What to read next if you loved 'The Goldfinch,' 'Fifty Shades of Grey' and more bestsellers
If you liked THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
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Paula Hawkins' novel about a drunken woman who inserts herself into a crime investigation, read...
THE LAST SEPTEMBER by Nina de Gramont
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A literary whodunit set on Cape Cod, weaving a murder mystery with the emotionally intense story of a fraying marriage. (Algonquin, $25.95)
If you liked ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE
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By Anthony Doerr, about a blind girl and a German soldier in occupied WWII France, read...
THE INVISIBLE BRIDGE by Julie Orringer
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This sweeping saga concerns the fate of a small group of Hungarian Jews living in Paris. As Hitler's shadow falls over Europe, our heroes and heroines endure unimaginable hardships but never lose their humanity. (Vintage, $15.95)
If you liked THE GOLDFINCH
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Donna Tartt's prize-winner about a boy whose mother is killed in a New York City museum bombing, read...
EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Nine-year-old Oskar Schell, having lost his father in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, finds a key amongst his father's possessions and carries it through the five boroughs of New York City trying to find what it unlocks. (Mariner, $14.95)
If you liked GONE GIRL
By Gillian Flynn, about a woman who disappears and her husband, who becomes a suspect, read...
THE SILENT WIFE by A.S.A. Harrison
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This quick, sharp boning knife of a novel, told in alternating he said/she said chapters, chronicles the dissolution of a marriage and how a successful female therapist becomes a killer. (Penguin, $16)
If you liked ME BEFORE YOU
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By Jojo Moyes, about a young woman who becomes a caregiver for a quadriplegic man and falls in love, read...
BIG GIRL SMALL by Rachel DeWoskin
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A thoroughly modern coming-of-age story with a 3-foot-9-inch heroine who faces cruelty and misfortune with humor and resilience. (Picador, $17)
If you liked THE HUSBAND’S SECRET
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By Liane Moriarty, about a wife whose life is turned upside down by her husband's death and the letter he leaves behind, read...
THE WHOLE WORLD OVER by Julia Glass
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The complexities of love are explored through the intertwining lives of a chef in Greenwich Village, the governor of New Mexico, a homeless young woman, and a formidable four-year-old boy. (Anchor, $16.95)
If you liked THE FAULT IN OUR STARS
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By John Green, about a teenage girl with stage IV cancer and the cancer survivor she falls in love with, read...
ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRL by Jesse Andrews
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A socially awkward, brutally self-conscious and hilarious teenage filmmaker tells the story of his complicated friendships with a street-smart best friend and a classmate with leukemia. (Harry N. Abrams, $9.95)
If you liked A LITTLE LIFE
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By Hanya Yanagihara, about four close college friends and the dark past one of them harbors, read...
THE EMPEROR'S CHILDREN by Claire Messud
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The story of three talented friends from Brown University who land in New York to make their fortunes (as an author, critic and television producer) while the cataclysm of 9/11 hovers in the no-so-distant future. (Vintage, $15.95)
If you liked THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
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By Stieg Larsson, about a goth-girl hacker who joins forces with a crusading journalist, read...
GORKY PARK Martin Cruz Smith
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In the first of a series that set the gold standard for the international detective novel, brilliant police investigator Arkady Renko investigates murders in Soviet-era Moscow that end up involving the KGB, the FBI and the NYPD. (Ballantine, $16)
If you liked FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
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By E.L. James, about a college girl in a sadomasochistic relationship with a multimillionaire, read...
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY TRILOGY by A.N. Roquelaure
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Before Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele were even a gleam in the eye of E.L. James, author Anne Rice, writing under a psuedonym, was recasting a classic fairy tale as high-class erotica about a princess's sexual initiation. (Plume, $48 box set)
If you liked GO SET A WATCHMAN
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Harper Lee's rediscovered "sequel" to "To Kill a Mockingbird," read...
THE LITTLE FRIEND by Donna Tartt
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Twelve-year-old Harriet Cleve Dufresnes navigates the complex society -- white and black -- of her Mississippi hometown as she attempts to solve the murder of her brother years earlier. (Vintage, $15.95)
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