5 best-selling mystery books like Perfidia by James Ellroy

Cover of Perfidia by James Ellroy

Perfidia

By: James Ellroy

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of…

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Cover of The Recognitions by William H. Gass, William Gaddis

1. The Recognitions

By: William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Format: 976 pages, Paperback

The book Jonathan Franzen dubbed the "ur-text of postwar fiction" and the "first great cultural cri… read more

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  • fiction
"Women get desperate, but they don't understand despair."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"That fever had passed; but for the rest of his life it never left his eyes."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Reading Proust isn't just reading a book, it's an experience and you can't reject an experience."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

"Most people are clever because they don't know how to be honest." William Gaddis, The Recognitions."

-William H. Gass, The Recognitions

Cover of La famiglia Karnowski by Anna Linda Callow, Israel J. Singer

2. La famiglia Karnowski

By: Anna Linda Callow , Israel J. Singer

3.74

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Bastano a volte poche pagine per accorgersi di avere fra le mani un grande romanzo, e per cogliere … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. River Thieves

By: Michael Crummey

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

River Thieves is a beautifully written and compelling novel that breathes life into the pivotal eve… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Underworld

By: Don DeLillo

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Wraiths of the Broken Land by S. Craig Zahler

5. Wraiths of the Broken Land

By: S. Craig Zahler

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

A brutal and unflinching tale that takes many of its cues from both cinema and pulp horror, Wraiths… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Perfidia by James Ellroy

6. Perfidia

By: James Ellroy

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. The United States teeters on the edge of war. The roundup of… read more

Similar categories in James Ellroy's Perfidia book and James Ellroy's Perfidia

  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Given Day (Coughlin #1) by Dennis Lehane

7. The Given Day (Coughlin #1)

By: Dennis Lehane

3.83

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Set in Boston at the end of the First World War, New York Timesbest-selling author Dennis Lehane's … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of The Great and Secret Show (Book of the Art #1) by Clive Barker

8. The Great and Secret Show (Book of the Art #1)

By: Clive Barker

3.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Clive Barker's bestseller Weaveworldastonished readers with his visionary range, establishing him a… read more

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  • thriller
  • fiction

9. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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10. The Jugger (Parker, #6)

By: Richard Stark

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Not many men knew what Parker did for a living, because what he did was steal. But Joe Sheer, a ret… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"Well, it just figures," Younger told him, like a man explaining his religion."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The technicians worked around him now as though they expected to launch him into space."

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

"The room was full of law. Apparently somebody on Younger’s force had invited the state police to attend after all; the pack of technical men, with their cameras and chalk, powders and notebooks and l…"

-Richard Stark, The Jugger (Parker, #6)

11. The Outfit (Parker, #3)

By: Richard Stark

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

When the Outfit tries to kill him, Parker declares war. Ripping off the syndicate is easy, but goin… read more

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12. The Man With The Getaway Face (Parker, #2)

By: Richard Stark

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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13. JR

By: William Gaddis , Frederick R. Karl

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

J R is the long-awaited novel from William Gaddis, author of The Recognitions,that tremendous book … read more

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14. Dissipatio H.G.

By: Guido Morselli

3.80

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

From his solitary buen retiro in the mountains, the last man on earth drives to the capital Chrysop… read more

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  • fiction
"Il pessimismo radicale sconfina nell'ottimismo."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

"Morire biologicamente, è il perfezionarsi di uno stato in cui ci troviamo già ora."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

"Ho paura dell'uomo, come dei topi e delle zanzare, per il danno e il fastidio di cui è produttore inesausto."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

"Quello che abbiamo posseduto, ce lo possiamo mettere dietro le spalle, confinarlo nel passato, nel già-fatto."

-Guido Morselli, Dissipatio H.G.

15. Caught Stealing (Hank Thompson, #1)

By: Charlie Huston

2.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry "call me Hank" Thompson once … read more

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16. Q

By: Shaun Whiteside , Wu Ming , Luther Blissett

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1517, Martin Luther nails his ninety-five theses demanding reform of the Catholic Church to the … read more

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17. Gentlemen of the Road

By: Michael Chabon , Gary Gianni

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

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18. A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time, #1)

By: Anthony Powell

3.07

Format: None pages,

Who is Widmerpool? The question that is to dog Nicholas Jenkins crystallizes as he sees the gawky f… read more

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19. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

20. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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Cover of The Border (Power of the Dog, #3) by Don Winslow

21. The Border (Power of the Dog, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.47

Format: 768 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive, highly anticipated conclusion to the epic Cartel trilogy from the New York Times bes… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime

12 must-read fiction books like Perfidia by James Ellroy

Transform Your Habits

The Recognitions

William H. Gass , William Gaddis

4.20

Transform Your Habits

La famiglia Karnowski

Anna Linda Callow , Israel J. Singer

3.74

Transform Your Habits

River Thieves

Michael Crummey

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Underworld

Don DeLillo

4.81

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13 Top fiction books like Dissipatio H.G. by Guido Morselli

Transform Your Habits

As a Man Grows Older

Italo Svevo , James Lasdun

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Gargoyles

Thomas Bernhard , Richard Winston , Clara Winston

3.34

Transform Your Habits

The Lime Works

Thomas Bernhard , Sophie Wilkins

3.73

Transform Your Habits

History

Elsa Morante , Lily Tuck

3.64

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