8 Top mystery books like The Night Always Comes by Willy Vlautin

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The Night Always Comes

By: Willy Vlautin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gen…

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1. Under the Bright Lights (Renee Shade, #1)

By: Daniel Woodrell

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction
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2. Half Wild

By: Pip Smith

3.84

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A stunningly original debut novel inspired by the life of Eugenia Falleni. Sydney, 1938. After bein… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction

3. The Name of the World

By: Denis Johnson

3.27

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

Michael Reed is a man going through the motions, numbed by the death of his wife and child. But whe… read more

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4. The Gospel Singer

By: Harry Crews

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

To the dirt poor town of Enigma, Georgia, a local farm boy returns as a prosperous faith healer. Th… read more

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5. Annabel

By: Kathleen Winter

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning Canadian author Kathleen Winter's Annabel is a stunning debut novel about the family … read more

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6. I Who Have Never Known Men

By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"

-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men

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7. 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

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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8. 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

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
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9. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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10. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
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11. American Spirits

By: Russell Banks

3.88

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From one of America’s most celebrated storytellers come three dark, interlocking tales about the re… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Body in Question

By: Jill Ciment

3.59

Format: 6 pages, Audiobook

The place: central Florida. The situation: a sensational murder trial, set in a courthouse more Sov… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
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13. The Night Always Comes

By: Willy Vlautin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores the impact of trickle-down greed and opportunism of gen… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • the united states of america
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • family
  • audiobook
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14. The Lost Country

By: William Gay

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after it was first announced, Dzanc is proud to deliver the lost novel from a master of t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • novels
"Mad faces turned toward the hot sky. They demanded god smite all these whore mongers and adulterers, honky-tonk brawlers, whiskey drinking fornicators. That not even the young be spared for evil ran …"

-William Gay, The Lost Country

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15. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

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  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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16. The Rooftop

By: Fernanda Trías

3.77

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

‘The world is this house’, says Clara while she is trying to protect her beloved ones from the worl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Ghost Mountain

By: Ronan Hession

3.99

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Mountain is a simple fable-like novel about a mountain that appears suddenly and the way in w… read more

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  • fiction
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18. They Flew: A History of the Impossible

By: Carlos M.N. Eire

4.10

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Ladybird Tales of Adventurous Girls

By: Ladybird Books

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

'All power to Gretel and Tamasha and Tokoyo and Chandra and Sea Girl and Gerda! They come from diff… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Old King

By: Maxim Loskutoff

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this novel about the end of the frontier dream, a logger builds a cabin near a recluse named Ted… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Nie przywitam się z państwem na ulicy. Szkic o doświadczaniu niepełnosprawności

By: Maria Reimann

3.83

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Książka Marii Reimann jest próbą opisu zmagań z fizycznymi ograniczeniami i zrozumienia różnych zna… read more

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22. Absorbed

By: Kylie Whitehead

3.73

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Allison has been with Owen since university. She's given up on writing her novel and is working a d… read more

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  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Quickly, While They Still Have Horses: Stories

By: Jan Carson

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Humorous and horrifying, tender and absurd, the stories in Quickly, While They Still Have Horses of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. If or When I Call

By: Will Johnson

4.24

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Between interstates and county lines, life in rural Missouri unfolds in a progression of simple mom… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Dead Animals

By: Phoebe Stuckes

3.61

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

There is something creeping at the edge of your vision, lingering somewhere just out of focus. All … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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26. Autoholizm. Jak odstawić samochód w polskim mieście

By: Marta Żakowska

2.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Samochód jest symbolem wolności i dobrobytu. Motoryzacja jednym z najważniejszych elementów współcz… read more

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27. Michel Houellebecq: Die unautorisierte Biografie

By: Denis Demonpion

3.33

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

On l'a traité de tous les noms : fasciste, raciste, eugéniste, antiféministe, réactionnaire, perver… read more

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28. Everyone I Know is Dying

By: Emily Slapper

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A razor-sharp, bleakly funny exploration of mental health crises, the societal pressures on young w… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Feeding the Monster: Why Horror Has a Hold on Us

By: Anna Bogutskaya

4.18

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Zombies want brains. Vampires want blood. Cannibals want human flesh. All monsters need feeding. Ho… read more

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30. PAH

By: Orla Owen

3.89

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

"A compelling novel full of brilliantly villainous characterisation. Orla Owen is a natural storyte… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff

By: Anthony McCann

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In 2016, a group of armed, divinely inspired right-wing protestors led by Ammon Bundy occupied the … read more

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