You
A Novel
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4.4 • 1.8K Ratings
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Publisher Description
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A NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER
“Hypnotic and scary.” —Stephen King
“I am riveted, aghast, aroused, you name it. The rare instance when prose and plot are equally delicious.” —Lena Dunham
From debut author Caroline Kepnes comes You, one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year, and a brilliant and terrifying novel for the social media age.
When a beautiful, aspiring writer strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe Goldberg works, he does what anyone would do: he Googles the name on her credit card.
There is only one Guinevere Beck in New York City. She has a public Facebook account and Tweets incessantly, telling Joe everything he needs to know: she is simply Beck to her friends, she went to Brown University, she lives on Bank Street, and she’ll be at a bar in Brooklyn tonight—the perfect place for a “chance” meeting.
As Joe invisibly and obsessively takes control of Beck’s life, he orchestrates a series of events to ensure Beck finds herself in his waiting arms. Moving from stalker to boyfriend, Joe transforms himself into Beck’s perfect man, all while quietly removing the obstacles that stand in their way—even if it means murder.
A terrifying exploration of how vulnerable we all are to stalking and manipulation, debut author Caroline Kepnes delivers a razor-sharp novel for our hyper-connected digital age. You is a compulsively readable page-turner that’s being compared to Gone Girl, American Psycho, and Stephen King’s Misery.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Step into the mind of a disturbed bookstore manager who develops a sick obsession with a flirtatious customer. Like Gone Girl, American writer Caroline Kepnes’ debut is an unsettling but entertaining psychological thriller that creeps under your skin. Joe Goldberg never went to college, but he knows more about literature than most of his more affluent and socially competent peers in New York City. When Joe encounters aspiring writer Guinevere Beck—a university graduate with party-girl habits and bad taste in men—he aims to conquer her affection through a deranged quest that takes many dark and unexpected twists.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Debut novelist Kepnes s seriously unsettling depiction of stalking nevertheless manages to invoke glimmers of sympathy for its perpetrator. Joe is working as a clerk at a bookstore on New York City s Lower East Side when M.F.A. writing student Guinevere Beck (known as Beck) saunters in. Joe knows immediately that they re meant to be together. What follows is a chronicle of Joe s psychotic preoccupation with Beck, told in Joe s relentless, alternately passionate and vitriolic narration and addressed to Beck as you. Astonishingly enough, his fixation materializes into a relationship of sorts. Joe, who is well-read but never attended college, has a chip on his shoulder about his education and class status and the assumptions people make about him. Beck, for her part, prefers to stir up dramas rather than seriously work on her writing. What s most chilling about this novel, besides its plausibility, is the way in which Kepnes makes the reader empathize with Joe during the journey into his troubled mind. Her book will have readers looking over their shoulders and examining their own motivations.
Customer Reviews
I only listened to the preview 😔 but it was 😊
It was really good but I only read the preview but it was super interesting I wish I could listen to the whole thing for free but I can’t. 😔
Beautifully Haunting
I watched Raise the Red Lantern last year and this book left me with the same feeling. I won’t soon for get this book. This book made me laugh out loud at points—Joe’s narration is so manic and insane he ends being very funny at times—and by the end I felt genuinely sorrowful. It took me a bit to get through it, as the narrative style is a bit intense and can definitely tire you out, but I always wanted to pick up the book again. Wonderful book!
This book was a decent read.
There are some differences between this and the show but this still is an exciting story to read nonetheless. Gotta say though that a lot of it is of Joe rambling about something that feels like it could’ve been cut out and made the book a bit shorter, drags a bit. A fun read if you want something to keep you occupied but if you’ve seen the show no need to read this book tbh