12 Top fiction books like A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne

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A Crime in the Neighborhood

By: Suzanne Berne

3.89

Format: 197 pages,

An auspicious debut novel by a young writer who will remind readers of Anne Lamott and Anne Tyler C…

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1. The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

By: John Connolly

4.22

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearanc… read more

Similar categories in John Connolly's The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3) book and Suzanne Berne's A Crime in the Neighborhood

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • fiction
"..her lips were as red as a stop light.."

-John Connolly, The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

"The nature of humanity, its essence, is to feel another's pain as one's own, and to act to take that pain away,. There is a nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness."

-John Connolly, The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

"There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact…"

-John Connolly, The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

"It was my first glimpse of the honeycomb world, my first inkling that the past never truly dies but is strangely, beautifully alive in the present. There is an interconnectedness to all things, a lin…"

-John Connolly, The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)

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2. The Road Home

By: Rose Tremain

3.88

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

In the story of Lev, newly arrived in London from Eastern Europe, Rose Tremain has written a wise a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of…"

-Rose Tremain, The Road Home

Cover of What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories by Laura Shapiro

3. What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

By: Laura Shapiro

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"Fascinating." Moira Hodgson, Wall Street Journal "Mouthwatering."--Eater.com A beloved culinary hi… read more

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4. A Dark-Adapted Eye

By: Ruth Rendell , Barbara Vine

1.00

Format: 96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

When Faith Severn's aunt was hanged for murder, the reason behind her dark deed died with her. For … read more

Similar categories in Ruth Rendell's A Dark-Adapted Eye book and Suzanne Berne's A Crime in the Neighborhood

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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5. The Idea of Perfection

By: Kate Grenville

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Unknown Binding

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of A Crime in the Neighborhood by Suzanne Berne

6. A Crime in the Neighborhood

By: Suzanne Berne

3.89

Format: 197 pages,

An auspicious debut novel by a young writer who will remind readers of Anne Lamott and Anne Tyler C… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Berne's A Crime in the Neighborhood book and Suzanne Berne's A Crime in the Neighborhood

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of A Spell of Winter by Helen Dunmore

7. A Spell of Winter

By: Helen Dunmore

4.37

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The inaugural winner of England's prestigious Orange Prize, A Spell of Winter is a compelling turn-… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Consider the Oyster by M.F.K. Fisher

8. Consider the Oyster

By: M.F.K. Fisher

3.50

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

M.F.K. Fisher, whom John Updike has called our "poet of the appetites," here pays tribute to that m… read more

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9. Fugitive Pieces

By: Anne Michaels

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year Winner of the Lannan Literary Fiction Award Winner of the … read more

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10. Larry's Party

By: Carol Shields

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Larry Weller, born in 1950, is an ordinary guy made extraordinary by his creator's perception, iron… read more

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11. When I Lived in Modern Times

By: Linda Grant

3.90

Format: 15 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction In the spring of 1946, Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a s… read more

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12. May We Be Forgiven

By: A.M. Homes

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic novel of twenty-first-century domestic life and the possibility of personal transfor… read more

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13. A Very Private Eye: The Diaries, Letters And Notebooks Of Barbara Pym

By: Barbara Pym , Hazel Holt , Hilary Pym

4.46

Format: 192 pages,

Intimate and unexpected portrait of the popular Engish novelist, Barbara Pym, in her own words, gat… read more

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14. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

Similar categories in Paul Lynch's Prophet Song book and Suzanne Berne's A Crime in the Neighborhood

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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15. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Barry's Old God's Time book and Suzanne Berne's A Crime in the Neighborhood

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • crime
  • fiction
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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16. Other Women

By: Emma Flint

4.16

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A husband. A wife. A lover. Each has a secret they’d kill to protect . . . From the author of Li… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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17. Property

By: Valerie Martin

3.69

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Valerie Martin’s Property delivers an eerily mesmerizing inquiry into slavery’s venomous effects on… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Everyone else felt the need to assure me that Mother's death was part of God's plan. Exactly, I wanted to shout after reading this sentiment half a dozen times--- his plan is to kill us all, and if a…"

-Valerie Martin, Property

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18. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Pear Field

By: Nana Ekvtimishvili

3.72

Format: 163 pages, Paperback

In post-soviet Georgia, on the outskirts of Tbilisi, on the corner of Kerch St., is an orphanage. I… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"It seems reasonable to assume that the minute Irma walks into Venera and Goderdzi's home she will take off her while wedding dress, take up the yoke of domestic duties and work like a mule until her …"

-Nana Ekvtimishvili, The Pear Field

Cover of brother. do. you. love. me. by Manni Coe

20. brother. do. you. love. me.

By: Manni Coe

4.39

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

brother. do. you. love. me. is the story of two brothers and their extraordinary journey of resilie… read more

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Cover of Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell S. Jackson

21. Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family

By: Mitchell S. Jackson

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying, dazzlingly written reckoning and an essential addition to the national conversatio… read more

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Rose Tremain

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A Dark-Adapted Eye

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1.00

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4.47

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