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Emma Cline · 2023 · US · literary fiction
★ 3.27 Goodreads · 126,106 ratings

Sent away by the older man she has been living with on Long Island, twenty-two-year-old Alex has a week until his Labor Day party, and she drifts from house to house among the rich, hoping to win him back.

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The Last House Guest

Megan Miranda · 2019 · US 95% match ★ 3.60 Goodreads · 162,714 ratings
shares: seaside, wealth, suspenseful, class · easy read, intimate

In Littleport, a Maine resort town, Avery Greer, a local who manages the rental houses of the wealthy Loman family, is left under suspicion after their daughter Sadie, her best friend, is found dead the night of the end-of-summer party.

The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel · 2020 · Canada 95% match ★ 3.69 Goodreads · 204,915 ratings
shares: con artist, wealth · easy read, cold

A bartender at a remote Vancouver Island hotel becomes the companion of the financier who owns it, and when his Ponzi scheme collapses the fallout scatters everyone it touched.

Tar Baby

Toni Morrison · 1981 · US 94% match ★ 4.00 Goodreads · 25,027 ratings
shares: wealth, class · cold, intimate

A successful Black model visiting her wealthy white patrons on a Caribbean island meets a drifter who upends her sense of self.

Pineapple Street

Jenny Jackson · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.55 Goodreads · 224,069 ratings
shares: wealth, class · easy read, intimate

The Stocktons are old Brooklyn Heights money, and three women live with it: Darley, the eldest daughter, who gave up her inheritance to marry; Georgiana, the youngest, who falls for the wrong man; and Sasha, who married in and is treated as a gold-digger.

The Last Mrs. Parrish

Liv Constantine · 2017 · US 94% match ★ 3.94 Goodreads · 497,494 ratings
shares: con artist, wealth · easy read, cold

Amber Patterson, a con artist tired of being overlooked, sets her sights on the life of Daphne Parrish, the wife of a rich property developer in Bishops Harbor, Connecticut, and sets out to become her best friend.

The Perfect Couple

Elin Hilderbrand · 2018 · US 93% match ★ 3.96 Goodreads · 281,353 ratings
shares: seaside, wealth · easy read, intimate

On the morning of a lavish Nantucket wedding, the maid of honour is found dead in the harbour, and as the police chief questions the bride, the groom, his wealthy family and their guests, each turns out to be hiding something.

Counterfeit

Kirstin Chen · 2022 · US 93% match ★ 3.47 Goodreads · 108,517 ratings
shares: con artist · easy read, cold

Ava Wong, a Stanford-educated lawyer who has given up work to raise her toddler in San Francisco, is pulled by her old college roommate Winnie Fang into a scheme selling counterfeit luxury handbags.

The Post-Office Girl

Stefan Zweig · 1982 · Austria 93% match ★ 4.16 Goodreads · 12,234 ratings
shares: wealth, class · easy read, cold

A poor Austrian post-office clerk is briefly swept into a luxury Swiss resort by a rich aunt and returns to her village unable to bear the life she had.

Cosmopolis

Don DeLillo · 2003 · US 92% match ★ 3.28 Goodreads · 19,658 ratings
shares: wealth · cold, intimate

A billionaire currency trader drives across Manhattan in a limousine on a single day, watching his fortune and the world order disintegrate in real time.

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore · 2024 · US 92% match ★ 4.09 Goodreads · 1,060,693 ratings
shares: wealth, suspenseful, class · easy read, little action

A girl vanishes from an Adirondack summer camp, and the investigation ripples through the camp's wealthy families and the locals who serve them.

Less Than Zero

Bret Easton Ellis · 1985 · US 92% match ★ 3.62 Goodreads · 107,398 ratings
shares: wealth · easy read, cold

A college student returns to 1980s Los Angeles and drifts through a world of cocaine, parties, and moral emptiness.

The Late George Apley

John P. Marquand · 1937 · US 92% match ★ 3.68 Goodreads · 2,433 ratings
shares: wealth, class · easy read, cold

A satirical memoir of George Apley, a Boston Brahmin, put together from his letters by an admiring family friend.