21 best-selling fiction books like Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) by Naomi Hirahara

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Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

By: Naomi Hirahara

3.63

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where…

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1. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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2. 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 Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. The Golden Gate

By: Amy Chua

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont… read more

Similar categories in Amy Chua's The Golden Gate book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
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4. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

Similar categories in Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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7. 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 Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • 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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8. 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 Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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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 Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) by Jacqueline Winspear

11. The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.46

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A milestone in historical mystery fiction as Maisie Dobbs takes her final bow! Psychologist and… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18) book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
"You've go to get on with it, my boy. Stop feeling sorry for yourselft, because what's done is done. You can't change it, so you've got to stiffen your backbone. You've a good job, a very nice roof ov…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The Comfort of Ghosts (Maisie Dobbs, #18)

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

12. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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13. The White Lady

By: Jacqueline Winspear

4.07

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

The White Lady introduces yet another extraordinary heroine/sleuth from Jacqueline Winspear, creato… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Winspear's The White Lady book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
"Give me strong young womenfolk with sharp elbows, Charlotte, my dear, and they will make a good account of themselves in this world."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

"And then there's that double-barreled name a lot of them toffs have, like they have to drag their ancestors up from the grave so we all know who they're related to."

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

". . . it was known German soldiers would go door-to-door to take males of working age, or boys on the cusp of manhood. They always took the men, leaving only the women, children and elderly. Women we…"

-Jacqueline Winspear, The White Lady

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14. Murder by Degrees

By: Ritu Mukerji

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Murder by Degrees is a historical mystery set in 19th century Philadelphia, following a pioneering… read more

Similar categories in Ritu Mukerji's Murder by Degrees book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more

Similar categories in Luis Alberto Urrea's Good Night, Irene book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"

-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

Cover of City Under One Roof (Cara Kennedy, #1) by Iris Yamashita

16. 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 Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)

By: Sujata Massey

4.02

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more

Similar categories in Sujata Massey's The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4) book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) by Naomi Hirahara

18. Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

By: Naomi Hirahara

3.63

Format: 305 pages, Hardcover

Chicago, 1944: Twenty-year-old Aki Ito and her parents have just been released from Manzanar, where… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1) book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Phoenix Crown

By: Kate Quinn

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From bestselling authors Janie Chang and Kate Quinn, a thrilling and unforgettable narrative about … read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Phoenix Crown book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • historical mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

20. The Violin Conspiracy

By: Brendan Slocumb

4.12

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a Black classical musician whose family heirloom violin is stolen on the eve of the… read more

Similar categories in Brendan Slocumb's The Violin Conspiracy book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He would tell you that music is truly a universal language, and that we the listeners will always impose our own fears and biases, our own hopes and hungers on whatever we hear. He would tell you tha…"

-Brendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy

"Bring it. Just fucking bring it. Stand tall, Grandma Nora had told him: he would stand tall, with the spotlights shining on his face, and his music would pour into all their ears, and they would unde…"

-Brendan Slocumb, The Violin Conspiracy

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21. Little Underworld

By: Chris Harding Thornton

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Omaha, 1930. When ex-cop-turned-PI Jim Beely murders the man who assaulted his fourteen-year-old da… read more

Similar categories in Chris Harding Thornton's Little Underworld book and Naomi Hirahara's Clark and Division (Japantown Mystery, #1)

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Lisa See

4.36

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Laurie R. King

4.41

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Deborah Crombie

4.25

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Ashley Weaver

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