8 Best mystery thriller books like The Truants by Kate Weinberg

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The Truants

By: Kate Weinberg

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Where do I find Crime?’ ‘Crime doesn’t have its own section,’ said the librarian without lookin…

"There's nothing I love more than watching a river--one of the few places where you actually get to see time carving itself into the landscape. The past flowing into the future."

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

"There's nothing I love more than watching a river--one of the few places where you actually get to see time carving itself into the landscape. The past flowing into the future."

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

"....time remembered does not flow smoothly at all. If you are going to imagine sand seeping through an hourglass, then you'd do better to think of it as having grown damp, somehow. Instead of memories trickling through in an orderly fashion, there are long, sticky periods when nothing happens at all, followed by a sudden whoosh in which certain events burst forth in vivid, granular detail."

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

"....time remembered does not flow smoothly at all. If you are going to imagine sand seeping through an hourglass, then you'd do better to think of it as having grown damp, somehow. Instead of memories trickling through in an orderly fashion, there are long, sticky periods when nothing happens at all, followed by a sudden whoosh in which certain events burst forth in vivid, granular detail."

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

If you liked the mystery thriller plot in The Truants by Kate Weinberg , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Lessons

By: Naomi Alderman

2.96

Format: 63 pages, Paperback

Hidden away in an Oxford back street is a crumbling Georgian mansion, unknown to any but the few wh… read more

Similar categories in Naomi Alderman's The Lessons book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • literary fiction
  • academia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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2. Black Chalk

By: Christopher J. Yates

4.13

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

It was only ever meant to be a game played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford Univer… read more

Similar categories in Christopher J. Yates's Black Chalk book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult

3. A Good School

By: Richard Yates

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Yates, who died in 1992, is today ranked by many readers, scholars, and critics alongside s… read more

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4. Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years (Adrian Mole, #8)

By: Sue Townsend

3.81

Format: 75 pages, Hardcover

When we last heard from Adrian, he had fallen in love with Daisy Flowers and they had embarked on a… read more

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5. The Bellwether Revivals

By: Benjamin Wood

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Part Secret History, part Brideshead Revisitedfor the 21st century, The Bellwether Revivals is a pa… read more

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6. Dark Rooms

By: Lili Anolik

3.20

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The Secret Historymeets Sharp Objectsin this stunning debut about murder and glamour set in the amb… read more

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7. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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8. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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9. In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology

By: Marie O'Regan

3.39

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

ENROLLMENT BEGINS NOW A beguiling, sinister collection of 12 dark academia short stories from ma… read more

Similar categories in Marie O'Regan's In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • academia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
"As early as she could remember, she was escaping into books, falling into stories, cloaking herself from the great summer storms with silken words."

-Marie O'Regan, In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology

"A Tom Sawyerish figure she imagined growing up on some widwestern farm, reading adventure books and butchering chickens, pulling the braids of milkmaids and leaving his hometown to travel the world; …"

-Marie O'Regan, In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology

"People seemed to live so differently in the past, with real purpose and romance—true romance—born of suffering and sacrifice and courage, not this modern-day idea of romance made up of cheap words, a…"

-Marie O'Regan, In These Hallowed Halls: A Dark Academia Anthology

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10. The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels

By: Janice Hallett

3.95

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into belie… read more

Similar categories in Janice Hallett's The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

Similar categories in Rita Bullwinkel's Headshot book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

Cover of Reasonable People: A sharply funny and relatable story about feuding families by Caroline  Hulse

12. Reasonable People: A sharply funny and relatable story about feuding families

By: Caroline Hulse

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

CantBeArsed8: Am I the villain for being furious my partner's father changed my daughter's pirate p… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Hulse's Reasonable People: A sharply funny and relatable story about feuding families book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • fiction
Cover of Kittentits by Holly    Wilson

13. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Truants by Kate Weinberg

14. The Truants

By: Kate Weinberg

3.34

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

‘Where do I find Crime?’ ‘Crime doesn’t have its own section,’ said the librarian without lookin… read more

Similar categories in Kate Weinberg's The Truants book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • academia
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"There's nothing I love more than watching a river--one of the few places where you actually get to see time carving itself into the landscape. The past flowing into the future."

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

"....time remembered does not flow smoothly at all. If you are going to imagine sand seeping through an hourglass, then you'd do better to think of it as having grown damp, somehow. Instead of memorie…"

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

"What is it about an unsolved mystery...that captures us so. that makes us lean forward. looking for an answer? Is it just the challenge of cracking it ourselves or do we rather hope that it will neve…"

-Kate Weinberg, The Truants

Cover of The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent

15. The Things We Do to Our Friends

By: Heather Darwent

3.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history—the… read more

Similar categories in Heather Darwent's The Things We Do to Our Friends book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Social Creature

By: Tara Isabella Burton

3.36

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt, a dark, propulsive and addictive debut thriller, spla… read more

Similar categories in Tara Isabella Burton's Social Creature book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Bad Animals

By: Sarah Braunstein

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation throu… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Braunstein's Bad Animals book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Rosenshine's Principles in Action by Tom Sherrington

18. Rosenshine's Principles in Action

By: Tom Sherrington

4.28

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Bridging research and classroom practice, Barack Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction are widely … read more

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19. The Unquiet Heart (Sarah Gilchrist #2)

By: Kaite Welsh

3.99

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Kaite Welsh's thrilling THE UNQUIET HEART is the second in the gothic Sarah Gilchrist series, follo… read more

Similar categories in Kaite Welsh's The Unquiet Heart (Sarah Gilchrist #2) book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. The Garden Party

By: B.P. Walter

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Saltburn meets Agatha Christie for the party of the summer.‘If you aren’t reading B P Walter yet, n… read more

Similar categories in B.P. Walter's The Garden Party book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery thriller
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21. Upcountry

By: Chin-Sun Lee

4.02

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

A middle-class ex-Manhattanite, a cash-strapped single mother, and a young member of an obscure rel… read more

Similar categories in Chin-Sun Lee's Upcountry book and Kate Weinberg's The Truants

  • fiction
  • contemporary

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