50 Books like Bring the House Down

Woman Down

by Colleen Hoover

An author escapes scandal to a cabin, where a fake detective's staged suicide becomes her muse.

3.48

174k+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🖤 Obsessive Fan ⚠️ Blurred Consent ✍️ Writer Protagonist 🎭 Fake Identity

Woman Down 92%

An author escapes scandal to a cabin, where a fake detective's staged suicide becomes her muse.

by Colleen Hoover 2026

3.48

174k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Thriller 🖤 Obsessive Fan ⚠️ Blurred Consent ✍️ Writer Protagonist 🎭 Fake Identity

There But For The

by Ali Smith • 2011

A man locks himself in a spare room and stays there, silent, while the world watches.

3.5

10k+

🔒 Locked Room 📺 Media Spectacle 👧 Child Observer 🕊️ Quiet Protest 🧩 Unresolved Mystery

There But For The 91%

A man locks himself in a spare room and stays there, silent, while the world watches.

by Ali Smith 2011

3.5

10k+ ratings

🔒 Locked Room 📺 Media Spectacle 👧 Child Observer 🕊️ Quiet Protest 🧩 Unresolved Mystery

Audition

by Katie Kitamura • 2025

When a young man claims an actress is his mother, her performed life comes undone.

3.27

51k+

🎭 Theater World 🪞 Unreliable Narrator 👩‍👦 Mother Son Bond 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🌫️ Life As Theater

Audition 91%

When a young man claims an actress is his mother, her performed life comes undone.

by Katie Kitamura 2025

3.27

51k+ ratings

🎭 Theater World 🪞 Unreliable Narrator 👩‍👦 Mother Son Bond 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🌫️ Life As Theater

Trust Exercise

by Susan Choi • 2019

An elite theatre school, the 1980s: a teenage affair and a teacher who exploits every vulnerability.

3.12

40k+

🎭 Dark Academia 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Memory And Trauma ⚡ Power Dynamics 🔥 Adolescent Desire

Trust Exercise 90%

An elite theatre school, the 1980s: a teenage affair and a teacher who exploits every vulnerability.

by Susan Choi 2019

3.12

40k+ ratings

🎭 Dark Academia 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 💔 Memory And Trauma ⚡ Power Dynamics 🔥 Adolescent Desire

The Word is Murder

by Anthony Horowitz • 2017

Six hours after she plans her funeral, a woman is murdered; a novelist shadows the case.

3.92

104k+

📖 Metafiction 🕵️ Consulting Detective 👥 Reluctant Partners 🎭 Theatrical Murder 💚 Envy As Motive

The Word is Murder 90%

Six hours after she plans her funeral, a woman is murdered; a novelist shadows the case.

by Anthony Horowitz 2017

3.92

104k+ ratings

📖 Metafiction 🕵️ Consulting Detective 👥 Reluctant Partners 🎭 Theatrical Murder 💚 Envy As Motive

On Beauty

by Zadie Smith • 2005

An academic feud turns intimate when two rival professors' families fall into each other's lives.

3.78

92k+

🏛️ Campus Novel 🎭 Academic Satire 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Drama 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🌍 Culture Clash

On Beauty 90%

An academic feud turns intimate when two rival professors' families fall into each other's lives.

by Zadie Smith 2005

3.78

92k+ ratings

🏛️ Campus Novel 🎭 Academic Satire 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Drama 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🌍 Culture Clash

A House in Norway

by Vigdis Hjorth • 2017

A textile artist wants quiet tenants. The Polish family in her annex wants to be seen.

3.74

838

🏔️ Nordic Realism 🪞 Liberal Guilt 🎨 Artist At Midlife 🏠 Claustrophobic Domestic 😶 Unspoken Resentment

A House in Norway 90%

A textile artist wants quiet tenants. The Polish family in her annex wants to be seen.

by Vigdis Hjorth 2017

3.74

838 ratings

🏔️ Nordic Realism 🪞 Liberal Guilt 🎨 Artist At Midlife 🏠 Claustrophobic Domestic 😶 Unspoken Resentment

Seduction Theory

by Emily Adrian • 2025

A campus affair, a shattered marriage, and the graduate student who will write it all down.

