15 Top crime books like Berlin Noir by Thomas Wörtche

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Berlin Noir

By: Thomas Wörtche

3.47

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Now, Berlin’s noir tradition—fueled by history, geography, and various literary traditions—adds up …

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1. Die Hauptstadt

By: Robert Menasse

3.59

Format: 460 pages, Hardcover

In Brüssel laufen die Fäden zusammen – und ein Schwein durch die Straßen. Fenia Xenopoulou, Beam… read more

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  • german literature
  • fiction
"Das Problem mit Fremdsprachen [...], wenn man sie nicht zumindest stiefmuttersprachlich beherrschte, war, dass man immer nur sagt, was man sagen kann, und nicht, was man sagen will. Die Differenz ist…"

-Robert Menasse, Die Hauptstadt

"[I] vilket fall som helst sa han plötsligt: 'The past forms the future, without regard to life.' Meningen dröjde kvar i huvudet, hon fortsatte fundera på den en stund efter att telefonsamtalet hade t…"

-Robert Menasse, Die Hauptstadt

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2. The Final Solution

By: Michael Chabon , Jay Ryan

3.35

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

In deep retirement in the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, vaguely recollected by … read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
"Long life wore away everything that was not essential."

-Michael Chabon, The Final Solution

"It would please him well enough to amount to no more in the end than a single great organ of detection, reaching into blankness for a clue."

-Michael Chabon, The Final Solution

"He did not fear death exactly, but he had evaded it for so many years that it had come to seem formidable simply by virtue of that long act of evasion. In particular he feared dying in some undignifi…"

-Michael Chabon, The Final Solution

"The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The smoke of his tobacco was the foulest that she, a girl raised in a house with seven …"

-Michael Chabon, The Final Solution

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3. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more

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  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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4. The Healer

By: Lola Rogers , Antti Tuomainen

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One man's search for his missing wife in a dystopian futuristic Helsinki that is struggling with ru… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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5. Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

By: Margot Lee Shetterly

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel… read more

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6. Broken Harbor (Dublin Murder Squad #4)

By: Tana French

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A New York Times bestseller and quintessential Tana French thriller--a damaged hero, an unspeakable… read more

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7. The Trespasser

By: Tana French

1.75

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

New York Timesbestselling author Tana French is "required reading for anyone who appreciates tough,… read more

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8. Gentlemen of the Road

By: Michael Chabon , Gary Gianni

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

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9. I Am Not Sidney Poitier

By: Percival Everett

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

An irresistible comic novel from the master storyteller Percival Everett, and an irreverent take on… read more

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10. Hour of the Wolf (Inspector Van Veeteren #7)

By: Håkan Nesser , Laurie Thompson

3.47

Format: 288 pages,

The master of Swedish crime fiction returns with this latest entry into the internationally acclaim… read more

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11. The Habsburg Empire: A New History

By: Pieter M. Judson

4.16

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In a panoramic and pioneering reappraisal, Pieter Judson shows why the Habsburg Empire mattered so … read more

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12. Hong Kong Noir

By: Jason Y. Ng

3.73

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Fourteen of the city’s finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting… read more

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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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13. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

By: Olga Ravn

3.67

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A workplace novel of the 22nd century The near-distant future. Millions of kilometres from Earth… read more

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  • fiction
"This is not a human, but a coworker."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Cada ação encerra em si um elemento de caos."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Tudo precisa atravessar enormes distâncias para se tornar o que é."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

"Eu também tenho em mim palavras apagadas que deveria ter dito e já não sei mais o que significam."

-Olga Ravn, The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the 22nd Century

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14. The Shortest History of Germany

By: James Hawes

3.72

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Read in an afternoon. Remember for a lifetime. In his acclaimed new bestseller, now in paperback, … read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
"Anyone who thinks of the Germans as a naturally bellicose people should recall that Prussia-Germany was the only one of the continental powers in the run-up to 1914 whose elite seriously feared that …"

-James Hawes, The Shortest History of Germany

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15. Der große Sommer

By: Ewald Arenz

4.28

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Der Zauber des ersten Erlebens Ein Mann, Friedrich, läuft über einen Friedhof und fragt sich, wi… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
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16. Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

By: Mick Herron

4.37

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A governmental think-tank, whose remit is to curb the independence of the intelligence service, has… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Time, date, place, courtesy of social media. The old days, when you just rocked up to a car park near the stadium a few hours before kick-off, all of that was buried in history books and Channel 5 do…"

-Mick Herron, Bad Actors (Slough House, #8)

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17. Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

By: Zeke Faux

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it; celebrities like Tom… read more

Similar categories in Zeke Faux's Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall book and Thomas Wörtche's Berlin Noir

  • crime
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18. The Dark Remains

By: William McIlvanney

3.84

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

In this scorching crime prequel, New York Times best-selling author Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-w… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"The law's not about justice. It's a system we've put in place because we can't have justice."

