11 must-read thriller books like Lesson in Red by Maria Hummel

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Lesson in Red

By: Maria Hummel

3.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A companion to Still Lives—a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection—this savvy thriller expos…

If you liked the thriller plot in Lesson in Red by Maria Hummel , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Small Admissions by Amy Poeppel

1. Small Admissions

By: Amy Poeppel

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

People's Book of the Week "The Devil Wears Pradameets Primates of Park Avenue." --The New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Amy Poeppel's Small Admissions book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • adult
  • fiction
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2. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

By: Balli Kaur Jaswal

4.25

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

A lively, sexy, and thought-provoking East-meets-West story about community, friendship, and women'… read more

Similar categories in Balli Kaur Jaswal's Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (Miss Julia, #1) by Ann B. Ross

3. Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (Miss Julia, #1)

By: Ann B. Ross

4.22

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Miss Julia, a recently bereaved and newly wealthy widow, is only slightly bemused when one Hazel Ma… read more

Similar categories in Ann B. Ross's Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (Miss Julia, #1) book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery
  • fiction

4. You Think It, I'll Say It: Stories

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

4.25

Format: 194 pages, ebook

'Most people I know who have read anything by Curtis Sittenfeld would read anything else the woman … read more

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5. Ordinary Beast

By: Nicole Sealey

4.36

Format: 39 pages, ebook

ONE OF PUBLISHERS WEEKLY'S TOP 10 POETRY BOOKS OF FALL 2017 NPR'S MOST ANTICIPATED POETRY BOOKS OF … read more

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6. The Golden Gate

By: Amy Chua

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In Berkeley, California, in 1944, Homicide Detective Al Sullivan has just left the swanky Claremont… read more

Similar categories in Amy Chua's The Golden Gate book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Within Arm's Reach book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges

8. The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone

By: Audrey Burges

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A woman learns to expand the boundaries of her small world and let love inside it in this sparkling… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Burges's The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

Similar categories in Alan Murrin's The Coast Road book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (The Perez Family #4)

By: Chanel Cleeton

3.95

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

At the end of the nineteenth century, three revolutionary women fight for freedom in New York Times… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Cleeton's The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (The Perez Family #4) book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"... when you control the media and regulate speech in a country you can shape reality however you see fit."

-Chanel Cleeton, The Most Beautiful Girl in Cuba (The Perez Family #4)

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11. The Other Woman

By: Sandie Jones

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously disturbing, compulsively readable debut domestic suspense—prepare to meet The Other W… read more

Similar categories in Sandie Jones's The Other Woman book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Confidence (Anna and Fin, #2)

By: Denise Mina

3.19

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. A brand new escapist thriller from the award-… read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Confidence (Anna and Fin, #2) book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Train to Key West (The Perez Family #3) by Chanel Cleeton

13. The Last Train to Key West (The Perez Family #3)

By: Chanel Cleeton

4.10

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Cleeton's The Last Train to Key West (The Perez Family #3) book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. On the Rooftop

By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides wit… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's On the Rooftop book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2) by Chanel Cleeton

15. When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2)

By: Chanel Cleeton

4.01

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez--her family, her people, her … read more

Similar categories in Chanel Cleeton's When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2) book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The thing about people telling you you're beautiful your whole life, is the more that you hear it, the more meaningless it becomes. What does beautiful even mean, anyway? That your features are arran…"

-Chanel Cleeton, When We Left Cuba (The Perez Family, #2)

Cover of Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

16. Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xóchitl González

3.82

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • art
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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17. The Cactus

By: Sarah Haywood

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable love story that shows sometimes you have to embrace the unexpected. Susan Green… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Haywood's The Cactus book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But, these days, fairy-tale endings come in all shapes and sizes. It’s okay for the princess to end up with the prince, it’s okay for her to end up with the footman, it’s okay for her to end up on he…"

-Sarah Haywood, The Cactus

Cover of Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1) by Denise Mina

18. Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

By: Denise Mina

3.53

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

It’s just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend … read more

Similar categories in Denise Mina's Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1) book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Sorg är ett ärr. Vävnaden blir hård och när såret går upp igen läker det dåligt."

