14 Top thriller books like Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

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Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small…

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1. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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2. 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

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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3. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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4. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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5. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

Similar categories in 's The Last Ranger book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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6. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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8. Nothing but the Bones

By: Brian Panowich

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With lyrical prose and hard-hitting depictions of the hardscrabble life in the rural south, Brian P… read more

Similar categories in Brian Panowich's Nothing but the Bones book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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10. 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 David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Those We Thought We Knew by David    Joy

11. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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 David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Rednecks

By: Taylor Brown

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

A historical drama based on the Battle of Blair Mountain, pitting a multi-ethnic army of 10,000 co… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Brown's Rednecks book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Salvage This World

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In Michael Farris Smith's latest "riveting" epic, a young woman returns home with her child to her … read more

Similar categories in Michael Farris Smith's Salvage This World book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more

Similar categories in Tim Johnston's Distant Sons book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. 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

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Dark Ride book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of Small Town Sins by Ken Jaworowski

17. Small Town Sins

By: Ken Jaworowski

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing th… read more

Similar categories in Ken Jaworowski's Small Town Sins book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Broiler

By: Eli Cranor

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The troubles of two desperate families—one white, one Mexican American—converge in the ruthless und… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Broiler book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Les âmes féroces

By: Marie Vingtras

3.60

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

« Ici, la nuit est belle. (…) Leo avance de tache de lumière en tache de lumière et entre les deux,… read more

Similar categories in Marie Vingtras's Les âmes féroces book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

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20. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook

14 Top mystery thriller books like Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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The Last Ranger

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The Golden Gate

Amy Chua

3.88

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

Don Winslow

4.42

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