9 Best mystery books like This Storm by James Ellroy

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This Storm

By: James Ellroy

3.55

Format: 591 pages, Hardcover

From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)--a brilliant h…

If you liked the mystery plot in This Storm by James Ellroy , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Trout Fishing in America

By: Richard Brautigan

3.76

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more

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  • fiction
"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

Cover of The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2) by John Le Carré

2. The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

By: John Le Carré

3.99

Format: 589 pages, Paperback

John le Carré's classic novels deftly navigate readers through the intricate shadow worlds of inter… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Let's die of it before we're too old."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Home's where you go when you run out of homes."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

"Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present."

-John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (George Smiley, #6; Karla Trilogy, #2)

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3. The Mission Song

By: John Le Carré

3.47

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Abandoned by both his Irish father and Congolese mother, Bruno Salvador has long looked for someone… read more

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  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)

By: David Peace

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Half-decent copper Bob Fraser and burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead would be considered villains in mos… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Women, eh? Can’t live with them, can’t kill ‘em. ‘Cept round Chapeltown."

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)

"Battering down doors, battering down people, kicking in doors, kicking in people, searching for her, searching for me."

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)

"We all laughed and I remembered back when I thought I could live forever, back when I wanted to, back before I knew what a curse it really was."

-David Peace, Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)

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5. Lush Life

By: Richard Price

3.84

Format: 179 pages,

"Price is the greatest writer of dialogue, living or dead, this country has ever produced. Wry, pro… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. Girl with Curious Hair

By: David Foster Wallace

3.62

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordina… read more

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  • fiction

7. Nineteen Eighty Three (Red Riding, #4)

By: David Peace

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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8. The Tears of Autumn (Paul Christopher #2)

By: Charles McCarry

3.71

Format: 412 pages, Hardcover

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

9. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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10. Leaving Las Vegas

By: John O'Brien

3.70

Format: None pages,

Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O'Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story… read more

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11. Stalin's Ghost (Arkady Renko, #6)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

4.62

Format: None pages,

Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the than… read more

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12. Knots and Crosses (Inspector Rebus, #1)

By: Ian Rankin , Mircea Pricăjan

3.00

Format: None pages,

Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied … read more

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13. City Primeval

By: Elmore Leonard

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more

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14. A Most Wanted Man

By: John Le Carré

3.96

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

"A half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of nigh… read more

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15. The Bounty Hunters

By: Elmore Leonard

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The old Apache renegade Soldado Viejo is hiding out in Mexico, and the Arizona Department Adjutant … read more

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16. In a Lonely Place

By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more

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17. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Border (Power of the Dog, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.47

Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bes… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. The War of the Poor

By: Éric Vuillard

3.38

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a powerful account of the German Peasants’ W… read more

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  • audiobook
"For man is poor. Irremediably. We *are* poverty, buffeted between desire and disgust."

-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor

"El martirio es una trampa para los oprimidos, sólo es deseable la victoria. Yo la contaré."

-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor

"And even if you don't give a shit whether or not the Chinese painter of rocks and birds had some mysterious kinship of the soul with the Landgrave of Hesse, fantasies are nonetheless one path to the …"

-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor

"No me creo nada. En esas leyendas infames, la cerviz de los renegados sólo se doblega en el momento en que se les retira la palabra. Esas leyendas sólo pretenden que resuene en nosotros la voz que no…"

-Éric Vuillard, The War of the Poor

Cover of Mother American Night: My Life and Crazy Times by John Perry Barlow

20. Mother American Night: My Life and Crazy Times

By: John Perry Barlow

4.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

John Perry Barlow wrote 30 songs for the Grateful Dead--and that's just the start to a Zelig-like l… read more

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21. This Storm

By: James Ellroy

3.55

Format: 591 pages, Hardcover

From "one of the great American writers of our time" (Los Angeles Times Book Review)--a brilliant h… read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's This Storm book and James Ellroy's This Storm

  • mystery thriller
  • unfinished
  • world war ii
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

8 best-selling crime books like This Storm by James Ellroy

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The Mission Song

John Le Carré

3.47

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Nineteen Seventy Seven (Red Riding, #2)

David Peace

3.85

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Lush Life

Richard Price

3.84

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David Peace

3.54

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The Way Home

None , George P. Pelecanos

3.66

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A Flag for Sunrise

Robert Stone

3.87

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James Lee Burke

4.16

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Dennis Lehane

3.77

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