Books like Dope by Sara Gran

Alicia Berenson, a celebrated painter, shoots her husband Gabriel and then falls silent, becoming a media sensation. In North London’s Grove secure unit, psychotherapist Theo Faber devotes himself to uncovering why she became the Silent Patient and his own true motives.

First‑person memoir of Neo‑classical Manhattan investment banker Patrick Bateman, whose glossy façade masks a brutal, psychopathic descent into violence.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

When Libby Day’s family is brutally murdered, she blames her older brother Ben, who is imprisoned for life. Twenty‑four years later, a coaxing group suggests Ben’s innocence and forces Libby to revisit the night’s trauma and unravel the truth.

Reporter Camille Preaker returns to her hometown after a brief stay in a psychiatric hospital to cover the murders of two preteen girls, and must confront the trauma of her own past to uncover the truth.

Amanda, a successful architect, faces a disturbing internal voice that pulls her into violent, possession‑like behaviors as she struggles to reclaim her life.

During the Great Depression and WWII, young Anna Kerrigan becomes Brooklyn’s first female naval diver, supporting her family while uncovering the mystery of her vanished father and the enigmatic Dexter Styles.

Aasmaani, a thirty‑year‑old journalist in Karachi, discovers coded letters that may reveal her missing mother, a renowned Pakistani activist, thrusting her into a tense search amid the country’s political turmoil.

In harsh Harlem streets, teenager Lil J battles drug addiction and violence, discovering a chance for redemption after a near‑death encounter and a mysterious abandoned crack house.

A young detective is called to investigate threatening letters in Victorian London.

In 1886‑Boston satire, a civil war veteran, his feminist cousin, and a newcomer collide over reformist ideals, revealing the era’s social tensions.

A raw portrait of a young African‑American man shaped by the harsh streets of the city, whose life is torn between survival and addiction.

In 1872 Wigan, England, coal miners endure harsh lives beside lavish owners. Detective Jonathan Blair searches for a missing man, only to find himself drawn to Rose, a fiery pit girl defying Victorian expectations.

Dope examines the intricate realities of drug addiction and substance‑related disorders, offering readers profound insight into the human struggle behind these challenges, their causes, and the paths toward recovery.

In this thrilling collaboration with Alafair Burke, a kidnapping at New York’s Met Gala triggers a suspenseful investigation that unravels a cold‑case mystery, exposing the dangers of fame and media frenzy.

Since the dawn of athletic competition during the original Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, athletes, as well as their coaches and trainers, have been finding innovative ways to gain an edge on their competition. Some of those performance-enhancement methods have been within the accepted rules while other methods skirt the gray area between being within the rules and not, while still other methods break the established rules. In modern times, doping - the use of performance-enhancing drugs - has been one method athletes and their trainers have used to beat their competition. The history of sports doping during the modern era can be traced through the events and scandals of the times in which the athletes lived. From the use of amphetamines and other stimulants in the early 20th century, to the use of testosterone and steroids by both the USSR and the United States during Cold War-era Olympics games, to blood doping and EPO, to designer drugs, the history of doping in sports closely follows the medical and technological advances of our times. In the early 21st century, the possibility of genetically engineered athletes looms. The story of doping in sports over the last century offers clues to where the battle over performance enhancement will be fought in the years to come.

Set in 1930s Manhattan, "Butterfield 8" follows Gloria, a young woman whose romance with a married man leads to scandal and tragedy amid New York’s glittering nightlife.

In seventeenth‑century Isfahan, a young weaver rises from servant to celebrated rug designer, while navigating duty, secrecy and the limits of love.

A street-smart, HIV‑positive woman in her thirties navigates love and work after rehab, charting her path from New York’s drug scene to a Minnesota recovery community.

In The dopefiend, Hazel Brown is a lone figure whose life is dominated by a fierce heroin addiction.

A sharp‑witted young woman navigates heroin addiction, relationships, and the chaos of a broken home, refusing to be defined by stereotypes.