5 best-selling crime books like Don't Send Flowers by Martín Solares

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Don't Send Flowers

By: Martín Solares

3.59

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot Diaz as "Latin American fiction at its pulpy pha…

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1. Suttree

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.20

Format: 471 pages, Paperback

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more

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  • fiction
"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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2. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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3. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

By: Eddie Izzard

3.86

Format: 15 pages, Audio CD

Critically acclaimed, award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details her childhood, … read more

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"But stinging nettles: They just love existing, don't they? They're bastards. Stinging nettles are the Nazis of the weed world."

-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

"It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized you could buy a packet of cereal with a free gift and then just stick your hand in and root around in the packet until you found the free thing. It seem…"

-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

"If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight’s quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, “I exist. I have no reas…"

-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

"And there is a rule in every major religion, called the Golden Rule. Essentially: treat other people the way you’d like to be treated yourself. If we all did this, the whole world would work instanta…"

-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

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4. The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

By: Marco Pierre White , James Steen

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What do Mario Batali and Gordon Ramsay have in common? They survived tours of duty in the kitchen … read more

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"If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you."

-Marco Pierre White, The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness and the Making of a Great Chef

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5. Underworld

By: Don DeLillo

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Known World

By: Edward P. Jones

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

One of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, The Known Worldis a daring and ambitious work by… read more

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  • fiction

7. The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)

By: Helene Wecker

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling jo… read more

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8. The Dog Stars

By: Peter Heller

3.67

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his frie… read more

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9. Savages

By: Don Winslow

3.57

Format: 256 pages,

Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beac… read more

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10. What to Say Next

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Two struggling teenagers find an unexpected connection just when they need it most. Sometimes a new… read more

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11. The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life

By: Lauren Markham

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The deeply reported story of identical twin brothers who escape El Salvador's violence to build new… read more

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12. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

By: Katherine Anne Porter

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

First published in 1939, these three short novels secured the author's reputation as a master of sh… read more

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13. In a Lonely Place

By: Paula Rabinowitz , Dorothy B. Hughes

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Postwar Los Angeles is a lonely place where the American Dream is showing its seamy underside--and … read more

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14. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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15. Boulder

By: Eva Baltasar

3.89

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

La protagonista d'aquesta novel·la és una dona atreta per la solitud com per un imant. Es guanya la… read more

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  • fiction
"Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adultos."

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"Y sin embargo he descubierto que no se puede columpiar a un hijo sin sonreír. Lo he intentado y es imposible. Los niños pequeños tienen ese poder, imponen su alegría al malestar ordinario de los adul…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"I listen with all five senses, I listen to her with my entire body, with everything but my heart, which feels like it wants to thrash the hell out of me. This wasn't part of our plan. The truth is we…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

"But all this tunneling has opened rifts through which the captive parts of me have started to emerge. I realize that I am smoke, that the things that define me rise as they would up a chimney, probin…"

-Eva Baltasar, Boulder

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16. Rough Sleepers

By: Tracy Kidder

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Rough Sleepers, Tracy Kidder shows how one person can make a difference, as he tells the story o… read more

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17. If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more

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  • fiction
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

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18. Hurricane Season

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.06

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season

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19. Venomous Lumpsucker

By: Ned Beauman

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A dark and witty story of environmental collapse and runaway capitalism from the Booker-listed auth… read more

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  • fiction
"I can’t believe this!"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

"It didn’t feel—at least in this moment—as if she’d lost them. It felt—and perhaps this was a self-protective reflex, her body refusing to take another blow— as if they’d never really been down there …"

-Ned Beauman, Venomous Lumpsucker

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20. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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21. El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

By: Irene Vallejo

4.26

Format: 452 pages, Paperback

Este es un libro sobre la historia de los libros. Un recorrido por la vida de ese fascinante artefa… read more

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"Los libros nos convierten en herederos de todos los relatos: los mejores, los peores, los ambiguos, los problemáticos, los de doble filo. Disponer de todos ellos es bueno para pensar, y permite elegi…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"Ler é um ritual que implica gestos, posições, objetos, espaços, materiais, movimentos, modulações de luz. Para imaginarmos como liam os nossos antepassados, precisamos de conhecer, em cada época, ess…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

"desde os primeiros séculos da escrita até à idade Média, a norma era ler em voz alta, para si próprio ou para os outros, e os escritores pronunciavam as frases à medida que as escreviam ouvindo assim…"

-Irene Vallejo, El infinito en un junco: La invención de los libros en el mundo antiguo

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22. The Wolf and the Watchman: 1793

By: Niklas Natt och Dag

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Best Debut, The Swedish Academy of Crime Writers' Award 2017 The year is 1793, Stockholm. King G… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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23. Chasing the Boogeyman

By: Richard Chizmar

3.95

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Gwendy’s Button Box brings his signature prose to this s… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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24. Las herederas de la Singer

By: Ana Lena Rivera

4.28

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Las herederas de la Singer cuenta la conmovedora historia de las mujeres de una familia ligadas a u… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

25. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

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26. Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional

By: Isaac Fitzgerald

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Isaac Fitzgerald has lived many lives. He's been an altar boy, a bartender, a fat kid, a smuggler, … read more

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27. Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

By: Jonathan Blitzer

4.49

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

An epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported history of the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the so… read more

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28. Lucky Red

By: Claudia Cravens

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The heart wants what it wants. Saddle up, ride out, and claim it. A vibrant and cinematic debut… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

29. The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

By: Isaac Butler

4.26

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner, Nonfiction NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE N… read more

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Cover of Don't Send Flowers by Martín Solares

30. Don't Send Flowers

By: Martín Solares

3.59

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

From a writer whose work has been praised by Junot Diaz as "Latin American fiction at its pulpy pha… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • international

14 Best fiction books like Don't Send Flowers by Martín Solares

Transform Your Habits

Suttree

Cormac McCarthy

4.20

Transform Your Habits

The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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Underworld

Don DeLillo

4.81

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The Known World

Edward P. Jones

4.33

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20 Best audiobook books like The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

Transform Your Habits

The Actor's Art and Craft: William Esper Teaches the Meisner Technique

William Esper , Damon DiMarco

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Sanford Meisner on Acting

Sanford Meisner , Dennis Longwell , Sydney Pollack

4.20

Transform Your Habits

My Reading Life

Pat Conroy

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

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