5 Top mystery books like Paradise, Nevada by Dario Diofebi

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Paradise, Nevada

By: Dario Diofebi

3.46

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive politi…

If you liked the mystery plot in Paradise, Nevada by Dario Diofebi , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Nightmare Alley

By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

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2. The Book of Salt

By: Monique Truong

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Binh, a Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as a galley hand at s… read more

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  • fiction

3. A Doubter's Almanac

By: Ethan Canin

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of northern Michig… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

By: Heidi W. Durrow

3.75

Format: 288 pages,

This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who be… read more

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5. Egenmäktigt förfarande

By: Lena Andersson

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Hardcover

Ester Nilsson ar 31. Hon ar poet och essaist och en fornuftig manniska i en fornuftig relation. En … read more

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6. Frog Music

By: Emma Donoghue

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox e… read more

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7. A Dangerous Business

By: Jane Smiley

3.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more

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  • westerns
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
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8. Beautyland

By: Marie-Helene Bertino

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Parakeet, Marie-Helene Bertino’s Beautyland is a wise, tender novel ab… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Time Squared

By: Lesley Krueger

2.62

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

"I’ll dive right in and tell you that the novel, Time Squared by Lesley Krueger, which I’ve loved m… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Lux by Maxime Chattam

10. Lux

By: Maxime Chattam

3.55

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Un phénomène inédit dans l'histoire de l'humanité vient de se produire au-dessus de l'océan Atlanti… read more

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  • thriller
  • novels
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11. The Duel: Diefenbaker, Pearson and the Making of Modern Canada

By: John Ibbitson

4.34

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

One of Canada’s foremost authors and journalists, offers a gripping account of the contest between … read more

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12. The Puzzle Master

By: Danielle Trussoni

3.32

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
"these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on reg…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"There is a story from the midrash that I've always loved," she said. "It's about Lailah, the angel of conception. Lailah, the story goes, bequeaths babies the totality of knowledge in the womb. Then,…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I …"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

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13. Bottle Grove

By: Daniel Handler

3.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-s… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Hestia Strikes a Match

By: Christine Grillo

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Christine Grillo's Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He suggested a date and a time, and I felt all the power sucked out of me, the power to resist, the power to think straight, the way an encounter with a parent can do. I entered the date on my calend…"

-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match

"Sooner or later you realize that dating is performative. You have to perform how interesting you are. Perform how kind you are. Perform what an emotional grown-up you are. And then--it gets worse. Be…"

-Christine Grillo, Hestia Strikes a Match

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15. The Female Persuasion

By: Meg Wolitzer

3.56

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

To be admired by someone we admire—we all yearn for this: the private, electrifying pleasure of bei… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She read with “abandon,"

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"If you want more to do,"

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"Women in powerful positions are never safe from criticism."

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

"The human face had too possibilities, and they just kept coming in a fast-moving slide show, one after another."

-Meg Wolitzer, The Female Persuasion

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16. If We're Being Honest

By: Cat Shook

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s deb… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"As it turns out porn does not automatically make a computer implode."

-Cat Shook, If We're Being Honest

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17. Show Them a Good Time

By: Nicole Flattery

3.23

Format: 257 pages, None

A blisteringly original and wickedly funny collection of stories about the strange worlds that wome… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Comedy is tragedy sped up."

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

"I don't like anybody my own age."

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

"a feeling of forever melancholy . . ."

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

"What have I done to deserve this life?"

-Nicole Flattery, Show Them a Good Time

Cover of Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret (Ernest Cunningham, #3) by Benjamin   Stevenson

18. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret (Ernest Cunningham, #3)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

4.30

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Benjamin Stevenson returns with a Christmas addition to his bestselling, “deviously good fun” (Nita… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Polostan (Bomb Light, #1) by Neal Stephenson

19. Polostan (Bomb Light, #1)

By: Neal Stephenson

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The first installment in Neal Stephenson’s three-part Bomb Light cycle, Polostan follows the early … read more

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  • fiction
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20. Paradise, Nevada

By: Dario Diofebi

3.46

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive politi… read more

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  • italy
  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • westerns
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • novels
Cover of What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service by Melissa Fitzgerald

21. What's Next: A Backstage Pass to The West Wing, Its Cast and Crew, and Its Enduring Legacy of Service

By: Melissa Fitzgerald

4.49

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes look into the creation and legacy of The West Wing  as told by cast members Mel… read more

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