8 must-read noir books like Alabama Noir by Don Noble

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Alabama Noir

By: Don Noble

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Alabama joins Mississippi as fertile Deep South soil for the Noir Series. Akashic Books continue…

If you liked the noir plot in Alabama Noir by Don Noble , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

By: Timothy J. Keller , Kathy Keller

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Renowned pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and author of The Songs of Jesus, Timoth… read more

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"Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

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2. Tenth of December

By: George Saunders

3.98

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

One of the most important and blazingly original writers of his generation, George Saunders is an u… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"Ted, I swear to God, quothe he."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Every step was a victory. He had to remember that."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive, I guess."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

"The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven."

-George Saunders, Tenth of December

3. Atlanta Noir

By: Tayari Jones

3.64

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Brand-new stories by:Tananarive Due, Kenji Jasper, Tayari Jones, Dallas Hudgens, Jim Grimsley, Bran… read more

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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
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4. Blue Highways

By: William Least Heat-Moon

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highwaysis an unforgettable journey along … read more

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5. Silken Prey (Lucas Davenport, #23)

By: John Sandford

3.69

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pu… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Serena

By: Ron Rash

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller and PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist, Serena by award-winning author Ron Rash… read more

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  • fiction

7. Mississippi Noir

By: Chris Offutt , Megan Abbott , Ace Atkins , Tom Franklin , Michael Kardos , Mary Miller , Michael Farris Smith , William Boyle , John M. Floyd , Jack Pendarvis , Jimmy Cajoleas , None , Lee Durkee , None , None , None , None

3.00

Format: 31 pages, Paperback

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 wi… read more

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8. One Writer's Beginnings

By: Eudora Welty

4.07

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Now available as an audio CD, in Eudora Welty's own voice, or as a book. Eudora Welty was born i… read more

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"She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him."

-Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

"Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it."

-Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

"Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an early form of participation in what goes on. Listening childr…"

-Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

"Barefooted on the slick brick walk I rushed to where I could breathe in the cool breath from the interior of the springhouse. On a cold bubbling spring, covered dishes and crocks and pitchers of milk…"

-Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings

9. The Two Faces of January

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Three of them are waiting. Rydal Keener is waiting for something exciting to happen in his grubby l… read more

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10. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

By: Rachel Maddow

4.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful … read more

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"One big appeal of fascism, if nothing else, was its unapologetic embrace of cruelty. Cruelty towards others, coupled with hypersensitivity towards any slight to oneself."

-Rachel Maddow, Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

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11. Armored (Armored, #1)

By: Mark Greaney

4.37

Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition

A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney’s Audible Original drama, Ar… read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Chaos Agent (Gray Man #13)

By: Mark Greaney

4.48

Format: 556 pages, Kindle Edition

Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real danger for the Gray Man in this latest entry in th… read more

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  • fiction
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13. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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  • fiction
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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14. My Darkest Prayer

By: S.A. Cosby

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author S. A. Cosby’s debut novel My Darkest Prayer is rep… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
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15. The Longmire Defense (Walt Longmire, #19)

By: Craig Johnson

4.57

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelat… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Hell and Back (Walt Longmire, #18)

By: Craig Johnson

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A new novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series. Picking up where Daughter of… read more

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  • fiction
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17. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

By: Ed Yong

4.47

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more

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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"

-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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18. The Line That Held Us

By: David Joy

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From critically acclaimed author David Joy comes a remarkable novel about the cover-up of an accide… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
"What I'm saying is that it's easy to take the high road so long as there aren't any stakes. But the minute you've got something to lose, a man'll do all sorts of things."

-David Joy, The Line That Held Us

"You still can't see it and it's right in front of your eyes. It's the reason we're gathered here. The only reason we're here is because of the ones we loved. That the line that held us."

