8 best-selling novels books like The Siege of the Villa Lipp by Eric Ambler

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The Siege of the Villa Lipp

By: Eric Ambler

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the shadowy areas of international law criminals work hard at figuring loopholes. One such wheel…

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1. Hollywood

By: Gore Vidal

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Hollywood marks the 5th episode in Gore Vidal's "Narratives of Empire," his celebrated series of si… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
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2. A Certain Justice (Adam Dalgliesh, #10)

By: None

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • british literature
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3. London Match (Bernard Samson, #3)

By: Len Deighton

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Mass Market Paperback

With treason epidemic in London Central, a cloud of suspicion passes over each senior agent, and ea… read more

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  • espionage
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. Mexico Set (Bernard Samson, #2)

By: Len Deighton

3.59

Format: 378 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Now on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City. British intelligence agent Bernard Samson … read more

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  • mystery
  • espionage
  • thriller
  • fiction
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5. It's a Battlefield

By: Graham Greene

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drover, a Communist bus driver, is in prison appealing his death sentence for killing a policeman d… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature
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6. The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Alighieri , Eugenio Montale , Allen Mandelbaum

4.29

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

The Divine Comedy, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in th… read more

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  • fiction
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7. To Have and Have Not

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.52

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into runnin… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"He was mad and plenty brave."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"In every port in the world, at least two Estonians can be found."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

"Love is all the dirty little tricks you taught me that you probably got out of some book."

-Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not

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8. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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9. The Conviction (David Sloane, #5)

By: Robert Dugoni

4.00

Format: 139 pages,

In this exhilarating legal thriller from Robert Dugoni, the #1 Kindle bestselling author of MY SIST… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

10. The Mosquito Coast

By: Paul Theroux

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family t… read more

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11. The Honorary Consul

By: Graham Greene , Nicholas Shakespeare

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The Honorary Consul is a British thriller novel by Graham Greene, published in 1973. It was one of … read more

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12. Chasing the Dime

By: Michael Connelly

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

The phone messages waiting for Henry Pierce clearly aren't for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her nu… read more

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13. England Made Me

By: Graham Greene

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

From master storyteller Graham Greene comes the tale of Anthony Farrant, who has boasted, lied and … read more

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14. Travels With My Aunt

By: Graham Greene

4.07

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

"I met Aunt Augusta for the first time at my mother's funeral..." Described by Graham Greene as "th… read more

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15. Berlin Game (Bernard Samson, #1)

By: Len Deighton

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

When a valuable agent behind the Iron Curtain signals he wants out, it's up to Bernard Samson, once… read more

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16. The Kindly Ones (A Dance to the Music of Time, #6)

By: Anthony Powell

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A Dance to the Music of Time – his brilliant 12-novel sequence, which chronicles the lives of over … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • british literature

17. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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18. 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

By: Agatha Christie

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For an instant the two trains ran together, going in the same direction side by side. In that froze… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • british literature
"Don’t go,"

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

"I think, my dear, we won't talk any more about murder during tea. Such an unpleasant subject."

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

"Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them."

-Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington (Miss Marple, #7)

19. L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)

By: James Ellroy

3.66

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Christmas 1951, Los Angeles: a city where the police are as crooked as the criminals. Six prisoner… read more

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20. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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21. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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22. A Killing on the Hill

By: Robert Dugoni

4.23

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The Great Depression. High-level corruption. And a murder that’s about to become Seattle’s hottest … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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23. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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24. A Line to Kill (Hawthorne & Horowitz #3)

By: Anthony Horowitz

3.93

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the brilliantly inventive The Word Is Murder and The Sente… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • british literature
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25. So Shall You Reap

By: Donna Leon

4.07

Format: 262 pages, ebook

In the thirty-second installment of Donna Leon’s bestselling series, a connection to Guido Brunetti… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Given Loreti's position in society, the press had followed, panting. But they were to be disappointed by the police's failure to find any sign of what the English call "foul play," and so the investi…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

"Brunetti, no fan of television, did occasionally watch nature documentaries, and so he was familiar with the pose cobras took when they were preparing to attack. They somehow managed to raise their h…"

-Donna Leon, So Shall You Reap

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26. Metropolis (Bernie Gunther, #14)

By: Philip Kerr

4.17

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Berlin, 1928, the dying days of the Weimar Republic shortly before Hitler and the Nazis came to pow… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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27. The Rise

By: Ian Rankin

3.65

Format: 86 pages, Kindle Edition

In this short thriller from bestselling author Ian Rankin, murder comes to London’s most exclusive … read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • british literature
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28. Dolphin Junction: Stories

By: Mick Herron

4.02

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Now, for the first time, Mick Herron’s short fiction has been collected into one volume. In Dolphin… read more

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  • espionage
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
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29. The Siege of the Villa Lipp

By: Eric Ambler

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the shadowy areas of international law criminals work hard at figuring loopholes. One such wheel… read more

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  • espionage
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
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30. Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

By: Mick Herron

4.11

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

London's Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what's left of their failed… read more

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  • espionage
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"It’s a phrase, black swan,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"We don’t like being out of the loop."

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"Arkady Pashkin said “Why aren’t we moving?"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

"I’m sure he’s hard at work on the archive,"

-Mick Herron, Dead Lions (Slough House, #2)

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31. Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

By: Mick Herron

4.28

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Listening Length 10 hours and 50 minutes Slough House is the Intelligence Service outpost for f… read more

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  • espionage
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Lowell fell backwards as the world span out of control"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"Like most forms of corruption, it began with men in suits."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"belief was not actually about believing; belief was simply somewhere to shelve hope"

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

"You either cleaned up other people's messes or you didn't--and that was the class system for you, right there."

-Mick Herron, Real Tigers (Slough House, #3)

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3.59

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