#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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).NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE BY CNN • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S BEST … BOOKS OF THE DECADE AND ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • People • Entertainment Weekly • O: The Oprah Magazine • Slate • Kansas City Star • USA Today • Christian Science Monitor
On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer?
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY San Francisco Chronicle • St. Louis Post Dispatch • Chicago Tribune • HuffPost • Newsday
“Absorbing . . . In masterly fashion, Flynn depicts the unraveling of a marriage—and of a recession-hit Midwest—by interweaving the wife’s diary entries with the husband’s first-person account.”—New Yorker
“Ms. Flynn writes dark suspense novels that anatomize violence without splashing barrels of blood around the pages . . . Ms. Flynn has much more up her sleeve than a simple missing-person case. As Nick and Amy alternately tell their stories, marriage has never looked so menacing, narrators so unreliable.”—The Wall Street Journal
“The story unfolds in precise and riveting prose . . . even while you know you’re being manipulated, searching for the missing pieces is half the thrill of this wickedly absorbing tale.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
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Grossly overrated!
Loved this book but…
….I didn’t love the ending. Does that mean it’s not a fabulous book or that it deserves less than 5 stars? NO! This is an amazing book and, if the author decided that was how to finish her story, then I’ll just say, “Thank you for writing this. Please write more books that take away my breath, please.”
There were times …
I loved this book!
I thought this book was pretty good until the end.
One of the wierdest books I have ever read, but I couldn’t stop reading it!
I didn’t find any of the characters likable. Couldn’t finish it.
Such an exceptional dissection of what can go wrong in a marriage –even if you’re not married to a psychopath. And the ending is hauntingly fantastic.
This is one of my all-time favorite thrillers!
A “cannot put it down” read. Excellent.
Suspenseful
One of my favorite books of all time.
Without revealing the ending, I’ll just say I love books where the main character is a very clever woman.
Her best book
Edge-of-your-seat reading!
Shocking!
… the balls that some people have
… what it takes to make someone crack
… what people will do to live up to the image of happily ever after they concocted in their minds when life wasn’t riddled with unforeseen loops, detours, and roadblocks.
Gone Girl is the measuring stick by which I measure all other thrillers.
Sharp and memorable.
This is a good one, and hard to put down!!
Great book!
So, so good. You don’t see it coming.
Completely unsympathetic characters with absolutely no redeeming qualities and just plain boring.