5 best-selling historical fiction books like Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama

Cover of Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama

Seventeen

By: Hideo Yokoyama

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A tense, powerful thriller from the bestselling author of Six Four 1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seaso…

"Never trust a man who needs to get drunk before he can speak his mind. Those people are not living an authentic life."

-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen

"People's lives. There are big lives and little lives, aren't there? ... Heavy lives and lightweight lives; important lives, and lives that are... not."

-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen

"People's lives. There are big lives and little lives, aren't there? ... Heavy lives and llightweight lives; important lives, and lives that are... not."

-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen

"As long as you kept running from birth until death, falling down, getting hurt, no matter how many times you suffered defeat, you got up and started running again. Personal happiness came from all the things and people you came across, ran into by chance along the way. Climber's high. Climbing with all your might, concentrating completely on moving up, never being distracted by the meaningless stuff around you."

-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen

If you liked the historical fiction plot in Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of The Silent Dead (Reiko Himekawa, #1) by Giles Murray, Tetsuya Honda

1. The Silent Dead (Reiko Himekawa, #1)

By: Giles Murray , Tetsuya Honda

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When a body wrapped in a blue plastic tarp and tied up with twine is discovered near the bushes nea… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura, Allison Markin Powell

2. The Gun

By: Fuminori Nakamura , Allison Markin Powell

3.98

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

In Tokyo a college student's discovery and eventual obsession with a stolen handgun awakens somethi… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Journey Under the Midnight Sun by Keigo Higashino, Alexander O. Smith

3. Journey Under the Midnight Sun

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasag… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Tattoo Murder Case by Akimitsu Takagi, Deborah Boliver Boehm

4. The Tattoo Murder Case

By: Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Kinue Nomura survived World War II only to be murdered in Tokyo, her severed limbs discovered in a … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of De onzichtbaren by Frank Nellen

5. De onzichtbaren

By: Frank Nellen

3.88

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Kiev, eind jaren tachtig. Het eens zo machtige Sovjetimperium wankelt. Tijdens een roerige debatavo… read more

Similar categories in Frank Nellen's De onzichtbaren book and Hideo Yokoyama's Seventeen

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Listanje kupusa by Igor Beleš

6. Listanje kupusa

By: Igor Beleš

4.85

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Pet jedanaestogodišnjaka, nerazdvojnih članova An družine, u Borovu je naselju 1991. krenulo istraž… read more

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Cover of Silent Parade (Detective Galileo, #4) by Keigo Higashino

7. Silent Parade (Detective Galileo, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4) by Seishi Yokomizo

8. Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Kosuke Kindaichi arrives on the remote Gokumon Island bearing tragic news – the son of one of the i… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
"Poverty is the mother of crime. If people are poor, they lose all sense of shame, and behave appallingly."

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

"Mảnh trăng lưỡi liềm mùng mười còn treo trên sườn núi Suribachi, bầu trời lấp lánh muôn ánh sao. Sông Ngân kéo chiếc đuôi dài thượt ngang qua, có thể thấy thấp thoáng quầng sáng trắng sữa. Đảo Ngục M…"

-Seishi Yokomizo, Death on Gokumon Island (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #4)

Cover of A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3) by Keigo Higashino

9. A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

By: Keigo Higashino

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the latest from international bestselling author Keigo Higashino, Tokyo Police Detective Kaga is… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
"Takes all sorts to make a world. It's hard to generalize what's odd and what's not."

-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

"Murder cases are like cancer cells. Once they get their hooks into you, the pain and misery just keep on spreading. Whether the killer gets caught or the investigation is brought to a successful conc…"

-Keigo Higashino, A Death in Tokyo (Detective Kaga, #3)

Cover of The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4) by Keigo Higashino

10. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • asia
  • fiction
  • japanese literature
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5) by Seishi Yokomizo

11. The Devil's Flute Murders (Detective Kosuke Kindaichi, #5)

By: Seishi Yokomizo

3.89

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

An ingenious and highly atmospheric classic whodunit from Japan’s master of crime. Amid the rubb… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • japanese literature
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Sigurna kuća by Marina Vujčić

