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You: where to start reading
Adapts You (Joe Goldberg) by Caroline Kepnes. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
Thriller
5 seasons
on screen
3 books
to read
Diverges
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at You.
through the end of the first book.
The first season is a fairly faithful adaptation of the first novel.
Start reading at You (the first Joe Goldberg novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:
You
Caroline Kepnes · Book 1 of 3
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What the show changed here
- InventedPaco, the teenage neighbor Joe looks out for, is invented for the show and has no counterpart in the novel.
- InventedEllie, the streetwise younger sister of Joe's landlord, is a show creation not found in the book.
- InventedJoe's backstory under the bookseller Mr. Mooney, including the basement glass cage, is built up for the show, not the novel.
- ChangedThe novel is Joe's first-person narration; the show carries that inner voice as a running voiceover while softening him on screen.
- InventedThe show enlarges the secondary cast so it can follow relationships and subplots outside Joe's narrow first-person view.
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The first two seasons track Caroline Kepnes' first two Joe Goldberg novels, after which the show invents its own plots and outruns the books.
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