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

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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…

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1. A Game for the Living

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.23

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

Ramón mends furniture. Theodore paints. A devout Catholic, Ramón lives in Mexico City, not far from… read more

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"Carlos leek altijd over zijn toeren, alsof hij net een stuk of vijf benzedrinetabletten had geslikt. Je kon zijn aandacht niet langer dan één minuut op hetzelfde gericht houden. Van een mening over e…"

-Patricia Highsmith, A Game for the Living

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2. Killing for Company: The Case of Dennis Nilsen

By: Brian Masters

3.94

Format: None pages, Paperback

On February 9th 1983 Dennis Nilsen was arrested at his Muswell Hill home, after human remains had b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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3. Ripley Under Ground (Ripley, #2)

By: Patricia Highsmith

5.00

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

"Patricia Highsmith is often called a mystery or crime writer, which is a bit like calling Picasso … read more

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4. Ripley Under Water (Ripley, #5)

By: Patricia Highsmith

5.00

Format: 362 pages,

Tom Ripley is settled into his estate in the French countryside, quietly enjoying his gardening and… read more

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5. The Boy Who Followed Ripley (Ripley, #4)

By: Patricia Highsmith

5.00

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

The Boy Who Followed Ripley, the fourth novel in the Ripley series, is one of Patricia Highsmith's … read more

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6. Ripley's Game (Ripley, #3)

By: Patricia Highsmith

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Living on his posh French estate with his elegant heiress wife, Tom Ripley, on the cusp of middle a… read more

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7. Night Train

By: Martin Amis

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walki… read more

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8. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith

By: Andrew Wilson

4.36

Format: 184 pages,

The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known chara… read more

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  • lesbian
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9. 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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10. London Fields

By: Martin Amis

4.04

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil. Everyone is always out there searchi… read more

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11. The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath, influencing co… read more

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12. Time's Arrow

By: Martin Amis

4.33

Format: None pages,

In Time's Arrowthe doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his l… read more

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13. House of Meetings

By: Martin Amis

4.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis's standing as "a force unto himself," as "The Wash… read more

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14. The Zone of Interest

By: Martin Amis

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing por… read more

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15. The Blunderer

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

For two years, Walter Stackhouse has been a faithful and supportive husband to his wife, Clara. She… read more

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16. Those Who Walk Away

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

The honeymoon is over, as they say, the bride dead by her own hand. Ray Garrett, the grieving husba… 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

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"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

18. Eleven

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

From the eerily outlandish to the dark and brutal, Eleven presents a gallery of bizarre characters,… read more

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19. The Two Faces of January

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.23

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Three of them are waiting. Rydal Keener is waiting for something exciting to happen in his grubby l… read more

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20. The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

By: Patricia Highsmith , Graham Greene

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

Best known for her novels (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers on a Train, A Suspension of Mercy, an… read more

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21. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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22. 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

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"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

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23. 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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  • nonfiction
  • books about books
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24. The Tower

By: Flora Carr

3.70

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A bold, feminist debut novel, reimagining Mary, Queen of Scots’s darkest hour, when she was held ho… read more

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25. Agent Running in the Field

By: John Le Carré

3.85

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent… read more

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"Beloof niets waar je niet op kunt terugkomen."

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"O cartaz seguinte anuncia as características curativas dos famosos banhos. Não há nenhum cartaz a anunciar que a cidade também é célebre como o local de encontro preferido da fina-flor do crime organ…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"Para quem tem acesso autorizado à Poeira de Estrelas, o espetáculo começa dentro de cinquenta e cinco minutos. Para quem não tem, há dois funcionários com olhos de águia à porta que terão todo o gost…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

"It is my considered opinion, that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Br…"

-John Le Carré, Agent Running in the Field

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26. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

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27. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

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28. The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece

By: Kevin Birmingham

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of THE MOST DANGEROUS BOOK, the true story behind the cr… read more

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29. How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler

By: Peter Pomerantsev

4.13

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propa… read more

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30. Patricia Highsmith's Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941-1950

By: Patricia Highsmith

4.09

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

Essential for understanding Patricia Highsmith’s transgressive life and prophetic work, this volume… read more

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31. Unsere Welt neu denken: Eine Einladung

By: Maja Göpel

4.23

Format: 208 pages, kindle_edition

Unsere Welt steht an einem Kipp-Punkt, und wir spüren es. Einerseits geht es uns so gut wie nie, an… read more

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3.38

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