Books like Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
12 books with a reading profile close to Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind. Deep and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Penance
by Eliza Clark
thriller, narrative
Set in the seaside town of Crow-on-Sea, this novel uses a fictional true-crime format to document the murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson.
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2
Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
thriller, narrative
Amanda and Clay, a white middle-class couple from Brooklyn, rent a remote vacation home in Long Island with their two teenage children.
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3
Birnam Wood
thriller, narrative
Mira Bunting leads Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective in New Zealand that plants crops on private land to challenge property rights.
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4
No Country for Old Men
thriller, narrative
Llewellyn Moss, a welder and Vietnam veteran, discovers two million dollars in cash while hunting near the Rio Grande, leftovers from a botched drug deal.
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5
The Guest
by Emma Cline
thriller, narrative
Twenty-two-year-old Alex is cast out of her older boyfriend Simon’s wealthy Long Island home after a breach of etiquette.
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6
The North Water
by Ian McGuire
thriller, narrative
In 1859, Patrick Sumner, a disgraced former army surgeon from the Indian Mutiny, signs on as medic aboard the whaling ship Volunteer, bound for the Arctic.
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7
Once There Were Wolves
thriller, narrative
Inti Flynn leads a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the Scottish Highlands to restore the landscape's ecological balance.
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8
State of Wonder
by Ann Patchett
thriller, narrative
Pharmacology researcher Marina Singh travels from Minnesota to the Amazon basin to investigate the death of a colleague and the status of a long-delayed drug project.
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9
Notes on an Execution
thriller, narrative
Ansel Packer sits on Texas death row with twelve hours left before his lethal injection.
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10
Fight Club
Also deep · thriller, narrative
An insomniac office worker finds relief from his corporate boredom by engaging in underground bare-knuckle boxing matches orchestrated by Tyler Durden, a charismatic soap salesman.
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11
The Orphan Master's Son
by Adam Johnson
Also deep and thought-provoking · thriller, narrative
The novel follows Pak Jun Do, a soldier in North Korea who rises through the ranks of the state’s bureaucracy.
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12
A Burning
thriller, narrative
Set in contemporary Kolkata, the story begins when Jivan, a young Muslim woman living in the slums, posts a comment on Facebook questioning the government’s response to a deadly terrorist attack on a train.
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