14 best-selling mystery books like Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

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Liar, Dreamer, Thief

By: Maria Dong

3.59

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a sta…

If you liked the mystery plot in Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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2. Diavola

By: Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Marie Thorne's Diavola book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Mister Magic

By: Kiersten White

3.59

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and di… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Mister Magic book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Magic never forgets the taste of your friendship."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"This version of him isn't perfect. None of them are. New isn't the same as perfect. Growing up isn't inherently loss, it's just change."

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

"I think you've told me thank you more in the last day than anyone else has in years. It's like--when there's a stack of dishes, if my husband actually does them , I tell him thank you. But when I do …"

-Kiersten White, Mister Magic

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4. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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5. Black Sheep

By: Rachel Harrison

3.60

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

A cynical twentysomething must confront her unconventional family’s dark secrets in this fiery, irr… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Harrison's Black Sheep book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How can anyone know when ruin wears the disguise of love?"

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

"I hoped wherever she was, she was having a shitty time, had an itch in a place she couldn't scratch."

-Rachel Harrison, Black Sheep

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6. Lone Women

By: Victor LaValle

3.72

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past,… read more

Similar categories in Victor LaValle's Lone Women book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A home is never finished, it’s only saved from decay."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"History is simple, but the past is complicated. I, for one, embrace the complications."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"As vast as the land could seem, it shrank in comparison to all that he—that anyone—kept within."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

"Better to have a human cause for this horror. Something that could be understood by all, explained easily, brought to justice."

-Victor LaValle, Lone Women

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7. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

Cover of Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

8. Liar, Dreamer, Thief

By: Maria Dong

3.59

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Katrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a sta… read more

Similar categories in Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. How Can I Help You

By: Laura Sims

3.42

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp suspense about two local librarians whose lives become dangerously intertwined. N… read more

Similar categories in Laura Sims's How Can I Help You book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1)

By: Iris Yamashita

3.54

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

A stranded detective tries to solve a murder in a tiny Alaskan town where everyone lives in a singl… read more

Similar categories in Iris Yamashita's City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1) book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Bandit Queens

By: Parini Shroff

3.93

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Geeta's no-good husband disappeared five years ago. She didn't kill him, but everyone thinks she di… read more

Similar categories in Parini Shroff's The Bandit Queens book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"So I’d stay home. So my world wouldn’t get any bigger."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"At least you were seen. Hated, but seen. I was just invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"Thanking him had nearly given her an ulcer, but she'd managed by imagining him dead."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

"It wasn’t as though she wanted people looking at her — it was far safer to be invisible."

-Parini Shroff, The Bandit Queens

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13. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

Similar categories in Cherie Dimaline's VenCo book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

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14. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ling Huang's Natural Beauty book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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15. On the Savage Side

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Six women--mothers, daughters, sisters--gone missing. When the first is found floating dead in the … read more

Similar categories in Tiffany McDaniel's On the Savage Side book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Writing Retreat

By: Julia Bartz

3.43

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A young author is invited to an exclusive writer’s retreat that soon descends into a pulse-pounding… read more

Similar categories in Julia Bartz's The Writing Retreat book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"At thirteen I learned from Roza's stolen book that girls don't have to be sweet little creatures, that they could in fact be angry and dark and sexual."

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"Where did one's power lie in a world that stripped it from you, over and over again? How could we reclaim it when dominant forces dangled it over our heads, shouting, "only the strong survive?"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

"That was the way of the world: if you were a woman, then you had a job to do, and that was to pretend to love everyone else walking all over your body, leaving imprints on your face. You were suppose…"

-Julia Bartz, The Writing Retreat

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17. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

Similar categories in Sierra Greer's Annie Bot book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jiménez

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more

Similar categories in Claire Jiménez's What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."

-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

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19. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

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20. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

Similar categories in Monika Kim's The Eyes Are the Best Part book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Desert Creatures

By: Kay Chronister

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a world that has become treacherous and desiccated, Magdala has always had to fight to survive. … read more

Similar categories in Kay Chronister's Desert Creatures book and Maria Dong's Liar, Dreamer, Thief

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

20 Top fiction books like Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Diavola

Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

Transform Your Habits

A House with Good Bones

T. Kingfisher

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Black Sheep

Rachel Harrison

3.60

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21 Top fiction books like VenCo by Cherie Dimaline

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Thornhedge

T. Kingfisher

4.00

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Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

Shane Hawk

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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