The Woman in the Window

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A.J. Finn’s 2018 novel, The Woman in the Window, was a major bestseller, and received mostly positive reviews. Anna Fox is a child psychologist who suffered some sort of trauma 10 months ago and now suffers from agoraphobia — the inability to deal with open spaces and unknown areas. She lives in a New York City 4-story brownstone, with a hardly-ever-seen rental tenant living in her basement. Her husband and young daughter are gone, but she talks to them on the phone regularly. She passes her time by sharing advice on an agoraphobe chat website online, has everything she needs delivered to her home for her, and spies on the neighbors she can see from her windows. She also drinks LOTS of wine (particularly Merlot), and self-medicates for her condition. When a new family moves in across the way, and each of its members – father, mother and teenage son – comes to visit her, she soon finds herself watching them through their windows. When she sees a crime occur while under the influence of drugs and alcohol, no-one believes her unlikely eyewitness account – she even finds herself questioning what she believes she saw — did it really happen, or are the pills and wine combining with her trauma-induced agoraphobia to make her hallucinate. The last 100 pages of the book feature multiple shocking twists. The primary stylistic element of The Woman in the Window is the “unreliable narrator” — can you, as reader, trust what the person telling the story is actually saying? This is a first novel by author Daniel Mallory, who wrote under the pseudonym A.J. Finn — he has a second novel coming out later in 2019. The Woman in the Window has been adapted into a feature film, starring Amy Adams as Anna, which will be released in theaters in October 2019.

The following books share similar traits with The Woman in the Window, either in terms of plot, tone or style. None are exactly note-for-note like Finn’s novel — but if you liked The Woman in the Window, you may appreciate many of the other books on this list! The author names (and titles) in the list below are hotlinked to their holdings in our catalog, so that you may check on the availability of their titles in print, audio or downloadable formats.

Readalikes to “The Woman in the Window” (alphabetical order by author)

The Wife
and other titles by Alafair Burke

She Was the Quiet One
and other titles by Michele Campbell

Need to Know
and other titles by Karen Cleveland

I Know My Name
and other titles by C.J. Cooke

Dead Girl Running
and other titles by Christina Dodd

If You Knew Her
and other titles by Emily Elgar

If I Die Tonight
and other titles by Alison Gaylin

The Other Mother
and other titles by Carol Goodman

In a Cottage in a Wood
and other titles by Cass Green

The Wife Between Us
and other titles by Greer Hendricks

The Sister
and other titles by Louise Jensen

The Other Woman
and other titles by Sandie Jones

Providence
and other titles by Caroline Kepnes

The Innocent Wife
and other titles by Amy Lloyd

Behind Closed Doors
and other titles by B.A. Paris

Behind Her Eyes
and other titles by Sarah Pinborough

The Last Time I Lied
and other titles by Riley Sager

The Perfect Nanny
and other titles by Leila Slimarni

The Cabin at the End of the World
and other titles by Paul Tremblay

The Chalk Man
and other titles by C.J. Tudor

The Woman in Cabin 10
and other titles by Ruth Ware

Before I Go to Sleep
and other titles by S.J. Watson

A few similar titles that are not currently in the Lincoln City Libraries’ collection:

• Perfect Remains by Helen Fields
• Give Him Back by B.M. Hardin
• It All Falls Down by Sheena Kamal
• The Girl in the Woods by Camilla Lackberg
• Hysteria by Elizabeth de Mariaffi
• The Sleeping Lady by Bonnie C. Monty
• Tips for Living by Renee Shafransky

last updated February 2019 sdc