Umberto Eco 2003
- What it is
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A crime, and the clues to solve it yourself · it gets under your skin
- Genre
- Mystery Historical fiction Literary Classics
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The truth comes out bit by bit · it leaves you thinking
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The truth comes out bit by bit · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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It messes with your head · a threat that keeps growing
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It's hiding a secret and cerebral
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Whodunit and cerebral
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Nothing is quite what it seems · no clean hands here
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Ian McEwan 2001
In common with yours: books about books · a farewell that moves you
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Agatha Christie 1926
Nothing is quite what it seems · a mystery you want to solve
The Murder at the Vicarage
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You'll keep turning it over for days · a cozy mystery, no gore
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It messes with your head · a cozy mystery, no gore
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Isaac Asimov 1953
It messes with your head · full of big ideas
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Only it's hiding a secret
The Silent Patient
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Nothing is quite what it seems · unsettling from the first page
God's Crooked Lines
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You'll keep turning it over for days · you read it holding your breath
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Dennis Lehane 2003
The truth comes out bit by bit · it'll scare you
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Mikel Santiago 2014
It's hiding a secret · a threat that keeps growing
11 books · Alike in just one
Only whodunit
The Ending Writes Itself
Evelyn Clarke 2026
Nothing is quite what it seems · a cozy mystery, no gore
Shadow of the Wind
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Readers put them together in Novels about books that take over a life
Club Dumas
Arturo Pérez-Reverte 1993
A reader shelved it with yours in Novels about books that take over a life
Misery
Stephen King 2002
Readers put them together in Novels about books that take over a life
Historian
Elizabeth Kostova 2005
The truth comes out bit by bit · you need to know how it ends
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
Robin Sloan 2012
Readers put them together in Novels about books that take over a life
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith 2011
In common with yours: whodunit · comforting, like coming home
Asesinato en la Casa Rosa (Los crímenes de Loeiro 1)
Arantza Portabales 2025
Like yours: whodunit · no clean hands here
Crocodile on the Sandbank
Elizabeth Peters 1975
In common with yours: whodunit · odd and endearing
Sophie, Standing There
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Grouped with yours in Novels about books that take over a life
5 books · Alike in just one
Only cerebral
Wolf Hall
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A reader shelved it with yours in Historical fiction beyond Rome and the World Wars
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It messes with your head · it changes how you see things
Cosmopolis
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Nothing is quite what it seems · properly strange
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid 2016
You'll keep turning it over for days · you read it holding your breath
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It gets under your skin · pitch-black comedy
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Like yours: closed setting · it leaves you thinking
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Sad, and in no hurry · no clean hands here
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It stays with you · it tells it with no filter
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It ties your stomach in a knot · a place nobody can leave
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