11 best-selling suspense books like Nemesis by Rosamond Smith

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Nemesis

By: Rosamond Smith

3.83

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

This “mesmerizing” novel about a crime at an elite music school “calls to mind a David Lynch film” …

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1. Apt Pupil

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a dif… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends."

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

"Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality while they douse screaming children and old women in burning napalm. …"

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

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2. The Flamethrowers

By: Rachel Kushner

3.94

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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3. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)

By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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4. The Tennis Partner

By: Abraham Verghese

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

An unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from the acclaimed New Y… read more

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5. Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1)

By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hear the Wind Sing is the first novel by Haruki Murakami; it first appeared in the June 1979 issue … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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6. The Impossible Dead

By: Ian Rankin

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The Complaints: that's the name given to the Internal Affairs department who seek out dirty and com… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

7. Never Look Away

By: Linwood Barclay

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this tense, mesmerizing thriller by Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of Fear the Wor… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. The Quiet American

By: Graham Greene , Robert Stone

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Graham Greene's classic exploration of love, innocence, and morality in Vietnam "I never knew a man… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction

9. Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3)

By: Tana French

3.68

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

Back in 1985, Frank Mackey was a nineteen year old kid with a dream of escaping his family's crampe… read more

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10. A Perfect Heritage

By: Penny Vincenzi

4.38

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

The House of Farrell - home of The Cream, an iconic face product that has seen women flocking to it… read more

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11. The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)

By: Mary Stewart

4.02

Format: 982 pages, Paperback

Arthur Pendragon is King! Unchallenged on the battlefield, he melds the country together in a time … read more

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12. Carthage

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.05

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief,… read more

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13. Burnt Offerings

By: Robert Marasco

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Hardcover

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so… read more

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14. Following Atticus: Forty-Eight High Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship

By: Tom Ryan

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

After a close friend died of cancer, middle-aged, overweight, acrophobic newspaperman Tom Ryan deci… read more

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15. From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #24)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully diverting No. 1 Ladies' Detective … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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16. King: A Life

By: Jonathan Eig

4.67

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more

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17. The Daughters of Block Island

By: Christa Carmen

3.82

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

In this ingenious and subversive twist on the classic gothic novel, the mysterious past of an islan… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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18. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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19. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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20. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction
"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

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21. The Hollow Kind

By: Andy Davidson

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Andy Davidson's epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by a… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • horror
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22. The Curator (Washington Poe, #3)

By: M.W. Craven

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

It's Christmas and a serial killer is leaving displayed body parts all over Cumbria. A strange mess… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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23. The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

By: Ellis Peters

4.17

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

The winter of 1139 will disrupt Brother Cadfael’s tranquil life in Shrewsbury with the most disturb… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Love shared is no sin."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

"There never was, for all I could ever learn, a time when living was easy and peaceful."

-Ellis Peters, The Virgin in the Ice (Chronicles of Brother Cadfael #6)

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24. Life for Sale

By: Yukio Mishima

3.72

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed. Will … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"It's only the desire to live as long as possible that makes everything seem complicated and mysterious."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"Když si rozsvítíš v malém pokoji modrou lampu, taky ti všechno zmodrá, ale tím se z toho pokoje ještě moře nestane."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"A dead body reminds me a bit of a bottle of whisky. If you drop the bottle and it cracks, what’s inside pours out. It’s only natural."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

"To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness."

-Yukio Mishima, Life for Sale

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25. The Ex-Husband

By: Karen Hamilton

3.28

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From international bestselling author Karen Hamilton comes another pulse-pounding domestic thriller… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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26. Northern Spy

By: Flynn Berry

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. The acclaimed author of Under the … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • suspense
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27. 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.01

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Marguerite, a beautiful woman, has disappeared from her small town in Upstate New York. But is foul… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Inhabiting a female body is such a feat for me, like squeezing into a costume that includes a perfectly fitted face mask through which it is quite a feat to breathe..."

-Joyce Carol Oates, 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister

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28. Cardiff, by the Sea: Four Novellas of Suspense

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.73

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Joyce Carol Oates, the “grand mistress of ghoulishness” ( Publishers Weekly ), showcases her master… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
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29. The Snowstorm

By: Triona Walsh

3.84

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s an icy New Year’s Eve. Snow blankets a windswept Irish island as the wild Atlantic Ocean rages… read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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30. Pursuit

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through … read more

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  • suspense
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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31. Nemesis

By: Rosamond Smith

3.83

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

This “mesmerizing” novel about a crime at an elite music school “calls to mind a David Lynch film” … read more

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3.56

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3.90

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