7 best-selling thriller books like Still Lives by Maria Hummel

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Still Lives

By: Maria Hummel

3.26

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her …

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1. Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)

By: Chanel Cleeton

3.93

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she dis… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Cleeton's Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1) book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We are silk and lace, and beneath them we are steel."

-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)

"To be in exile is to have the things you love most in the world - the air you breathe, the earth you walk upon - taken from you. They exist on the other side of a wall - there and not - unaltered by …"

-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)

"... but the older you get, the more you learn to appreciate the moments life gives you. Getting them certainly isn't a given, and I feel blessed to have carved out a life here where I could be happy …"

-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)

"I told myself being a Perez meant more than being Cuban, that my responsibility to my family, to do what was expected, to be the woman my parents wanted me to be meant more than fighting for what I b…"

-Chanel Cleeton, Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)

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2. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women'… read more

Similar categories in Balli Kaur Jaswal's Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. This is the Story of a Happy Marriage

By: Ann Patchett

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Blending literature and memoir, Ann Patchett, author of State of Wonder, Run,and Bel Canto,examines… read more

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4. You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

4.25

Format: 194 pages, ebook

'Most people I know who have read anything by Curtis Sittenfeld would read anything else the woman … read more

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5. The Night Tiger

By: Yangsze Choo

3.86

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an o… read more

Similar categories in Yangsze Choo's The Night Tiger book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
"Tener buenas intenciones no es igual que hacer lo correcto."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

"One of the appalling yet convenient things about being family is that you can trade accusations at night, then pretend next morning that nothing has happened."

-Yangsze Choo, The Night Tiger

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6. The Library Book

By: Susan Orlean

3.89

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more

Similar categories in Susan Orlean's The Library Book book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • mystery
  • crime
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

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7. The Other Woman

By: Sandie Jones

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously disturbing, compulsively readable debut domestic suspense—prepare to meet The Other W… read more

Similar categories in Sandie Jones's The Other Woman book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Whisper Network

By: Chandler Baker

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truvi… read more

Similar categories in Chandler Baker's Whisper Network book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We have been programed to work with secrets."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"Sloane played by the rules of the game. So she could stay. She could keep her seat at the table."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"Children turned men into heroes and mothers into weaker employees if we didn't play our cards right."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

"We wanted to be treated just like men, at work, for the same reason that people buy smart phones: to make our lives easyer."

-Chandler Baker, Whisper Network

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9. The Secrets We Kept

By: Lara Prescott

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, of love and duty, and of sacrifice--the real-life sto… read more

Similar categories in Lara Prescott's The Secrets We Kept book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Only privileged men romanticize tragedy"

-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

"The way he pushed himself to write his great work no matter the cost."

-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

"And as the years passed, her age always stayed the same, her beauty sealed in amber."

-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

"Reading the letter, I felt something I think only the nuns of the camp could understand—the warmth and protection of faith."

-Lara Prescott, The Secrets We Kept

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10. The Last Story of Mina Lee

By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim

3.53

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Margot Lee's mother, Mina, isn't returning her calls. It's a mystery to twenty-six-year-old Margot,… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Jooyoun Kim's The Last Story of Mina Lee book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Her mother had once screamed, “How am I going to pay for this? Why don’t you take better care of yourself?"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"Beauty is a construct, but theory is not at the reality we live, she thought. Theory didn't live in the bones. Theory didn't erase the years of self-scrutiny in a mirror and not seeing anyone at all,…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"But if she allowed that story to continue to be told, over and over again - that her mother was a nobody, anonymous, an immigrant who couldn't speak the language, another immigrant who worked a job t…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

"She wondered how many women had been trapped - in terrible marriages, terrible jobs, unbearable circumstances - simply because the world hadn't been designed to allow them to thrive on their own. The…"

-Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee

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11. The Jetsetters

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

3.08

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, s… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Eyre Ward's The Jetsetters book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Somehow her later years had become a mirror of her lonely childhood."

-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

"Somehow she'd labeled those days a humiliation. She'd based her choices--her giant house, her daughters' schools, her constant attention to family life--on erecting a wall between her grim childhood …"

-Amanda Eyre Ward, The Jetsetters

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12. The Cactus

By: Sarah Haywood

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable love story that shows sometimes you have to embrace the unexpected. Susan Green… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Haywood's The Cactus book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But, these days, fairy-tale endings come in all shapes and sizes. It’s okay for the princess to end up with the prince, it’s okay for her to end up with the footman, it’s okay for her to end up on he…"

-Sarah Haywood, The Cactus

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13. Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

By: Denise Mina

3.53

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

It’s just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend … read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1) book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Sorg är ett ärr. Vävnaden blir hård och när såret går upp igen läker det dåligt."

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"Just when you think something can’t get any worse someone who dislikes you comes to watch."

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"This is who I was for my children. I told them to go. I told them to leave me. I said their dad had gone a wee bit mad but he had decided to do this and there was no going back. Jess shrank in her ch…"

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"The disposable girl should develop a drink problem or take drugs. She should become the victim of someone else, somewhere else. At best she becomes a campaigner against whatever she was a victim of. …"

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

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14. Still Lives

By: Maria Hummel

3.26

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her … read more

Similar categories in Maria Hummel's Still Lives book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • mystery thriller
  • art
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2) by Jasmine Guillory

15. The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2)

By: Jasmine Guillory

3.48

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

The author of The Wedding Date serves up a novel about what happens when a public proposal doesn't … read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Guillory's The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2) book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I think I mostly realized I couldn't live in fear anymore."

-Jasmine Guillory, The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2)

"You walk into any situation with an attitude that you’ve got this, you can defend yourself, you are strong."

-Jasmine Guillory, The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2)

"WAS THIS WHAT LOVE WAS? Being happy when you thought about someone; wanting to never stop thinking abou tthem, even when you were fighting; having every damn thing in the grocery store remind you of …"

-Jasmine Guillory, The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2)

"He knew he loved her; he knew it to his core. He loved her for her kindness, her ability to laugh both at him and at herself, and her intelligence. But most of all, he loved her for the feeling he ha…"

-Jasmine Guillory, The Proposal (The Wedding Date, #2)

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16. The Unwedding

By: Ally Condie

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Ally Condie's The Unwedding book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."

-Ally Condie, The Unwedding

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17. Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

By: Heather Harpham

4.14

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fat… read more

Similar categories in Heather Harpham's Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Everything Inside

By: Edwidge Danticat

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of Brother, I'm Dying, a collection of vivi… read more

Similar categories in Edwidge Danticat's Everything Inside book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. This Is How It Always Is

By: Laurie Frankel

4.28

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B01HW6Z3FG This is how a family keeps a secret…and how that secr… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Head colds should be tolerated. Children should be celebrated."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones"

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

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21. Something in the Water

By: Catherine Steadman

3.56

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin is a do… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water book and Maria Hummel's Still Lives

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We all lose the things we love the most."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"Sometimes you're the lamp post, and sometimes you're the dog."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"How quickly what is good can become not good enough through comparison. Maybe best never to see it."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"But one thought does break through. It has the echo of something familiar. The thought is: I don’t need to come back to this elevator at all, do I? I don’t need to ever come back to this hotel. I cou…"

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

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3.93

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4.25

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Yangsze Choo

3.86

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Kristina Forest

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Emily Henry

4.27

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Abby Jimenez

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