6 best-selling crime books like Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

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Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig…

"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

If you liked the crime plot in Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories by Henry James, None

1. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

By: Henry James , None

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children ab… read more

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  • mystery
  • classics
  • fiction
Cover of Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions) by Adrienne Rich, Albert Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

2. Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

By: Adrienne Rich , Albert Gelpi , Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi

4.18

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This Norton Critical Edition presents the work of one of America's foremost poets. It moves well be… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Rich's Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions) book and Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train

  • classics
"The enemy is always outside the self, the struggle somewhere else."

-Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

"The wave changed instantly by rock; the rock changed by the wave returning over and over."

-Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

"When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them"

-Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

"Perhaps many white North Americans fear an overtly political art because it might persuade us emotionally of what we think we are “rationally"

-Adrienne Rich, Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

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3. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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4. The Maltese Falcon

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

By: Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

The stories found in A Haunted Housereflect Virginia Woolf's experimental writing style and act as … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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6. The Drowner

By: John D. MacDonald

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
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7. The Red House Mystery

By: A.A. Milne

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

The creator of such beloved storybook characters for children as Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Eeyor… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Death in Venice

By: Thomas Mann , Michael Cunningham , Michael Henry Heim

3.74

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

The world-famous masterpiece by Nobel laureate Thomas Mann -- here in a new translation by Michael … read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
"Nothing gladdens a writer more than a thought that can become pure feeling and a feeling that can become pure thought."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

"Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden."

-Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

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9. Double Indemnity

By: James M. Cain

4.06

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, o… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • american
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"I had killed a man, for money and a woman. I didn't have the money and I didn't have the woman."

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"They've committed a *murder*! And it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they got to ride all the way to the end of …"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

"There's a shark. Following the ship.' I tried not to look, but couldn't help it. I saw a flash of dirty white down in the green. We walked back to the deck chairs. Walter, we'll have to wait. Till th…"

-James M. Cain, Double Indemnity

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10. The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts

By: Jeff Goodwin , James M. Jasper

3.47

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Social Movements Reader, Second Edition, provides the most important and readable articles and … read more

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11. Deathtrap

By: Ira Levin

4.09

Format: None pages,

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12. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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13. The Devil's Trinity

By: Michael Parker

4.26

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern day thriller pitching the ultimate terror against the United States of America.CIA agent, … read more

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  • fiction
"Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?"

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"And in that vast emptiness, two heads bobbed above the surface without a sound, just one hundred feet from them."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

"That’s the second time you’ve apologised in less than a minute, Remo. When you have to do that to an admiral it could be your career on the line."

-Michael Parker, The Devil's Trinity

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14. Malice Aforethought

By: Francis Iles

3.93

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

On a balmy summer's day in 1930 the great and the good of the county are out in force for the annua… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"The evidence knocked clean out of their hands. Nothing but suspicion left…and you can’t arrest a murderer on suspicion, oh dear no! Only felonious loiterer’s and housebreakers and low scum like that.…"

-Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought

"Madeleine Cranmere met him in the hall and showed him over the ground floor herself. She appeared delighted to listen to his rapturous enthusiasm, and consulted him on a few points as if he were an e…"

-Francis Iles, Malice Aforethought

15. The Lost Daughter

By: Elena Ferrante

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Elena Ferrante will blow you away."-Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones From the author of Th… read more

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16. Beyond the Pleasure Principle

By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more

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17. The Price of Salt, or Carol

By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan

4.02

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more

Similar categories in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, or Carol book and Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train

  • classics
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She hated cleaning up after making something."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"

-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol

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18. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

Similar categories in Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train book and Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train

  • mystery thriller
  • classics
  • american
  • suspense
  • noir
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

Cover of Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford

19. Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith

By: Richard Bradford

3.17

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strang… read more

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20. The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.26

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Featuring a new introduction by Ken Liu, this revised edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s first full-len… read more

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"In many college English courses the words “myth"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

"Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Cover of The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett

21. The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies

By: Andy Beckett

4.27

Format: 532 pages, Kindle Edition

From the acclaimed author of Promised You a Miracle and When the Lights Went Out, the untold story … read more

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12 must-read fiction books like Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

Henry James , None

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Maltese Falcon

Dashiell Hammett

3.93

Transform Your Habits

A Haunted House and Other Short Stories

Virginia Woolf , Leonard Woolf

3.64

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8 best-selling nonfiction books like Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith by Richard Bradford

Transform Your Habits

Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen

Brian Masters

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith

Andrew Wilson

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires: The Life of Patricia Highsmith

Richard Bradford

3.17

Transform Your Habits

France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

Julian T. Jackson

4.17

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