Books like The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
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What it is about
- Family violence
- Marriage
- Artists
- Psychotherapy patients
Where it happens
Came out
- 2010s
Ages
- Ages 15+
- Adult
About this book
Painter Alicia Berenson shoots her husband five times and never speaks again; her silence becomes the mystery at the center of the story. (condensed from its Library of Congress summary) It is set in London (England) and listed for ages 15 and up.
Where this comes from: Library of Congress · Common Sense Media
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Why: Both are thriller books.
What both books share
- thriller
The Silent Patient: "Fiction, thrillers" (OL subject); "Fiction, thrillers, general" (OL subject); "FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological" (OL subject); "FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense" (OL subject)
Dark Matter: "Thrillers" (OL subject); "thriller" (WD genre); "Thrillers (Fiction)" (LoC 655)
- thriller
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Why: Both are thriller books.
What both books share
- thriller
The Silent Patient: "Fiction, thrillers" (OL subject); "Fiction, thrillers, general" (OL subject); "FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological" (OL subject); "FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense" (OL subject)
Killing Floor: "Fiction, thrillers, general" (OL subject); "Fiction, thrillers, suspense" (OL subject); "Thriller" (OL subject); "Fiction, thrillers" (OL subject)
- thriller
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Why: Both are thriller books.
What both books share
- thriller
The Silent Patient: "Fiction, thrillers" (OL subject); "Fiction, thrillers, general" (OL subject); "FICTION / Thrillers / Psychological" (OL subject); "FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense" (OL subject)
The Housemaid: "Thriller" (OL subject); "Fiction, thrillers, domestic" (OL subject); "Fiction, thrillers, psychological" (OL subject); "Fiction, thrillers, suspense" (OL subject)
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What they share, at a glance
The Silent Patient next to each book above. A dot means both books' records carry that fact.
| Book | Thriller | London |
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| Dark Matter | shared | not shared |
| Killing Floor | shared | not shared |
| The Housemaid | shared | not shared |
| Orphan X | shared | not shared |
| The Gray Man | shared | not shared |
| The Da Vinci Code | shared | not shared |
| The Shadow of the Wind | shared | not shared |
| Step on a Crack | shared | not shared |
| Darkly Dreaming Dexter | shared | not shared |
| Carrie | shared | not shared |
| Personal | shared | shared |
| Point Blank | shared | shared |
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The Silent Patient: the facts, checked
Each line names the page it was checked on and the date.
- First published
- First published in 2019. Source: Wikidata, checked November 6, 2026.
- Edition checked
- The edition checked here is a 325-page hardcover from Celadon Books. Source: Library of Congress, checked November 6, 2026.
9781250301697 ... hardcover ... 325 pages ... Celadon Books
How The Silent Patient came to be
- Michaelides says the Euripides play Alcestis, about a woman who returns from death and never speaks again, captivated him from childhood. Interview: Celadon Books, May 10, 2018, checked November 6, 2026.
- Before writing it he worked part time at a secure unit for teenagers, which he calls a formative experience. Interview: Celadon Books, May 10, 2018, checked November 6, 2026.
a part-time job at a secure unit for teenagers ... a formative, life-changing experience
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