5 must-read novels books like The Transgressors (Mulholland Classic) by Jim Thompson

Cover of The Transgressors (Mulholland Classic) by Jim Thompson

The Transgressors (Mulholland Classic)

By: Jim Thompson

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Deputy sheriff Tom Lord knows by now that far-west Texas is the place he'll always call home. He's …

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Cover of Requiem for a Nun by William Faulkner

1. Requiem for a Nun

By: William Faulkner

3.54

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

This sequel to Faulkner's SANCTUARY written 20 years later, takes up the story of Temple Drake eigh… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

-William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

"Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence."

-William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

"Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is."

-William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

"The destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the plunge of its precipice, not that the State and the South knew it, because the first seconds of fa…"

-William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

Cover of The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1) by James Crumley

2. The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

By: James Crumley

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable detective story starring C.W. Sughrue, a Montana investigator who kills time by wo… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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3. The Drowning Pool

By: Ross Macdonald

3.58

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

When a millionaire matriarch is found floating face-down in the family pool, the prime suspects are… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. The Suicide Motor Club

By: Christopher Buehlman

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

"Rising horror star"* Christopher Buehlman, author of The Lesser Dead, returns with a chilling and … read more

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  • fiction
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5. Story of the Eye

By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson

3.66

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"

-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye

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6. Gulf Coast Girl

By: Charles Williams

3.50

Format: 0 pages,

Originally published in hardback as Scorpion Reef. An American tanker, finds a small, abandoned boa… read more

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  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
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7. A Dog's Ransom

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Long out of print, this Highsmith classic resurfaces with a vengeance. The great revival of interes… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
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8. The Moving Target

By: Ross Macdonald

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like many Southern California millionaires, Ralph Sampson keeps odd company. There's the sun-worshi… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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9. Gorky Park (Arkady Renko, #1)

By: Martin Cruz Smith

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fin… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • crime
  • fiction

10. Warlock (Legends West, #1)

By: Robert Stone , Oakley Hall

3.87

Format: 268 pages,

Oakley Hall's legendary Warlockrevisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to p… read more

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11. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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12. The Kings of Cool

By: Don Winslow

5.00

Format: 120 pages, ebook

In Savages, Don Winslow introduced Ben and Chon, twenty-something best friends who risk everything … read more

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13. Butcher's Crossing

By: John Williams , Michelle Latiolais

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

In his National Book Award-winning novel Augustus, John Williams uncovered the secrets of ancient R… read more

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14. 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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15. The Hot Spot

By: Charles Williams

4.57

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

A dark, brooding masterpiece of guilt, greed, and lust in a town ripe for felony. Madox wasn't all … read more

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16. The Way Some People Die

By: Ross Macdonald

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In a rundown house in Santa Monica, Mrs. Samuel Lawrence presses fifty crumpled bills into Lew Arch… read more

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17. The Ivory Grin

By: Ross Macdonald

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A hard-faced woman clad in a blue mink stole and dripping with diamonds hires Lew Archer to track d… read more

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18. Sanctuary

By: William Faulkner

4.32

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Psychologically astute and wonderfully poetic, Sanctuaryis a powerful novel examining the nature of… read more

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19. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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  • mystery
  • novels
  • fiction
"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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20. I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays

By: Tom Segura

4.01

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A #2 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a massively successful stand-up comedian and co-host of chart-… read more

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"I'm also, depending on who you ask, VERY funny or not at all"

-Tom Segura, I'd Like to Play Alone, Please: Essays

Cover of The Transgressors (Mulholland Classic) by Jim Thompson

21. The Transgressors (Mulholland Classic)

By: Jim Thompson

3.47

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Deputy sheriff Tom Lord knows by now that far-west Texas is the place he'll always call home. He's … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • pulp
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime

11 Top fiction books like The Transgressors (Mulholland Classic) by Jim Thompson

Transform Your Habits

Requiem for a Nun

William Faulkner

3.54

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The Last Good Kiss (C.W. Sughrue, #1)

James Crumley

3.74

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The Drowning Pool

Ross Macdonald

3.58

Transform Your Habits

The Suicide Motor Club

Christopher Buehlman

4.36

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12 best-selling fiction books like The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

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Homicide Trinity (Nero Wolfe, #36)

Rex Stout , Stephen Greenleaf

4.23

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Farewell, My Lovely (Philip Marlowe, #2)

Raymond Chandler

4.10

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The Long Goodbye (Philip Marlowe, #6)

Raymond Chandler

4.19

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Donald E. Westlake

3.56

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