9 Top mystery books like Theo: A Novella by Paul Torday

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Theo: A Novella

By: Paul Torday

3.57

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a haunting novella that introduced one …

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1. Ms Ice Sandwich

By: Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai

3.78

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

A quixotic and funny tale about first love – from the Akutagawa Prize-winning author. Ms Ice San… read more

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  • fiction
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2. Rosemary's Baby

By: Ira Levin

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Ring (Ring, #1) by Kōji Suzuki, Glynne Walley, Robert B. Rohmer

3. Ring (Ring, #1)

By: Kōji Suzuki , Glynne Walley , Robert B. Rohmer

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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4. The Hunger

By: Alma Katsu

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The Hunger is a tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical mome… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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5. Antarctica

By: Claire Keegan

3.86

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Published to great critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, the iridescent stories in Claire… read more

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  • fiction
"That's the way it is in our house, everybody knowing things but pretending they don't."

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"I run the house now. The last man who said I was old enough got scalded. My mother always said there was nothing as bad as a burn. And she was right. It's turning out that I'm taking no nonsense from…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

"Whatever you say, I'll manage. I will live out of a water barrel and check the skies. I will learn fifteen types of wind and know the weight of tomorrow's rain by the rustle in the sycamores. Make ne…"

-Claire Keegan, Antarctica

6. The Miniaturist

By: Jessie Burton

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam--a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion--a … read more

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7. Please Look After Mom

By: Shin Kyung-Sook , Chi-Young Kim , None

4.62

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

An international sensation and a bestseller that has sold over 1.5 million copies in the author's n… read more

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8. Jews Don't Count

By: David Baddiel

4.21

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Jews Don’t Count is a book for people on the right side of history. People fighting the good fight … read more

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9. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

By: A.M. Shine

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."

-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)

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10. Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

By: Marina Dyachenko

4.02

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

The definitive English language translation of the internationally bestselling Ukrainian novel—a br… read more

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  • fiction
"Think of what you told me,"

-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

"All girls are mad. Each in her own way."

-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

"Silence . . . Silence is what, Samokhina?"

-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

"This institution of higher education had no such concept as mercy."

-Marina Dyachenko, Vita Nostra (Vita Nostra, #1)

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11. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Lamplighters

By: Emma Stonex

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappeara… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"Helen thinks I haven't noticed that she's stopped wearing it. But I notice everything about her, all that's changed when I go ashore."

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

"It felt like the more I read, the more free I was in my mind, and if you’re free in your mind, then it doesn’t matter what else is going on."

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

"Time gives you a bit of distance where you can look back on whatever's happened to you and not feel all the feelings you once had; those feeling have calmed down and they're not at the forefront of y…"

-Emma Stonex, The Lamplighters

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13. Children of Paradise

By: Camilla Grudova

3.49

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

When Holly applies for a job at the Paradise - one of the city's oldest cinemas, squashed into the … read more

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  • fiction
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14. Life Ceremony

By: Sayaka Murata

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stori… read more

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  • fiction
"Nowadays, your partner is not necessarily a sex object - this is a wonderful advancement."

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"I'm seeking an amicable daily routine with someone I get along well with, like brother and sister, without being a slave to sex"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"Walking like this, feeling like a feral human, even machines and buildings were warm to the touch, and some emitted sounds and vibrations. Their presence was similar to the sounds emitted by life-for…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

"If they tried it, the memories of the wild rooted in their flesh would come back to them, and they would discover that eating the city like this would connect the earth between the gaps in the concre…"

-Sayaka Murata, Life Ceremony

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15. The Drift

By: C.J. Tudor

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly grippin… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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16. House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

By: Alan Bennett

3.81

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution aga… read more

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17. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

By: Alan Rickman

3.58

Format: 469 pages, Hardcover

Madly Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved … read more

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"The trouble with death is that there is no next."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??"

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"The walls we are surrounded by, the objects we fill the spaces with, the lives they all describe."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

"Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter."

-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman

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18. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

By: Mariana Enríquez

3.81

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more

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  • fiction
"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"

-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed

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19. Reprieve

By: James Han Mattson

3.40

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Before and After (Before and After, #1) by Andrew Shanahan

20. Before and After (Before and After, #1)

By: Andrew Shanahan

4.03

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

THE BEST-SELLING SCI-FI THRILLER THAT BLENDS HEALTHY LIVING AND LOTS OF DYING Ben Stone is terri… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1) by Femi  Kayode

21. Lightseekers (Philip Taiwo, #1)

By: Femi Kayode

3.73

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the mur… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Theo: A Novella by Paul Torday

22. Theo: A Novella

By: Paul Torday

3.57

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, a haunting novella that introduced one … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction

17 must-read fiction books like Theo: A Novella by Paul Torday

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Ms Ice Sandwich

Mieko Kawakami , Louise Heal Kawai

3.78

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Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin

3.56

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Ring (Ring, #1)

Kōji Suzuki , Glynne Walley , Robert B. Rohmer

3.75

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The Hunger

Alma Katsu

0.00

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21 Best fiction books like The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez

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Fever Dream

Samanta Schweblin , Megan McDowell , Ruth Sepp

3.72

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Bad Girls

Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

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Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica

3.79

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