3.11

12k+

🏛️ Campus Novel 💔 Literary Infidelity 💍 Marriage In Crisis 👁️ Academic Obsession ✍️ Writing Program

Seduction Theory 90%

A campus affair, a shattered marriage, and the graduate student who will write it all down.

by Emily Adrian 2025

3.11

12k+ ratings

🏛️ Campus Novel 💔 Literary Infidelity 💍 Marriage In Crisis 👁️ Academic Obsession ✍️ Writing Program

Vladimir

by Julia May Jonas • 2022

A campus scandal takes her husband. An aging professor's obsession with a young novelist undoes her.

3.43

41k+

🏛️ Dark Campus Novel 📜 Academic Scandal 🖤 Female Obsession 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💋 Older Woman Desire

Vladimir 90%

A campus scandal takes her husband. An aging professor's obsession with a young novelist undoes her.

by Julia May Jonas 2022

3.43

41k+ ratings

🏛️ Dark Campus Novel 📜 Academic Scandal 🖤 Female Obsession 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 💋 Older Woman Desire

Her Best Friend's Husband

by Alison Irving • 2024

A secret affair. A school reunion. Claire plans to punish the women who destroyed her youth.

4.00

1k+

🏠 Domestic Drama 👭 Female Friendship Group 💔 Bullying Scars 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🤫 Secret Affair

Her Best Friend's Husband 90%

A secret affair. A school reunion. Claire plans to punish the women who destroyed her youth.

by Alison Irving 2024

4.00

1k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Drama 👭 Female Friendship Group 💔 Bullying Scars 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🤫 Secret Affair

Yellowface

by R.F. Kuang • 2023

A failed author steals her dead friend's manuscript and rides the lie to bestseller fame.

3.72

1.1M+

🖋️ Publishing Satire 📖 Literary Thriller ✍️ Literary Theft 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌏 Cultural Appropriation

Yellowface 90%

A failed author steals her dead friend's manuscript and rides the lie to bestseller fame.

by R.F. Kuang 2023

3.72

1.1M+ ratings

🖋️ Publishing Satire 📖 Literary Thriller ✍️ Literary Theft 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🌏 Cultural Appropriation

The Female Persuasion

by Meg Wolitzer • 2018

When a shy student meets a feminist legend, ambition pulls her toward power and compromise.

3.56

58k+

🧑‍🏫 Feminist Mentorship 💼 Corporate Feminism 🏫 College Campus 🌧️ Campus Assault 💔 Sisterhood Tested

The Female Persuasion 90%

When a shy student meets a feminist legend, ambition pulls her toward power and compromise.

by Meg Wolitzer 2018

3.56

58k+ ratings

🧑‍🏫 Feminist Mentorship 💼 Corporate Feminism 🏫 College Campus 🌧️ Campus Assault 💔 Sisterhood Tested

Cat’s Eye

by Margaret Atwood • 1988

A painter's Toronto return forces a reckoning with the girlhood friend who nearly destroyed her.

3.95

73k+

🎨 Artist Protagonist 👧 Girlhood Cruelty 🖼️ Art As Survival 🕰️ Memory And Trauma 🤔 Psychological Realism

Cat’s Eye 90%

A painter's Toronto return forces a reckoning with the girlhood friend who nearly destroyed her.

by Margaret Atwood 1988

3.95

73k+ ratings

🎨 Artist Protagonist 👧 Girlhood Cruelty 🖼️ Art As Survival 🕰️ Memory And Trauma 🤔 Psychological Realism

Love by the Book

by Jessica George • 2026

A lonely novelist befriends a teacher with a secret, then mines her life for fiction.

