8 Best thriller books like How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller

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How to Find Your Way in the Dark

By: Derek B. Miller

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a NYT Best Mystery of 2021: Twelve-year old Sheldon…

If you liked the thriller plot in How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Keeping the House

By: Ellen Baker

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in the conformist 1950s and reaching back to span two world wars, Ellen Baker' s superb novel i… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Baker's Keeping the House book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook

2. An Undisturbed Peace

By: Mary Glickman

3.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Jewish immigrant, a Cherokee woman, and a black slave find love, friendship, and redemption in th… read more

Similar categories in Mary Glickman's An Undisturbed Peace book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

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3. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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5. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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6. Shanghai

By: Joseph Kanon

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest sett… read more

Similar categories in Joseph Kanon's Shanghai book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. The Hebrew Teacher

By: Maya Arad

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Three Israeli women, their lives altered by immigration to the United States, seek to overcome cris… read more

Similar categories in Maya Arad's The Hebrew Teacher book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • jewish
"״ילד לא צריך בכלל מסיבה גדולה עד גיל ארבע,״ פוסקת רוית. ״מה, בארץ עושים רק עם הסבתות, הדודים...״ ״אבל זו הבעיה, אין פה סבתות,״ היא מחווה את דעתה. ״איי,״ מלכה מסכימה, ״זאת בדיוק הבעיה. אין פה סבתות.״"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

"יועד לוגם מהכוס ומעווה את פניו. ״חרא קפה.״ ״בפעם הבאה תלך לקפה מול הספרייה,״ היא מציעה לו טיפ של מקומיים. רק לפני שנה פתחו אותו, וכל הקמפוס מדבר עליו: כמו בניו יורק, כמו בסן פרנסיסקו, בסיאטל: קלייה ע…"

-Maya Arad, The Hebrew Teacher

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8. Blaze Me a Sun (Hallandssviten, #2)

By: Christoffer Carlsson

3.93

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A serial killer in a small Swedish town commits his first murder the sa… read more

Similar categories in Christoffer Carlsson's Blaze Me a Sun (Hallandssviten, #2) book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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9. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

Cover of Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2) by Robbie Morrison

10. Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2)

By: Robbie Morrison

4.34

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

In 1930s Glasgow, partners Jimmy Dreghorn and Archie McDaid face a danger that threatens to set the… read more

Similar categories in Robbie Morrison's Cast a Cold Eye (Jimmy Dreghorn Mystery, #2) book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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11. Familiaris

By: David Wroblewski

4.21

Format: 979 pages, Hardcover

The follow-up to the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling modern classic The Story of Edgar Sawtel… read more

Similar categories in David Wroblewski's Familiaris book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Suppose you could do one impossible thing."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"Time is a snake-oil remedy if you ask me. Some wounds just keep hurting as bad as they ever did. That's what I think."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"John once claimed that the way to convince a person to do something outlandish was to ask them to do something even more outlandish."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

"You can never watch too many pups climb through the straw for the first time, but there are just so many dogs you can bear watch to die."

-David Wroblewski, Familiaris

Cover of Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) by William Kent Krueger

12. Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A disappearance and a dead body put Cork O’Connor’s family in the crosshairs of a killer in the twe… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's Spirit Crossing (Cork O'Connor, #20) book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

13. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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14. The Forgotten Names

By: Mario Escobar

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Based on the true story of one ordinary woman who risked everything to reunite Jewish children with… read more

Similar categories in Mario Escobar's The Forgotten Names book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller

15. How to Find Your Way in the Dark

By: Derek B. Miller

4.17

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and a NYT Best Mystery of 2021: Twelve-year old Sheldon… read more

Similar categories in Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • jewish
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. Grandma vs Hitler

By: Derek E. Miller

3.63

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

Secret diary. War-torn country. Incredible courage. Seventeen-year-old Owen Petrov expects to be bo… read more

Similar categories in Derek E. Miller's Grandma vs Hitler book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

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17. Peggy

By: Rebecca Godfrey

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the a… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Godfrey's Peggy book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • jewish
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames

18. The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

By: Juliet Grames

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

4.27

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more

Similar categories in Richard J. Evans's Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • world war ii
  • audiobook
Cover of Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden by Bill O'Reilly

20. Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times and USA Today Nonfiction Bestseller! Authors of the acclaimed Killing books,… read more

Similar categories in Bill O'Reilly's Confronting the Presidents: No Spin Assessments from Washington to Biden book and Derek B. Miller's How to Find Your Way in the Dark

  • historical
  • audiobook

16 Best fiction books like How to Find Your Way in the Dark by Derek B. Miller

Transform Your Habits

Keeping the House

Ellen Baker

5.00

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

Table for Two

Amor Towles

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Tana French

4.12

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21 best-selling fiction books like Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

Transform Your Habits

The Last Word

Elly Griffiths

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Transform Your Habits

The Cracked Mirror

Chris Brookmyre

4.07

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