17 must-read fiction books like I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

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I Am Still Alive

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.87

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

After Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn’t act fast, the co…

"Fire is warmth and food and clean water, but it’s hard and time-consuming, and people die because they spend all their time making the fire and no time finding water or building a shelter."

-Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

"I look at the wall where those first words - SMART, NOT STRONG - have been joined by dozens more. Pay attention to the wind. Steep drop west of the snag. Say something out loud at least once a day. Remember they’re coming."

-Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

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1. Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case

By: Chris Crowe

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The kidnapping and murder of Emmett Till is famous as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Emm… read more

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2. Okay for Now

By: Gary D. Schmidt

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Midwesterner Gary D. Schmidt won Newbery Honor awards for Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boysand… read more

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3. The Distance Between Lost and Found

By: Kathryn Holmes

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

Ever since the night of the incident with Luke Willis, the preacher's son, sophomore Hallelujah Cal… read more

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4. She's Not Sorry

By: Mary Kubica

3.81

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

An ICU nurse accidentally uncovers a patient’s frightening past in this chilling thriller. Megha… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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5. Home Is Where the Bodies Are

By: Jeneva Rose

3.86

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Marriage and You Shouldn’t Have Come Here com… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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6. Only If You're Lucky

By: Stacy Willingham

3.56

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Sharpe is larger than life. Magnetic, addictive. Bold and dangerous. Especially for Margot, wh… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"...with an entire year lost since I lost Eliza, I don't just need to be saved anymore. I need to be resuscitated."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"How interesting: that female instinct to duck, to hide, like prey catching sight of glowing eyes in the night. Something inherent in our very genes, our very DNA"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"She's all the way in the front, perched on the bow like a figurehead pulling us forward. Or maybe a siren, seductive and dangerous, her little lies fooling us all."

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

"And if Eliza was adrenaline, that makes Lucy something even more. Something more addicting, more dangerous. Something I probably shouldn't be dabbling in -- but at the same time, something impossible…"

-Stacy Willingham, Only If You're Lucky

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7. Everyone Is Watching

By: Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants hav… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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8. The New Couple in 5B

By: Lisa Unger

3.63

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A couple inherits an apartment with a spine-tingling past in this binge-worthy thriller from the Ne… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"We're always drawn back to our family of origin, aren't we? No matter how much pain they've caused, no matter how far we've run from them."

-Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

"I remember wondering if anything was real, anything was true or if every place, every reality, was just another story you choose to believe."

-Lisa Unger, The New Couple in 5B

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9. The Vacancy in Room 10

By: Seraphina Nova Glass

3.75

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

The Most Anticipated 2024 Book Releases by Nerd Daily Most Anticipated Crime Fiction Novels of 2… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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10. If Something Happens to Me

By: Alex Finlay

3.79

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

For the past five years, Ryan Richardson has relived that terrible night. The car door ripping open… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. Daughter of Mine

By: Megan Miranda

3.95

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All th… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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12. Dead of Winter

By: Darcy Coates

3.85

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness t… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • survival
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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13. The Summer She Went Missing

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Last summer, they searched for Audrey Covington. This summer, they'll search for the truth. Paige R… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of I Am Still Alive by Kate Alice Marshall

14. I Am Still Alive

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.87

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

After Jess is alone. Her cabin has burned to the ground. She knows if she doesn’t act fast, the co… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's I Am Still Alive book and Kate Alice Marshall's I Am Still Alive

  • mystery thriller
  • survival
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Fire is warmth and food and clean water, but it’s hard and time-consuming, and people die because they spend all their time making the fire and no time finding water or building a shelter."

-Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

"I look at the wall where those first words - SMART, NOT STRONG - have been joined by dozens more. Pay attention to the wind. Steep drop west of the snag. Say something out loud at least once a day. R…"

-Kate Alice Marshall, I Am Still Alive

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15. Only If You Dare: 13 Stories of Darkness and Doom

By: Josh Allen

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night--but only if you dare. You never know wh… read more

Similar categories in Josh Allen's Only If You Dare: 13 Stories of Darkness and Doom book and Kate Alice Marshall's I Am Still Alive

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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16. Murder Road

By: Simone St. James

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A young couple find themselves haunted by a string of gruesome murders committed along an old deser… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. Be Not Far from Me

By: Mindy McGinnis

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhe… read more

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  • survival
  • adventure
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Be not far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help."

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

"I've always known my body, its strength and purpose, the long muscles of my legs and the lean bulge of my biceps. This is different; this is an intimacy with my skeleton, from the exposed broken tips…"

-Mindy McGinnis, Be Not Far from Me

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18. Middle of the Night

By: Riley Sager

3.74

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. That's Not My Name

By: Megan Lally

4.12

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

She thought she had her life back. She was wrong. It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. The Nature of Disappearing

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this captivating novel of suspense, a wilderness guide must team up with the man who ruined her … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • survival
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"All of them skated through life making choices that could be swept away and tidied up with incomprehensible ease simply because of who they were."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

"This is the moment Emlyn will play over and over in her mind. The moment where her life swivels from its course and heads in an entirely different direction. Life is full of these moments. Little poi…"

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, The Nature of Disappearing

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21. The Unwanted: Stories of the Syrian Refugees

By: Don Brown

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Don Brown’s critically acclaimed, full-color nonfiction graphic novels The Grea… read more

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