22 Top fiction books like Wild Pitch by Mike Lupica

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Wild Pitch

By: Mike Lupica

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Washed-out pitcher Charlie Stoddard is called back to the majors after the Red Sox lose two startin…

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Cover of The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) by Raymond Chandler

1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.95

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Chandler's The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1) book and Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch

  • mystery
  • fiction
"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

Cover of The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone, #2) by Steve Berry

2. The Alexandria Link (Cotton Malone, #2)

By: Steve Berry

3.94

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

Cotton Malone retired from the high-risk world of elite operatives for the U.S. Justice Department … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Playing for Pizza by John Grisham

3. Playing for Pizza

By: John Grisham

3.52

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Rick Dockery was the third-string quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. In the AFC Championship gam… read more

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  • sports
  • fiction
"And with that they passed another little milestone, took another step together. From flirting, to casual sex, to a more intense variety. From quick e-mails to much longer chats by phone. From a long-…"

-John Grisham, Playing for Pizza

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4. Hour Game (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #2)

By: David Baldacci

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He's copying famous serial killers. And the HOUR GAME has just begun... A woman is found murdered i… read more

Similar categories in David Baldacci's Hour Game (Sean King & Michelle Maxwell, #2) book and Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Crescent Dawn (Dirk Pitt, #21) by Clive Cussler, Dirk Cussler

5. Crescent Dawn (Dirk Pitt, #21)

By: Clive Cussler , Dirk Cussler

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In A.D. 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2) by Michael    Connelly

6. The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

By: Michael Connelly

4.12

Format: 439 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Narcotics office Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he e… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2) book and Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch

  • mystery
  • fiction
"You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall."

-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

"Trust no one. You may be working with the last honest cop in Mexicali, but why bet your life on it?"

-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

"All his life Bosch had lived and worked in society’s institutions. But he hope he had escaped institutional thinking, that he made his own decisions."

-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

"one of the crazies moved into the cone of light beneath a streetlight. It was a black man, high-stepping and making jerking movements with his arms. He made a crisp turn and began moving back into th…"

-Michael Connelly, The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

7. The Rainmaker

By: John Grisham

4.33

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

John Grisham's five novels -- A Time To Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, and The Cham… read more

Similar categories in John Grisham's The Rainmaker book and Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch

  • mystery
  • fiction
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8. Kill Shot (Mitch Rapp, #2)

By: Vince Flynn

3.44

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

Rapp hunts terrorists responsible for Pan Am attack on 270 civilians. But on his next target, gunme… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #4) by Michael    Connelly

9. The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #4)

By: Michael Connelly

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Harry's life is a mess. His house has been condemned because of earthquake damage. His girlfriend h… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch, #4; Harry Bosch Universe, #4) book and Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch

  • mystery
  • fiction
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10. The Borrower

By: Rebecca Makkai

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with readin… read more

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  • fiction

11. The Lathe of Heaven

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.48

Format: 334 pages,

George Orr is a man who discovers he has the peculiar ability to dream things into being -- for bet… read more

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12. Heat Lightning (Virgil Flowers, #2)

By: John Sandford

3.50

Format: None pages,

On a hot, humid summer night in Minnesota, Virgil Flowers gets a call from Lucas Davenport. A body … read more

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13. The Crossing (Harry Bosch, #20; Mickey Haller, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #27)

By: Michael Connelly

2.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Six months ago, Harry Bosch left the LAPD before they could fire him, and then hired maverick Defen… read more

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14. Angels Flight (Harry Bosch, #6; Harry Bosch Universe, #7)

By: Michael Connelly

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry B… read more

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15. The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)

By: Michael Connelly

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is mo… read more

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16. Night Shift

By: Stephen King , John D. MacDonald

4.04

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

A collection of tales to invade and paralyse the mind as the safe light of day is infiltrated by th… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"She wasn't like a jukebox; you never had to put in a dime and she never came unplugged."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"If seven hundred monkeys typed for seven hundred years, one of them would turn out the works of Shakespeare,"

-Stephen King, Night Shift

"There are spiritually noxious places, buildings where the milk of the cosmos has become sour and rancid. This church is such a place; I would swear to it."

