Question 1

What books are similar to The Girl on the Train?

Accepted Answer

The best books similar to The Girl on the Train include: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, Into the Water by Paula Hawkins, Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris, The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. If The Girl on the Train's unreliable narrator — Rachel on the train, watching a couple she's constructed a story about, gradually becoming part of the story she invented — left you wanting more psychological thriller with unreliable female narrators and missing women, these are the novels readers find next.

Question 2

What should I read after The Girl on the Train?

Accepted Answer

After finishing The Girl on the Train, readers love: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn — The defining psychological thriller of the decade before The Girl on the Train — Nick Dunne's wife Amy disappears on their fifth anniversary, and the novel alternates between Nick's investigation and Amy's diary. The structural revelation in Gone Girl is more radical than anything in The Girl on the Train; if you haven't read it, read it first.. Into the Water by Paula Hawkins — Hawkins's follow-up standalone — two women have died in the same river in a small English town, and the investigation involves almost every woman in the village. Less propulsive than The Girl on the Train but more thematically ambitious.. Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris — A couple with a seemingly perfect marriage conceals something sinister. The domestic thriller in its most direct form — reliable but wrong, with a married couple at the center.

Question 3

What genre is The Girl on the Train?

Accepted Answer

The Girl on the Train is primarily fiction. What to read after The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

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Gone Girl

Into the Water

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The Silent Patient

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