5 best-selling thriller books like Illegal by Max Annas

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Illegal

By: Max Annas

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Ein Krimi, ein politisches Buch, ein Gesellschaftsroman. Kodjo lebt in Berlin, seit Jahren schon…

If you liked the thriller plot in Illegal by Max Annas , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By: Harriet Beecher Stowe

3.91

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

The narrative drive of Stowe's classic novel is often overlooked in the heat of the controversies s… read more

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"Liberty! -- Electric word!"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Some jokes are less agreeable than others"

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

"What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear."

-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin

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2. The Arabian Nights

By: Anonymous , Richard Francis Burton , A.S. Byatt

4.03

Format: 1049 pages, Mass Market Paperback

This volume reproduces the 1932 Modern Library edition, for which Bennett A. Cerf chose the most fa… read more

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"Experience shapes perception."

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

"It is amazing what women in love will do"

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

"If you need a hug, give it to someone else."

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

"Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!"

-Anonymous, The Arabian Nights

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3. The Reader

By: Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway

3.78

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing nov… read more

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"There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"I asked her about life, and it was as if she rummaged around in a dusty chest to get me the answers."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"But the finger I pointed at her turned back to me. I had loved her. Not only had I loved her, I had chosen her."

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

"The Odyssey is the story of motion both purposeful and purposeless, successful and futile. What else is the history of law?"

-Bernhard Schlink, The Reader

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4. Imperial Bedrooms

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.19

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Twenty-five years on from "Less Than Zero", we pick up again with "Clay". In 1985, Bret Easton … read more

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  • thriller
"Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The book was blunt and had an honesty about it, whereas the movie was just a beautiful lie."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"The real Julian Wells didn't die in a cherry-red convertible, overdosing on a highway in Joshua Tree while a choir soared over the sound track."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

"Her need is so immense that you become surrounded by it; this need is so enormous that you realize you can actually control it, and I know this because I've done it before."

-Bret Easton Ellis, Imperial Bedrooms

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5. Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)

By: Cornelia Funke , Anthea Bell

3.92

Format: 563 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition: 9780439709101 From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke… read more

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"All writers are insane!"

-Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)

"Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name."

-Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)

"As Mo had said: writing stories is a kind of magic, too."

-Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)

"Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them."

-Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (Inkworld, #1)

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6. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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7. The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By: Eric Carle

4.33

Format: 26 pages, Board book

THE all-time classic story, from generation to generation, sold somewhere in the world every 30 sec… read more

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"On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcak…"

-Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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8. Purple Hibiscus

By: None

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more

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9. A Cool Breeze on the Underground (Neal Carey, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.00

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Neal Carey is not your usual private eye. A graduate student at Columbia University, he grew up on … read more

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  • thriller
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10. Tschick

By: Wolfgang Herrndorf

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Hardcover

Mutter in der Entzugsklinik, Vater mit Assistentin auf Geschaftsreise: Maik Klingenberg wird die gr… read more

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  • german literature
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11. La Tresse

By: Laetitia Colombani

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Smita, Julia, Sarah. Trois femmes, trois vies, trois continents. Trois chemins que rien ne destine … read more

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12. Frost Hollow Hall

By: Emma Carroll

4.06

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

'The gates to Frost Hollow Hall loomed before us. They were great tall things, the ironwork all twi… read more

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13. Der Besuch der alten Dame

By: Friedrich Dürrenmatt

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

>>Claire Zachanassian, eine amerikanische Multimillionarin, kehrt in ihr Heimatdorf Gullen zuruck, … read more

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  • german literature
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14. Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

By: None

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministscomes a powerful new state… read more

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15. Der Struwwelpeter

By: Heinrich Hoffmann

4.32

Format: 318 pages,

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16. Woyzeck

By: Georg Büchner

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kaum ein bedeutendes Werk der deutschen Literatur ist in seiner Textfassung so problematisch wie Bu… read more

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17. القرآن الكريم

By: Anonymous

4.38

Format: 604 pages, Hardcover

The Quran (English pronunciation: /kɔrˈɑːn/; Arabic: القرآن‎ al-qurʾān, IPA: [qurˈʔaːn], literally … read more

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"We are nearer to him than his jugular vein."

