The Most Influential Thriller of the Century So Far

The world of modern thrillers has two just eras: Before Gone Girl and After Gone Girl. Gillian Flynn’s 2012 instant blockbuster didn’t invent the unreliable narrator, of course, but it broke the mold and ushered in a new era of domestic thrillers focused on toxic relationships and female antiheroes.

Often imitated, never duplicated—to say a book is “the next Gone Girl” is to spoil it from the outset—Gone Girl continues to put up big numbers.

• Estimated total sales exceed 20 million copies.
• The novel comes in at #9 on Amazon’s best-selling books of all time, right behind The Handmaid’s Tale and just ahead of Read Entire Article