24 Best fiction books like Viper's Dream by Jake Lamar

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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 …

If you liked the fiction plot in Viper's Dream by Jake Lamar , here is a list of 24 books like this:

1. Northline

By: Willy Vlautin

3.76

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Fleeing Las Vegas and her abusive boyfriend, Allison Johnson moves to Reno, intent on making a new … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat

2. Brother, I'm Dying

By: Edwidge Danticat

4.16

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving fa… read more

Similar categories in Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • audiobook
"He shouldn’t be here,"

-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying

"Maybe we're all dying, one breath at a time."

-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying

"His entire life was now reduced to an odd curiosity, a looting opportunity."

-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying

"Suddenly he understood the true workings of a mob, one infuriated body morphing into another until they all became limbs to one raging monster."

-Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying

Cover of Don't Skip Out on Me by Willy Vlautin

3. Don't Skip Out on Me

By: Willy Vlautin

4.13

Format: 304 pages, ebook

From award-winning author Willy Vlautin, comes this moving novel about a young ranch hand who goes … read more

Similar categories in Willy Vlautin's Don't Skip Out on Me book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Mr. Reese had told him that life, at its core, was a cruel burden because we had the knowledge that we were born to die. We were born with innocent eyes and those eyes had to see pain and death and d…"

-Willy Vlautin, Don't Skip Out on Me

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4. Crooked Seeds

By: Karen Jennings

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more

Similar categories in Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. The Enchanters

By: James Ellroy

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

James Ellroy—Demon Dog of American Letters—goes straight to the tragic heart of 1962 Hollywood with… read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's The Enchanters book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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6. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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7. 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 Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. The God of Good Looks

By: Breanne Mc Ivor

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more

Similar categories in Breanne Mc Ivor's The God of Good Looks book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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10. Cahokia Jazz

By: Francis Spufford

4.03

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently—from th… read more

Similar categories in Francis Spufford's Cahokia Jazz book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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11. Just Murdered

By: Katherine Kovacic

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Introducing the fabulous Ms Peregrine Fisher, niece of the famous Phryne Fisher, as seen on 7plus a… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Kovacic's Just Murdered book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Leave No Trace (Kat and Lock, #2)

By: Jo Callaghan

4.31

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the author of In the Blink … read more

Similar categories in Jo Callaghan's Leave No Trace (Kat and Lock, #2) book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy

By: Paul Vidich

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A stunning new espionage novel by a master of the genre, Beirut Station follows a young female CIA … read more

Similar categories in Paul Vidich's Beirut Station: Two Lives of a Spy book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. The Young Team

By: Graeme Armstrong

4.49

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult… read more

Similar categories in Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • crime
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Widespread Panic

By: James Ellroy

3.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the modern master of noir comes a novel about the malevolent monarch of the 1950s Hollywood un… read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's Widespread Panic book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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16. Neighbors and Other Stories

By: Diane Oliver

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day… read more

Similar categories in Diane Oliver's Neighbors and Other Stories book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes I wonder why more of us ain't dead."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He loved them, he had to. After all, they were his, but sometimes loving became a burden. And if he had met them at the bus station, perhaps they would have become that to him."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"By giving woman the exalted position, the man takes away her freedom. By treating her like a goddess, he forces her to act like a goddess... but the man is then free to act like a human being."

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

"He's going to wonder why, and how are we going to tell him we're afraid of them?" Her father's hand clutched the coffee cup. "He's going to be fighting them the rest of his life. He's got to start so…"

-Diane Oliver, Neighbors and Other Stories

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17. Distant Sons

By: Tim Johnston

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Descent and The Current, an absorbing new work of liter… read more

Similar categories in Tim Johnston's Distant Sons book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. A Fire So Wild

By: Sarah Ruiz Grossman

3.51

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

With the emotional echoes of  Little Fires Everywhere  and the lush atmosphere of  Disappearing Ear… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ruiz Grossman's A Fire So Wild book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Cracked Mirror

By: Chris Brookmyre

4.07

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

FORGET WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW THIS IS NOT THAT CRIME NOVEL You know Johnny Hawke. Hard-bitten LAP… read more

Similar categories in Chris Brookmyre's The Cracked Mirror book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. Arsenic at Ascot (A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery, #4)

By: Kelly Oliver

4.22

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie in this clever locked-room mystery."A delightful English countr… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Oliver's Arsenic at Ascot (A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery, #4) book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • mystery
  • historical fiction
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21. The Medici Murders

By: David Hewson

3.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

When a well-known British TV historian, Marmaduke Godolphin, is found murdered in the canals of Ven… read more

Similar categories in David Hewson's The Medici Murders book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. Thunder Song: Essays

By: Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The winner of the 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Award for her memoir, Red Paint , Sasha taqʷšəblu LaP… read more

Similar categories in Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe's Thunder Song: Essays book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • audiobook
Cover of Murder in Moscow (A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery, #5) by Kelly  Oliver

23. Murder in Moscow (A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery, #5)

By: Kelly Oliver

4.21

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Journey into the heart of 20th Century Russia in this fun and funny historical mystery, perfect for… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Oliver's Murder in Moscow (A Fiona Figg & Kitty Lane Mystery, #5) book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • historical fiction
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24. A Helping Hand

By: Celia Dale

3.60

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Josh and Maisie Evans are Good Samaritans and enjoy lending a helping hand to lonely elderly ladies… read more

Similar categories in Celia Dale's A Helping Hand book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems by Mary Jo Bang

25. A Film in Which I Play Everyone: Poems

By: Mary Jo Bang

3.80

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A Film in Which I Play Everyone takes its title from a response David Bowie gave to a fan who asked… read more

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26. Ponyboy

By: Eliot Duncan

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An evocative debut novel of trans-masculinity, addiction, and the pain and joy of becoming. In t… read more

Similar categories in Eliot Duncan's Ponyboy book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
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27. 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 Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

28. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
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29. Blood Like Mine

By: Stuart Neville

3.79

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

STAY ON THE MOVE. STAY OUT OF SIGHT. In LA Times Book Prizewinner Stuart Neville’s daring foray … read more

Similar categories in Stuart Neville's Blood Like Mine book and Jake Lamar's Viper's Dream

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook

15 Top audiobook books like Viper's Dream by Jake Lamar

Transform Your Habits

Brother, I'm Dying

Edwidge Danticat

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Don't Skip Out on Me

Willy Vlautin

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Ozark Dogs

Eli Cranor

3.72

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17 Best fiction books like A Helping Hand by Celia Dale

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Wish Her Safe at Home

Stephen Benatar , John Carey

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Long Shadow

Celia Fremlin

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Shutter of Snow

Emily Holmes Coleman

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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