Potboilers Books
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The Historian (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.80 — 278,916 ratings — published 2005
A Simple Plan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 37,391 ratings — published 1993
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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avg rating 4.20 — 750,608 ratings — published 1934
Bridget Jones’s Diary (Bridget Jones, #1)
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avg rating 3.81 — 1,029,660 ratings — published 1996
The Crimson Petal and the White (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 45,384 ratings — published 2002
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 3,428,090 ratings — published 2000
The Ruins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 68,950 ratings — published 2006
City of Golden Shadow (Otherland, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 29,036 ratings — published 1996
The Golden Gate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 6,700 ratings — published 2005
Marathon Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 21,831 ratings — published 1974
The Big Picture (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 4,781 ratings — published 1997
The Chain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 166,717 ratings — published 2019
A Week to be Wicked (Spindle Cove, #2)
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avg rating 4.08 — 40,265 ratings — published 2012
Billy Summers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 197,672 ratings — published 2021
The Book of Life (All Souls, #3)
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avg rating 4.21 — 222,208 ratings — published 2014
The Fisherman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 48,613 ratings — published 2016
The Foundling (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 7,845 ratings — published 1948
The Foreign Correspondent (Night Soldiers, #9)
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avg rating 3.88 — 5,224 ratings — published 2006
’Salem’s Lot (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 672,210 ratings — published 1975
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 2,246,114 ratings — published 2015
The Man with the Getaway Face (Parker, #2)
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avg rating 3.98 — 6,741 ratings — published 1963
What the Dead Know (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 25,121 ratings — published 2007
The Hot Kid (Carl Webster, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 5,726 ratings — published 2005
The Black Gang (Bulldog Drummond, #2)
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avg rating 3.81 — 195 ratings — published 1922
The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 30,651 ratings — published 2017
The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)
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avg rating 4.10 — 91,283 ratings — published 2017
The Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee #4)
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avg rating 3.95 — 6,762 ratings — published 1964
The Alienist (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 182,819 ratings — published 1994
The Jugger (Parker, #6)
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avg rating 4.01 — 3,012 ratings — published 1965
The Sun Is God (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 862 ratings — published 2014
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
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avg rating 4.26 — 360,496 ratings — published 1926
Death and the Dancing Footman (Roderick Alleyn, #11)
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avg rating 3.97 — 4,470 ratings — published 1941
The Prone Gunman (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 2,064 ratings — published 1981
The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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avg rating 3.95 — 247,752 ratings — published 2014
Gone Too Long (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 1,523 ratings — published 2019
The Empty Copper Sea (Travis McGee #17)
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avg rating 4.19 — 4,962 ratings — published 1978
Demon Seed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.50 — 17,953 ratings — published 1973
The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux, #16)
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avg rating 4.19 — 15,360 ratings — published 2007
The Steam Pig (Kramer and Zondi Mystery #1)
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avg rating 3.50 — 439 ratings — published 1971
Ten Plus One (87th Precinct, #17)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,742 ratings — published 1963
The Four Just Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.55 — 1,524 ratings — published 1905
Maigret and the Man on the Bench (Maigret #41)
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avg rating 3.78 — 2,057 ratings — published 1953
All Creatures Great and Small (All Creatures Great and Small, #1-2)
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avg rating 4.36 — 160,673 ratings — published 1970
The Poison Belt (Professor Challenger, #2)
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avg rating 3.49 — 3,741 ratings — published 1913
I Hear the Sirens in the Street (Detective Sean Duffy, #2)
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avg rating 4.07 — 10,241 ratings — published 2013
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 863,709 ratings — published 1974
The Electric Church (Avery Cates, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 3,266 ratings — published 2007
The Naming of the Dead (Inspector Rebus, #16)
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avg rating 4.03 — 13,268 ratings — published 2006
11/22/63 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 680,974 ratings — published 2011
“Hammett used to be irritated by that and would answer that nobody ever deliberately wrote a potboiler, you just did the best you could and woke up to find it good or no good.”
― An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir
― An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

