4 Reasons You Must Read The Girl on the Train

The 2012 novel Gone Girl was the book that every one of your friends was reading, and as you all passed it around to each other, you had to caution people: don't spoil the twist! That's why we were all talking about it: it was a crazy mystery with elements of murder and domestic unrest. The Girl on the Train also has both, without having a story that hews too close to Gone Girl. It's that book that, while you're reading it, you can't help but ask everyone you know if they've read it, then conspiratorially discuss it when they say yes — and demand they read it now if they say no.

Gone Girl made Gillian Flynn a bestselling author who now has two movies adapted from her works, and The Girl on the Train's Paula Hawkins looks poised to follow in her footsteps. This is the first fictional novel from the British author, who was named writer of the year at this year's Glamour Women of the Year awards.

Of course, the biggest parallel between the two books is that The Girl on the Train is being adapted for big screen. Gone Girl, of course, was critically acclaimed and even netted an Oscar nomination for Rosamund Pike, and showed us a side of Ben Affleck we'd never seen before. The Girl on the Train looks like it will be the next hot adaptation we can scrutinize — it already has a star-studded cast, including Emily Blunt and Justin Theroux, that we're loving.