5 Top novels books like The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates

Cover of The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates

The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

By: Joyce Carol Oates

2.77

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

What makes Oates so interesting is that she uncovers the universal core within a unique happening. …

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Cover of The First Quarry (Quarry #8) by Max Allan Collins

1. The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

BIG MAN ON CAMPUS Crime fiction readers know Quarry, the ruthless killer-for-hire, from Max Alla… read more

Similar categories in Max Allan Collins's The First Quarry (Quarry #8) book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Hi my name's Quarry. I'm in town to blow your favorite professor's brains out. Can you tell me whether you're planning to stop by his place this afternoon, so I can pick a time when I wouldn't have t…"

-Max Allan Collins, The First Quarry (Quarry #8)

Cover of The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes by Lawrence Block

2. The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes

By: Lawrence Block

3.39

Format: 234 pages, Hardcover

Cashed out from the NYPD after 24 years, Doak Miller operates as a private eye in steamy small-town… read more

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  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Crash by J.G. Ballard

3. Crash

By: J.G. Ballard

3.59

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In Ballard's hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a "TV scie… read more

Similar categories in J.G. Ballard's Crash book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • horror
"After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"As I sat with her by the airport fence in her darkened car, her white breast in my hand lit by the ascending airliners, the shape and tenderness of her nipple seemed to rape my fingers."

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

"I guessed that he was one of those ambitious young physicians who more and more fill the profession, opportunists with a fashionable hoodlum image, openly hostile to their patients. My brief stay at …"

-J.G. Ballard, Crash

Cover of Voracious by Wrath James White

4. Voracious

By: Wrath James White

4.01

Format: 133 pages, Hardcover

Doctor Trevor Adams is a genius by all accounts. His ethics, however, leave a bit to be desired. Wh… read more

Similar categories in Wrath James White's Voracious book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score by Darwyn Cooke, Richard Stark

5. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more

Similar categories in Darwyn Cooke's Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh

6. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • horror
"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

Cover of The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108) by Ariel S. Winter

7. The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108)

By: Ariel S. Winter

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

THERE'S NEVER BEEN A BOOK LIKE THE TWENTY-YEAR DEATH A breathtaking first novel written in the form… read more

Similar categories in Ariel S. Winter's The Twenty-Year Death (Hard Case Crime #108) book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot

8. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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Cover of Castle in the Air by Donald E. Westlake

9. Castle in the Air

By: Donald E. Westlake

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

A British master criminal assembles an international gang of infamous thieves to steal a castle who… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Castle in the Air book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Knife Slipped by Erle Stanley Gardner

10. The Knife Slipped

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

THE LOST DETECTIVE NOVEL BY THE CREATOR OF PERRY MASON! At the time of his death, Erle Stanley Gard… read more

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  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson

11. Lighthousekeeping

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

Lighthousekeeping tells the tale of Silver ("My mother called me Silver. I was born part precious m… read more

Similar categories in Jeanette Winterson's Lighthousekeeping book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • literary fiction
  • fiction

12. The Snake and the Spider

By: Karen Kingsbury

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Mass Market Paperback

It began with a teenager kissing his mother good-bye. It ended with the discovery of human bones in… read more

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13. A Stab in the Dark (Matthew Scudder, #4)

By: Lawrence Block

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Louis Pinell, the recently apprehended Icepick Prowler, freely admits to having slain seven young w… read more

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14. Black Swan, White Raven

By: Anne Bishop , Joyce Carol Oates , Steve Rasnic Tem , Jane Yolen , Karen Joy Fowler , Michael Blumlein , Nancy Kress , Ellen Datlow , Susanna Clarke , Nina Kiriki Hoffman , Terri Windling , Gregory Frost , Esther M. Friesner , Pat Murphy , Michael Cadnum , John Crowley , Nalo Hopkinson , Garry Kilworth , None , Harvey Jacobs , Midori Snyder , Don Webb , None

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

In their fourth collection of original adult fairy tales written by some of the premier names in li… read more

