24 Best fiction books like The Donut Legion by Joe R. Lansdale

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The Donut Legion

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) …

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1. Kissing Carrion

By: Gemma Files

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Paperback

In this first published collection of short stories from one of Canada's most talented rising stars… read more

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2. Gun Monkeys

By: Victor Gischler

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Charlie Swift just pumped three .38-caliber bullets into a dead polar bear in his taxidermist girlf… read more

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3. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

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5. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Trudy

By: Massimo Carlotto

3.36

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

Un ex commissario ai vertici di un'agenzia di security, una giovane di provincia il cui marito è sc… read more

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7. Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

By: James Lee Burke

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Lee Burke returns to his bestselling Dave Robicheaux series, bringing Dave’s partner and frie… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Burke's Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. An Honest Man

By: Michael Koryta

4.13

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The murder of several politicians at sea has shattering implications for a local lobsterman and a y… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Sleepless City (Nick Ryan, #1)

By: Reed Farrel Coleman

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Every cop in the city knows his name, but no one says it out loud. In fact, they don't talk abou… read more

Similar categories in Reed Farrel Coleman's Sleepless City (Nick Ryan, #1) book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

Similar categories in Scott Von Doviak's Lowdown Road book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. The Maltese Iguana (Serge Storms, #26)

By: Tim Dorsey

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Serge A. Storms is back on the road in the latest zany Florida caper from the wickedly funny (Enter… read more

Similar categories in Tim Dorsey's The Maltese Iguana (Serge Storms, #26) book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Murder Book

By: Thomas Perry

3.87

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

An ex-cop takes on a widespread criminal organization targeting Midwestern towns in this "master cl… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Perry's Murder Book book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's Everybody Knows book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

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16. The Donut Legion

By: Joe R. Lansdale

3.64

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

In this standalone, Edgar-award winning author, Joe R. Lansdale, whom "few can match" ( Booklist ) … read more

Similar categories in Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cults
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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17. The Strange

By: Nathan Ballingrud

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

1931, New Galveston , Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Ballingrud's The Strange book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Lehane's Small Mercies book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

Similar categories in Duane Swierczynski's California Bear book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Calico

By: Lee Goldberg

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Goldberg, comes an explosive, page-turning investigat… read more

Similar categories in Lee Goldberg's Calico book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Seven Shades of Evil (Matthew Corbett #9)

By: Robert McCammon

4.39

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

Seven Shades of Evil is the ninth volume in bestselling author Robert McCammon's acclaimed series o… read more

Similar categories in Robert McCammon's Seven Shades of Evil (Matthew Corbett #9) book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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22. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

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23. Panther Gap

By: James A. McLaughlin

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"Chock-full of adventure, runs the gamut on the human experience....One hell of a good yarn.” ―Davi… read more

Similar categories in James A. McLaughlin's Panther Gap book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"He says when you despair you're just admitting you fell for the happy horseshit in the first place."

-James A. McLaughlin, Panther Gap

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24. Buster: A Dog

By: George Pelecanos

3.87

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

Pelecanos breaks new literary ground with the story of a dog's life―from the dog's perspective―on t… read more

Similar categories in George Pelecanos's Buster: A Dog book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • fiction
Cover of Fixit (IQ, #6) by Joe Ide

25. Fixit (IQ, #6)

By: Joe Ide

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the latest installment in Joe Ide's "superb" series ( Washington Post ), the relentless, hard-bi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Ide's Fixit (IQ, #6) book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder

By: Lawrence Block

4.28

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

"This is a wonderful book!" ~Joe R. Lansdale "Fare thee well, Matt Scudder. You picked a hell of… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence Block's The Autobiography of Matthew Scudder book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Requiem di provincia by Davide Longo

27. Requiem di provincia

By: Davide Longo

4.21

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

Il dirigente di un grande gruppo industriale è in coma con un proiettile nella testa. Qualcuno col … read more

Similar categories in Davide Longo's Requiem di provincia book and Joe R. Lansdale's The Donut Legion

  • crime
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28. It Dies with You

By: Scott Blackburn

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Scott Blackburn’s searing literary debut explores the dangerous world of secrets threatening to upe… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

21 must-read audiobook books like The Donut Legion by Joe R. Lansdale

Transform Your Habits

You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

Transform Your Habits

All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

Transform Your Habits

City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

Don Winslow

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24)

James Lee Burke

4.07

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21 Top fiction books like Clete (Dave Robicheaux, #24) by James Lee Burke

Transform Your Habits

Think Twice (Myron Bolitar, #12)

Harlan Coben

4.34

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Toxic Prey (Lucas Davenport, #34, Letty Davenport, #3)

John Sandford

4.45

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A Calamity of Souls

David Baldacci

4.53

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Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

John Grisham

4.26

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