21 Best fiction books like Barker House by David Moloney

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Barker House

By: David Moloney

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Moloney's Barker House follows the story of nine unforgettable New Hampshire correctional off…

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Cover of Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice by John Layman, Rob Guillory

1. Chew, Vol. 1: Taster's Choice

By: John Layman , Rob Guillory

3.96

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets … read more

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  • fiction
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2. Transfer of Power (Mitch Rapp, #3)

By: Vince Flynn

3.73

Format: None pages,

On a busy Washington morning, amid the shuffle of tourists and the brisk rush of government officia… read more

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  • fiction

3. Reading People: How Seeing the World through the Lens of Personality Changes Everything

By: Anne Bogel

4.00

Format: None pages,

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4. If The Creek Don't Rise

By: Leah Weiss

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in sou… read more

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5. 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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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • 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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6. The Vacation Rental

By: Katie Sise

4.03

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A summer getaway triggers a psychological game of cat and mouse in a novel about the frightening da… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Blank

By: Zibby Owens

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Black Paradox

By: Junji Ito

3.89

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"I SAW IT. A DAZZLING WORLD ...YES, ANOTHER WORLD." "I'M SURE I SAW A WORLD THAT WAS NOT THIS ON… read more

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  • fiction
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9. All Hallows

By: Christopher Golden

3.55

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

With the 80's nostalgia of Stranger Things, this horror drama from NYT bestselling author Christoph… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery

10. If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

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11. The Liminal Zone (Junji Ito)

By: Junji Ito

3.98

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

What destiny awaits them after the screaming? After abruptly departing from a train in a small t… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. The Midcoast

By: Adam White

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Whalefall

By: Daniel Kraus

3.73

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eigh… read more

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  • fiction
"There need be no struggle when we are all the same weight."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"But those three people waiting outside are the tones of Jay's voice, the organs in Jay's body."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"The simple sharing of hope, its weight not so heavy after all, is a wonder. A lifting. A rising. A surfacing."

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

"Jay's not sure he believes in therapy. He definitely doesn't believe in closure. People aren't doors. They're whole floor plans, entire labyrinths, and the harder you try to escape, the more lost ins…"

-Daniel Kraus, Whalefall

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14. A Short Walk Through a Wide World

By: Douglas Westerbeke

3.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the in… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Westerbeke's A Short Walk Through a Wide World book and David Moloney's Barker House

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson

15. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century

By: Kirk Wallace Johnson

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

On a cool June evening in 2009, after performing a concert at London's Royal Academy of Music, twen… read more

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16. Everybody Knows

By: Jordan Harper

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Mae Pruett’s Los Angeles, where “Nobody talks. But everybody whispers.” As a “black-bag… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You have to be invited in. Cops are like vampires that way."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"What she tells him after that blows out the back of Chris’s head like a book-depository bullet."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"Brass and the DAs are the true villains in a cop’s life. The knuckleheads are just the product they trade in."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

"His hands in his lap grasp and clench the air like he’s trying to find the world’s throat and choke it until it’s dead."

-Jordan Harper, Everybody Knows

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17. Tastes Like War

By: Grace M. Cho

3.92

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess… read more

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18. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

By: Rosemary Sullivan

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more

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"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

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19. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

By: Meghan O'Rourke

4.03

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise… read more

Similar categories in Meghan O'Rourke's The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness book and David Moloney's Barker House

"As the chronically ill know, to be alive is to be in uncertainty."

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"Knowledge brings the hope of treatment or cure. And even if there is no cure, a diagnosis is a form of knowing (the word “diagnosis"

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"And so it is a truth universally acknowledged that a young woman in possession of vague symptoms like fatigue and pain will be in search of a doctor who believes she is actually sick ."

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

"Is illness, in any way, a lesson? Illness is a travesty; illness is shit; illness is not redemptive unless it happens to be for a particular ill person, for reasons that are not replicable nor should…"

-Meghan O'Rourke, The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Cover of Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5) by Jasmine Guillory

20. Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5)

By: Jasmine Guillory

3.76

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking.… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If only every workday could be spent in the sunshine with pineapples full of rum. She'd get very little work done, but she'd be in an excellent mood."

-Jasmine Guillory, Party of Two (The Wedding Date, #5)

Cover of Daphne by Josh Malerman

21. Daphne

By: Josh Malerman

3.40

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

It’s the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high sc… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent

22. The Things We Do to Our Friends

By: Heather Darwent

3.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history—the… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Plot (The Book Series, #1) by Jean Hanff Korelitz

23. The Plot (The Book Series, #1)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"To Jake, the world that comprised the relationship between a writer and their spark was “responsibility."

-Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot (The Book Series, #1)

"Anyone could be an idiot or a jerk, separately, but the combination of ignorance and meanspiritedness--that was special."

-Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot (The Book Series, #1)

"Entweder man hat einen guten Plot oder nicht. Wenn´s kein guter Plot ist, dann hilft auch die beste Schreibe nichts. Und wenn´s ein guter Plot ist, dann macht ihn auch die mieseste Schreibe nicht kap…"

-Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot (The Book Series, #1)

"...I've always thought there was a kind of beauty to it, the way narratives get told and retold. It's how stories survive through the ages. You can follow an idea from one author's work to another, a…"

-Jean Hanff Korelitz, The Plot (The Book Series, #1)

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24. More Than You'll Ever Know

By: Katie Gutierrez

3.73

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

IT WAS A STORY THAT CASSIE BOWMAN COULDN'T RESIST.LORE RIVERA LOVED TWO MEN.UNTIL ONE OF THEM SHOT … read more

Similar categories in Katie Gutierrez's More Than You'll Ever Know book and David Moloney's Barker House

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Book of Evil (Comixology Originals) #1 by Scott Snyder

25. Book of Evil (Comixology Originals) #1

By: Scott Snyder

3.91

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Homer has only known a world of madness. Every year, more and more of his friends reach the age whe… read more

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26. Book of Evil (Comixology Originals) #3

By: Scott Snyder

4.06

Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition

As the kids traverse the deadly wildlands, they learn the terrible truth about their pursuers, and … read more

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27. Book of Evil (Comixology Originals) #4

By: Scott Snyder

3.94

Format: 58 pages, Kindle Edition

Through trial and tribulation, the kids have finally made it to the refuge promised in the Book of … read more

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28. Book of Evil (Comixology Originals) #2

By: Scott Snyder

4.10

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

The kids venture out in search of the truth behind the Book of Evil. Is it even real? And even if i… read more

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Cover of Fatal Intrusion (Sanchez & Heron, #1) by Jeffery Deaver

29. Fatal Intrusion (Sanchez & Heron, #1)

By: Jeffery Deaver

4.32

Format: 434 pages, Kindle Edition

As a wave of murders grips Southern California, an unlikely pair must untangle the mysterious patte… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Elias Network (Caspian Anderson Book 1) by Simon Gervais

30. The Elias Network (Caspian Anderson Book 1)

By: Simon Gervais

4.24

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Mr. & Mrs. Smith meets political thriller in this heart-pounding series debut about two undercover … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Barker House by David  Moloney

31. Barker House

By: David Moloney

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

David Moloney's Barker House follows the story of nine unforgettable New Hampshire correctional off… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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4.03

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