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Read-Alikes for Books Starting with J

45 books starting with "j"

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  • Jack
    Jack
    by Marilynne Robinson
    Hardcover: Sep 2020
    Paperback: Apr 2021
     
    Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction.
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  • Jack of Spades
    Jack of Spades : A Tale of Suspense
    by Joyce Carol Oates
    Hardcover: May 2015
    Paperback: May 2016
     
    An exquisite, psychologically complex thriller about the opposing forces within the mind of one ambitious writer and the line between genius and madness.
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  • Jackdaws
    Jackdaws
    by Ken Follett
    Hardcover: Dec 2001
    Paperback: Dec 2006
     
    'Follett delivers a very entertaining, very cinematic thriller about a ragtag, all-female band of British agents, code-named Jackdaws, sent to blow up a key telephone exchange in France on the eve of D-Day.'
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  • Jackie & Me
    Jackie & Me
    by Louis Bayard
    Hardcover: Jun 2022
    Paperback: Jun 2023
     
    Master storyteller Louis Bayard delivers a surprising portrait of a young Jackie Kennedy as we've never seen her before.
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  • Jade Dragon Mountain
    Jade Dragon Mountain
    by Elsa Hart
    Hardcover: Sep 2015
    Paperback: Jul 2016
     
    On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell.
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  • James
    James : A Novel
    by Percival Everett
    Hardcover: Mar 2024
     
    A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. From the "literary icon" (Oprah Daily) and Pulitzer Prize Finalist whose novel Erasure is the ...
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  • Jamrach's Menagerie
    Jamrach's Menagerie : A Novel
    by Carol Birch
    Hardcover: Jun 2011
    Paperback: Jun 2012
     
    A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal.
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  • Jazz Bird
    Jazz Bird
    by Craig Holden
    Hardcover: Dec 2001
    Paperback: Jan 2003
     
    Based on a true story - at once a love story, a crime novel, and the tale of the courtroom battle between two powerful men whose respective futures hang in the balance.
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