18 books like Big Little Lies

What to read after Big Little Lies — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Gone Girl Gillian Flynn · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Gone Girl is a 2012 crime thriller novel by American writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The novel became popular and made the New York Times Best Seller list. The sense of suspense in the novel comes from whether or not Nick Dunne is involved in the disappearance of his wife Amy. ---------- Also contained in: Les apparences suvi de la novella Nous… Shares: Thriller, Mystery

Boy Swallows Universe Trent Dalton · 2018 · ★ 4.3 · 472p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Raw, whimsical, existential, heartbreaking, modern mythology Shares: Suburbs, Families, Friendship

The Whiteoak brothers Mazo de la Roche · 1953 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta's friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare the heart of Renny. Eden, meets a persuasive mining broker whose new venture promises miracles. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

The Wapshot Scandal John Cheever · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Tells of the Wapshot family as they carom around the world with considerable velocity, at times veering into outbreaks of wild hilarity. Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

A heartbreaking work of staggering genius Dave Eggers · 2000 · ★ 3.7 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Moderate From Wikipedia: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (ISBN 0-330-48455-9) is a memoir by Dave Eggers released in 2000. It chronicles his stewardship of younger brother Christopher "Toph" Eggers following the cancer-related deaths of his parents. The book was an enormous commercial and critical success, reaching number one on The New York Times bestseller list and being nominated as a… Shares: Parents, Domestic fiction, Families

Sanctuary Beverly Lewis · 2001 · ★ 4.0 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Ajax the Younger violates Cassandras sanctuary at the Palladium: tondo of an Attic cup, ca. 440–430 BCE]] Shares: Female friendship, Domestic fiction, Friendship

Grand avenue Joy Fielding · 2001 · ★ 3.8 · 392p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "Looking back, it seemed like paradise; lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends, Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki shared everything through good times and bad, and faced the challenges of life and love head-on. Now, one sits alone to ponder the strange twists and turns of fate and circumstance. Now, she must sift through each… Shares: Female friendship, Domestic fiction, Friendship

Dear Mr. Henshaw Beverly Cleary · 1983 · ★ 4.0 · 129p · ≈ 4h · Moderate Dear Mr. Henshaw is a juvenile epistolary novel by Beverly Cleary and illustrator Paul O. Zelinsky that was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1984. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association listed the book as one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Shares: Divorce, Schools, Friendship

Silver Wedding Maeve Binchy · 1905 · ★ 3.7 · 283p · ≈ 9h · Challenging As occasion to celebrate, when Desmond and Deirdre Doyle must gather family and friends around them in remembrance of the twenty-five years of marriage they've shared. A moment of reckoning as an uneasy couple is forced to face a hapless daughter still struggling to become a nun... a son who prefers the bleak family farm in Ireland to London... the once best man, now Desmond's boss... Deirdre's… Shares: Parents, Domestic fiction, Friendship

The silver spoon John Galsworthy · 1921 · ★ 4.1 · 315p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Books for All Kinds of Readers Read HowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new… Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

The Maidens Alex Michaelides · 2021 · ★ 4.0 · 344p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Edward Fosca is a murderer. Of this Mariana is certain. But Fosca is untouchable. A handsome and charismatic Greek tragedy professor at Cambridge University, Fosca is adored by staff and students alike-particularly by the members of a secret society of female students known as The Maidens. Mariana Andros is a brilliant but troubled group therapist who becomes fixated on The Maidens when one… Shares: Truthfulness and falsehood, Thriller, Mystery

Parents Who Kill Carol Anne Davis · 2009 · 324p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Why would two young boys abduct, torture and kill a toddler? What makes a teenage girl plot with her classmates to kill her own father? Society regards children as harmless - but for some the age of innocence is shortlived, messy and ultimately murderous.Mary Bell, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are infamous for their crimes against other children, but many of the less familiar studies here are… Shares: Parents, Murder

Pretty Little Liars Sara Shepard · 2006 · ★ 4.1 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Everyone has something to hide—especially high school juniors Spencer, Aria, Emily, and Hanna. Spencer covets her sister's boyfriend. Aria's fantasizing about her English teacher. Emily's crushing on the new girl at school. Hanna uses some ugly tricks to stay beautiful. But they've all kept an even bigger secret since their friend Alison vanished. How do I know? Because I know everything about… Shares: Female friendship, Schools, Friendship, Mystery

Deadly divorces Tammy Cohen · 2007 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The collapse of a marriage creates a monster that feeds on the basest of our emotions. No one ever knows what really goes on behind the closed doors of a marriage in freefall. This work features real life tragedies which reveal that there are some people who take the words 'til death us do part' all too literally - with devastating results. Shares: Divorce, Murder

The Dry Jane Harper · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "Federal Agent Aaron Falk hasn't been back to the place where he grew up in twenty years. Not since he and his father were run out of town. Even when Falk gets word that his childhood best friend, Luke, is dead, his entire family murdered, Falk still isn't planning on going back. But then he gets a note: 'Luke lied. You lied. Be at the funeral.' And just like that, Falk is swept back into the… Shares: Truthfulness and falsehood, Murder, Mystery

Evening Star Larry McMurtry · 1992 · ★ 3.9 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate Een ruimdenkende bejaarde dame uit Texas ondervindt de problemen van het ouder worden. Vervolg op "Terms of endearment." Shares: Domestic fiction, Families

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe Fannie Flagg · 1987 · ★ 4.3 · 403p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is a now-classic novel about two women: Evelyn, who’s in the sad slump of middle age, and gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode, who’s telling her life story. Her tale includes two more women—the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop,… Shares: Female friendship, Domestic fiction, Friendship

Light a Penny Candle Maeve Binchy · 1970 · ★ 4.5 · 600p · ≈ 20h · Moderate As a child, Elizabeth White was sent from her war-torn London home to a safer life in the small Irish town of Kilgarret. It was there, in the crowded, chaotic O'Connor household, that she met Aisling-who would become her very best friend, sharing her pet kitten and secretly teaching her the intricacies of Catholicism. Aisling's boldness brought Elizabeth out of her proper shell; later, her… Shares: Female friendship, Domestic fiction, Friendship

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