11 best-selling fiction books like Clockers by Richard Price

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Clockers

By: Richard Price

3.93

Format: None pages,

If you liked the fiction plot in Clockers by Richard Price , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1) by Dennis Lehane

1. A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

By: Dennis Lehane

3.94

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Kenzie and Gennaro are private investigators in the blue-collar neighborhoods and ghettos of South … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"Twelve dead?"

-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

"I'm a detective, but nuns could stonewall Sam Spade into an asylum"

-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

"It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone."

-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

"Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'."

-Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

Cover of Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2) by Dennis Lehane

2. Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)

By: Dennis Lehane

4.17

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Master of new noir Dennis Lehane magnificently evokes the dignity and savagery of working-class Bos… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"But I often think we talk way too much in this society, that we consider verbalization a panacea that it very often is not, and that we turn a blind eye to the sort of morbid self-absorption that bec…"

-Dennis Lehane, Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)

Cover of Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2) by Elmore Leonard

3. Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

By: Elmore Leonard

3.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Ordell Robbie makes a fine living selling illegal high-powered weaponry to the wrong people. Jackie… read more

Similar categories in Elmore Leonard's Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2) book and Richard Price's Clockers

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"He sat in the living room in the dark, an expert at waiting, a nineteen-year veteran of it, waiting for people who failed to appear, missed court dates because they forgot or didn't care, and took of…"

-Elmore Leonard, Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

Cover of The Night Gardener by None, George P. Pelecanos

4. The Night Gardener

By: None , George P. Pelecanos

3.68

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

When the body of a local teenager turns up in a community garden, veteran homicide detective Gus Ra… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
"I'm just a man, no more enlightened than any other."

-None, The Night Gardener

"Soon it began to drizzle for the second time that night. The drops grew heavier and became visible in the headlights of the cars. It was said by some of the police on the scene that God was crying fo…"

-None, The Night Gardener

Cover of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon

5. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

By: David Simon

3.65

Format: 135 pages,

From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the b… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon, Edward Burns

6. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

By: David Simon , Edward Burns

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously av… read more

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  • crime
Cover of Hit List (Keller, #2) by Lawrence Block

7. Hit List (Keller, #2)

By: Lawrence Block

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury du… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Clockers by Richard Price

8. Clockers

By: Richard Price

3.93

Format: None pages,

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  • mystery thriller
  • literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro,#6) by Dennis Lehane

9. Moonlight Mile (Kenzie & Gennaro,#6)

By: Dennis Lehane

3.71

Format: None pages,

Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. D… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Hombre by Elmore Leonard

10. Hombre

By: Elmore Leonard

3.62

Format: 120 pages,

John Russell has been raised as an Apache. Now he's on his way to live as a white man. But when the… read more

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  • novels
  • crime
  • fiction

11. Hit Man (Keller, #1)

By: Lawrence Block

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Keller is an assassin - he is paid by the job and works for a mysterious man who nominates hits and… read more

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12. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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13. Live by Night (Coughlin, #2)

By: Dennis Lehane

3.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, … read more

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Cover of Hard Rain Falling by None, Don Carpenter

14. Hard Rain Falling

By: None , Don Carpenter

4.14

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down… read more

Similar categories in None's Hard Rain Falling book and Richard Price's Clockers

  • literature
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
"How do you wake up? It was one thing to know that you had been asleep all your life, but something else to wake up from it, to find out you were really alive and it wasn't anybody's fault but your ow…"

-None, Hard Rain Falling

15. American Tabloid (Underworld USA, #1)

By: James Ellroy

3.37

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

We are behind, and below, the scenes of JFK's presidential election, the Bay of Pigs, the assassina… read more

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16. Stick

By: Elmore Leonard

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In Stick,an ex-con trying to go straight finds himself tempted by a high stakes, sweet-revenge scam… read more

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17. The Whites

By: Richard Price , Harry Brandt

3.69

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

The electrifying tale of a New York City police detective under siege-by an unsolved murder, by his… read more

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18. City Primeval

By: Elmore Leonard

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

Clement Mansell, knows how easy it is to get away with murder. The crazed killer is back on the Det… read more

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19. The Day of the Locust

By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more

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20. Gangland

By: Chuck Hogan

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Town, an epic thriller about the secret right‑hand man of one of t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Lowdown Road by Scott Von Doviak

21. Lowdown Road

By: Scott Von Doviak

4.08

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Join a road trip across 1970s America as two cousins make the heist of their lives and must avoid t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
  • crime

8 Best novels books like Clockers by Richard Price

Transform Your Habits

A Drink Before the War (Kenzie & Gennaro, #1)

Dennis Lehane

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Darkness, Take My Hand (Kenzie & Gennaro, #2)

Dennis Lehane

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Rum Punch (Ordell Robbie & Louis Gara #2)

Elmore Leonard

3.93

Transform Your Habits

The Night Gardener

None , George P. Pelecanos

3.68

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11 Best fiction books like Hard Rain Falling by Don Carpenter

Transform Your Habits

Fat City

Leonard Gardner

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Jesus' Son

Denis Johnson

4.26

Transform Your Habits

In the Heart of the Heart of the Country and Other Stories

William H. Gass

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Provinces of Night

William Gay

3.64

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