14 Top thriller books like These Women by Ivy Pochoda

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These Women

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they’re referred to as “these women.” …

"These women... Give them a bone and they'll gnaw all day."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

"These women... Give them a bone and they'll gnaw all day."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

"She craves the brutality of the attack because when it comes it will be a release."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

"She craves the brutality of the attack because when it comes it will be a release."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

If you liked the thriller plot in These Women by Ivy Pochoda , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Silver Tassie

By: Seán O'Casey

3.46

Format: 140 pages,

Ireland, World War One. Dashing Harry Heegan leads his football team to victory, arriving home in s… read more

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2. Fire Sermon

By: Jamie Quatro

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Married twenty years to Thomas and living in Nashville with their two children, Maggie is drawn ine… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Quatro's Fire Sermon book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I walked under the arch—Empire State Building in front, Freedom Tower behind—glorious to be here, on this day, some new beat in my vascular system, an anticipatory cadence that matched the wider puls…"

-Jamie Quatro, Fire Sermon

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3. Lola

By: Melissa Scrivner Love

4.31

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Crenshaw Six are a small but up-and-coming gang in South Central LA who have recently been draw… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Scrivner Love's Lola book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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4. Pin

By: Andrew Neiderman

4.04

Format: 417 pages,

Mother was driven by a psychotic compulsion to clean - constantly - everything in sight. Father was… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Neiderman's Pin book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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5. The Lonely

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Easter Deetz struggles with The Lonely--a debilitating condition that affects all the women in her … read more

Similar categories in Ainslie Hogarth's The Lonely book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • contemporary

6. She Rides Shotgun

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Polly is smart far beyond her years. But she's a loner. Her mother tells her she ha… read more

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7. L.A. Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City

By: John Buntin

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Other cities have histories.Los Angeles has legends. Midcentury Los Angeles. A city sold to the wo… read more

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8. Debbie Doesn't Do It Anymore

By: Walter Mosley

3.55

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this scorching, mournful, often explicit, and never less than moving literary novel by the famed… read more

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9. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

By: John Cameron Mitchell , Stephen Trask

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Hardcover

On Valentine's Day 1998, Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened off-Broadway to rave reviews, revitalizin… read more

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10. Love on the Dole

By: Walter Greenwood

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grind… read more

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11. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

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12. Bright Young Women

By: Jessica Knoll

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

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13. 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 Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • 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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14. The Hurricane Blonde

By: Halley Sutton

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A former child starlet is plunged back into the dangerous glitter of Hollywood after discovering a … read more

Similar categories in Halley Sutton's The Hurricane Blonde book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. A Lovely Lie

By: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

3.86

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Is it better to believe a lovely lie or know the horrible truth? 1999: The night of their senior… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Lynn Hendricks's A Lovely Lie book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Black Cloak Volume 1

By: Kelly Thompson

3.91

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

From Eisner Award-winning writer KELLY THOMPSON (BLACK WIDOW, CAPTAIN MARVEL) and superstar artist … read more

Similar categories in Kelly Thompson's Black Cloak Volume 1 book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. These Women

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they’re referred to as “these women.” … read more

Similar categories in Ivy Pochoda's These Women book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"These women... Give them a bone and they'll gnaw all day."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

"She craves the brutality of the attack because when it comes it will be a release."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

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19. Rainbow Black

By: Maggie Thrash

3.96

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Rainbow Black is part murder mystery, part gay international-fugitive love story—set against the ’9… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Thrash's Rainbow Black book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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20. I Need You to Read This

By: Jessa Maxwell

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The author of the “clever, atmospheric, and creepy” (Andrea Bartz, New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Jessa Maxwell's I Need You to Read This book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. Ghost Season

By: Fatin Abbas

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and… read more

Similar categories in Fatin Abbas's Ghost Season book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. The Lost Diary of M

By: Paul Wolfe

3.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bo… read more

Similar categories in Paul Wolfe's The Lost Diary of M book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Don't Turn Around

By: Jessica Barry

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The riveting follow up to Jessica Barry’s debut Freefall—a controversial, of-the-moment thriller ab… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Barry's Don't Turn Around book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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24. Heaven's a Lie

By: Wallace Stroby

3.85

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

When a young widow witnesses a fatal car accident outside a Jersey Shore motel, she's suddenly thru… read more

Similar categories in Wallace Stroby's Heaven's a Lie book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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25. Everything She Lost

By: Alessandra Harris

3.50

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

"The author has a number of tricks up her sleeve, making this tale of complicated women facing the … read more

Similar categories in Alessandra Harris's Everything She Lost book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • suspense
  • contemporary
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26. The Best Lies

By: David Ellis

4.02

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling and award-winning author David Ellis delivers a fast-paced, twisty thriller that will s… read more

Similar categories in David Ellis's The Best Lies book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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27. Skull Water

By: Heinz Insu Fenkl

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Set in South Korea in the 1950s and 1970s, a haunting inter-generational coming-of-age novel about … read more

Similar categories in Heinz Insu Fenkl's Skull Water book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Hold on Tight (Cowboys & Angels, #1)

By: Anjelica Grace

4.37

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Two and a half years ago, we made a plan—had our life all mapped out—knew where we were going and h… read more

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29. Only the Cat Knows

By: Ruyan Meng

3.59

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

This harrowing and extraordinary story, based on a true event, is part of a series of tales illumin… read more

Similar categories in Ruyan Meng's Only the Cat Knows book and Ivy Pochoda's These Women

  • fiction
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30. Without a Map: A Memoir

By: Meredith Hall

3.62

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

The national best-selling memoir about banishment, reconciliation, and the meaning of family "This… read more

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31. Julienne

By: Scholastique Mukasonga

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

L’histoire de Julienne est celle d’une destinée d’exil : née en exil au Rwanda, son propre pays, mo… read more

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