3.92

6k+

💛 Platonic Love 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏠 Found Family 💔 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Secret Double Life

Love by the Book 91%

A lonely novelist befriends a teacher with a secret, then mines her life for fiction.

by Jessica George 2026

3.92

6k+ ratings

💛 Platonic Love 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 🏠 Found Family 💔 Estranged Sisters 🎭 Secret Double Life

Desfile

by Rachel Cusk • 2024

Artists invert reality. Their wives learn to live upside down or split themselves in two.

3.50

7k+

🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🔗 Interlinked Stories 🎨 Artist Marriage 💔 Muse And Maker 👥 Doubled Self

Desfile 91%

Artists invert reality. Their wives learn to live upside down or split themselves in two.

by Rachel Cusk 2024

3.50

7k+ ratings

🧩 Fragmented Narrative 🔗 Interlinked Stories 🎨 Artist Marriage 💔 Muse And Maker 👥 Doubled Self

Workhorse

by Caroline Palmer

A fashion magazine assistant steals her way into a Fifth Avenue family whose glitter hides rot.

3.56

12k+

🪜 Social Climbing 👠 Fashion Industry 🔪 Female Antihero 💔 Obsessive Friendship 🎨 Stolen Art

Workhorse 90%

A fashion magazine assistant steals her way into a Fifth Avenue family whose glitter hides rot.

by Caroline Palmer 2025

3.56

12k+ ratings

🪜 Social Climbing 👠 Fashion Industry 🔪 Female Antihero 💔 Obsessive Friendship 🎨 Stolen Art

Slags

by Emma Jane Unsworth • 2025

She quit drinking. Her sister settled down. On a motorhome trip through Scotland, both come undone.

3.35

14k+

🚐 Sister Road Trip 🎭 Wild Sister Good Sister 🕰️ Midlife Reckoning 🍃 Sobriety Journey 🏔️ Scottish Highlands

Slags 90%

She quit drinking. Her sister settled down. On a motorhome trip through Scotland, both come undone.

by Emma Jane Unsworth 2025

3.35

14k+ ratings

🚐 Sister Road Trip 🎭 Wild Sister Good Sister 🕰️ Midlife Reckoning 🍃 Sobriety Journey 🏔️ Scottish Highlands

Careering

by Daisy Buchanan • 2022

A sex-blogging intern and a passed-over editor chase a media dream, finding the ladders are rigged.

3.31

5k+

🏢 Toxic Workplace 📰 Media Satire ✍️ Confessional Writing 👩‍🏭 Working Class Woman 👯 Female Friendship

Careering 90%

A sex-blogging intern and a passed-over editor chase a media dream, finding the ladders are rigged.

by Daisy Buchanan 2022

3.31

5k+ ratings

🏢 Toxic Workplace 📰 Media Satire ✍️ Confessional Writing 👩‍🏭 Working Class Woman 👯 Female Friendship

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh • 2018

She's young, rich, and so empty she plans to drug herself into a year-long hibernation.

3.60

580k+

👤 Female Misanthrope 🗣️ Toxic Friendship 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😐 Deadpan Satire 🌫️ Eerie Calm

My Year of Rest and Relaxation 90%

She's young, rich, and so empty she plans to drug herself into a year-long hibernation.

by Ottessa Moshfegh 2018

3.60

580k+ ratings

👤 Female Misanthrope 🗣️ Toxic Friendship 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 😐 Deadpan Satire 🌫️ Eerie Calm

Immaculate Conception

by Ling Ling Huang • 2025

A scholarship student's obsession with a genius classmate turns monstrous inside a shared mind.

3.89

13k+

🎨 Art World Horror 📚 Literary Dystopia 🖤 Toxic Female Friendship 🖼️ Artist And Muse 💰 Class Divide

Immaculate Conception 90%

A scholarship student's obsession with a genius classmate turns monstrous inside a shared mind.

by Ling Ling Huang 2025

3.89

13k+ ratings

🎨 Art World Horror 📚 Literary Dystopia 🖤 Toxic Female Friendship 🖼️ Artist And Muse 💰 Class Divide

Enter Ghost

by Isabella Hammad • 2023

A British-Palestinian actress joins a West Bank Hamlet, where the play's ghosts never stay onstage.

