6 best-selling adult fiction books like The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla

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The One Who Wrote Destiny

By: Nikesh Shukla

3.65

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, f…

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1. Walk in Silence

By: None , J.G. Sinclair

3.69

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Keira Lynch may be a lawyer, but that doesn't mean she plays by the rules. She has been summoned t… read more

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2. The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

By: Joanna Schaffhausen

3.81

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or two about serial killers, but not through her police training. She… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
"Sometimes the law is about as useful as tits on a bull. Good people end up hurt."

-Joanna Schaffhausen, The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

3. The Lost Ones (Nora Watts #1)

By: Sheena Kamal

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

It's late. The phone rings. The man on the other end says his daughter is missing. Your daughter. T… read more

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4. The Beast

By: Alexander Starritt

3.71

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Jeremy Underwood is a long-suffering subeditor on The Daily Beast, Britain's mightiest tabloid. Ret… read more

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5. The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.45

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Who loves Mr Nishino?Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino's true love.Bereaved Shiori is tempted by… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"People have the right to fall in love, but not the right to be loved."

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

"Of course, everyone has a touch of madness in them. In fact, there’s something frightening about a person who isn’t a little crazy."

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

"He had underestimated me. All along. Even though I had not underestimated him. But, how do you love someone without blinding yourself? Don’t we all have to indulge each other, let our guard down, and…"

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

"I really just couldn’t think of anything. Absolutely nothing that I wanted to do. There were plenty of things that I don’t want to do. Like torment animals. Or be jealous of other people’s happiness.…"

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

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6. Your House Will Pay

By: Steph Cha

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful and taut novel about racial tensions in L.A., following two families—one Korean-American… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Don’t martyr yourself. Your workers’ comp won’t cover it.' --Shawn's boss, Manny."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"But she held tight to all her principles, and the most important of these was that family came first."

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

"Every day there had been rotten cops in the news and still she had been bamboozled. ‘I mean, they’re supposed to protect people, right? How can they be so bad at their jobs?’ ‘They protect people fro…"

-Steph Cha, Your House Will Pay

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7. Blessings

By: Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Moonlight meets Purple Hibiscus in this gay coming-of-age novel from an astonishing young talent, s… read more

Similar categories in Chukwuebuka Ibeh's Blessings book and Nikesh Shukla's The One Who Wrote Destiny

  • contemporary
  • africa
  • fiction
  • lgbt
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8. Conjure Women

By: Afia Atakora

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the h… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
"It was an honor to lift this burden and so the burden was light."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"It was folly to think that she was the only one that had ever had any secrets."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"Ain't every woman's daughter made from the death of the mama, somehow or another?"

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

"In death he looked himself a celebration - though surely his life had never been. But here it was, close up: freedom. He'd reached finally what he'd been running toward."

-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women

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9. Everything Is Beautiful

By: Eleanor Ray

3.87

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it's impossible to part with the things we love the most... When Amy Ashton's world ca… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Improvement

By: Joan Silber

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young sing… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty."

-Joan Silber, Improvement

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11. No Land to Light On

By: Yara Zgheib

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Exit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.76

Format: 800 pages, ebook

The bonds of family are tested in the wake of a profound tragedy, providing a look at the darker si… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Better Sister

By: Alafair Burke

3.79

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

From Alafair Burke—New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife—comes another twi… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Last Act

By: Brad Parks

4.02

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Brad Parks delivers a deliciously tense novel of thrills, twists, and deceit t… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. House on Endless Waters

By: Emuna Elon

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Invisible Bridge and The History of Love, a lyrical and exquisitely moving novel ab… read more

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  • fiction
"In order to hand me over she had to detach herself from herself, and afterward she never managed to get back inside herself and continued, long after the war ended, living outside herself and observi…"

-Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters

"Two thousand five hundred. According to the documents Yoel has studied, that was the number of Jewish children hidden by Christian families during the war. Two thousand five hundred Jewish children, …"

-Emuna Elon, House on Endless Waters

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16. These Streets

By: Luan Goldie

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Nightingale Point, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, comes a new tho… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Extraordinary Hope of Dawn Brightside

By: Jessica Ryn

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

She’s always looking on the bright side... Dawn Elisabeth Brightside has been running from her p… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The One Who Wrote Destiny

By: Nikesh Shukla

3.65

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Mukesh has just moved from Kenya to the drizzly northern town of Keighley. He was expecting fame, f… read more

Similar categories in Nikesh Shukla's The One Who Wrote Destiny book and Nikesh Shukla's The One Who Wrote Destiny

  • adult fiction
  • africa
  • lgbt
  • british literature
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Homecoming

By: Luan Goldie

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

For years Yvonne has tried to keep her demons buried and focus on moving forward. But her guilt is … read more

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  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Halfways

By: Nilopar Uddin

3.94

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

‘I loved this sweeping family drama. Moving and unforgettable’Sarah Morgan, Sunday Times bestsellin… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Il ritratto

By: Ilaria Bernardini

3.70

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Valeria Costas, scrittrice acclamata e tradotta in tutto il mondo, ha dedicato la vita ai suoi libr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

18 Top fiction books like The One Who Wrote Destiny by Nikesh Shukla

Transform Your Habits

The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

Joanna Schaffhausen

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

Hiromi Kawakami

3.45

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Your House Will Pay

Steph Cha

4.09

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Blessings

Chukwuebuka Ibeh

4.20

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27 best-selling fiction books like The Last Act by Brad Parks

Transform Your Habits

The Vanishing Season (Ellery Hathaway, #1)

Joanna Schaffhausen

3.81

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Only We Know

Karen Perry

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Becoming Naomi León

Pam Muñoz Ryan

3.00

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Last Words (Mark Novak, #1)

Michael Koryta

3.66

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