-William McIlvanney, The Dark Remains

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19. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. April in Spain (Quirke, #8)

By: John Banville

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Booker Prize winner John Banville returns with a dark and evocative new mystery set on the Spanish … read more

Similar categories in John Banville's April in Spain (Quirke, #8) book and Thomas Wörtche's Berlin Noir

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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21. The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

By: Tana French

3.85

Format: 541 pages, Paperback

A year ago a boy was found murdered at a girlsʼ boarding school, and the case was never solved. Det… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"Above the front door the fanlight glowed blue, delicate as wing-bones."

-Tana French, The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

"The lines of her face, turned up to the sky, would have broken your heart."

-Tana French, The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

"Lixa sempre as expectativas das pessoas, companheiro. Faz bem à circulação."

-Tana French, The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

"I said she's not thick, kid. I didn't say she was Professor fucking Moriarty."

-Tana French, The Secret Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #5)

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22. How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

By: Daniel Immerwahr

4.46

Format: 513 pages, Hardcover

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empir… read more

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"At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen."

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

"Hoover’s greatest challenge was one of the least visible: the humble screw thread. Screws, nuts, and bolts are universal fasteners. They function in industrial societies, as one writer put it, like s…"

-Daniel Immerwahr, How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

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23. The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

3.97

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumou… read more

Similar categories in Carlos Ruiz Zafón's The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books) book and Thomas Wörtche's Berlin Noir

  • short stories
  • fiction
"En un instante infinito la lluvia quedó suspendida en el aire, un millón de lágrimas de cristal flotando en el vacío, y vi al ángel besarla en la frente, sus labios marcando su piel como hierro cande…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Era entonces cuando la gran silueta oscura aparecía a la puerta de la casa, un gran ángel con rostro de mármol que me miraba y sonreía como un lobo, desplegando sus alas negras sobre Blanca y envolvi…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas par alas cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

"Siempre he envidiado la capacidad de olvidar que tienen algunas personas para las cuales el pasado es como una muda de temporada o unos zapatos viejos a los que basta condenar en el fondo de un armar…"

-Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The City of Mist (Cemetery of Forgotten Books)

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24. Amsterdam Noir

By: René Appel

3.43

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Amsterdam is a very welcome, if long overdue, installment in the Akashic Noir Series. Akashic Bo… read more

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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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25. Drei

By: D.A. Mishani

3.76

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Orna, frisch geschiedene Mutter eines zehnjährigen Jungen, meldet sich auf einer Online-Dating-Plat… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Sun Walks Down by Fiona McFarlane

26. The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-ye… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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27. Herkunft

By: Saša Stanišić

4.17

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

HERKUNFT ist ein Buch über den ersten Zufall unserer Biografie: irgendwo geboren werden. Und was da… read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • fiction
"Träume sind etwas Lebendiges - und als solche vergänglich wie das Gedächtnis."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Zoki walks into the classroom, puts a piece of paper down on the teacher’s desk, and shouts: “Everyone write your name."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Otec tancoval a už nebol nazúrený, napokon to ani nejde dohromady, všetko ostatné sa dá robiť aj s hnevom, ale toto nie, nie objímanie."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

"Ich verstehe nicht, dass Herkunft Eigenschaften mit sich bringen soll, und verstehe nicht, dass manche bereit sind, in ihrem Namen in Schlachten zu ziehen."

-Saša Stanišić, Herkunft

Cover of Snowdrift (An Embla Nyström Investigation Book 3) by Helene Tursten

28. Snowdrift (An Embla Nyström Investigation Book 3)

By: Helene Tursten

3.69

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

Sandgrav är den andra delen i en ny serie av Helene Tursten, författaren bakom succén om kriminalko… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
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29. Other People's Clothes

By: Calla Henkel

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive debut with a wicked sense of humor in which two American ex-pats obsessed with the Ama… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Santa Fe Noir by Ariel Gore

30. Santa Fe Noir

By: Ariel Gore

3.74

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Santa Fe joins Phoenix as a riveting Southwest US installment in the Akashic Noir Series. Akashi… read more

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  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Berlin Noir by Thomas Wörtche

31. Berlin Noir

By: Thomas Wörtche

3.47

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Now, Berlin’s noir tradition—fueled by history, geography, and various literary traditions—adds up … read more

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  • german literature
  • germany
  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

21 best-selling fiction books like Berlin Noir by Thomas Wörtche

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Die Hauptstadt

Robert Menasse

3.59

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The Final Solution

Michael Chabon , Jay Ryan

3.35

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Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

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The Healer

Lola Rogers , Antti Tuomainen

4.20

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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The Bookbinder

Pip Williams

4.07

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Tan Twan Eng

4.14

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