10 best-selling mystery books like Do Not Go On by Bryan Furuness

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Do Not Go On

By: Bryan Furuness

4.32

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The witness protection program is supposed to be a fresh start, but for the newly inducted Easterda…

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1. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)

By: Frank McCourt

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book … read more

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2. The House Girl

By: Tara Conklin

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut novel of love, family, and justice that intertwines the stories of an escaped hous… read more

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3. An American Tune

By: Barbara Shoup

3.75

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

While reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana Universi… read more

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4. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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5. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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  • fiction
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6. Only the Beautiful

By: Susan Meissner

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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  • fiction
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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8. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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10. Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

3.88

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more

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  • fiction
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

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11. Our Country Friends

By: Gary Shteyngart

3.21

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation -- a powerful, emotion… read more

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  • fiction
"How hard was it to be happy in this fucking country?"

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Why do you know so much old rap?" "Because I'm white."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Russian was a language built around the exhalation of warmth and pain...."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

"Honesty and grace. You can try to find something better beyond that, but you won't."

-Gary Shteyngart, Our Country Friends

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12. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

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  • fiction
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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13. The Rabbit Hutch

By: Tess Gunty

3.52

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

Blandine isn't like the other residents of her building. An online obituary writer. A young moth… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"On the opposite end of the sidewalk, a large woman in her sixties collapsed. Immediately, two people rushed to the woman's side, gingerly tending to her, touching her shoulders and face, speaking to …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"· Las calles por las que caminas, el alimento que comes, el trabajo que haces, el medio de transporte que eliges, los productos de belleza que compras, los programas que ves, los enlaces en los que p…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"Acaba de ponerse a llover. Estamos encantados de que se quede un rato más, si quiere. Milagroso. Joan recuerda que existen los perros, las tiendas de manualidades, los analgésicos, las bibliotecas pú…"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

"—Estoy harta —dice Blandine— de la violencia contra las mujeres disfrazada de validación. —Lo siento —murmura James de manera automática, pero tiene el gesto de la mascota reprendida que no sabe qué …"

-Tess Gunty, The Rabbit Hutch

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14. Disappearing Earth

By: Julia Phillips

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the north-eastern edge of Russia, two sisters are abducte… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"Con la distancia, todo el el mundo parece mejor. Todo el mundo parece más agradable cuando no tienes que escucharlo continuamente. Después de que Yuri colgara, Natasha pasó junto a su hermano, en el …"

-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

"Near him, she couldn't think of anything but him. But when they were a little apart she returned to herself, and she liked that woman she came back to. Someone...capable. Someone who maintained stand…"

-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

"He died and the whole Soviet Union followed. Revmira's country, her young face, the entire course of her life had changed. Since she started at the hospital, she had sat next to more than a hundred p…"

-Julia Phillips, Disappearing Earth

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15. Is Mother Dead

By: Vigdis Hjorth

3.80

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle-aged artis… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
"Den första sång jag höra fick, var mor som grät vid vaggan"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"Det händer att det som inte sker är det viktigaste som händer en dag"

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"We all carry our mothers like a hole in our souls, small or big, living or dead."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

"A mother can never be an ordinary human being to her children, and I am one of her children."

-Vigdis Hjorth, Is Mother Dead

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16. Women Talking

By: Miriam Toews

3.62

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past … read more

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  • fiction
"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

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17. The Girls in the Stilt House

By: Kelly Mustian

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Set in 1920s Mississippi, this debut Southern novel weaves a beautiful and harrowing story of two t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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18. An American Beauty

By: Shana Abe

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This sweeping novel of historical fiction is inspired by the true rags-to-riches story of Arabella … read more

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  • fiction
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19. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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20. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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21. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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22. Ascension

By: Nicholas Binge

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of t… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"There’s something that runs deeper than that – biological instinct, perhaps, that won’t let you go through with mutilating yourself."

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

"People like to think empathy means being able to imagine how you'd feel in a certain situation,' she said, head tilted, holding my gaze. 'But it really doesn't. It means being able to imagine how the…"

-Nicholas Binge, Ascension

Cover of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    Wilson

23. Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

3.69

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more

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  • fiction
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

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24. Transcendent Kingdom

By: Yaa Gyasi

4.11

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, … read more

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  • fiction
"I like you best when you're feeling holy. You make me feel holy too."

-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

"There is no living thing on God's green earth that doesn't come to know pain sometime."

-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

"Surely, there's strength in being dressed for a storm, even when there's no storm in sight?"

-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

"The anger has notes of understanding in it. He's saying, *Yes, she's insufferable, but she's ours and so we must suffer her.*"

-Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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25. Code Name Hélène

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.41

Format: 451 pages, Hardcover

Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code… read more

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  • fiction
"I am the same but different, and I greet this new reflection with a nod of acceptance. There is metal in my spine and there are fractures in my soul. I resemble Garrow now. I have been changed by war."

-Ariel Lawhon, Code Name Hélène

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26. 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

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Do Not Go On by Bryan Furuness

27. Do Not Go On

By: Bryan Furuness

4.32

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

The witness protection program is supposed to be a fresh start, but for the newly inducted Easterda… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

23 Best fiction books like Do Not Go On by Bryan Furuness

Transform Your Habits

The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Only the Beautiful

Susan Meissner

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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21 must-read fiction books like The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz

Transform Your Habits

Trust

Hernan Diaz

3.83

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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