Gone Girl by Flynn, Gillian

#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 "One of the Best Books of the Decade")

ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME, ONE OF CNN'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE, AND ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE

ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: 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?

ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, HuffPost, Newsday

Author: Gillian Flynn
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 06/05/2012
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780307588364

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 23
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 160426 / Gone Girl

Award: Edgar Allan Poe Awards - Nominee
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee
Award: Anthony Awards - Nominee
Award: Macavity Award - Nominee

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 01/01/2012 pg. 66
Library Journal 03/01/2012 pg. 87
Publishers Weekly 03/26/2012 pg. 59
Romantic Times 06/01/2012 pg. 80 - Excellent
Booklist 05/01/2012 pg. 31
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2012
Entertainment Weekly 06/01/2012 pg. 120
People Weekly 06/11/2012 pg. 55
Shelf Awareness 06/12/2012
New York Times Book Review 06/17/2012 pg. 15
Entertainment Weekly 07/06/2012 pg. 78
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Entertainment Weekly 07/20/2012 pg. 78
Entertainment Weekly 07/27/2012 pg. 74
People Weekly 07/30/2012 pg. 43
New Yorker (The) 08/13/2012 pg. 93
Entertainment Weekly 08/31/2012 pg. 77
Christian Century 10/17/2012 pg. 63
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 29
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2012 pg. 16
Entertainment Weekly 11/30/2012 pg. 18
Entertainment Weekly 12/07/2012 pg. 47
LJ Best Books of Year 12/01/2012 pg. 24
Shelf Awareness 12/28/2012
People Weekly 12/31/2012 pg. 47
Entertainment Weekly 12/28/2012 pg. 104
Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide 05/15/2012 pg. 8
People Weekly 03/04/2013 pg. 54
Entertainment Weekly 01/17/2014 pg. 21
People Weekly 09/08/2014 pg. 110
People Weekly 10/06/2014 pg. 62
New York Review of Books 12/04/2014 pg. 18
New York Times Book Review 03/01/2015 pg. 24

About the Author
Gillian Flynn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Gone Girl, for which she wrote the Golden Globe-nominated screenplay; the New York Times bestsellers Dark Places and Sharp Objects; and a novella, The Grownup. A former critic for Entertainment Weekly, she lives in Chicago with her husband and children.