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"Just when you think something can’t get any worse someone who dislikes you comes to watch."

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"This is who I was for my children. I told them to go. I told them to leave me. I said their dad had gone a wee bit mad but he had decided to do this and there was no going back. Jess shrank in her ch…"

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

"The disposable girl should develop a drink problem or take drugs. She should become the victim of someone else, somewhere else. At best she becomes a campaigner against whatever she was a victim of. …"

-Denise Mina, Conviction (Anna and Fin, #1)

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19. The Unwedding

By: Ally Condie

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Ally Condie's The Unwedding book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."

-Ally Condie, The Unwedding

Cover of Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham

20. Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After

By: Heather Harpham

4.14

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fat… read more

Similar categories in Heather Harpham's Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. Something in the Water

By: Catherine Steadman

3.56

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

If you could make one simple choice that would change your life forever, would you? Erin is a do… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Steadman's Something in the Water book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We all lose the things we love the most."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"Sometimes you're the lamp post, and sometimes you're the dog."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"How quickly what is good can become not good enough through comparison. Maybe best never to see it."

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

"But one thought does break through. It has the echo of something familiar. The thought is: I don’t need to come back to this elevator at all, do I? I don’t need to ever come back to this hotel. I cou…"

-Catherine Steadman, Something in the Water

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24. Society of Lies

By: Lauren Ling Brown

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a young woman is found dead on her college campus, her sister doesn't believe it was an accide… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Ling Brown's Society of Lies book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
"That’s the thing about love, isn’t it? When you find someone who sees you in a way no one else does, who understands you and makes you feel like you can’t be whole without them, it wraps you in a vis…"

-Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

"I would remember her hair first: frozen solid and dark red with blood, matted with twigs and dirt. A bloody gash split her head, and yet her expression was calm and serene, as if she were asleep, her…"

-Lauren Ling Brown, Society of Lies

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25. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

26. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson

27. Bright and Tender Dark

By: Joanna Pearson

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Notes on an Execution and I Have Some Questions for You, an enthralling, wire-t… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Pearson's Bright and Tender Dark book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within by Cory Richards

28. The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

By: Cory Richards

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A renowned climber and National Geographic photographer shares his incredible adventures—and the ea… read more

Similar categories in Cory Richards's The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • audiobook
"Madness lives in me."

-Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

"Blame is useless amidst madness."

-Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

"In the bible, everyone comes from a fucked up family."

-Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

"Only the summit can illuminate its own insignificance."

-Cory Richards, The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within

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29. The Unraveling

By: Benjamin Rosenbaum

3.95

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In the distant future somewhere in the galaxy, a society has emerged where everyone has multiple bo… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Rosenbaum's The Unraveling book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Lesson in Red by Maria Hummel

30. Lesson in Red

By: Maria Hummel

3.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A companion to Still Lives—a Reese's Book Club x Hello Sunshine selection—this savvy thriller expos… read more

Similar categories in Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • art
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wilds (Detective Elin Warner, #3) by Sarah  Pearse

31. The Wilds (Detective Elin Warner, #3)

By: Sarah Pearse

3.81

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A perpetual drifter, Kier Templer lives her life on the road. Dubbed “the monster’s daughter” after… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pearse's The Wilds (Detective Elin Warner, #3) book and Maria Hummel's Lesson in Red

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

27 must-read fiction books like Lesson in Red by Maria Hummel

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Small Admissions

Amy Poeppel

4.83

Transform Your Habits

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Balli Kaur Jaswal

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind (Miss Julia, #1)

Ann B. Ross

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Golden Gate

Amy Chua

3.88

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16 must-read adult books like Happiness: The Crooked Little Road to Semi-Ever After by Heather Harpham

Transform Your Habits

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Brené Brown

4.13

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Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family #1)

Chanel Cleeton

3.93

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Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Balli Kaur Jaswal

4.25

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The Night Tiger

Yangsze Choo

3.86

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