4.11

12k+

🇵🇸 Palestinian Literature 🎭 Theatre Fiction 🏠 Return To Homeland 🎨 Art And Politics 👭 Sisters Reunited

Enter Ghost 90%

A British-Palestinian actress joins a West Bank Hamlet, where the play's ghosts never stay onstage.

by Isabella Hammad 2023

4.11

12k+ ratings

🇵🇸 Palestinian Literature 🎭 Theatre Fiction 🏠 Return To Homeland 🎨 Art And Politics 👭 Sisters Reunited

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus

by Emma Knight • 2025

In Scotland, a student searches for her father's past and finds a family she belongs to.

3.43

28k+

🎓 Campus Novel 🔒 Family Secrets 🏰 Country Estate 💕 Slow Burn Romance 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Dynamics

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus Summary

The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus 90%

In Scotland, a student searches for her father's past and finds a family she belongs to.

by Emma Knight 2025

3.43

28k+ ratings

🎓 Campus Novel 🔒 Family Secrets 🏰 Country Estate 💕 Slow Burn Romance 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Dynamics

Transcription

by Ben Lerner • 2026

A writer sets out to record his mentor, but without his phone, memory and invention blur.

3.88

10k+

🖋️ Literary Metafiction 🧬 Generational Trauma 🎓 Academic Mentorship 🧠 Memory And Invention 😷 Pandemic Fiction

Transcription 90%

A writer sets out to record his mentor, but without his phone, memory and invention blur.

by Ben Lerner 2026

3.88

10k+ ratings

🖋️ Literary Metafiction 🧬 Generational Trauma 🎓 Academic Mentorship 🧠 Memory And Invention 😷 Pandemic Fiction

Motherhood

by Sheila Heti • 2018

A writer pushes forty, flipping coins: her art, or the child she might have.

3.64

22k+

🖋️ Autofiction 🕯️ Generational Trauma 🤰 Motherhood Ambivalence 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🍂 Elegiac

Motherhood 89%

A writer pushes forty, flipping coins: her art, or the child she might have.

by Sheila Heti 2018

3.64

22k+ ratings

🖋️ Autofiction 🕯️ Generational Trauma 🤰 Motherhood Ambivalence 🤔 Philosophical Fiction 🍂 Elegiac

Make Me Famous

by Maud Ventura • 2024

A pop star's relentless hunger for fame burns through lovers, friends, and finally herself.

3.68

5k+

🎵 Music Industry 🖤 Ambitious Antiheroine 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💔 Self-Destruction 🌟 Celebrity Isolation

Make Me Famous 89%

A pop star's relentless hunger for fame burns through lovers, friends, and finally herself.

by Maud Ventura 2024

3.68

5k+ ratings

🎵 Music Industry 🖤 Ambitious Antiheroine 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💔 Self-Destruction 🌟 Celebrity Isolation

The Good Liar

by Denise Mina • 2025

A forensic expert's evidence jailed the wrong man. Her mentors know. So does the real killer.

3.54

4k+

🔬 Forensic Mystery ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🏛️ Unreliable System 🎨 Art As Confession 💔 Sisters And Addiction

The Good Liar 89%

A forensic expert's evidence jailed the wrong man. Her mentors know. So does the real killer.

by Denise Mina 2025

3.54

4k+ ratings

🔬 Forensic Mystery ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction 🏛️ Unreliable System 🎨 Art As Confession 💔 Sisters And Addiction

The Ending Writes Itself

by Evelyn Clarke

Seven writers compete to finish a dead author's novel. The prize is millions; the cost is murder.

3.47

28k+

🏚️ Locked Room Mystery ✒️ Writers As Suspects 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Island 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 📚 Publishing Satire

The Ending Writes Itself 90%

Seven writers compete to finish a dead author's novel. The prize is millions; the cost is murder.

by Evelyn Clarke 2026

3.47

28k+ ratings

🏚️ Locked Room Mystery ✒️ Writers As Suspects 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Island 🕯️ Gothic Atmosphere 📚 Publishing Satire

Fates and Furies

by Lauren Groff • 2015

Lotto thinks their marriage is destiny. Mathilde knows what she paid to keep it that way.

