Books like “The Decagon House Murders”

What to read after “The Decagon House Murders” by Yukito Ayatsuji: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane · 2003
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
- Twist Ending
In 1954 two US marshals travel to a hospital for the criminally insane on an island off Massachusetts to find a patient who has disappeared. As a storm cuts the island off, one of them begins to suspect the investigation is not what he was told.
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We Were Liars
E. Lockhart · 2014
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
- Twist Ending
Every summer Cadence joins her wealthy family on their private island, where she and three cousins form an unbreakable group. The summer she is fifteen something goes wrong, and Cadence returns two years later with gaps in her memory that she is desperate to fill.
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The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks · 1984
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
- Twist Ending
On a remote Scottish island, sixteen-year-old Frank lives by strange rituals and guards family secrets. His routine shifts when his older brother escapes from a hospital and comes home, and the story Frank tells about himself begins to come apart.
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson · 2005
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
A disgraced financial journalist is hired by an old industrialist to solve the decades-old disappearance of his niece. His researcher is Lisbeth Salander, a brilliant, guarded hacker with her own scores to settle.
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A River Enchanted
Rebecca Ross · 2022
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
Jack is summoned home to Cadence, an island of two peoples, to find girls who have vanished without trace. He must work with Adaira, the laird's daughter, and call on the spirits he abandoned. On an island steeped in old magic, old grudges and new feelings refuse to stay buried.
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The Mysterious Island
Jules Verne · 1875
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
- Survival
Five Union prisoners escape a siege in a hot-air balloon and are blown onto an uncharted island. There they rebuild a small civilization from its resources, aided by an unseen hand and threatened by a hidden danger.
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Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
Benjamin Stevenson · 2022
Shared in the plot: fiction, detects, rules
- Twist Ending
Crime-writing teacher Ernest Cunningham joins his family at a snowbound mountain lodge for his brother's release from prison. When a body turns up, Ernest decides to follow the rules of Golden Age detective fiction to work out which of his relatives is responsible.
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Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe · 1719
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
- Survival
Shipwrecked alone on a deserted island, a castaway named Robinson Crusoe builds a life from nothing: shelter, crops and a canoe. Years of solitude end when he finds a footprint in the sand and rescues a man he names Friday.
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Lord of the Flies
William Golding · 1954
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
- Survival
A group of schoolboys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and tries to govern themselves. Order slips first into fear and then into savagery as the boys turn on one another. An allegory about civilisation, violence and what people become without rules.
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The Wager
David Grann · 2023
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
- Survival
In 1740 a British warship hunting a Spanish treasure galleon is wrecked off Patagonia. Months later two groups of survivors reach South America with opposing stories, and a court martial must decide which men were heroes and which were mutineers.
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The Martian
Andy Weir · 2011
Similar setting: “Deserted Island”
- Deserted Island
- Survival
During a mission to Mars, astronaut Mark Watney is presumed dead and left behind. Alone with limited supplies and no way to call Earth, he applies his botany and engineering skills to grow food and signal that he is alive.
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Final Girls
Riley Sager · 2017
Shared in the plot: remote, survive
- Twist Ending
- Survival
Ten years after surviving a massacre at a remote cabin in the woods, Quincy has built a quiet life out of pills, baking and careful routine. When another survivor from that group of women dies and a third turns up at her door, the past she cannot fully remember starts to close in again.