18 Best fiction books like The 12th Commandment by Daniel Torday

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The 12th Commandment

By: Daniel Torday

3.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be acce…

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1. Broken Monsters

By: Lauren Beukes

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies, but this one is unique even by Detroit's stan… read more

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2. The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill

By: Brad Meltzer

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the authors of The First Conspiracy and The Lincoln Conspiracy comes the little-known true sto… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • jewish
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"

-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

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4. A Spell of Good Things

By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"

-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things

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5. The Museum of Failures

By: Thrity Umrigar

4.13

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

An immersive story about family secrets and the power of forgiveness from the bestselling author of… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Because, ultimately everybody's story was written in scars."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"He had often thought of Bombay as the museum of failures, an exhibit hall filled with thwarted dreams and broken promises."

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

"Of course, there were unhappy people everywhere on earth, and if you catalogued all their griefs and disappointments, every place could be considered a museum of failures. One could argue that this w…"

-Thrity Umrigar, The Museum of Failures

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6. The Militia House

By: John Milas

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Stephen King meets Tim O’Brien in John Milas’s The Militia House, a spine-tingling and boldly origi… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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8. Take What You Need

By: Idra Novey

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In her most powerful book yet, award-winning writer Idra Novey has conjured a novel of "astonishing… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Boy with the Star Tattoo

By: Talia Carner

4.15

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author of The Third Daughter comes an epic historical novel of ingenuity and courage… read more

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  • fiction
  • jewish
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10. Kantika

By: Elizabeth Graver

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Graver's Kantika book and Daniel Torday's The 12th Commandment

  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • religion
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"

-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika

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11. Uncomfortable Conversations with a Jew

By: Emmanuel Acho

4.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From two New York Times bestselling authors, a timely, disarmingly honest, and thought-provoking in… read more

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  • audiobook
  • judaism
  • religion
  • jewish
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12. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Sleeping Giants

By: Rene Denfeld

4.03

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Child Finder and The Enchanted, a compelling and poignant story … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Goyhood

By: Reuven Fenton

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Funny, poignant, and revelatory while plumbing the emotional depths of the relationship between est… read more

Similar categories in Reuven Fenton's Goyhood book and Daniel Torday's The 12th Commandment

  • judaism
  • fiction
  • jewish
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15. Lay Your Body Down

By: Amy Suiter Clarke

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young woman returns to her rural Minnesota hometown, where a radical evangelical pastor has poiso… read more

Similar categories in Amy Suiter Clarke's Lay Your Body Down book and Daniel Torday's The 12th Commandment

  • cults
  • religion
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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16. Hotel Cuba

By: Aaron Hamburger

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Fleeing the chaos of World War I and the terror of the Soviet Revolution, practical, sensible Pearl… read more

Similar categories in Aaron Hamburger's Hotel Cuba book and Daniel Torday's The 12th Commandment

  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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17. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Hits and Misses: Stories

By: Simon Rich

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious collection inspired by a former Saturday Night Live writer's real experiences in Hollyw… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The 12th Commandment

By: Daniel Torday

3.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Swirling with secrets and their consequences, exploring how revelation and redemption might be acce… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Torday's The 12th Commandment book and Daniel Torday's The 12th Commandment

  • literary fiction
  • jewish
  • judaism
  • cults
  • religion
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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20. The Entire Sky

By: Joe Wilkins

4.61

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Demon Copperhead and Plainsong, a poignant story about a troubled boy on the run, an… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Singer Sisters

By: Sarah Marian Seltzer

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It's 1996, and alt-rocker Emma Cantor is on tour, with her sights trained on a record deal. Emma's … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Remember, Rose, a wild journey is what men have the freedom to do,' she said. 'Women must find salvation in laundry loads."

-Sarah Marian Seltzer, The Singer Sisters

"Would either Mary or Judie pick up on the quality she'd loved in Barry, too--in any man who possessed it: the steady eyes, the follw-up questions, the interest in seeing her eat? She couldn't quite e…"

-Sarah Marian Seltzer, The Singer Sisters

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Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀

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3.98

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4.37

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