Thriller · Similar reads
Books like The Power of the Dog
The best books like The Power of the Dog are In Cold Blood, Blood Meridian, and Killers of the Flower Moon. The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow is about the drug war, institutional corruption, moral compromise. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote · Memoir
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Blood Meridian
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Cormac McCarthy · Literary fiction
Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West is set along the Texas-Mexico border in the 1840s and loosely follows a teenage runaway known only as the kid, who falls in with the Glanton gang — a historical band of scalp hunters hired by the Mexican government to kill Apache raiders.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Killers of the Flower Moon
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David Grann · History
In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe · History
Say Nothing opens with a scene that sets its register precisely: Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, is dragged from her Belfast flat by a gang of masked strangers in December 1972 and never seen alive again.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Lawrence Wright · History
Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower is the most comprehensive account of how al-Qaeda came to attack the United States on September 11, 2001.
A kindred thriller read.
Read the summary → - Tell No One
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Harlan Coben · Thriller
Tell No One is a standalone thriller by Harlan Coben published in 2001.
Both dig into institutional corruption.
Read the summary → - The Cartel
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Don Winslow · Thriller
The Cartel is the second installment in Don Winslow's trilogy about the Mexican drug war, picking up years after The Power of the Dog left off.
Both dig into moral compromise.
Read the summary → - The Dogs of Riga
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Henning Mankell · Thriller
The Dogs of Riga is the second Kurt Wallander novel, published in 1992 and set partly in Sweden but primarily in Latvia at the moment the Soviet Union is collapsing.
Both dig into moral compromise.
Read the summary → - The Firm
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John Grisham · Thriller
Mitch McDeere is a Harvard Law graduate who accepts a job at a small, lavishly compensating Memphis firm called Bendini, Lambert & Locke.
Both dig into moral compromise.
Read the summary → - The Pelican Brief
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John Grisham · Thriller
Two Supreme Court justices are assassinated in a single night.
Both dig into institutional corruption.
Read the summary → - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
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John le Carré · Thriller
George Smiley, a rumpled, semi-retired British intelligence officer, is pulled back from the cold to investigate a claim that a Soviet mole has burrowed into the very top of MI6 — the Circus, as insiders call it.
Both dig into moral compromise.
Read the summary → - Devil in a Blue Dress
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Walter Mosley · Mystery
Easy Rawlins is a Black World War II veteran living in Watts in 1948.
Both dig into moral compromise.
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Books like The Power of the Dog: quick answers
What are the best books like The Power of the Dog?
The best books like The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow are In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Power of the Dog, such as the drug war, institutional corruption, moral compromise.
What should I read after The Power of the Dog?
A natural next read after The Power of the Dog is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. A kindred thriller read. Other strong choices are Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.
What books are similar to The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow?
The Power of the Dog centers on the drug war, institutional corruption, moral compromise. Books with a similar feel include In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright, Tell No One by Harlan Coben — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
