14 Best amazon books like The Night Burns Bright by Ross Barkan

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The Night Burns Bright

By: Ross Barkan

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

In this coming-of-age thriller, a twelve-year-old boy’s spark of courage to question the harmonious…

"We keep the memory, but the memory isn’t only us. We aren’t just an accumulation of bad memories."

-Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

"We keep the memory, but the memory isn’t only us. We aren’t just an accumulation of bad memories."

-Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

"[...] believe it or not [...] sometimes we think we are the weakest people, the most alone, the most crushed, but we aren’t. We never are."

-Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

"[...] believe it or not [...] sometimes we think we are the weakest people, the most alone, the most crushed, but we aren’t. We never are."

-Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

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1. Strangers We Know

By: Elle Marr

3.81

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The search for a serial killer leads a woman into the twisted tangle of her own family tree in a ch… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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2. Like Me

By: Hayley Phelan

3.31

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A propulsive psychological thriller that follows an aspiring model down a social media-fuelled rabb… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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3. Family Money

By: Chad Zunker

4.07

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

A dead man’s secrets put a family in peril in a twisting novel of suspense by the Amazon Charts bes… read more

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  • mystery thriller
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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. The Taste of Ginger

By: Mansi Shah

3.99

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

In Mansi Shah’s stunning debut novel, a family tragedy beckons a first-generation immigrant to the … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Had I lost my culture? I felt like I was constantly reminded that I was Indian—at work, at a store, when talking to white friends—some part of me was always aware that I wasn’t like the other people …"

-Mansi Shah, The Taste of Ginger

Cover of The Stroke of Winter by Wendy     Webb

5. The Stroke of Winter

By: Wendy Webb

3.99

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

In the tourist town of Wharton, on the coast of Lake Superior, Tess Bell is renovating her old fami… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"It was all too easy to take a thing for granted, even something beautiful, when you lived with it every day, she thought. The extraordinary faded into ordinary, even mundane."

-Wendy Webb, The Stroke of Winter

"It was almost as if, the nearer people are to the other side, whether they've just come into the world or are close to leaving it, the more sleep they need. And she wondered, too, if it was really sl…"

-Wendy Webb, The Stroke of Winter

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6. The Alone Time

By: Elle Marr

3.58

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

For two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a fa… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. Kismet

By: Amina Akhtar

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

From Amina Akhtar comes a viciously funny thriller about wellness—the smoothies, the secrets, and t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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8. Under Her Care

By: Lucinda Berry

3.88

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Child comes a shocking thriller about the disturbing com… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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9. The Quarter Storm (Mambo Reina, #1)

By: Veronica G. Henry

3.76

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

A practitioner of Vodou must test the boundaries of her powers to solve a ritual murder in New Orle… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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10. North to Paradise

By: Ousman Umar

4.27

Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition

The inspiring true story of one man’s treacherous boyhood journey from a rural village in Ghana to … read more

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  • amazon
Cover of The Hike by Susi Holliday

11. The Hike

By: Susi Holliday

3.59

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Four hikers enter the mountains. Only two return. But is it tragedy? Or treachery? When sisters … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Death in the Sunshine (Retired Detectives Club, #1) by Steph Broadribb

12. Death in the Sunshine (Retired Detectives Club, #1)

By: Steph Broadribb

3.92

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Four ex-cops in a retirement paradise. Sure they’ll rest…when the killer is caught. After a long… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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13. The Lobotomist's Wife

By: Samantha Greene Woodruff

4.04

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

An enthralling historical novel of a compassionate and relentless woman, a cutting-edge breakthroug… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Greene Woodruff's The Lobotomist's Wife book and Ross Barkan's The Night Burns Bright

  • thriller
  • fiction
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14. Or Else

By: Joe Hart

3.99

Format: 253 pages, Kindle Edition

A secret love becomes a fatal affair in a twisting novel of suspense by Wall Street Journal bestsel… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Of course I wouldn't do anything stupid. I was going to do something very stupid."

