20 best-selling fiction books like The Mythmakers by Keziah Weir

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The Mythmakers

By: Keziah Weir

3.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A must-read twisty literary mystery. A journalist searches for answers after discovering herself i…

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1. Vida

By: Patricia Engel

3.77

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Fresh, accomplished, and fearless, Vida marks the debut of Patricia Engel, a young author of immens… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Engel's Vida book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'd only marry for love." "Easy to say when you're not illegal."

-Patricia Engel, Vida

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2. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

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3. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cunningham's Day book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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4. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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5. 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 Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Holding Pattern

By: Jenny Xie

3.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of suspende… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Xie's Holding Pattern book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Wellness

By: Nathan Hill

4.00

Format: 611 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Hill's Wellness book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

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8. Lucky

By: Jane Smiley

3.13

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, a soaring, soulful novel about a folk musicia… read more

Similar categories in Jane Smiley's Lucky book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. The Sleepwalkers

By: Scarlett Thomas

3.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “one of the UK’s most interesting authors” (Kirkus Reviews), Patricia Highsmith meets White Lo… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Thomas's The Sleepwalkers book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Little Monsters

By: Adrienne Brodeur

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Brodeur's Little Monsters book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

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11. Hope

By: Andrew Ridker

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Ridker's Hope book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Time's Mouth

By: Edan Lepucki

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Edan Lepucki comes an enthralling saga about family secrets … read more

Similar categories in Edan Lepucki's Time's Mouth book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. The Mythmakers

By: Keziah Weir

3.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A must-read twisty literary mystery. A journalist searches for answers after discovering herself i… read more

Similar categories in Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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14. Fervor

By: Toby Lloyd

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A chilling and unforgettable story of a close-knit Jewish family in London pushed to the brink when… read more

Similar categories in Toby Lloyd's Fervor book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Reboot

By: Justin Taylor

3.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture,… read more

Similar categories in Justin Taylor's Reboot book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. You Can't Stay Here Forever

By: Katherine Lin

3.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Named a must-read book of summer by: Good Morning America, People, the San Francisco Chronicle, the… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Lin's You Can't Stay Here Forever book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

17. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

Similar categories in Jo Hamya's The Hypocrite book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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19. Lost Believers

By: Irina Zhorov

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“A beautiful, mournful novel about faith gravely tempered by grief and the brutal iron of modernity… read more

Similar categories in Irina Zhorov's Lost Believers book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) by Jean Hanff Korelitz

20. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel (The Book Series, #2) book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine by Daniel J. Levitin

21. I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

By: Daniel J. Levitin

4.14

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Neuroscientist and New York Times best-selling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levi… read more

Similar categories in Daniel J. Levitin's I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine book and Keziah Weir's The Mythmakers

  • adult
  • audiobook

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Patricia Engel

3.77

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The Guest

Emma Cline

3.29

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Michael Cunningham

3.57

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3.38

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Angie Kim

3.75

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3.99

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