Books To Read if You Love The Talented Mr. Ripley
Patricia Highsmith’s influence on the crime and thriller genres can’t be overstated. Her labyrinthine plots, sumptuous eye for detail, and razor-keen insight into humanity produced several unparalleled works. However, no other denizen of Highsmith Country can compare to Tom Ripley. Suave, agreeable, and completely amoral, the inimitable Tom Ripley, stops at nothing — not even murder — to accomplish his goals. He has captured readers for nearly 70 years and our fascination only continues with the release of the new Netflix series starring Andrew Scott. If you’re a fan of Patricia Highsmith’s simmering psychological suspense populated by ill-fated, flawed characters with questionable motives, we have a few recent favorites that need a spot in your TBR pile.
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Add to BookshelfThe Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley’s Game
by Patricia Highsmith
Three classic crime novels — the inspiration for the Netflix series starring Andrew Scott, Johnny Flynn, and Dakota Fanning — by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time. As Highsmith navigates the mesmerizing tangle of Ripley’s deadly and sinister games, she turns the mystery genre inside out and takes us into the mind of a man utterly indifferent to evil.
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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit
by Mark Seal
This shocking exposé goes behind the headlines to uncover the true story of Clark Rockefeller, a wealthy scion of a great American family, who kidnapped his own daughter and vanished. The police and FBI were baffled. Tips poured in, but every lead was a dead end … because “Clark Rockefeller” did not exist. Fast-paced, hypnotic, and now updated with more stunning details, The Man in the Rockefeller Suit chillingly reveals the audacity and cunning of a shape-shifting con man.
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The Big Sleep (Special Edition)
by Raymond Chandler
A special edition of the iconic first novel from crime fiction master Raymond Chandler. A dying millionaire hires private eye Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troublesome daughters, and Marlowe finds himself involved with more than extortion. Kidnapping, pornography, seduction, and murder are just a few of the complications he gets caught up in.
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Untamed Shore
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Baja California, 1979: Viridiana spends her days under the harsh sun, watching the fishermen pulling in their nets and the dead sharks piled beside the seashore. Her head is filled with dreams of romance, travel, and a future beyond this drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. When a wealthy American writer arrives with his wife and brother-in-law, Viridiana jumps at the offer of a job as his assistant, and she’s soon entangled in the glamorous foreigners’ lives. They offer excitement, but when one of them dies, Viridiana, eager to protect her new friends, lies — but soon enough, someone’s asking questions. It’s not long before Viridiana has questions of her own about the identities of her new acquaintances.
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Eileen
by Ottessa Moshfegh
“Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first-person narrator is one of the strangest, most messed-up, most pathetic — and yet, in her own inimitable way, endearing — misfits I’ve ever encountered in fiction. Trust me, you have never read anything remotely like Eileen” (The Washington Post).
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Chasing Phil
by David Howard
A thrilling true crime caper, bursting with colorful characters and awash in ‘70s glamor, that spotlights the FBI’s first white-collar undercover sting following the charismatic, globetrotting con man Phil Kitzer, whom some called the world’s greatest swindler. Anchored by larger-than-life characters, framed by exotic locales and an irresistible era, Chasing Phil is high drama and propulsive reading, delivered by an effortless storyteller.
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My Sweet Girl
by Amanda Jayatissa
Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s about to find out that no matter how far you run, your past always catches up with you…
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Social Creature
by Tara Isabella Burton
For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, splashed with all the glitz and glitter of New York City. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship. A Talented Mr. Ripley for the digital age, this seductive story takes a classic tale of obsession and makes it irresistibly new.
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Catch Me If You Can
by Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding
In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Now recognized as the nation’s leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and ingenious escapes — including one from an airplane — make Catch Me If You Can an irresistible tale of deceit.
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Age of Vice
by Deepti Kapoor
Equal parts crime thriller and family saga, transporting readers from the dusty villages of Uttar Pradesh to the urban energy of New Delhi, Age of Vice is an intoxicating novel of gangsters and lovers, false friendships, forbidden romance, and the consequences of corruption. It is binge-worthy entertainment at its literary best.
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well-educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom … In this modern classic, the acclaimed author of The Shards explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other.
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First Lie Wins: Reese’s Book Club
by Ashley Elston
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house with a white picket fence and a garden, a fancy group of friends. The only catch: Evie Porter doesn’t exist…
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”) — now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes.
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Rogues
by Patrick Radden Keefe
From the acclaimed author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of skulduggery and intrigue. As Keefe says in his preface, “They reflect on some of my abiding preoccupations: crime and corruption, secrets and lies, the permeable membrane separating licit and illicit worlds, the bonds of family, the power of denial.”
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You Know What You Did
by K. T. Nguyen
In this heart-pounding debut thriller for fans of Lisa Jewell and Celeste Ng, a first-generation Vietnamese American artist must confront nightmares past and present … With dizzying twists, You Know What You Did is both a harrowing thriller and a heartfelt exploration of the refugee experience, the legacies we leave for our children, and the unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters.
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The Secret History: A Read with Jenna Pick
by Donna Tartt
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.
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