6 Top mystery books like At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman

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At the Edge of the Haight

By: Katherine Seligman

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction Maddy Donaldo, homeless a…

"People believed what they saw, but it was not the same as what was really there."

-Katherine Seligman, At the Edge of the Haight

"People believed what they saw, but it was not the same as what was really there."

-Katherine Seligman, At the Edge of the Haight

"People believed what they saw, but it was not the same as what was really there."

-Katherine Seligman, At the Edge of the Haight

If you liked the mystery plot in At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Good Kings Bad Kings

By: Susan Nussbaum

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Inside the halls of ILLC, an institution for juveniles with disabilities, we discover a place that … read more

Similar categories in Susan Nussbaum's Good Kings Bad Kings book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Once I make a decision, I stick to it."

-Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings

"Once you laugh with a person? That person is your friend."

-Susan Nussbaum, Good Kings Bad Kings

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2. Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

By: Gary Kamiya

4.25

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Cool, Gray City of Love brings together an exuberant combination of personal insight, deeply resear… read more

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"More than any city I know, San Francisco is made up of discrete neighborhoods, each with its own unique aura. The main reason for this is its terrain. Its convoluted landscape defines San Francisco's…"

-Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

"For cities are museums of time, and to live in them is to be haunted by the places they once were. The waterways that existed before the skyscrapers and freeways are a vanished world that beacons to …"

-Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

"San Francisco, by contrast, is all about the collision between man and the universe. It is on auto-derive. Anarchic, blown-out, naked, it shuffles its own crazy deck. To walk the streets is to be con…"

-Gary Kamiya, Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

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3. Orhan's Inheritance

By: Aline Ohanesian

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Hardcover

In her extraordinary debut, Aline Ohanesian has created two remarkable characters--a young man igno… read more

Similar categories in Aline Ohanesian's Orhan's Inheritance book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Perma Red

By: Debra Magpie Earling

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Debra Magpie Earling's Perma Red book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • literary fiction
  • fiction

5. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love

By: David Talbot

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a kaleidoscopic narrative, bestselling David Talbot recounts the gripping story of San Francisco… read more

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6. Elsewhere

By: Richard Russo

4.22

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

After eight commanding works of fiction, the Pulitzer Prize winner now turns to memoir in a hilario… read more

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7. The Blue Edge of Midnight (Max Freeman, #1)

By: Jonathon King

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

Max Freeman's old life ended on a night he killed a twelve-year-old child in self-defence in a Phil… read more

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8. Shutter

By: Ramona Emerson

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

This blood-chilling debut set in New Mexico’s Navajo Nation is equal parts gripping crime thriller,… read more

Similar categories in Ramona Emerson's Shutter book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Downtown Village was one of the oldest apartment buildings in Albuquerque, rising five stories above the street below. The first four floors housed six small apartments, each just like the one next t…"

-Ramona Emerson, Shutter

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9. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

By: James Kaplan

4.35

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive biography of Frank Sinatra, the story of how jazz arrived at the … read more

Similar categories in James Kaplan's 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • audiobook
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10. The Spoiled Heart

By: Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more

Similar categories in Sunjeev Sahota's The Spoiled Heart book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Mecca

By: Susan Straight

3.86

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwi… read more

Similar categories in Susan Straight's Mecca book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. The Wrong End of the Telescope

By: Rabih Alameddine

4.04

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

By National Book Award and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award finalist for An Unnecessary Woma… read more

Similar categories in Rabih Alameddine's The Wrong End of the Telescope book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Writing one’s story narcotizes it. Literature today is an opiate."

-Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope

"You still cling to romantic notions about writing, that you’ll be able to figure things out, that you will understand life, as if life is understandable, as if art is understandable. When has writing…"

-Rabih Alameddine, The Wrong End of the Telescope

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13. Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town

By: Charles L. Marohn Jr.

4.26

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Discover insider secrets of how America's transportation system is designed, funded, and built - an… read more

Similar categories in Charles L. Marohn Jr.'s Confessions of a Recovering Engineer: Transportation for a Strong Town book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • audiobook
Cover of At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman

14. At the Edge of the Haight

By: Katherine Seligman

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction Maddy Donaldo, homeless a… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"People believed what they saw, but it was not the same as what was really there."

-Katherine Seligman, At the Edge of the Haight

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15. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

By: Julia Lee

4.34

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Julia Lee is angry. And she has questions. What does it mean to be Asian in America? What does it … read more

Similar categories in Julia Lee's Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • audiobook
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16. Shiner

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one you… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Shiner book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Something Worth Doing

By: Jane Kirkpatrick

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In 1853, Abigail Scott was a 19-year-old school teacher in Oregon Territory when she married Ben Du… read more

Similar categories in Jane Kirkpatrick's Something Worth Doing book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Clover Blue

By: Eldonna Edwards

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set against the backdrop of a 1970s commune in Northern California, Clover Blue is a compelling, be… read more

Similar categories in Eldonna Edwards's Clover Blue book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"The soul cannot be stopped from searching for what it desires."

-Eldonna Edwards, Clover Blue

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19. Hestia Strikes a Match

By: Christine Grillo

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and … read more

Similar categories in Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calend…"

-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match

"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Be…"

-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match

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20. The Witches of Bellinas

By: J. Nicole Jones

3.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A dreamy California Gothic about a woman who moves to the mysterious town of Bellinas to save her m… read more

Similar categories in J. Nicole Jones's The Witches of Bellinas book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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21. The Wrong Way Home

By: Kate O'Shaughnessy

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Library Binding

Twelve-year-old Fern believes she's living a noble life--but what if everything she's been told is … read more

Similar categories in Kate O'Shaughnessy's The Wrong Way Home book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. The Bump

By: Sidney Karger

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Two men expecting a baby via surrogate go on the road trip of a lifetime in this hilarious and poig… read more

Similar categories in Sidney Karger's The Bump book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. A Country You Can Leave

By: Asale Angel-Ajani

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, the misn… read more

Similar categories in Asale Angel-Ajani's A Country You Can Leave book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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24. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss

By: Margalit Fox

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more

Similar categories in Margalit Fox's The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. 1974: A Personal History

By: Francine Prose

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close rela… read more

Similar categories in Francine Prose's 1974: A Personal History book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • audiobook
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27. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards

By: Jessica Waite

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A widow’s life is turned upside when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical,… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Waite's The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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28. The Bone Cay

By: Eliza Nellums

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of All That's Bright and Gone comes an atmospheric thriller th… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Nellums's The Bone Cay book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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29. Tell Us When To Go

By: Emil DeAndreis

4.11

Format: 263 pages, None

“Blossoms with genuine heart and pathos...DeAndreis's novel is a hallelujah to the imperfect beauty… read more

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30. Red Letter Days

By: Sarah-Jane Stratford

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A striking novel from the acclaimed author of Radio Girls about two daring women who escape McCarth… read more

Similar categories in Sarah-Jane Stratford's Red Letter Days book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. Family of Origin

By: C.J. Hauser

3.48

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

When Nolan Grey receives news that his father, a once-prominent biologist, has drowned off Leap's I… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Hauser's Family of Origin book and Katherine Seligman's At the Edge of the Haight

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

11 Best adult fiction books like At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman

Transform Your Habits

Good Kings Bad Kings

Susan Nussbaum

3.94

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The Spoiled Heart

Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Mecca

Susan Straight

3.86

Transform Your Habits

At the Edge of the Haight

Katherine Seligman

3.38

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18 Top audiobook books like The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

Steven Johnson

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

Emily Nussbaum

4.02

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