Gone Girl

On the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary in North Carthage, Missouri, Nick Dunne comes home to find his wife Amy gone and signs of a struggle in the house. Gillian Flynn's psychological thriller alternates between Nick's account of the investigation and Amy's diary entries, which trace the couple from their meeting as writers in New York through lost jobs and a move to Nick's Missouri hometown. As the police and the media close in, Nick turns evasive and his lies pile up. The suspense rests on whether he had a hand in her disappearance. David Fincher later directed the film version, with Flynn writing the screenplay and Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in the leads.

It appears on a roundup of every book Barack Obama recommended during his presidency, and the serial entrepreneur and investor Fabrice Grinda listed it among the books he recommends.