31 Top fiction books like The Final Case by David Guterson

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The Final Case

By: David Guterson

3.12

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son…

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1. The Swimmers

By: Julie Otsuka

3.67

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine, a tour de… read more

Similar categories in Julie Otsuka's The Swimmers book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brow…"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

"The pool is their sanctuary, their refuge, the one place on earth they can go to escape from their pain, for it is only down below in the waters that their symptoms begin to abate. "The moment I see …"

-Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

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2. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Haigh's Mercy Street book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12)

By: Scott Turow

3.82

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riv… read more

Similar categories in Scott Turow's Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12) book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

Similar categories in Richard Russo's Somebody's Fool book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

Similar categories in Charles Frazier's The Trackers book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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7. A Dangerous Business

By: Jane Smiley

3.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more

Similar categories in Jane Smiley's A Dangerous Business book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Lucy by the Sea book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin by Paul Vidich

11. The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin

By: Paul Vidich

3.72

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice In the vein of Graham Greene and John le Carré, The M… read more

Similar categories in Paul Vidich's The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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12. Tracy Flick Can't Win

By: Tom Perrotta

3.64

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great w… read more

Similar categories in Tom Perrotta's Tracy Flick Can't Win book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like …"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

"I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't…"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

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13. Horse

By: Geraldine Brooks

4.27

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American… read more

Similar categories in Geraldine Brooks's Horse book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I don't rightly know who was my great-grandfather, much less his father. How come you know that about a horse?"

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"She felt a little clandestine, as if she were ten years old again, sneaking a dead rat past her mother so she could articulate a Rattus norvegicus domestica for her bedroom display."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

"You have to know that bigots are unwittingly handing you an edge. By thinking you're lesser than they are, they underestimate you. Lean on that. Learn to use it, and you'll get the upper hand."

-Geraldine Brooks, Horse

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14. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. 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 David Guterson's The Final Case

  • 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

Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

16. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. 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 David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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19. French Braid

By: Anne Tyler

3.64

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--a funny, joyful, brilliantly perceptive journey dee… read more

Similar categories in Anne Tyler's French Braid book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

20. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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21. The Lioness

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.72

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Lioness book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We all look forward, but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"Too often you couldn't mine the recollections that might keep you sane, but instead held close the memories that someday would kill you."

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

"We all look forward- at least, I suppose, until you get to be my age - but how we see tomorrow is grounded so deeply in what we lived through just yesterday. And it was only yesterday, wasn't it? Was…"

-Chris Bohjalian, The Lioness

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22. 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 David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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23. Ocean State

By: Stewart O'Nan

3.44

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in a working-class town on the Rhode Island coast, O'Nan's latest is a crushing, beautifully wr… read more

Similar categories in Stewart O'Nan's Ocean State book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of The Good Son by Jacquelyn Mitchard

24. The Good Son

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

3.41

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognizable to you? For Thea Demetriou, the… read more

Similar categories in Jacquelyn Mitchard's The Good Son book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Do you think I should explore forgiveness more?" Why was she asking this of me, of all the beings in the known universe? In concept, it sounded like the absolute pinnacle of civilization, the best hu…"

-Jacquelyn Mitchard, The Good Son

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25. 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 David Guterson's The Final Case

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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26. Fellowship Point

By: Alice Elliott Dark

4.07

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated children’s book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy—to complete what she… read more

Similar categories in Alice Elliott Dark's Fellowship Point book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I had been judicious in my warnings and instructions, phrasing them so as not to scare her, or inhibit her. I'm determined not to teach her to fear everything, as we were taught, or that manners are …"

-Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point

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27. The Plinko Bounce

By: Martin Clark

3.73

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

For seventeen years, small-town public defender Andy Hughes has been underpaid to look after the po… read more

Similar categories in Martin Clark's The Plinko Bounce book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. Small World

By: Jonathan Evison

4.08

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Jonathan Evison's Small World is an epic novel for now. Set against such iconic backdrops as the Ca… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Evison's Small World book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...Walter [Bergen] reckoned that in a world that was forever changing, we were only as sure, and only as good, as our next step."

-Jonathan Evison, Small World

"But always, since age three and a half, he [Malik Flowers] had known he wanted to ball, every minute of every day. Because hoops had it all: architecture, poetry, drama. Hoops was a dance, and a batt…"

-Jonathan Evison, Small World

"Honey, sometimes there's no real why in this world,' Cora said. 'There just ain't one, not one that makes any sense, and not one that's any comfort to a soul. Most of the time in this world it's just…"

-Jonathan Evison, Small World

"It was not a woman's destiny to be kept, nor to be traded according to a man's will. Where would men even be without women to forever serve their needs? Yet they apparently had no conception of their…"

-Jonathan Evison, Small World

Cover of The Final Case by David Guterson

29. The Final Case

By: David Guterson

3.12

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son… read more

Similar categories in David Guterson's The Final Case book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adoption
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of My Beloved Life by Amitava Kumar

30. My Beloved Life

By: Amitava Kumar

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exceptionally moving novel that traces the arc of a man's life from his 1935 birth in a small vi… read more

Similar categories in Amitava Kumar's My Beloved Life book and David Guterson's The Final Case

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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31. With Prejudice

By: Robin Peguero

3.48

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The "exciting" and "clever" debut thriller ( New York Times Book Review ): No one knows what happen… read more

Similar categories in Robin Peguero's With Prejudice book and David Guterson's The Final Case

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

19 best-selling contemporary books like The Final Case by David Guterson

Transform Your Habits

The Swimmers

Julie Otsuka

3.67

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Mercy Street

Jennifer Haigh

3.63

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Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12)

Scott Turow

3.82

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17 best-selling fiction books like The Matchmaker: A Spy in Berlin by Paul Vidich

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The Secret Hours

Mick Herron

4.29

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Moscow Exile (Joe Wilderness #4)

John Lawton

4.07

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Damascus Station (Damascus Station #1)

David McCloskey

4.21

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The Peacock and the Sparrow

I.S. Berry

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