10 must-read mystery books like The Trackers by Charles Frazier

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The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p…

"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

If you liked the mystery plot in The Trackers by Charles Frazier , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Cover of Hang the Moon by Jeannette Walls

2. Hang the Moon

By: Jeannette Walls

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk … read more

Similar categories in Jeannette Walls's Hang the Moon book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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4. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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5. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

Similar categories in Richard Russo's Somebody's Fool book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Trackers by Charles Frazier

7. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

Similar categories in Charles Frazier's The Trackers book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • art
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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8. The Last Ranger

By:

None

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

Similar categories in 's The Last Ranger book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Jiles's Chenneville book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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14. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Table for Two by Amor Towles

15. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

16. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

Cover of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

17. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

By: David Grann

4.19

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more

Similar categories in David Grann's The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • mystery
  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

Cover of Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) by Colson Whitehead

19. Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

By: Colson Whitehead

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy … read more

Similar categories in Colson Whitehead's Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2) book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Misery is a money pit."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Step away entirely or you haven't stepped away at all."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"White cops did as they pleased. Crooked white cops? Untouchable."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

"Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible."

-Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto (Ray Carney, #2)

Cover of Good Night, Irene by Luis Alberto Urrea

20. Good Night, Irene

By: Luis Alberto Urrea

4.14

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Nightingale and Transcription, an exhilarating World War II epic that chron… read more

Similar categories in Luis Alberto Urrea's Good Night, Irene book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The women posed for snapshots. Dozens of snapshots. . . . They imagined that, long after the soldiers had become old, perhaps even after they'd died, someone would come to wonder about these women ho…"

-Luis Alberto Urrea, Good Night, Irene

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21. Small Mercies

By: Dennis Lehane

4.29

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling writer returns with a masterpiece to rival Mystic River —a… read more

Similar categories in Dennis Lehane's Small Mercies book and Charles Frazier's The Trackers

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook

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Jeannette Walls

3.83

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4.29

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3.75

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3.79

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