-Joe Hart, Or Else

"After a breathless moment, I gave her a smile. Slowly she returned it. Somewhere, I felt that everything was going to be all right. See, my problem is I'm a romantic."

-Joe Hart, Or Else

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15. Full

By: Julia Spiro

3.91

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

To her followers, she advocates for an authentic and transparent life. In reality, she’s living a p… read more

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  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Last Summer Boys

By: Bill Rivers

4.41

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

In this rapturous coming-of-age debut, a naive-yet-determined Appalachian boy will go to any length… read more

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  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • amazon
  • young adult
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17. Into the Sound

By: Cara Reinard

3.77

Format: 346 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrified voice on the phone. The line goes dead. The mystery begins. During a superstorm, Hol… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold by Umar Turaki

18. Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold

By: Umar Turaki

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

An inexplicable sickness. A small town cut off from the world. An unexpected community of survivors… read more

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  • dystopia
  • amazon
  • fiction
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19. Blackout

By: Erin Flanagan

3.58

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

In this unforgettable psychological thriller, the dark is a terrifying mystery for a woman on the e… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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20. Real Bad Things

By: Kelly J. Ford

3.56

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Cottonmouths, a Los Angeles Review Best Book of 2017, comes an evocative suspens… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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21. Say Her Name

By: Dreda Say Mitchell

4.04

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

In this chilling thriller from the bestselling authors of Spare Room, one woman just wants the trut… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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22. My Evil Mother

By: Margaret Atwood

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Mother of All Secrets by Kathleen M. Willett

23. Mother of All Secrets

By: Kathleen M. Willett

3.90

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

Her freedom, her sanity, her life. How much will a young mother sacrifice to protect her secrets? … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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24. At the Quiet Edge

By: Victoria Helen Stone

3.99

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

A young mother has done everything possible to put the past behind her, but it might not be enough … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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25. A Train to Moscow

By: Elena Gorokhova

3.99

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

In post–World War II Russia, a girl must reconcile a tragic past with her hope for the future in th… read more

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  • amazon
  • fiction
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26. The Intangible

By: C.J. Washington

3.77

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

C.J. Washington’s riveting debut novel dives into the raw emotions of a grieving mother whose quest… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Night Burns Bright by Ross Barkan

27. The Night Burns Bright

By: Ross Barkan

3.72

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

In this coming-of-age thriller, a twelve-year-old boy’s spark of courage to question the harmonious… read more

Similar categories in Ross Barkan's The Night Burns Bright book and Ross Barkan's The Night Burns Bright

  • mystery thriller
  • coming of age
  • cults
  • young adult
  • dystopia
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"We keep the memory, but the memory isn’t only us. We aren’t just an accumulation of bad memories."

-Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

"[...] believe it or not [...] sometimes we think we are the weakest people, the most alone, the most crushed, but we aren’t. We never are."

-Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

"But he couldn't think of it that way. Evie and Samantha weren't dead. They were just somewhere else. Somewhere he couldn't go. What was the difference between that and death?"

-Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

"On one hand, it’s empty, vacant, nothing—on the other, well, it’s like staring into the sun. I’m blinded. There’s so much, and I’m just bent over and crouching there, in the light."

-Ross Barkan, The Night Burns Bright

Cover of The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way by Diana Marcum

28. The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way

By: Diana Marcum

4.05

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the na… read more

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29. In Any Lifetime

By: Marc Guggenheim

3.84

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

A devoted husband defies fate and risks everything to find the one universe where his beloved wife … read more

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  • thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
Cover of The Moonflowers by Abigail Rose-Marie

30. The Moonflowers

By: Abigail Rose-Marie

4.39

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

In a powerful and poignant novel, an artist unravels her mysterious family history and its generati… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of The Usual Silence (Arles Shepherd #1) by Jenny Milchman

31. The Usual Silence (Arles Shepherd #1)

By: Jenny Milchman

3.92

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A psychologist haunted by childhood trauma must unearth all that is buried in her past in this twis… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction

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