11 best-selling thriller books like The Drowned by John Banville

Cover of The Drowned by John Banville

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…

If you liked the thriller plot in The Drowned by John Banville , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Even the Dead (Quirke #7) by John Banville, Benjamin Black

1. Even the Dead (Quirke #7)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

A suspicious death, a pregnant woman suddenly gone missing: Quirke's latest case leads him inexorab… read more

Similar categories in John Banville's Even the Dead (Quirke #7) book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature

2. Vengeance (Quirke #5)

By: John Banville , Benjamin Black

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A bizarre suicide leads to a scandal and then still more blood, as one of our most brilliant crime … read more

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

3. 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 John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"...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)

Cover of Death at the Sign of the Rook (Jackson Brodie, #6) by Kate Atkinson

4. 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 John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) by Ann Cleeves

5. The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.47

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

As New York Times bestseller Ann Cleeves's beloved Vera series explodes in popularity in print and … read more

Similar categories in Ann Cleeves's The Dark Wives (Vera Stanhope, #11) book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Death at the Sanatorium by Ragnar Jónasson

6. Death at the Sanatorium

By: Ragnar Jónasson

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Fresh off his career-changing standalone co-written with Icelandic PM, Reykjavík, #1 Icelandic best… read more

Similar categories in Ragnar Jónasson's Death at the Sanatorium book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39) by Michael    Connelly

7. The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39)

By: Michael Connelly

4.47

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

LAPD Detective Renée Ballard tracks a terrifying serial rapist whose trail has gone cold, with the… read more

Similar categories in Michael Connelly's The Waiting (Renée Ballard, #6; Harry Bosch, #25; Harry Bosch Universe, #39) book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner

8. 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 John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
"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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9. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

Similar categories in Robert Harris's Precipice book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

Cover of Our Evenings by Alan Hollinghurst

10. Our Evenings

By: Alan Hollinghurst

4.28

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed winner of the Booker Prize, a piercing novel that envisions mode… read more

Similar categories in Alan Hollinghurst's Our Evenings book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Gabriel's Moon

By: William Boyd

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In his most exhilarating novel yet, Britain’s greatest storyteller transports you from the vibrant … read more

Similar categories in William Boyd's Gabriel's Moon book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Women Behind the Door by Roddy Doyle

12. The Women Behind the Door

By: Roddy Doyle

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Booker-Prize winner Roddy Doyle’s spectacular return to his iconic character, Paula Spencer, whom h… read more

Similar categories in Roddy Doyle's The Women Behind the Door book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • literary fiction
  • ireland
  • fiction
Cover of The Drowned by John Banville

13. 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 John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • historical mystery
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25) by Ian Rankin

14. Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25)

By: Ian Rankin

4.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

John Rebus spent his life as a detective putting Edinburgh’s most deadly criminals behind bars.Now,… read more

Similar categories in Ian Rankin's Midnight and Blue (An Inspector Rebus, #25) book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of Karla's Choice by Nick Harkaway

15. Karla's Choice

By: Nick Harkaway

4.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary new novel set in the world of John le Carré's most iconic spy, George Smiley, writ… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19) by Louise Penny

16. The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19)

By: Louise Penny

4.44

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The 19th mystery in the #1 New York Times-bestselling Armand Gamache series. Relentless phone ca… read more

Similar categories in Louise Penny's The Grey Wolf (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #19) book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Time of the Child by Niall Williams

17. Time of the Child

By: Niall Williams

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of This Is Happiness, a compassionate, life-affirming novel about the Christmas sea… read more

Similar categories in Niall Williams's Time of the Child book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe

18. The Proof of My Innocence

By: Jonathan Coe

4.05

Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition

When Phyl, a young literature graduate, moves back home with her parents, she soon finds herself fr… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Coe's The Proof of My Innocence book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • crime
  • fiction
Cover of The Land in Winter by Andrew  Miller

19. The Land in Winter

By: Andrew Miller

4.16

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

December 1962, a small village near Bristol. Eric and Irene and Bill and Rita. Two young couples li… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Miller's The Land in Winter book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Arizona Triangle by Sydney Graves

20. The Arizona Triangle

By: Sydney Graves

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In the vein of the bestselling California noirs of Sue Grafton and Sara Gran, a whodunnit about loy… read more

Similar categories in Sydney Graves's The Arizona Triangle book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Against the Grain by Peter Lovesey

21. Against the Grain

By: Peter Lovesey

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Detective Peter Diamond goes undercover at a seasonal festival in this delightful and bittersweet c… read more

Similar categories in Peter Lovesey's Against the Grain book and John Banville's The Drowned

  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction

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Even the Dead (Quirke #7)

John Banville , Benjamin Black

2.67

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Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

Elizabeth Strout

4.46

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

Kate Atkinson

4.09

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Ann Cleeves

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Elly Griffiths

3.92

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Liane Moriarty

4.15

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