9 Top thriller books like The Quiet Boy by Ben H. Winters

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The Quiet Boy

By: Ben H. Winters

3.51

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Underground Airlines and Golden State,a sweeping legal thriller abou…

"No wonder we are a little frightened of our children, Beth thought. They are strange visitors from the future, emissaries from a world we will never see."

-Ben H. Winters, The Quiet Boy

If you liked the thriller plot in The Quiet Boy by Ben H. Winters , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Version Control

By: Dexter Palmer

3.72

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

Rebecca Wright has reclaimed her life, finding her way out of her grief and depression following a … read more

Similar categories in Dexter Palmer's Version Control book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"But who, in these modern times, slept well?"

-Dexter Palmer, Version Control

"To negotiate is only to attempt to dictate the terms of your own surrender."

-Dexter Palmer, Version Control

"If the worst thing a physicist could say about a statement is that it was “false,"

-Dexter Palmer, Version Control

"As he drifted off, his father came to visit him, clothed in all his possible shapes."

-Dexter Palmer, Version Control

Cover of Treason by Orson Scott Card

2. Treason

By: Orson Scott Card

3.64

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realiz… read more

Similar categories in Orson Scott Card's Treason book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook

3. Dead On Arrival

By: Matt Richtel

4.10

Format: None pages, ebook

A mysterious disorder threatens to destroy the world in this high-concept thriller from Pulitzer Pr… read more

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4. Three Weeks in December

By: Audrey Schulman

3.67

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a rai… read more

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5. After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

By: Nancy Kress

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors--the last of … read more

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6. From Here to Eternity

By: James Jones

3.96

Format: 332 pages, Hardcover

Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler… read more

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7. Sleepwalk

By: Dan Chaon

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A high speed and darkly comic road trip through a near future America with a big hearted mercenary,… read more

Similar categories in Dan Chaon's Sleepwalk book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"There's a rare few that are able to drift through life without being owned by someone."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

"It was disconcerting to live in a time in which accepting reality required a suspension of disbelief."

-Dan Chaon, Sleepwalk

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8. Beijing Payback

By: Daniel Nieh

3.39

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers sho… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Nieh's Beijing Payback book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. I Walk Between the Raindrops

By: T.C. Boyle

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A virtuoso of the short form, T.C. Boyle returns with an inventive, uproarious, and masterfully tol… read more

Similar categories in T.C. Boyle's I Walk Between the Raindrops book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Flux

By: Jinwoo Chong

3.38

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly original and stylish debut novel about a young man whose reality unravels when he susp… read more

Similar categories in Jinwoo Chong's Flux book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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11. Counterweight

By: Djuna

3.06

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From one of South Korea's most revered science fiction writers, an absorbing tale of corporate intr… read more

Similar categories in Djuna's Counterweight book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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12. Dead Space

By: Kali Wallace

3.70

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science … read more

Similar categories in Kali Wallace's Dead Space book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"I was never given a choice, I wanted to say, but I couldn't bring myself to speak the words aloud. It was true, and it was a comforting lie. We always had a choice. It was just that the companies we …"

-Kali Wallace, Dead Space

Cover of Interference (Semiosis, #2) by Sue Burke

13. Interference (Semiosis, #2)

By: Sue Burke

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The sequel to Sue Burke's sweeping SF epic debut, Semiosis, continues in Interference as the coloni… read more

Similar categories in Sue Burke's Interference (Semiosis, #2) book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Boy by Ben H. Winters

14. The Quiet Boy

By: Ben H. Winters

3.51

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Underground Airlines and Golden State,a sweeping legal thriller abou… read more

Similar categories in Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • mystery thriller
  • magical realism
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"No wonder we are a little frightened of our children, Beth thought. They are strange visitors from the future, emissaries from a world we will never see."

-Ben H. Winters, The Quiet Boy

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15. Assassins Anonymous

By: Rob Hart

3.96

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

In this clever, surprising, page-turner, the world’s most lethal assassin gives up the violent life… read more

Similar categories in Rob Hart's Assassins Anonymous book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The difference between humility and humiliation is willingness. Ultimately, it's not for them. It's for me."

-Rob Hart, Assassins Anonymous

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16. Indivisible

By: Daniel Aleman

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There is a word Mateo Garcia and his younger sister Sophie have been taught to fear for as long as … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Aleman's Indivisible book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful

By: Darryl Cunningham

4.09

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

The super-rich are often portrayed as self-made, but is this true? In his latest graphic book, cele… read more

Similar categories in Darryl Cunningham's Billionaires: The Lives of the Rich and Powerful book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • adult
Cover of Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee by Jeff Zentner

18. Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

By: Jeff Zentner

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary novel about two best friends who must make tough decisions about their futures--and … read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No one ever says on their deathbed they wish they’d loved fewer people."

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

"It’s comforting to know that you don’t have to be excellent to not be completely forgotten."

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

"When someone leaves you, maybe you get a reason and maybe you don’t. I don’t know which is better."

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

"Remember that Florida is a land of weirdos and bizarre happenings, and conduct yourselves accordingly."

-Jeff Zentner, Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee

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19. The Sky Vault (The Comet Cycle #3)

By: Benjamin Percy

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The third book in Percy’s innovative and acclaimed Comet Cycle, The Sky Vault, follows an investiga… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Percy's The Sky Vault (The Comet Cycle #3) book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction
Cover of A Great Marriage by Frances Mayes

20. A Great Marriage

By: Frances Mayes

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a perfect wedding is called off just days before the big event, it sends two people—and their … read more

Similar categories in Frances Mayes's A Great Marriage book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Company of Killers by Bryan Christy

21. In the Company of Killers

By: Bryan Christy

3.40

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

"Immensely talented… Christy’s muscular, vivid writing and John le Carré-esque talent for thrusting… read more

Similar categories in Bryan Christy's In the Company of Killers book and Ben H. Winters's The Quiet Boy

  • mystery thriller
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction can be more illuminating."

-Bryan Christy, In the Company of Killers

"Desire is opportunity. It creates leverage. It was a basic rule of tradecraft.... A man without desire was invisible... There are no truly invisible men, Klay reminded himself. Every person wants som…"

-Bryan Christy, In the Company of Killers

"He [Tom Klay]'d watched people tend to corpses thousands of times. They straightened eyeglasses, fixed neckties, picked away bits of makeup, adjusted stray hair. They leaned into caskets and kissed t…"

-Bryan Christy, In the Company of Killers

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