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15. Centennial

By: James A. Michener

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Written to commemorate the Bicentennial in 1976, James A. Michener's magnificent saga of the Westis… read more

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16. Early Autumn (Spenser, #7)

By: Robert B. Parker

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

A bitter divorce is only the beginning. First the father hires thugs to kidnap his son. Then the mo… read more

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17. Nobody's Angel (Hard Case Crime, #65)

By: Jack Clark

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

While Chicago cabbie Eddie Miles drives the city streets at midnight, two killers--one targeting pr… read more

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18. Batgirl: Year One

By: Scott Beatty , Marcos Martín , Chuck Dixon , Álvaro López

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

A look into the action-packed origin of the original Batgirl, Barbara Gordon! This volume collects … read more

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19. We Stand On Guard

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Steve Skroce , Fonografiks , None

5.00

Format: 172 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover for this isbn can be found . SAGA writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN teams with artistic l… read more

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20. Cop Hater (87th Precinct, #1)

By: Ed McBain

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

When Detective Reardon is found dead, motive is a big question mark. But when his partner becomes v… read more

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21. The Bigger They Come

By: Erle Stanley Gardner , A.A. Fair

4.16

Format: None pages,

They are an unlikely pairing of detectives: Bertha Cool, in her sixties, is rolling in pounds and p… read more

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Cover of Cave of Bones (Leaphorn & Chee, #22) by Anne Hillerman

22. Cave of Bones (Leaphorn & Chee, #22)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.01

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC a… read more

Similar categories in Anne Hillerman's Cave of Bones (Leaphorn & Chee, #22) book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Five Decembers by James Kestrel

23. Five Decembers

By: James Kestrel

4.43

Format: 429 pages, Hardcover

December 1941: America teeters on the brink of war, and in Honolulu, Hawaii, police detective Joe M… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Aishitemasu"

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

"It was a complete disaster and no one had done anything wrong."

-James Kestrel, Five Decembers

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24. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Where the Body Was book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Call Me a Cab by Donald E. Westlake

25. Call Me a Cab

By: Donald E. Westlake

4.00

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

In 1977, one of the world’s finest crime novelists turned his pen to suspense of a very different s… read more

Similar categories in Donald E. Westlake's Call Me a Cab book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • pulp
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime) by Daniel Kraus

26. Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime)

By: Daniel Kraus

3.42

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

In a ruined house at the end of Yellow Street, an angry outcast hatches a scheme to take revenge fo… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Kraus's Blood Sugar (Hard Case Crime) book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • pulp
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of The Count of 9 by Erle Stanley Gardner

27. The Count of 9

By: Erle Stanley Gardner

3.99

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

From the world-famous creator of "Perry Mason," Erle Stanley Gardner comes another baffling case fo… read more

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  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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28. The Children's Bach

By: Helen Garner

3.53

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more

Similar categories in Helen Garner's The Children's Bach book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder by John Glatt

29. The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder

By: John Glatt

4.01

Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition

Ben Novack, Jr. was born into a life of luxury and opulence. Heir to the legendary Fontainebleau ho… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's The Prince of Paradise: The True Story of a Hotel Heir, His Seductive Wife, and a Ruthless Murder book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Triumph of the Spider Monkey by Joyce Carol Oates

30. The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

By: Joyce Carol Oates

2.77

Format: 158 pages, Mass Market Paperback

What makes Oates so interesting is that she uncovers the universal core within a unique happening. … read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey book and Joyce Carol Oates's The Triumph of the Spider Monkey

  • literary fiction
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Seed on the Wind (Hard Case Crime) by Rex Stout

31. Seed on the Wind (Hard Case Crime)

By: Rex Stout

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

One woman, four men, countless temptations on the streets of New York. This lost novel from legenda… read more

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  • crime
  • fiction

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Max Allan Collins

4.01

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Lawrence Block

3.39

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J.G. Ballard

3.59

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Wrath James White

4.01

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J.G. Ballard

3.59

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Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

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