13 must-read mystery books like The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames

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The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

By: Juliet Grames

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The bestselling author of …

If you liked the mystery plot in The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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

1. 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 Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • 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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2. There Are Rivers in the Sky

By: Elif Shafak

4.58

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more

Similar categories in Elif Shafak's There Are Rivers in the Sky book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."

-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky

Cover of Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny by Mark Cecil

3. Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny

By: Mark Cecil

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A large-hearted reimagining of beloved all-American legends, this epic debut novel brings men of my… read more

Similar categories in Mark Cecil's Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You took in the name of God, took in the name of science, took because only your conscience stood in your way; in other words, nothing stood in your way at all. You crushed us with disease, then guns…"

-Mark Cecil, Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny

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4. Mina's Matchbox

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more

Similar categories in Yōko Ogawa's Mina's Matchbox book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"

-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox

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5. 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

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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6. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

Similar categories in Jo Hamya's The Hypocrite book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • italy
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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7. Trust Her

By: Flynn Berry

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters find they can't outrun their past in the riveting new thriller from the New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Flynn Berry's Trust Her book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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8. The Volcano Daughters

By: Gina María Balibrera

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador’s brutal di… read more

Similar categories in Gina María Balibrera's The Volcano Daughters book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11) by Alan Bradley

10. What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11)

By: Alan Bradley

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the absence of adult supervision, Flavia has taken on the mentorship of her “pestilent” younger … read more

Similar categories in Alan Bradley's What Time the Sexton's Spade Doth Rust (Flavia de Luce, #11) book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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11. The Gardener's Plot

By: Deborah J. Benoit

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman helps set up a community garden in the Berkshires, only to find a body in one of the plot's… read more

Similar categories in Deborah J. Benoit's The Gardener's Plot book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann

12. Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime

By: Leonie Swann

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This highly anticipated follow-up to The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp finds Agnes and her octogenari… read more

Similar categories in Leonie Swann's Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Wordhunter

By: Stella Sands

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ab… read more

Similar categories in Stella Sands's Wordhunter book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. Nicked

By: M.T. Anderson

3.85

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Nicked book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

15. The Seventh Veil of Salome

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A young woman wins the role of a lifetime in a film about a legendary heroine — but the real drama … read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Seventh Veil of Salome book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. Agony Hill

By: Sarah Stewart Taylor

3.94

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

Set in rural Vermont in the volatile 1960s, Agony Hill is the first novel in a new historical serie… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Stewart Taylor's Agony Hill book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

17. Creation Lake

By: Rachel Kushner

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From Rachel Kushner, a Booker Prize finalist, two-time National Book Award finalist, and “one of th… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kushner's Creation Lake book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Charisma does not originate inside the person called "charismatic." It comes from the need of others to believe that special people exist."

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"Plus, Lucien said, a lot of them had come from other social milieus and had tattoos from earlier lives, since people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the perman…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"My biker and these tramps, as people who organize their life around some subculture or other: People can sometimes pretend so thoroughly that they forget they are pretending. At which point, it could…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

"I could sense him gathering a false hindsight that afternoon in the Place des Vosges, shaping a retrospective narrative, the thing a person tells himself about fate, about how everything had seemed f…"

-Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

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18. Burn

By: Peter Heller

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emer… read more

Similar categories in Peter Heller's Burn book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. Isola

By: Allegra Goodman

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable epic saga of a French noblewoman deserted on an island where her survival will dep… read more

Similar categories in Allegra Goodman's Isola book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames

20. The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

By: Juliet Grames

3.67

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One unidentified skeleton. Three missing men. A village full of secrets. The bestselling author of … read more

Similar categories in Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • italy
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. The Drowned

By: John Banville

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the renowned Booker Prize winner and nationally bestselling author of Snow comes a richly atmo… read more

Similar categories in John Banville's The Drowned book and Juliet Grames's The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller

21 must-read fiction books like The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia by Juliet Grames

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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There Are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

4.58

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Bunyan and Henry: Or, the Beautiful Destiny

Mark Cecil

4.01

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Mina's Matchbox

Yōko Ogawa

3.85

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20 Top fiction books like Agnes Sharp and the Trip of a Lifetime by Leonie Swann

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The Queen of Poisons (The Marlow Murder Club, #3)

Robert Thorogood

3.93

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

Kate Atkinson

4.09

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The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

Ann Cleeves

4.47

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The Murders in Great Diddling

Katarina Bivald

3.52

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