19 must-read thriller books like After the Lights Go Out by John Vercher

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After the Lights Go Out

By: John Vercher

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, mis…

If you liked the thriller plot in After the Lights Go Out by John Vercher , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

Similar categories in S.A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

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2. Gangland

By: Chuck Hogan

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of t… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Hogan's Gangland book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Walking on the Ceiling

By: Aysegül Savas

3.50

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

"[Savaş] writes with both sensuality and coolness, as if determined to find a rational explanation … read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's Walking on the Ceiling book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"There are many ways of hurting without words. It is silence that shapes us."

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

"I don't think you should try and teach anyone how to talk about their family," I said. "It's arrogant."

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

"Stories are reckless things, blind to everything but their own shape. When you tell a story, you set out to leave so much behind."

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

"Perhaps I'd felt all along, even when I lived with him, that I was passing the time, that my life hinged on the single moment when I'd learn that my mother was dying. Then I would set everything asid…"

-Aysegül Savas, Walking on the Ceiling

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4. Ozark Dogs

By: Eli Cranor

3.72

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this Southern thriller, two families grapple with the aftermath of a murder in their small Arkan… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Ozark Dogs book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. A Line in the Sand

By: Kevin Powers

3.88

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

In this “spellbinding and totally original thriller” (Philipp Meyer, author of The Son ) a lonely v… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Powers's A Line in the Sand book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. The Devil Takes You Home

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This genre-defying, Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker award-winning thriller follows a father despera… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's The Devil Takes You Home book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Devil Himself

By: Peter Farris

4.03

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

For Fans of Brian Panowich and Ron Rash. Southern Noir at its finest, The Devil Himself,  sizzles … read more

Similar categories in Peter Farris's The Devil Himself book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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8. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

Similar categories in Frank Bruni's The Age of Grievance book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • audiobook
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9. California Bear

By: Duane Swierczynski

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more

Similar categories in Duane Swierczynski's California Bear book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Don't Know Tough

By: Eli Cranor

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and … read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Don't Know Tough book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • sports
  • audiobook
"He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

"The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

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11. Bearskin

By: James A. McLaughlin

3.75

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He’s found a job protecting a re… read more

Similar categories in James A. McLaughlin's Bearskin book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"While he watched, a fresh breeze brushed against the big tulip trees, red oaks, sugar maples. Heavy branches rose and fell in slow motion, and a million leaves twisted on their stems, showing silver …"

-James A. McLaughlin, Bearskin

"He found it puzzling that so many rural people were hostile to, even terrified of, the place where they lived. It wasn't just that hard-working country folk had no time for the precious concerns of t…"

-James A. McLaughlin, Bearskin

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12. Ordinary Notes

By: Christina Sharpe

4.55

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Bla… read more

Similar categories in Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • race
  • audiobook
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13. Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16)

By: Walter Mosley

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Easy Rawlins novels follow the infamous detective Easy Rawlins solving mysteries on the sun-soa… read more

Similar categories in Walter Mosley's Farewell, Amethystine (Easy Rawlins, #16) book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Dark Ride

By: Lou Berney

3.81

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the person you least expect is just the hero you need Twenty-one-year-old Hardy “Hardl… read more

Similar categories in Lou Berney's Dark Ride book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"This is not the plot twist that my life required. I wish I’d never noticed those kids on the bench. I wish I’d never walked over. I wish, most of all, that I existed in a version of the multiverse wh…"

-Lou Berney, Dark Ride

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15. One-Shot Harry

By: Gary Phillips

3.48

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting h… read more

Similar categories in Gary Phillips's One-Shot Harry book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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16. Information Desk: An Epic

By: Robyn Schiff

3.99

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Robyn Schiff’s fourth collection is an ambitious book-length poem in three parts set at The Metropo… read more

Similar categories in Robyn Schiff's Information Desk: An Epic book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life

By: Matt Hay

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring memoir of a young man who discovered he was going completely deaf just at the moment h… read more

Similar categories in Matt Hay's Soundtrack of Silence: Love, Loss, and a Playlist for Life book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • audiobook
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18. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Villarreal-Moura's Like Happiness book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. It Dies with You

By: Scott Blackburn

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Scott Blackburn’s searing literary debut explores the dangerous world of secrets threatening to upe… read more

Similar categories in Scott Blackburn's It Dies with You book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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20. Twenty-Ninth Year

By: Hala Alyan

3.91

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Islamic and Western tradition, age twenty-nine is a milestone, a year of transformation and uphe… read more

Similar categories in Hala Alyan's Twenty-Ninth Year book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • audiobook
"We inherit everything. Especially questions."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"there’s always a dark darker than the dark you know"

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"I just loved the idea of a place so old it only knew how to tell the truth."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

"In the city bombs peck the streets into a braille that we pretend we cannot read."

-Hala Alyan, Twenty-Ninth Year

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21. After the Lights Go Out

By: John Vercher

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A harrowing and spellbinding story about family, the complications of mixed-race relationships, mis… read more

Similar categories in John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • race
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • sports
  • audiobook
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22. Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence

By: Amy Blackstone

3.94

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

From Dr. Amy Blackstone, childfree woman, co-creator of the blog we're {not} having a baby, and na… read more

Similar categories in Amy Blackstone's Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • audiobook
"Rather than pondering whether childfree women qualify as 'real women', perhaps the better question is why we are so hell-bent on forcing narrow and constricting rules on what makes a woman. Some wome…"

-Amy Blackstone, Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence

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23. Viper's Dream

By: Jake Lamar

3.87

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

For fans of Colson Whitehead and Wild Women and the Blues , Viper's Dream is a gritty, daring look … read more

Similar categories in Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Great State of West Florida

By: Kent Wascom

3.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the beloved author previously compared to Cormac McCarthy and Joyce Carol Oates (Washington Po… read more

Similar categories in Kent Wascom's The Great State of West Florida book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Broiler

By: Eli Cranor

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The troubles of two desperate families—one white, one Mexican American—converge in the ruthless und… read more

Similar categories in Eli Cranor's Broiler book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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26. The Night of Baba Yaga

By: Akira Otani

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

In this no-holds-barred queer thriller, a fierce mixed-race fighter develops a powerful attachment … read more

Similar categories in Akira Otani's The Night of Baba Yaga book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Hurricane Season

By: Mark Powell

4.14

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Shy Walsh might be the greatest female fighter of her time, but a loss in a Vegas title fight, and … read more

Similar categories in Mark Powell's Hurricane Season book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

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28. The Bang-Bang Sisters

By: Rio Youers

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author Rio Youers, an action-packed crime novel featuring three kick-ass … read more

Similar categories in Rio Youers's The Bang-Bang Sisters book and John Vercher's After the Lights Go Out

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • audiobook
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29. Turkeyfoot

By: Rick Childers

4.57

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Lucy Perley is nine-years-old and as far as she can tell her world is solid as packed dirt. She spe… read more

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