3.59

149k+

🖼️ Marriage Portrait 👥 Dual Perspective 🔐 Secret Past 🎭 Muse And Artist 💔 Tragic Romance

Fates and Furies 90%

Lotto thinks their marriage is destiny. Mathilde knows what she paid to keep it that way.

by Lauren Groff 2015

3.59

149k+ ratings

🖼️ Marriage Portrait 👥 Dual Perspective 🔐 Secret Past 🎭 Muse And Artist 💔 Tragic Romance

Anita de Monte Laughs Last

by Xóchitl González • 2024

A Brown student unearths a murdered Cuban artist's work, and awakens her vengeful ghost.

3.78

49k+

🎨 Art World Satire ⏳ Dual Timeline 🏛️ Campus Novel 🔥 Feminist Rage 👻 Ghostly Haunting

Anita de Monte Laughs Last 90%

A Brown student unearths a murdered Cuban artist's work, and awakens her vengeful ghost.

by Xóchitl González 2024

3.78

49k+ ratings

🎨 Art World Satire ⏳ Dual Timeline 🏛️ Campus Novel 🔥 Feminist Rage 👻 Ghostly Haunting

L.A. Women

by Ella Berman • 2025

A novelist mines her best friend's life for fiction in Laurel Canyon. Then the friend vanishes.

3.47

3k+

🖤 Complicated Female Friendship 🎨 Muse And Artist ✍️ Writers Writing About Writers 🌴 1970s Los Angeles 🥀 Glamorous Decay

L.A. Women 89%

A novelist mines her best friend's life for fiction in Laurel Canyon. Then the friend vanishes.

by Ella Berman 2025

3.47

3k+ ratings

🖤 Complicated Female Friendship 🎨 Muse And Artist ✍️ Writers Writing About Writers 🌴 1970s Los Angeles 🥀 Glamorous Decay

The Accidental

by Ali Smith • 2005

A family's summer unravels when a stranger walks in and refuses to leave.

3.37

14k+

📚 Metafiction 🚪 Mysterious Stranger ☀️ Summer Upheaval 🕊️ Guilt And Redemption 🔐 Family Secrets

The Accidental 89%

A family's summer unravels when a stranger walks in and refuses to leave.

by Ali Smith 2005

3.37

14k+ ratings

📚 Metafiction 🚪 Mysterious Stranger ☀️ Summer Upheaval 🕊️ Guilt And Redemption 🔐 Family Secrets

Mothers and Other Strangers

by Corey Ann Haydu • 2026

Best friends since preschool, Mae and Sydney are torn apart by an affair between their parents.

3.61

1k+

📜 Generational Trauma 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 🎨 Art Born From Grief 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🏘️ Suburban Secrets

Mothers and Other Strangers 89%

Best friends since preschool, Mae and Sydney are torn apart by an affair between their parents.

by Corey Ann Haydu 2026

3.61

1k+ ratings

📜 Generational Trauma 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 🎨 Art Born From Grief 👩‍👧 Mother-Daughter Bonds 🏘️ Suburban Secrets

The Villa

by Rachel Hawkins • 2023

An Italian villa's dark past consumes two writers whose friendship is already on the edge.

3.62

158k+

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔪 Toxic Friendship 🎨 Creative Rivalry 🏚️ Gothic Villa 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

The Villa 89%

An Italian villa's dark past consumes two writers whose friendship is already on the edge.

by Rachel Hawkins 2023

3.62

158k+ ratings

🕰️ Dual Timeline Mystery 🔪 Toxic Friendship 🎨 Creative Rivalry 🏚️ Gothic Villa 🤥 Unreliable Narrator

Beautiful Ugly

by Alice Feeney • 2025

A novelist retreats to a Scottish island after his wife vanishes. The quiet has teeth.

