Andrea Bartz is a journalist and the New York Times-bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick We Were Never Here, The Spare Room, The Lost Night, and The Herd.
Her new novel is The Last Ferry Out.
"[N]ot alone in [her] obsession with suspense set in the middle of complicated social spiderwebs," for People magazine Bartz tagged seven "novels [that] deliver twisted group dynamics and drama aplenty (and — bonus! — fill that White Lotus-shaped hole in your life)." One title on the list:
The Beach by Alex GarlandRead about another thriller on the list.
This tense, transportive 1996 novel by Alex Garland that's also the basis of that unforgettable Leonardo DiCaprio flick chronicles the rise and fall of a communityof backpackers quietly camping out on a Thai island. They’ve got their own society — jobs, leaders, a kind of tribunal justice system — but their blissful secret society is far more precarious than they realize. And yes, this scorcher was a major inspiration for The Last Ferry Out.
The Beach also appears on Lucy Clarke's top ten list of books about castaways, Hephzibah Anderson's list of eleven previously hip books that have not aged well, S J watson's list of six novels that could only take place at the seashore, Cat Barton's top five list of books on Southeast Asian travel literature, Kate Kellaway's ten best list of fictional holidays, Eleanor Muffitt top 12 list of books that make you want to pack your bags and trot the globe, Anna Wilson's top ten list of books set on the seaside, the Guardian editors' list of the 50 best summer reads ever, John Mullan's list of ten of the best swimming scenes in literature, and Sloane Crosley's list of five depressing beach reads.
--Marshal Zeringue
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