Books like “Big Little Lies”

What to read after “Big Little Lies” by Liane Moriarty: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
In the Woods
Tana French · 2007
Similar atmosphere: “Psychological Thriller”
- Psychological Thriller
- Small Town Secrets
When a girl is found dead in a wood outside Dublin, detectives Rob Ryan and Cassie Maddox take the case. For Rob the woods hold an old horror: as a child he was found there after two friends vanished, and he has never told anyone the full truth.
2
A Flicker in the Dark
Stacy Willingham · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Psychological Thriller”
As a child she helped put her father away for killing girls. Twenty years later she is a therapist about to marry, when young women in her town begin to disappear again and the old case follows her into the present.
3
Dark Places
Gillian Flynn · 2009
Similar atmosphere: “Psychological Thriller”
Years after her mother and sisters were killed and her teenage brother was convicted, Libby Day is approached by a group of true-crime enthusiasts who believe he is innocent. Short of money, she agrees to ask questions, and the answers force her to revisit what she remembers of that night.
4
The Housemaid
Freida McFadden · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Psychological Thriller”
- Psychological Thriller
- Twist Ending
A woman with no money and a criminal record takes a live-in job cleaning for a wealthy family. The wife is cruel, the husband is kind, and a locked door upstairs keeps drawing her attention as the household's rules grow stranger.
5
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk · 1996
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Psychological Thriller”
Insomniac and alienated, a nameless narrator meets a charismatic soap salesman named Tyler Durden and helps found an underground fight club that grows into something far larger. As the club spreads, the narrator's life and sense of self begin to come apart.
6
The Woman in the Window
A. J. Finn · 2018
Similar atmosphere: “Psychological Thriller”
- Psychological Thriller
- Twist Ending
Child psychologist Anna Fox lives alone, unable to leave her home, and spends her days watching her neighbours through a camera. When she sees something in the house across the street, no one believes her, and she is left to work out whether the danger is real or in her mind.
7
The Couple Next Door
Shari Lapena · 2016
Similar atmosphere: “Psychological Thriller”
- Psychological Thriller
- Twist Ending
A couple leave their sleeping baby at home while they attend a dinner party next door, checking on her every half hour. They return to an empty crib. The police suspect the parents, and both of them start learning what the other has been hiding.
8
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins · 2015
Similar atmosphere: “Psychological Thriller”
- Psychological Thriller
- Twist Ending
Rachel rides the same commuter train every day and invents stories about a couple she sees from the window, until she learns the woman has vanished. Her memory of the night in question is full of gaps, and she cannot tell how much of what she believes is real.
9
The Silent Sister
Diane Chamberlain · 2014
Same genre: “Mystery fiction”
- Small Town Secrets
- Twist Ending
After her father's death, Riley returns to their North Carolina house to settle his estate. Sorting through his papers, she finds evidence that her older sister, long believed to have killed herself as a teenager, may be alive and living under another name.
10
Local Woman Missing
Mary Kubica · 2021
Similar atmosphere: “Psychological Thriller”
- Psychological Thriller
- Twist Ending
In a quiet suburb, a young mother vanishes while out running, and weeks later another woman and her six-year-old daughter disappear nearby. Eleven years on, the daughter suddenly returns, and what she brings back unsettles everyone who stayed behind.
11
Rock Paper Scissors
Alice Feeney · 2021
Similar atmosphere: “Psychological Thriller”
- Psychological Thriller
- Twist Ending
A couple whose marriage is failing take a weekend trip to a remote chapel in the Scottish countryside. Cut off and cold, they each keep a secret, and the anniversary gift they open is not what either of them expects.
12
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis · 1991
Similar atmosphere: “Satire” and “Psychological Thriller”
- Satire
- Psychological Thriller
Patrick Bateman is a wealthy Wall Street banker with a taste for designer labels, fine dining and status, and a private life of extreme violence. His narration moves between expensive restaurants and scenes of cruelty, refusing to say how much of either is real.