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Tar Baby

Toni Morrison

1981 ★ 4.2

True History of the Kelly Gang

Peter Carey

2002

The Godfather

Mario Puzo

1969 ★ 4.3

Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens

1839 ★ 4.1

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy

1891 ★ 4.1

Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Vol. 10

Naoki Urasawa

2007 ★ 4.6

Native Son

Richard Wright, Richard Wright - undifferentiated

1940 ★ 4.0

Return to the Isle of the Lost

Melissa De La Cruz

2016 ★ 3.5

Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne in The Bourne legacy

Eric Van Lustbader

2005 ★ 3.6

Hard rain falling

Don Carpenter

1966 ★ 4.3

De man die even wilde afrekenen

Per Wahlöö, Maj Sjöwall

1971 ★ 4.0

WWW

Robert J. Sawyer

2010 ★ 4.5

The Quantum thief

Hannu Rajaniemi

2011 ★ 3.2

Bank Shot

Donald E. Westlake

1972 ★ 4.7

I, Alex Cross

James Patterson

2009 ★ 4.0

The 7th victim

Alan Jacobson, Jacobson, Alan

2008 ★ 3.8

The Night Gardener

George P. Pelecanos

2006 ★ 3.6

Live by Night

Dennis Lehane

2012 ★ 4.0

Sidney Sheldon's Reckless

Tilly Bagshawe

2015 ★ 5.0

Drive

James Sallis

2005 ★ 2.8

Fool's Assassin

Robin Hobb

2001 ★ 4.0

Tsotsi

Athol Fugard

1980 ★ 3.5

UnDivided

Neal Shusterman

2014 ★ 4.0

Grimalkin, the witch assassin

Patrick Arrasmith, Christopher Evan Welch, Joseph Delaney

2011 ★ 3.5

Night Boat To Tangier

Kevin Barry

2019 ★ 3.9

Homeport

Nora Roberts

1998 ★ 3.5

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Holly Jackson

2025 ★ 4.0

Payback

Gordon Korman

2017 ★ 5.0

The two minute rule

Robert Crais

2006 ★ 4.0

Saturday

Ian McEwan

2005 ★ 3.7

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