9 Top noir books like Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor

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Don't Know Tough

By: Eli Cranor

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and …

"He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

"The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

If you liked the noir plot in Don't Know Tough by Eli Cranor , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. She Rides Shotgun

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more

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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 Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • 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. 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 Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Gangland

By: Chuck Hogan

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of t… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Hogan's Gangland book and Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. My Darkest Prayer

By: S.A. Cosby

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel My Darkest Prayer is rep… read more

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's My Darkest Prayer book and Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) book and Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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11. Shifty's Boys

By: Chris Offutt

4.10

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Army cop-turned-small-town-investigator Mick Hardin returns to the Kentucky hills in this second vi… read more

Similar categories in Chris Offutt's Shifty's Boys book and Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. The Last King of California

By: Jordan Harper

4.10

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes to find yourself, you have to go back to where you came from. You just might not like wh… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Harper's The Last King of California book and Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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13. 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 Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Don't Know Tough

By: Eli Cranor

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and … read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough book and Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • southern
  • noir
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • sports
  • audiobook
"He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

"The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

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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 Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • 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

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17. 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

Similar categories in Scott Blackburn's It Dies with You book and Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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18. The Lost Kings

By: Tyrell Johnson

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Twins Jeanie and Jamie King are inseparable. Stuck in a cabin in rural Washington with their alcoho… read more

Similar categories in Tyrell Johnson's The Lost Kings book and Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Don't Let the Devil Ride by Ace Atkins

19. Don't Let the Devil Ride

By: Ace Atkins

3.79

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

“An instant Southern noir classic” –S.A. Cosby S.A. Cosby meets Don Winslow in the breakout thri… read more

Similar categories in Ace Atkins's Don't Let the Devil Ride book and Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough

  • mystery thriller
  • southern
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

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S.A. Cosby

4.24

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4.42

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4.16

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4.32

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4.47

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