I’m in charge of picking the next book club book (we tend to swap between good books and bad-on-purpose books). I was thinking it could be fun to do like a domestic thriller or whatever you want to call it (you know what I mean. Like gone girl or the housemaid).
None of us are readers of this particular genre usually so feel free to recommend ones that are already notorious and very popular. The main thing is that I want it to be ridiculous and convoluted and I expect to not root for any of the characters, but I do want it to be at the very least a page turner. For example, we accidentally read The It Girl by Ruth Ware unironically based on a bad recommendation and it wasn’t very good and parts of it were a little ridiculous but it’s worst sin was that it was a fundamentally boring book. I don’t want that. Also, importantly, it cannot be attempting to be satire. It has to be a completely earnest attempt at being titillating (or even just clearly a low effort money grab by an established author who has written so many of these books that they don’t know how to up the ante anymore).
So please recommend us ridiculous domestic thrillers full of awful people that are fun and easy to read!
by IReadBooksSometimes
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“none of this is true” by Lisa Jewell.
I read it on vacation and burned though it.
Verity by Colleen Hoover fits this to a t
One of Us is Dead by Jeneva Rose. Rich wives in Atlanta who convene at a salon to gossip and get dolled up. A new wife joins the group and friendships get tested, secrets come out, and there’s a dead body.
Anything by May Cobb! A guilty pleasure of mine that gets me out of a reading slump. She wrote “The Hunting Wives” which I enjoyed much more than the adaptation. I just read “All The Little Houses” and it was an insane book haha.
“In My Dreams I Hold a Knife” by Ashley Winstead. Has crazy drama in it.
The Last Housewife. It was wild!
The Last Mrs Parish by Liv Constantine
My Husband’s Wife fits the bill. It’s a really good page turner and all kinds of ridiculous in a fun way!
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires. Read quickly, suburban setting, ridiculous premise.