

Cecilia Fitzpatrick, a Sydney mother who runs her life with Tupperware precision, finds a letter in the attic addressed to her in her husband's handwriting, to be opened only in the event of his death, while he is still very much alive.

Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty · 2021 · Australia 94% match ★ 3.75 Goodreads · 462,250 ratings
shares: Australian, ensemble, multiple narrators, mystery · easy read, suspenseful

Joy Delaney, newly retired from the tennis school she ran with her husband Stan for fifty years, disappears without her phone, and as police start to look at Stan, their four grown children remember the stranger who turned up on their parents' doorstep one night the year before.

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

Elle Cosimano · 2021 · US 93% match ★ 3.98 Goodreads · 263,737 ratings
Book 1 of 5 in Finlay Donovan
shares: commercial, suburban · easy read, plain prose

A broke single mother and struggling novelist is overheard discussing the plot of her next book in a Panera and mistaken for a contract killer, and the offer is too much money to turn down outright.

One of Us Is Lying

Karen M. McManus · 2017 · US 92% match ★ 3.90 Goodreads · 1,118,990 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in One of Us Is Lying
shares: suburban, school, multiple narrators, mystery · easy read, plain prose

Five students walk into detention at Bayview High and only four walk out: Simon, creator of the school's notorious gossip app, dies, and the other four, each with a secret Simon was about to post, become suspects.

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell · 2023 · UK 91% match ★ 4.06 Goodreads · 1,230,570 ratings
shares: commercial, suspenseful · easy read, intimate

A podcaster interviews a woman she met at a restaurant who claims to share her birthday, and the stranger begins, piece by piece, to occupy her life.

The Stranger Diaries

Elly Griffiths · 2019 · UK 90% match ★ 3.86 Goodreads · 47,690 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in Harbinder Kaur
shares: school, murder, multiple narrators, mystery · easy read, intimate

Clare Cassidy, an English teacher writing about a Victorian ghost-story writer, finds a colleague murdered with a line from his story beside her body, and someone writing in Clare's own diary.

The Girl on the Train

Paula Hawkins · 2015 · UK 90% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 3,401,455 ratings
shares: suburban, suspenseful, multiple narrators · easy read, intimate

Three women's lives intersect around a commuter train route and a missing person, each narrator unreliable in her own devastating way.

The Silent Patient

Alex Michaelides · 2019 · UK 90% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 3,656,794 ratings
shares: commercial, suspenseful · easy read, plain prose

Alicia Berenson, a famous painter, shoots her husband five times in the face and never speaks again, and years later Theo Faber, a forensic psychotherapist, takes a job at her secure unit, determined to make her talk.

Little Children

Tom Perrotta · 2004 · US 89% match ★ 3.64 Goodreads · 33,794 ratings
shares: suburban, satirical, ensemble · easy read, intimate

In a Boston suburb, Sarah, an unhappy stay-at-home mother, and Todd, the handsome stay-at-home father the playground mothers call the Prom King, start an affair, while the town panics over a sex offender who has moved back in with his mother.

Dark Places

Gillian Flynn · 2009 · US 89% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 871,941 ratings
shares: murder, suspenseful, multiple narrators · easy read, suspenseful

Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered on their Kansas farm and her testimony sent her brother Ben to prison, and twenty-five years later, broke, she agrees to revisit the case for a club of true-crime obsessives.

Casino Royale

Ian Fleming · 1953 · UK 89% match ★ 3.73 Goodreads · 101,572 ratings
Book 1 of 14 in James Bond
shares: commercial, suspenseful · easy read, story-driven

James Bond's first mission: a high-stakes baccarat game against a Soviet paymaster in a French casino, where the stakes include his life and his capacity to love.