13 must-read thriller books like Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten

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Three Burials

By: Anders Lustgarten

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying wild-ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Meet Cherry, a bandit q…

If you liked the thriller plot in Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1) by Garry Disher

1. Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

By: Garry Disher

4.04

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A modern western set in an isolated Australian bush town with a soaring crime rate, where a local c… read more

Similar categories in Garry Disher's Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1) book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The only good thing to come out of it was a kind of wisdom in Hirsch. He’d grown to understand that police officers can drift over time, and it isn’t always or entirely conscious but a loss of perspe…"

-Garry Disher, Hell to Pay (Hirsch, #1)

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2. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

3. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of You Are Here by David Nicholls

4. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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5. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

By: Cat Bohannon

4.32

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more

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6. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Cover of Brotherless Night by V.V. Ganeshananthan

7. Brotherless Night

By: V.V. Ganeshananthan

4.46

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more

Similar categories in V.V. Ganeshananthan's Brotherless Night book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • fiction
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8. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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10. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • fiction
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11. Hunted

By: Abir Mukherjee

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A breakout thriller from an “enthralling” and award-winning writer: can two parents find their lost… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
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12. Orbital

By: Samantha Harvey

3.73

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

A slender novel of epic power, Orbital  deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more

Similar categories in Samantha Harvey's Orbital book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."

-Samantha Harvey, Orbital

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13. Your Utopia

By: Bora Chung

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

By the internationally acclaimed author of Cursed Bunny, in another thrilling translation from the … read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

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  • fiction
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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16. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • fiction
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17. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Wild Swimmers (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #5) by William  Shaw

18. The Wild Swimmers (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #5)

By: William Shaw

4.30

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

If only Alexandra Cupidi had turned south instead of north, she would have found the dead woman. … read more

Similar categories in William Shaw's The Wild Swimmers (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #5) book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • thriller
  • fiction
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19. The Four

By: Ellie Keel

3.40

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

"I don’t regret what we did. And I would do it all again." Each of the four had, for their own r… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

20. Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6)

By: Kate Atkinson

4.09

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The stage is set. Marooned overnight by a snowstorm in a grand country house are a cast of characte… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Til Death Do Us Bard by Rose  Black

21. Til Death Do Us Bard

By: Rose Black

3.55

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Marriage isn't always sunshine and unicorns... sometimes it's monsters and necromancy. It's been… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom by Jason Pargin

22. I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom

By: Jason Pargin

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A standalone darkly humorous thriller set in modern America's age of anxiety, by New York Times bes… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Good Place to Hide a Body by Laura  Marshall

23. A Good Place to Hide a Body

By: Laura Marshall

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'Can you come round?' Dad says tremulously. 'Of course. Are you OK? Is it Mum?' 'No!' He almost s… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Shy Creatures by Clare Chambers

24. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Three Burials by Anders Lustgarten

25. Three Burials

By: Anders Lustgarten

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying wild-ride of a debut novel from award-winning playwright Meet Cherry, a bandit q… read more

Similar categories in Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Blue Hour

By: Paula Hawkins

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2) by Fiona Barton

27. Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2)

By: Fiona Barton

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who in… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Ind i en stjerne by Puk Qvortrup

28. Ind i en stjerne

By: Puk Qvortrup

4.26

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

Romanens gravide jegfortæller står i køkkenet i sin lejlighed i Århus. Hendes mand er ude at løbe e… read more

Similar categories in Puk Qvortrup's Ind i en stjerne book and Anders Lustgarten's Three Burials

  • contemporary
Cover of Gabriel's Moon by William  Boyd

29. Gabriel's Moon

By: William Boyd

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Juice by Tim Winton

30. Juice

By: Tim Winton

4.15

Format: 524 pages, Kindle Edition

An epic novel of determination, survival, and the limits of the human spirit. This is Tim Winton as… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25) by Ian Rankin

31. Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25)

By: Ian Rankin

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now,… read more

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  • fiction

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