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If you loved the podcast format
Sadie
Courtney Summers
Why Matchbook recommends it: A true-crime podcaster follows the trail of a missing girl hunting her sister's killer — told partly through podcast transcripts.
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Books Like None of This Is True
None of This Is True begins when a podcaster meets her "birthday twin" — a stranger who asks to be the subject of her show — and slowly realises she has invited someone dangerous into her life. Readers looking for books like None of This Is True want psychological suspense about obsession and manipulation, unreliable storytelling, true-crime and podcast formats, and the creeping horror of a stranger who knows too much.
Our picks
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If you loved one woman taking over another's life
Who Is Maud Dixon?
Alexandra Andrews
Why Matchbook recommends it: An aspiring writer becomes assistant to a reclusive novelist and is drawn into a dangerous game of identity.
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If you loved an obsessive stranger
You
Caroline Kepnes
Why Matchbook recommends it: A bookstore clerk's obsession with a young writer, told from inside his head — deeply unsettling in the same way.
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If you loved a dark family at the centre
Sharp Objects
Gillian Flynn
Why Matchbook recommends it: A journalist returns to her hometown to report on murders and confronts her own manipulative family.
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If you loved identity theft between women
Yellowface
R.F. Kuang
Why Matchbook recommends it: A struggling writer steals her dead friend's manuscript and passes it off as her own — sharp, satirical and tense.
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If you loved true crime on screen
The Girl Who Was Taken
Charlie Donlea
Why Matchbook recommends it: A girl escapes captivity and becomes a bestselling author, while a missing friend's case is reopened on camera.
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If you want more Lisa Jewell
Then She Was Gone
Lisa Jewell
Why Matchbook recommends it: A mother whose daughter vanished years ago meets a charming stranger whose young daughter looks disturbingly familiar.
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