-Stephen King, Night Shift

17. The Art of Fielding

By: Chad Harbach

4.07

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Art of Fielding is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family … read more

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18. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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19. Blast from the Past (Kinky Friedman, #11)

By: Kinky Friedman

3.82

Format: 148 pages,

Kinky's back, and Abbie Hoffman's got him...or he's got Abbie...or a mysterious man with dirty blon… read more

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Cover of Obsessed (Michael Bennett, #15) by James  Patterson

20. Obsessed (Michael Bennett, #15)

By: James Patterson

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A superstitious killer targeting young women in every borough of New York City has Detective Michae… read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's Obsessed (Michael Bennett, #15) book and Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life by Alex Trebek

21. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

By: Alex Trebek

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition of this book, with ISBN 978198215799, can be found here. Longtime Jeo… read more

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"Keep your head up. Move forward. Keep going."

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

"Courage is a conscious decision. You do it in a dangerous situation, when you have a choice."

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

"There is nothing worse than deluding yourself and trying to make yourself out to be somebody you're not--somebody you're not comfortable being."

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

"I just enjoy the moment I’m in. For me, life is a whole experience, not just a series of isolated moments. It’s like submerging yourself into a warm bath rather than sticking your toe under the fauce…"

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

Cover of Alex Cross Must Die (Alex Cross #32) by James  Patterson

22. Alex Cross Must Die (Alex Cross #32)

By: James Patterson

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Detectives Cross and Sampson are tracking a serial killer who's fatally ambushing young men in the … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Overboard (V.I. Warshawski, #21) by Sara Paretsky

23. Overboard (V.I. Warshawski, #21)

By: Sara Paretsky

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Legendary detective V.I. Warshawski uncovers a nefarious conspiracy during the Covid pandemic, in t… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha  Allen

24. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Walk the Wire (Amos Decker, #6) by David Baldacci

25. Walk the Wire (Amos Decker, #6)

By: David Baldacci

4.15

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Amos Decker -- the FBI consultant with a perfect memory -- returns to solve a gruesome murder in a … read more

Similar categories in David Baldacci's Walk the Wire (Amos Decker, #6) book and Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Night Fire (Renée Ballard, #3; Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #33) by Michael    Connelly

26. The Night Fire (Renée Ballard, #3; Harry Bosch, #22; Harry Bosch Universe, #33)

By: Michael Connelly

4.28

Format: 405 pages, Hardcover

Harry Bosch and LAPD Detective Renee Ballard come together again on the murder case that obsessed B… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Sooley by John Grisham

27. Sooley

By: John Grisham

4.13

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first … read more

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  • sports
  • fiction
"Men, we don't deserve respect. Yet. Respect is out there on the floor, just waiting for us to go get it."

-John Grisham, Sooley

Cover of The Playground by Jane Shemilt

28. The Playground

By: Jane Shemilt

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Big Little Lies meets Lord of The Flies in this electrifyingly twisty follow-up to Jane Shemilt’s b… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Match (Wilde, #2) by Harlan Coben

29. The Match (Wilde, #2)

By: Harlan Coben

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition of 9781538748282 can be found here. 'At the age of somewhere between … read more

Similar categories in Harlan Coben's The Match (Wilde, #2) book and Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu

30. The Faculty Lounge

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Wild Pitch by Mike Lupica

31. Wild Pitch

By: Mike Lupica

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Washed-out pitcher Charlie Stoddard is called back to the majors after the Red Sox lose two startin… read more

Similar categories in Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch book and Mike Lupica's Wild Pitch

  • mystery
  • baseball
  • fiction
  • sports

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