Gone Girl

This is incredibly well-written. I have really enjoyed reading more contemporary fiction this year. I don't know if I would have put it on a 1000 Books to Read List, but it was a page-turner. 

It is written in both the husband's and the wife's voices. Wow! Really intriguing. (Had to watch the movie, and it follows it really well. I had to skip one part in the movie though.) 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

Gone Girl is the story of a marriage’s unraveling and the suspicion that falls on the husband in the wake of his wife’s disappearance. But it is author Gillian Flynn’s knowing exploitation of the intimate pact between writer and reader, her head-turning violation of it, that tightens the story's grip on our attention. The workings of Flynn’s chilling novel turn on issues of faithfulness and trust, not only between husband and wife, but between author and audience. This last intimacy Flynn violates with such deviousness that she turns a standard thriller of love gone sour into a stunning psychological puzzle that seduces us in the way it’s told, and then is deepened by keen insight into the disappointments, duplicities, and distortions that derail speeding plots from the track toward happy endings.