6 must-read mystery books like Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) by Adam Sternbergh

Cover of Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) by Adam Sternbergh

Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

By: Adam Sternbergh

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An addictive genre-blend of a thriller: the immersive sci-fi of Ernest Cline; the hard-boiled rhyth…

If you liked the mystery plot in Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) by Adam Sternbergh , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1) by Cherie Priest

1. Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)

By: Cherie Priest

3.52

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcome… read more

Similar categories in Cherie Priest's Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1) book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fiction
"She was thirty-five, and she did not look a minute younger."

-Cherie Priest, Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)

"He hadn’t found what he’d meant to find, but his need to swipe and hoard something had been appeased for now."

-Cherie Priest, Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)

"The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could’ve been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source. It whispered."

-Cherie Priest, Boneshaker (The Clockwork Century, #1)

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2. The Killer Inside Me

By: Jim Thompson

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Paperback

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to … read more

Similar categories in Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Victorious (The Lost Fleet, #6) by Jack Campbell

3. Victorious (The Lost Fleet, #6)

By: Jack Campbell

3.59

Format: 370 pages, Paperback

The Lost Fleet: Relentlessfound its way onto the New York Timesbestseller list... Now Victoriouslea… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Relentless (The Lost Fleet, #5) by Jack Campbell

4. Relentless (The Lost Fleet, #5)

By: Jack Campbell

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

After successfully freeing Alliance POWs, "Black Jack" Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to amb… read more

Similar categories in Jack Campbell's Relentless (The Lost Fleet, #5) book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • science fiction
  • fiction

5. Gun, With Occasional Music

By: Jonathan Lethem

2.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gumshoe Conrad Metcalf has problems--there's a rabbit in his waiting room and a trigger-happy kanga… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • dystopia
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • science fiction
Cover of Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) by Adam Sternbergh

6. Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

By: Adam Sternbergh

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An addictive genre-blend of a thriller: the immersive sci-fi of Ernest Cline; the hard-boiled rhyth… read more

Similar categories in Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • dystopia
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • science fiction

7. Courageous (The Lost Fleet, #3)

By: Jack Campbell

4.19

Format: 340 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Lost Fleet continues its perilous journey home. Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance… read more

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8. Infinite

By: Jeremy Robinson

3.58

Format: 376 pages,

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9. Parasite (Parasitology, #1)

By: Mira Grant

3.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good he… read more

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10. Symbiont (Parasitology, #2)

By: Mira Grant

3.36

Format: None pages, ebook

THE SECOND BOOK IN MIRA GRANT'S TERRIFYING PARASITOLOGY SERIES. THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGe… read more

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11. The Friends of Eddie Coyle

By: George V. Higgins

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eddie Coyle works for Jimmy Scalisi, supplying him with guns for a couple of bank jobs. But a cop n… read more

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12. Valiant (The Lost Fleet, #4)

By: Jack Campbell

3.19

Format: 384 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Deep within Syndicate World space, the Alliance fleet continues its dangerous journey home under th… read more

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Cover of I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons by Peter S. Beagle

13. I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

By: Peter S. Beagle

3.78

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

A cast of characters trapped within their roles of dragon hunter, princess, and more must come toge… read more

Similar categories in Peter S. Beagle's I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • fiction
"Fear cannot breed where there is action."

-Peter S. Beagle, I'm Afraid You've Got Dragons

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14. poyums

By: Len Pennie

4.58

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

And I have done more than just simply get by So much more than escape or survive Through the galv… read more

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Cover of Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) by Nick Harkaway

15. Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

By: Nick Harkaway

4.03

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A virtuosic mashup of Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler by way of Marvel—the story of a detective… read more

Similar categories in Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1) book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • dystopia
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • science fiction
"In her hands, a corpse is like one of those old Bibles chained up in a dusty room, not only the printed text and the rich colours of the pictures, but the records of marriages and births and deaths i…"

-Nick Harkaway, Titanium Noir (Titanium Noir, #1)

Cover of Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3) by Jason Pargin

16. Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3)

By: Jason Pargin

4.29

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Tabula Ra$a is hosting its massive annual music festival in the desert, which every year precedes t… read more

Similar categories in Jason Pargin's Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia (Zoey Ashe, #3) book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
Cover of The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston

17. The Maleficent Seven

By: Cameron Johnston

3.98

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

When you are all out of heroes, all that's left are the villains. Black Herran was a dread demon… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Johnston's The Maleficent Seven book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • fiction
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18. The Butcher of the Forest

By: Premee Mohamed

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A world-weary woman races against the clock to rescue the children of a wrathful tyrant from a dang… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Ocean's Godori by Elaine U. Cho

19. Ocean's Godori

By: Elaine U. Cho

3.67

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Ocean Yoon has never felt like much of a Korean, even if she is descended from a long line of haeny… read more

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  • science fiction
  • fiction
"She asks, "Do you ever want to go back to Mars?" "It's a weird little place," he replies. "Stuck in its ways. I feel more like a Martian when I'm not there, if that makes sense."

-Elaine U. Cho, Ocean's Godori

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20. Ilium

By: Lea Carpenter

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Set in the dark world of international espionage, from London to Mallorca, Croatia, Paris, and Cap … read more

Similar categories in Lea Carpenter's Ilium book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of The Oxygen Farmer by Colin  Holmes

21. The Oxygen Farmer

By: Colin Holmes

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sabotage, murder, cover-ups. Just another day on the Moon. After 35 years of living on the Moon, cr… read more

Similar categories in Colin Holmes's The Oxygen Farmer book and Adam Sternbergh's Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1)

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • science fiction

14 must-read fiction books like Shovel Ready (Spademan, #1) by Adam Sternbergh

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Cherie Priest

3.52

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The Killer Inside Me

Jim Thompson

3.60

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Victorious (The Lost Fleet, #6)

Jack Campbell

3.59

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Relentless (The Lost Fleet, #5)

Jack Campbell

3.50

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4.58

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Pity

Andrew McMillan

3.71

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Queen Macbeth

Val McDermid

3.77

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Lemn Sissay

3.67

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