3.61

451k+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🔪 Feminist Revenge ✍️ Writer Protagonist 📖 Book Within A Book

Beautiful Ugly 89%

A novelist retreats to a Scottish island after his wife vanishes. The quiet has teeth.

by Alice Feeney 2025

3.61

451k+ ratings

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 🔪 Feminist Revenge ✍️ Writer Protagonist 📖 Book Within A Book

Murder Bimbo

by Rebecca Novack • 2026

A queer sex worker is hired to kill a far-right demagogue, never told she's disposable.

3.24

6k+

✉️ Epistolary Thriller 💋 Sex Worker Protagonist 🎭 Unreliable Narrator ⚔️ Feminist Revenge 🌈 Queer Antihero

Murder Bimbo 89%

A queer sex worker is hired to kill a far-right demagogue, never told she's disposable.

by Rebecca Novack 2026

3.24

6k+ ratings

✉️ Epistolary Thriller 💋 Sex Worker Protagonist 🎭 Unreliable Narrator ⚔️ Feminist Revenge 🌈 Queer Antihero

The Real Thing

by Tom Stoppard • 1982

A playwright falls for his friend's wife, then struggles to tell real love from performance.

3.91

5k+

🎭 Play Within A Play 💔 Infidelity 🗣️ Witty Banter ✍️ Writer's Life 🎨 Art Vs Life

The Real Thing 89%

A playwright falls for his friend's wife, then struggles to tell real love from performance.

by Tom Stoppard 1982

3.91

5k+ ratings

🎭 Play Within A Play 💔 Infidelity 🗣️ Witty Banter ✍️ Writer's Life 🎨 Art Vs Life

Cut and Thirst

by Margaret Atwood • 2024

Three elderly friends plot literary revenge but find time and aging have their own plans.

3.12

31k+

🎭 Dark Comedy ✒️ Literary Satire 👴 Aging Protagonists 🥀 Thwarted Revenge 👯 Female Friendship

Cut and Thirst 89%

Three elderly friends plot literary revenge but find time and aging have their own plans.

by Margaret Atwood 2024

3.12

31k+ ratings

🎭 Dark Comedy ✒️ Literary Satire 👴 Aging Protagonists 🥀 Thwarted Revenge 👯 Female Friendship

The Last Housewife

by Ashley Winstead • 2022

A housewife goes undercover in a cult of powerful men after her best friend's suspicious suicide.

3.69

65k+

🕯️ Cult Thriller 🔪 Feminist Suspense 🏛️ Dark Academia 🎙️ Podcast Investigation ⚖️ Morally Ambiguous

The Last Housewife 89%

A housewife goes undercover in a cult of powerful men after her best friend's suspicious suicide.

by Ashley Winstead 2022

3.69

65k+ ratings

🕯️ Cult Thriller 🔪 Feminist Suspense 🏛️ Dark Academia 🎙️ Podcast Investigation ⚖️ Morally Ambiguous

Summerwater

by Sarah Moss • 2020

Torrential rain traps families in a Scottish holiday park; petty grievances build toward disaster.

3.49

16k+

🎙️ Polyphonic Narrative 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Literature 🌧️ Relentless Rain 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Pressure 👧 Childhood Cruelty

Summerwater 89%

Torrential rain traps families in a Scottish holiday park; petty grievances build toward disaster.

by Sarah Moss 2020

3.49

16k+ ratings

🎙️ Polyphonic Narrative 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Literature 🌧️ Relentless Rain 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Pressure 👧 Childhood Cruelty

Read Between the Lies

by Jesse Q. Sutanto • 2026

A quiet debut author faces her glamorous childhood bully in the same online writers' group.