12. Sigurna kuća

By: Marina Vujčić

4.82

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Žena je ubila muža, nasmrt ga je ubola nožem, bilo je to ubojstvo na mah. Ni susjedi ni obitelj ne … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai

13. Mild Vertigo

By: Mieko Kanai

3.55

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Housewife Natsumi leads a small, unremarkable life in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and… read more

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  • asia
  • japanese literature
  • japan
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Nada by Ante Tomić

14. Nada

By: Ante Tomić

4.53

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Na početku bijaše brodolom iz kojeg je jedan mladić jedva izvukao živu glavu nasukavši se na obali … read more

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Cover of Strvinari starog svijeta by Tea Tulić

15. Strvinari starog svijeta

By: Tea Tulić

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

"Kratki roman Tee Tulić Strvinari starog svijeta pripovijeda kći o ocu, a u priči se povremeno dota… read more

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Cover of La comemadre by Roque Larraquy

16. La comemadre

By: Roque Larraquy

3.67

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La comemadre ofrece dos relatos que hunden sus raíces en la misma materia y abrevan en las mismas o… read more

Similar categories in Roque Larraquy's La comemadre book and Hideo Yokoyama's Seventeen

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Papini's speech accelerates as he walks toward the morgue, leaving a trail of lemon in his wake. 'It's the so-called qualitative leap, Quintana. At night we come up with daring plans that would chang…"

-Roque Larraquy, La comemadre

Cover of The Meiji Guillotine Murders by Fūtarō Yamada

17. The Meiji Guillotine Murders

By: Fūtarō Yamada

3.34

Format: 379 pages, Paperback

A classic Japanese mystery – a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th centu… read more

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  • japanese literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • crime
  • japan
Cover of Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama

18. Seventeen

By: Hideo Yokoyama

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A tense, powerful thriller from the bestselling author of Six Four 1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seaso… read more

Similar categories in Hideo Yokoyama's Seventeen book and Hideo Yokoyama's Seventeen

  • mystery thriller
  • asia
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • contemporary
  • crime
  • japanese literature
  • japan
"Never trust a man who needs to get drunk before he can speak his mind. Those people are not living an authentic life."

-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen

"People's lives. There are big lives and little lives, aren't there? ... Heavy lives and lightweight lives; important lives, and lives that are... not."

-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen

"People's lives. There are big lives and little lives, aren't there? ... Heavy lives and llightweight lives; important lives, and lives that are... not."

-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen

"As long as you kept running from birth until death, falling down, getting hurt, no matter how many times you suffered defeat, you got up and started running again. Personal happiness came from all th…"

-Hideo Yokoyama, Seventeen

Cover of Visoke trave by Zoran Žmirić

19. Visoke trave

By: Zoran Žmirić

4.26

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

Dva klinca, košarkaško igralište, svađa oko toga je li bila trica – tako 1985. započinje Robertovo … read more

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Cover of The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld by Jake Adelstein

20. The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld

By: Jake Adelstein

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it’s never been told before in this gripping, … read more

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  • asia
  • crime
  • thriller
  • japan
Cover of Praznina (Lukas Hum #3) by Danijel Špelić

21. Praznina (Lukas Hum #3)

By: Danijel Špelić

4.50

Format: 266 pages, Paperback

Trideset i pet godina ranije… Dječak odlazi na gradske bazene i nestaje bez traga. Grupa prijatel… read more

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15 best-selling fiction books like Seventeen by Hideo Yokoyama

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Giles Murray , Tetsuya Honda

3.16

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The Gun

Fuminori Nakamura , Allison Markin Powell

3.98

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Journey Under the Midnight Sun

Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

4.51

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The Tattoo Murder Case

Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

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The Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Sōji Shimada , Shika MacKenzie , Ross MacKenzie

3.87

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The Decagon House Murders

Yukito Ayatsuji , Sōji Shimada , Ho-Ling Wong

2.50

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Inspector Imanishi Investigates

Seichō Matsumoto , Beth Cary

4.08

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The Tattoo Murder Case

Akimitsu Takagi , Deborah Boliver Boehm

3.96

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