A World of Thieves: A Novel
By: James Carlos Blake
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur box…
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1. Shutter Island
By: Dennis Lehane
4.12
Format: 369 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter … read more
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"I'm just bones in a box, Teddy."-Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
"There's always a 'she'. Isn't there?"-Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
"You was in all sorts of places, huh?"-Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
"One that society can't forgive, but I can."-Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
2. The Moon Is Down
By: John Steinbeck
3.93
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Taken by surprise, a small coastal town is overrun by an invading army with little resistance. The … read more
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"The fool supply was controlled..."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"We have taken on a job, haven’t we?"-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"The flies have conquered the flypaper."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
"...rose like cream to the top of milk."-John Steinbeck, The Moon Is Down
3. Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)
By: James Lee Burke
4.16
Format: 366 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Book #3 from the series: Dave Robicheaux BACK IN THE UNDERWORLD HE TRIED TO LEAVE BEHIND Hau… read more
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"Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton."-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)
". . . I had found the edge. The place where you unstrap all your fastenings to the earth, to what you are what you have been, where you flame out on the edge of the spheres, and the sun and moon beco…"-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)
"The rain spun in the yellow arc lights over the café parking lot. It was empty inside, except for a fat Negro woman whom I could see through the service window in the kitchen, and a pretty, redheaded…"-James Lee Burke, Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)
4. The Winter of Our Discontent
By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw
4.01
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store … read more
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"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"If you want to keep a friend, never test him."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms."-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
5. Look at the Birdie: Unpublished Short Fiction
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.29
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Look at the Birdieis a collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the … read more
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6. Tortilla Flat
By: John Steinbeck
3.72
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Steinbeck is an artist; and he tells the stories of these lovable thieves and adulterers with a ge… read more
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7. Deep Water
By: Patricia Highsmith
4.10
Format: 668 pages, Paperback
In Deep Water, set in the quiet, small town of Little Wesley, Patricia Highsmith has created a vici… read more
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8. The Thief Who Couldn't Sleep (Evan Tanner, #1)
By: Lawrence Block
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Evan Michael Tanner hasn't slept in more than a decade--not since a small piece of battlefield shra… read more
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9. Hollywood Hills (Hollywood Station, #4)
By: Joseph Wambaugh
3.82
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power--passing through the neighborhood… read more
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10. Provinces of Night
By: William Gay
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
The year is 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth has returned to his home - a forgotten corner of Tennessee - … read more
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11. Heaven's Prisoners (Dave Robicheaux, #2)
By: James Lee Burke
4.00
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
James Lee Burke's second Robicheaux novel takes the detective out of New Orleans and into the bayou… read more
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12. News of the World
By: Paulette Jiles
3.69
Format: 98 pages, Hardcover
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a yo… read more
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13. A World of Thieves: A Novel
By: James Carlos Blake
4.00
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur box… read more
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14. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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15. Trinity
By: Leon Uris
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Leon Uris's beloved Irish classic, available in Avon mass market. From the acclaimed author who en… read more
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16. Mortal Fear
By: Greg Iles
4.35
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
By day, Harper Cole trades commodities from his farmhouse in the isolated Mississippi Delta. But at… read more
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17. Twilight
By: William Gay
3.96
Format: 433 pages, Hardcover
A Southern gothic novel about an undertaker who won't let the dead rest. Suspecting that something … read more
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19. Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
By: James Clavell
4.30
Format: 732 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai-Pan is the story of Dirk S… read more
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"There can only be one Tai-Pan."-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
"You live by the lash and you'll die by it."-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
"Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle."-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
"Gods are like people. They believe anything if you tell them right way."-James Clavell, Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)
20. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)
By: Don Winslow
4.42
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more
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21. Blue Moon (Jack Reacher, #24)
By: Lee Child
3.96
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
“This is a random universe,” Reacher says. “Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.” Th… read more
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22. The Shadow Murders (Department Q, #9)
By: Jussi Adler-Olsen
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In the penultimate thriller of the 'New York Times' and number one internationally best-selling Dep… read more
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23. In the Blood (Terminal List, #5)
By: Jack Carr
4.50
Format: 459 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling Terminal List series continues as James Reece embarks on a global… read more
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24. Heat 2
By: Michael Mann
4.26
Format: 470 pages, Hardcover
Michael Mann, four-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker and writer-director of Heat, Collateral, Thief, M… read more
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25. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)
By: Don Winslow
4.10
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more
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26. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)
By: Don Winslow
4.04
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more
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27. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.10
Format: 357 pages, Hardcover
Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more
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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)
28. The Island
By: Adrian McKinty
3.77
Format: 375 pages, Hardcover
It was just supposed to be a family vacation. A terrible accident changed everything. You don't k… read more
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"the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist."-Adrian McKinty, The Island
29. California Bear
By: Duane Swierczynski
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A witty new thriller from a "great storyteller" (Michael Connelly), California Bear follows four un… read more
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30. Back to the Dirt
By: Frank Bill
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A timeless--and timely--work: a gritty, wrenching novel from deep inside the traumas of the broken … read more
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31. Slow Bear
By: Anthony Neil Smith
4.19
Format: 142 pages, Kindle Edition
In the oil fields of North Dakota, times were good during the boom. Some people got Santana the Ex… read more
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