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What to read after Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty
If Nine Perfect Strangers' combination of sharp comedy about the wellness industry and genuine emotional seriousness about grief and loss left you wanting more — or if you want more Liane Moriarty — these are the novels readers find next.
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Big Little Lies
by Liane Moriarty
Three women in an elite Sydney school community navigate friendship and domestic abuse toward a death at trivia night. Moriarty's most acclaimed novel — sharper on domestic abuse, less satirically extreme than Nine Perfect Strangers, and with the same multi-perspective structure and late-novel revelation.
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The Husband's Secret
by Liane Moriarty
A woman finds a letter from her husband addressed 'To be opened only in the event of my death' — and opens it. Moriarty's prior novel, more tightly plotted than Nine Perfect Strangers but the same domestic secret structure and the same interest in what knowing the truth costs.
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Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman
Eight strangers are held hostage in an apartment by an accidental bank robber who has no idea what they're doing. The same ensemble of very different people in close quarters with problems they can't name directly — Backman plays it for more melancholy and less satire than Moriarty, but they're operating in the same space.
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant's severely regimented life is disrupted by unexpected connection. Less comic than Nine Perfect Strangers but the same interest in healing, isolation, and what it actually takes for a person to change.
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
A brilliant and agoraphobic former architect begins disappearing. Shares Nine Perfect Strangers' satirical edge — Semple targets Seattle tech culture the way Moriarty targets wellness culture — and the same underlying seriousness about what collapse looks like.
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The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
A centenarian escapes his nursing home on his 100th birthday. The Swedish comedy equivalent of Moriarty's Australian comedy — deadpan, unconcerned with being taken seriously, and very funny about what happens when a very old person stops following the rules everyone assumed they'd follow.
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Apples Never Fall
by Liane Moriarty
Four adult siblings investigate what happened to their mother after she disappears. Moriarty's most recent novel as of 2024 — a family drama with a mystery structure, less comic than Nine Perfect Strangers but the same ensemble approach to a domestic situation that doesn't resolve the way anyone expected.
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
by Jonas Jonasson
A centenarian escapes from his nursing home on the morning of his 100th birthday and goes on an adventure while the police and various criminals try to find him. The same comic ensemble energy as Nine Perfect Strangers in a picaresque structure rather than a closed setting.
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