-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"

-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

"The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer."

-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

"There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah."

-Anonymous, القرآن الكريم

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18. Thirteen Reasons Why

By: Jay Asher

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is … read more

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"I’m sorry."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"Everything...affects everything"

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"A lot of you cared, just not enough."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

"I can't. You can't rewrite the past."

-Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why

19. Das Paket

By: Sebastian Fitzek

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Seit die junge Psychiaterin Emma Stein in einem Hotelzimmer vergewaltigt wurde, verlasst sie das Ha… read more

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20. Flugangst 7A

By: Sebastian Fitzek

2.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Es gibt eine todliche Waffe, die jeder Mensch problemlos in ein Flugzeug bringen kann. Und keine Ko… read more

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21. ‎22 Bahnen

By: Caroline Wahl

4.36

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Tildas Tage sind strikt durchgetaktet: studieren, an der Supermarktkasse sitzen, sich um ihre klein… read more

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  • german literature
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22. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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23. Kabale und Liebe

By: Friedrich Schiller

3.06

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

ISBNs moved from this edition Das 1784 erschienene und uraufgeführte Drama 'Kabale und Liebe' (ur… read more

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  • german literature
"Bei uns wird nur selten eine Mariage geschlossen, wo nicht wenigstens ein halb Dutzend der Gäste - oder der Aufwärter- das Paradies des Bräutigams geometrisch ermessen kann."

-Friedrich Schiller, Kabale und Liebe

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24. Der Insasse

By: Sebastian Fitzek

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ein vermisstes Kind - ein verzweifelter Vater - ein Höllentrip ins Innere der Psychiatrie ​Zwei … read more

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  • german literature
  • thriller
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25. Cinderella Is Dead

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.68

Format: 400 pages, ebook

It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now re… read more

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"Do not be silent. Raise your voice. Be a light in the dark."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"People wear masks so that they can fit in and stay safe. Can you blame them?"

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"it feel like another part of me is being changed to fit someone else's vision of what is pretty."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

"I'm lost in the tide of her breathing, the sweet smell of her skin, the push and pull of our bodies against each other..."

-Kalynn Bayron, Cinderella Is Dead

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26. Mimik

By: Sebastian Fitzek

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Ein winziges Zucken im Mundwinkel, die kleinste Veränderung in der Pupille reichen ihr, um das wahr… read more

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  • thriller
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27. Very Bad Kings (Kingston University, #1)

By: J.S. Wonda

3.59

Format: 495 pages, Kindle Edition

Wir sind fünf Könige und teilen alles. Die Herrschaft über diesen Campus, unsere tödlichen Geheimni… read more

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  • german literature
"Hast du Lust, ein Spiel zu spielen? Ich bin der König und du darfst meine Dame sein. Aber Vorsicht, es wird nur einen geben, der deine Züge bestimmt. Wir werden sehen, wer das sein wird. Auf jeden Fa…"

-J.S. Wonda, Very Bad Kings (Kingston University, #1)

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28. Very Bad Choice (Kingston University, #4)

By: J.S. Wonda

3.91

Format: 294 pages, ebook

Vier Könige sind drei zu viel. Niemand von uns will dich wirklich für sich, aber wir wollen wissen,… read more

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  • german literature
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29. Very Bad Liars (Kingston University, #3)

By: J.S. Wonda

3.88

Format: 280 pages, ebook

Es wäre kein Spiel, wenn wir dir einfach sagen, dass du dich nicht zwischen uns entscheiden musst. … read more

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30. Illegal

By: Max Annas

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Ein Krimi, ein politisches Buch, ein Gesellschaftsroman. Kodjo lebt in Berlin, seit Jahren schon… read more

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  • thriller

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Transform Your Habits

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink , Carol Brown Janeway

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Tschick

Wolfgang Herrndorf

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

3.75

Transform Your Habits

‎22 Bahnen

Caroline Wahl

4.36

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Die Physiker

Friedrich Dürrenmatt

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Wilhelm Tell

Friedrich Schiller

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

Benedict Wells

4.38

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Wolfgang Herrndorf

3.50

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