The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller

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A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLERS OF THE YEAR

“I loved this book. It gave me the same waves of happiness I get from curling up with a classic Christie...The alternating points of view keep you guessing, and guessing wrong.” — Alex Michaelides, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient

"Evok[es] the great Agatha Christie classics…Pay close attention to seemingly throwaway details about the characters’ pasts. They are all clues.” — New York Times Book Review

A wedding celebration turns dark and deadly in this deliciously wicked and atmospheric psychological thriller reminiscent of Agatha Christie from the New York Times bestselling author of The Hunting Party.

The bride – The plus one – The best man – The wedding planner  – The bridesmaid – The body

On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather for a remote wedding to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It’s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed in this gripping whodunit.

But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.

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Published Aug 3, 2021

336 pages

Average rating: 7.16

4,449 RATINGS

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Readers say *The Guest List* is a well-written, atmospheric thriller with a compelling, isolated wedding setting. Many appreciate Lucy Foley’s skillfu...

The.readrose
Jan 28, 2026
6/10 stars
3.5 out of 5 ⭐️

I tend to enjoy “locked room mysteries,” but I never seem to love them.

I enjoyed the characters, but figured things out pretty quickly. It was still a decent read.
PerpetualRevision
Dec 22, 2025
8/10 stars
At about the 20% mark, I stopped reading this book b/c none of the characters seemed to have any redeeming traits. When I finished a different book, I picked this one back up just to see if I'd like to continue, and this time it held my interest. By about the halfway mark I started to care for some of the characters and to see how they're all more complex than standard good or bad guys. But ultimately, this is a thriller, and what kept me going was the page-turning suspense that kicked into high gear! I predicted who would die but not who did it, and while I'd prefer that justice be dealt through the proper channels, I totally understand the killer's motivation (and why the person blamed accepted the blame).
Crmoore
Nov 08, 2025
Molly
BMC
Apr 28, 2025
6/10 stars
This wasn't really my thing. It felt like a reverse murder mystery, which turns out I don't like, and I wasn't engaged in the characters. It did start to pick up and then the ending wasn't my favourite. The author is a very good writer though, so that bumped up the score.
Hasti book lover
Mar 07, 2025
8/10 stars
The beginning ( and what I mean by that is more than 75% into the book) was super slow but once things started to fall into places things speed up and there were two twist I was not expecting at all so all in all I deducted one point for the slow built up and one point for how things were left for one one character I hated (charlie)

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