-David Joy, The Line That Held Us

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19. Amsterdam Noir

By: René Appel

3.43

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Amsterdam is a very welcome, if long overdue, installment in the Akashic Noir Series. Akashic Bo… read more

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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
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20. Every Cloak Rolled in Blood (Holland Family Saga, #4)

By: James Lee Burke

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In his most autobiographical novel to date, James Lee Burke continues the epic Holland family saga … read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
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21. After the Funeral and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A masterful collection of stories that plumb the depths of everyday life to reveal the shifting tid… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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22. The Family Chao

By: Lan Samantha Chang

3.35

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The residents of Haven, Wisconsin, have dined on the Fine Chao Restaurant’s delicious Americanized … read more

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  • fiction
"Our inner selves exist. They're unique, and they're meaningful and mysterious, even if they are secret sometimes even from ourselves."

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"After emotions are felt, expressed, where do they go? Is there a place where spent passion collects? Surely it can't simply vaporize, disappear like smoke. There must be a secret hiding place. For ev…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"In Alf's close-up, he's less than a year old, almost unrecognizably puppyish. He gazes directly at James, head slightly cocked, bat ears unfolded in typical, unceasing alertness. His small black nose…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

"The half-dozen temple dogs circle him and Alf in a delirium of barking, clicking paws, and waving tails. They're mixed breeds, smooth-haired, ears neither floppy nor exactly pointed, and a few with t…"

-Lan Samantha Chang, The Family Chao

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23. Don't Know Tough

By: Eli Cranor

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Friday Night Lights meets Southern Gothic, this thrilling debut is for readers of Megan Abbott and … read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
"He was drunk, and even NyQuil make a man brave if he drink enough of it."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

"The boys gather around their coach. They're breathing heavy, pupils big and black like drops of ink, a high they'll try and return to the rest of their lives."

-Eli Cranor, Don't Know Tough

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24. The Kingdoms of Savannah

By: George Dawes Green

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Another Kind of Eden (Holland Family Saga, #3)

By: James Lee Burke

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke brings readers a captivating tale of justice, lov… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Hermit (Detective Dana Russo, #1) by S.R. White

26. Hermit (Detective Dana Russo, #1)

By: S.R. White

3.69

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

After a puzzling death in the wild bushlands of Australia, detective Dana Russo has just hours to i… read more

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  • fiction
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27. French Exit

By: Patrick deWitt

3.55

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From bestselling author Patrick deWitt, a brilliant and darkly comic novel about a wealthy widow an… read more

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  • fiction
"Oh, to be youngish and in love-ish!"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"I've been neither lucky nor unlucky. I've been luckless - such a bore"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"She studied her son with a melancholic endearment. “Did you drink to the brink of sound reasoning?"

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

"She knew she was living improperly but hadn’t the strength to correct herself. She had twenty thousand euros left; she’d taken to flushing hundreds down the toilet each morning."

-Patrick deWitt, French Exit

Cover of The Sweet Goodbye (Danny Barrett, #1) by Ron Corbett

28. The Sweet Goodbye (Danny Barrett, #1)

By: Ron Corbett

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling new series from Edgar®-nominated author Ron Corbett, the most dangerous predator … read more

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  • fiction
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29. No One Is Coming to Save Us

By: Stephanie Powell Watts

3.02

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South: a powerful first novel about an exte… read more

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  • fiction
"Life is sad, but there's some good moments and you have to live for those. That's all we got. Sylvia couldn't remember the last time she waited for a good moment instead of holding on through the bad…"

-Stephanie Powell Watts, No One Is Coming to Save Us

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30. Baghdad Noir

By: Samuel Shimon

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One of the world’s most war-torn cities is portrayed through a noir lens in this chilling story col… read more

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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
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31. Alabama Noir

By: Don Noble

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Alabama joins Mississippi as fertile Deep South soil for the Noir Series. Akashic Books continue… read more

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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction

24 must-read fiction books like Alabama Noir by Don Noble

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Tenth of December

George Saunders

3.98

Atlanta Noir

Tayari Jones

3.64

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Silken Prey (Lucas Davenport, #23)

John Sandford

3.69

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Serena

Ron Rash

3.94

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You Like It Darker

Stephen King

4.32

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The Reformatory

Tananarive Due

4.47

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City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

Don Winslow

4.42

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S.A. Cosby

4.00

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