13 must-read fiction books like Toronto Noir by Peter Robinson, Michael Redhill, George Elliott Clarke, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Sean Dixon, Andrew Pyper, Heather Birrell, Kim Moritsugu, Pasha Malla, Ibi Kaslik, Janine Armin, Nathaniel G. Moore, R.M. Vaughan

Cover of Toronto Noir by Peter Robinson, Michael Redhill, George Elliott Clarke, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Sean   Dixon, Andrew Pyper, Heather Birrell, Kim Moritsugu, Pasha Malla, Ibi Kaslik, Janine Armin, Nathaniel G. Moore, R.M. Vaughan, None, None, None, None

Toronto Noir

By: Peter Robinson , Michael Redhill , George Elliott Clarke , Gail Bowen , Emily Schultz , Sean Dixon , Andrew Pyper , Heather Birrell , Kim Moritsugu , Pasha Malla , Ibi Kaslik , Janine Armin , Nathaniel G. Moore , R.M. Vaughan , None , None , None , None

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities …

If you liked the fiction plot in Toronto Noir by Peter Robinson, Michael Redhill, George Elliott Clarke, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Sean Dixon, Andrew Pyper, Heather Birrell, Kim Moritsugu, Pasha Malla, Ibi Kaslik, Janine Armin, Nathaniel G. Moore, R.M. Vaughan, None, None, None, None , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming by Mike Brown

1. How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

By: Mike Brown

4.09

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

The solar system most of us grew up with included nine planets, with Mercury closest to the sun and… read more

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Cover of Toronto Noir by Peter Robinson, Michael Redhill, George Elliott Clarke, Gail Bowen, Emily Schultz, Sean   Dixon, Andrew Pyper, Heather Birrell, Kim Moritsugu, Pasha Malla, Ibi Kaslik, Janine Armin, Nathaniel G. Moore, R.M. Vaughan, None, None, None, None

2. Toronto Noir

By: Peter Robinson , Michael Redhill , George Elliott Clarke , Gail Bowen , Emily Schultz , Sean Dixon , Andrew Pyper , Heather Birrell , Kim Moritsugu , Pasha Malla , Ibi Kaslik , Janine Armin , Nathaniel G. Moore , R.M. Vaughan , None , None , None , None

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

A multicultural nexus, Toronto hosts Indian, Portuguese, African, Italian, and Chinese communities … read more

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  • canada
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of New Orleans Noir by Julie Smith

3. New Orleans Noir

By: Julie Smith

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

New Orleans has always had a heart of noir. Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Ace Atkins, Patty … read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Swan Song by Robert McCammon

4. Swan Song

By: Robert McCammon

4.10

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth'… read more

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  • fiction

5. Belfast Noir

By: Ian McDonald , Lee Child , Ruth Dudley Edwards , Gerard Brennan , Stuart Neville , Brian McGilloway , Adrian McKinty , Claire McGowan , Sam Millar , Eoin McNamee , Steve Cavanagh , Arlene Hunt , Glenn Patterson , Alex Barclay , None , None

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The works are short, allowing readers to savor each snippet or devour the entire compelling book i… read more

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6. Boston Noir

By: Dennis Lehane , Dana Cameron , Stewart O'Nan , Lynne Heitman , Brendan DuBois , John Dufresne , Don Lee , None , Jim Fusilli , Itabari Njeri , None

4.20

Format: None pages,

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7. D.C. Noir

By: None , Laura Lippman , James Grady , None , Robert Andrews , Jim Fusilli , Rubén Castañeda , Kenji Jasper , Richard Currey , David Slater , None , None , None , None , None , None

4.33

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

Brand new stories by: George Pelecanos, James Grady, Kenji Jasper, Jim Beane, Jabari Asim, Ruben Ca… read more

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8. Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography

By: Chester Brown

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." -Tim… read more

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9. Helsinki Noir

By: James Thompson

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Paperback

"Readers should be prepared to keep the lights on at night after finishing this unnerving collectio… read more

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10. Dead Eleven

By: Jimmy Juliano

3.72

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, h… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum

11. Helpmeet

By: Naben Ruthnum

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

It's 1900, and Louise Wilk is taking her dying husband from Manhattan to the upstate orchard estate… read more

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  • short stories
  • fiction
"This isn’t like the nose. That came off, like it was being picked at, pulled, tugged like taffy. This is from the inside. I can feel it when I’m going to sleep. Through the optic nerves. Drinking, ge…"

-Naben Ruthnum, Helpmeet

Cover of The Lost Village by Camilla Sten

12. The Lost Village

By: Camilla Sten

3.54

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"This isn't a movie. In a movie we would have hugged and been best friends again, now and forever. That's never going to happen. I think I'll be living with this dull pain for the rest of my life. I'l…"

-Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

"She's right. They all are. I can feel it in my bones, that fear, like a sour taste on my tongue. I want nothing more than to stay here, to give in to their reason. I've seen the movies, too—I know wh…"

-Camilla Sten, The Lost Village

Cover of The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1) by Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

13. The Creak on the Stairs (Forbidden Iceland, #1)

By: Eva Björg Ægisdóttir

3.92

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

When a body of a woman is discovered at a lighthouse in the Icelandic town of Akranes, it soon beco… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • noir
  • fiction
Cover of Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) by Waubgeshig Rice

14. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

Cover of Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age by Annalee Newitz

15. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

By: Annalee Newitz

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more

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"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"

-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

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16. Negative Space

By: B.R. Yeager

3.72

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more

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  • fiction
"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"

-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space

Cover of And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott

17. And Then She Fell

By: Alicia Elliott

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous wo… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
"Nothing I do is done solely for me. Everything is done to elevate Steve or Dawn, in some way. I'm an afterthought in my own life."

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

"A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll b…"

-Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

Cover of Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead

18. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

Cover of The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden

19. The House of Last Resort

By: Christopher Golden

3.20

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

The next high concept horror novel from NYT bestselling author Christopher Golden. Across Italy,… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu

20. Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

By: Kim Fu

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the twelve unforgettable tales of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century, the strange is made… read more

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  • fiction
  • short stories
  • canada
"Just imagine it: no longer feeling guilty for everything you have and don't deserve, for an unjust world bent in your favor, paying the piper at last. Wasn't it worth it, after all? My head on a pike…"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

"My wife and I are that other kind of rich: the misers among you, in our quaint three-bedroom house in the suburbs, unrenovated since the 1990s, one modest hatchback car between us, our big-box store …"

-Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Cover of All The Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

21. All The Young Men

By: Ruth Coker Burks

4.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All The Young Men , a gripping and triumphant tale of human compassion, is the true story of Ruth C… read more

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"That's right. I have you. And I have my guys. And I have Allison. But I spent all this time believing everything I heard in church--that I need a husband to be whole, to have a family for Allison. An…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"I go to the grave shared by my father and Jimmy. The question I get most, the one I hate, is why I went into his room. And why I helped people. Again and again, "Why did you do it? How?" The answer i…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"It wasn't just the people who died of AIDS. Even many who did not have the virus ended up committing suicide. They lived through the depths of the epidemic only to take their own lives. But I knew th…"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

"I'm here," I'd say. And I'd listen to them cry for an hour, because they couldn't get it out or they didn't know how. "It's okay, just go ahead and cry. And if you can talk then you can talk. And if …"

-Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men

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