6 Best mystery books like Evening by Nessa Rapoport

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Evening

By: Nessa Rapoport

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters, lost youth, and youthful obsessions; organized by day as the family sits shiva, Evenin…

"Do all people have one story that haunts them throughout their lives?"

-Nessa Rapoport, Evening

If you liked the mystery plot in Evening by Nessa Rapoport , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Vanessa and Her Sister

By: Priya Parmar

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of The Paris Wifeand Loving Frankcomes a captivating novel that offers an intimate glimpse… read more

Similar categories in Priya Parmar's Vanessa and Her Sister book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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2. Every Last One

By: Anna Quindlen

4.19

Format: 416 pages,

The latest novel from Pulitzer Prize-winner Anna Quindlen In this breathtaking and beautiful novel,… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's Every Last One book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. The Summer House

By: None

3.71

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

When Flossy Merrill summons her children to the beloved family beach house to celebrate their fathe… read more

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4. The English Teacher

By: Lily King

3.62

Format: 186 pages,

"Fifteen years ago Vida Avery arrived from Texas alone and pregnant at Fayer Academy. She has since… read more

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5. The Winter Soldier

By: Daniel Mason

3.99

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Euro… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins

6. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

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7. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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8. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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9. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. In the Time of Our History

By: Susanne Pari

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Inspired by her own Iranian-American heritage, the acclaimed author weaves a beautifully crafted st… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Sisters

By: Daisy Johnson

3.48

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

A New York Times Notable Book (2020) from a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: … read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If brains are houses with many rooms then I live in the basement."

-Daisy Johnson, Sisters

"Grief is a house with no windows or doors and no way of telling the time."

-Daisy Johnson, Sisters

"She has always known that houses are bodies and that her body is a house in more ways than most."

-Daisy Johnson, Sisters

"Settembre è la persona che avrei sempre voluto essere. Io sono una forma ritagliata dall'universo, trapunta di stelle che continuano a morire - e lei è la creatura che riempie il vuoto che io lascio …"

-Daisy Johnson, Sisters

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12. Adèle

By: Leïla Slimani

3.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beau… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"People who are never satisfied destroy everything around them."

-Leïla Slimani, Adèle

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13. Sorry for the Inconvenience: A Memoir

By: Farah Naz Rishi

4.23

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pakistani American author comes a bracing memoir about tradition, upending expectations, and… read more

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14. My Sweet Girl

By: Amanda Jayatissa

3.67

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Jayatissa's My Sweet Girl book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Divorcées

By: Rowan Beaird

3.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more

Similar categories in Rowan Beaird's The Divorcées book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Promise Me

By: Jill Mansell

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty, heartwarming story of love, life and second chances set in the idyllic Cotswolds, from the… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I’m going to do better than that.’ An adrenalin rush of determination accompanied her words. ‘I’m going to find out why he is the way he is, and make his life better."

-Jill Mansell, Promise Me

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17. A Castle in Brooklyn

By: Shirley Russak Wachtel

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendsh… read more

Similar categories in Shirley Russak Wachtel's A Castle in Brooklyn book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

18. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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19. All This Could Be Yours

By: Jami Attenberg

3.36

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

“If I know why he is the way he is then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's All This Could Be Yours book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Something Wild

By: Hanna Halperin

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about the love and contradictions of sisterhood, the intoxicating desires of adoles… read more

Similar categories in Hanna Halperin's Something Wild book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"When Tanya thinks about the kind of mother she wants to be, she knows she wants to be different from her own. She wants to be the kind of parent who never lets her child see any of her own sadness or…"

-Hanna Halperin, Something Wild

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21. The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights

By: Kitty Zeldis

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mesmerizing historical novel about three women in 1920s New York City and the secrets they hold. … read more

Similar categories in Kitty Zeldis's The Dressmakers of Prospect Heights book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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22. The Marriage Box

By: Corie Adjmi

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Casey Cohen, a Middle Eastern Jew, is a sixteen-year-old in New Orleans in the 1970s when she start… read more

Similar categories in Corie Adjmi's The Marriage Box book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • judaica
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers

By: Sarah Tomlinson

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous , a gripping debut about the complicate… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Tomlinson's The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • mystery
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. A Northern Light in Provence

By: Elizabeth Birkelund

4.02

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A woman leaves her coastal Greenland village to translate the works of an elderly Provençal poet an… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Birkelund's A Northern Light in Provence book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

25. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography

By: RoseMarie Terenzio

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first oral biography of John F. Kennedy Jr. is an extraordinarily intimate, comprehensive look … read more

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27. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist … read more

Similar categories in Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham

28. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

By: John Grisham

4.49

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Cent… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • mystery
Cover of Evening by Nessa Rapoport

29. Evening

By: Nessa Rapoport

3.59

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters, lost youth, and youthful obsessions; organized by day as the family sits shiva, Evenin… read more

Similar categories in Nessa Rapoport's Evening book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • judaica
"Do all people have one story that haunts them throughout their lives?"

-Nessa Rapoport, Evening

Cover of The Thirteenth Husband by Greer Macallister

30. The Thirteenth Husband

By: Greer Macallister

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Tearing through millions of dollars, four continents, and a hearty collection of husbands, real-lif… read more

Similar categories in Greer Macallister's The Thirteenth Husband book and Nessa Rapoport's Evening

  • fiction
Cover of Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann by Gill Paul

31. Scandalous Women: A Novel of Jackie Collins and Jacqueline Susann

By: Gill Paul

4.28

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Mad Men  meets the world of publishing in international bestselling author Gill Paul’s new novel ab… read more

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  • fiction

25 Best fiction books like Evening by Nessa Rapoport

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Vanessa and Her Sister

Priya Parmar

3.69

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Every Last One

Anna Quindlen

4.19

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The Winter Soldier

Daniel Mason

3.99

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Leaving

Roxana Robinson

3.87

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Lisa See

4.36

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