3.35

12k+

🧠 Psychological Thriller 📚 Publishing World 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🔪 Frenemies 📱 Cancel Culture

Read Between the Lies 90%

A quiet debut author faces her glamorous childhood bully in the same online writers' group.

by Jesse Q. Sutanto 2026

3.35

12k+ ratings

🧠 Psychological Thriller 📚 Publishing World 👁️ Unreliable Narrator 🔪 Frenemies 📱 Cancel Culture

Flat Earth

by Anika Jade Levy • 2025

A broke graduate student commodifies her body, her labor, her envy of her filmmaker best friend.

3.10

2k+

📝 Autofiction 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 😞 Self Loathing 💰 Transactional Intimacy 🎭 Literary Satire

Flat Earth 90%

A broke graduate student commodifies her body, her labor, her envy of her filmmaker best friend.

by Anika Jade Levy 2025

3.10

2k+ ratings

📝 Autofiction 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 😞 Self Loathing 💰 Transactional Intimacy 🎭 Literary Satire

Yesteryear

by Caro Claire Burke

An Instagram tradwife wakes inside the pioneer fantasy she built for millions of followers.

3.95

503k+

📱 Social Media Satire 🤱 Motherhood Performance 🎭 Fabricated Reality 🏔️ Rural Isolation ⏳ Dual Timeline

Yesteryear 89%

An Instagram tradwife wakes inside the pioneer fantasy she built for millions of followers.

by Caro Claire Burke 2026

3.95

503k+ ratings

📱 Social Media Satire 🤱 Motherhood Performance 🎭 Fabricated Reality 🏔️ Rural Isolation ⏳ Dual Timeline

Clutch

by Emily Nemens • 2026

Five college friends reunite in Palm Springs, each hiding a crisis beneath her polished surface.

3.30

4k+

🖤 Female Friendship 🏜️ College Reunion 🔄 Midlife Crisis 💼 Ambitious Women 🎭 Ensemble Cast

Clutch 89%

Five college friends reunite in Palm Springs, each hiding a crisis beneath her polished surface.

by Emily Nemens 2026

3.30

4k+ ratings

🖤 Female Friendship 🏜️ College Reunion 🔄 Midlife Crisis 💼 Ambitious Women 🎭 Ensemble Cast

Bad Habits

by Amy Gentry • 2021

At a conference, two former friends must confront the grad-school death they spent years avoiding.

3.50

2k+

🎓 Toxic Academia 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 💰 Class Divide 🎭 Mentorship Gone Wrong 🔥 Slow Burn Tension

Bad Habits 89%

At a conference, two former friends must confront the grad-school death they spent years avoiding.

by Amy Gentry 2021

3.50

2k+ ratings

🎓 Toxic Academia 💔 Toxic Female Friendship 💰 Class Divide 🎭 Mentorship Gone Wrong 🔥 Slow Burn Tension

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley

by Noah Hawley • 2016

A jet crashes. A painter saves a child. Heroism becomes suspicion under the media's glare.

3.72

133k+

🌊 Literary Thriller 📺 Media Satire 🦸 Reluctant Hero 🏊 Sole Survivor 🎨 Damaged Artist

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley 89%

A jet crashes. A painter saves a child. Heroism becomes suspicion under the media's glare.

by Noah Hawley 2016

3.72

133k+ ratings

🌊 Literary Thriller 📺 Media Satire 🦸 Reluctant Hero 🏊 Sole Survivor 🎨 Damaged Artist

Sweet Tooth

by Ian McEwan • 2012

In 1970s London, an MI5 recruit falls for the writer she was sent to secretly fund.

3.44

53k+

🕵️ Literary Espionage 📖 Metafiction 💔 Spy Falls In Love 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📝 Novel Within A Novel

Sweet Tooth 89%

In 1970s London, an MI5 recruit falls for the writer she was sent to secretly fund.

by Ian McEwan 2012

3.44

53k+ ratings

🕵️ Literary Espionage 📖 Metafiction 💔 Spy Falls In Love 🎭 Unreliable Narrator 📝 Novel Within A Novel

The Catch

by Yrsa Daley-Ward • 2025

Dead twenty years, her mother enters Selfridges. A writer follows, and her life's story comes apart.

3.24

2k+

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3.23

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