16 must-read contemporary books like The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen

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The Summer We Lost Her

By: Tish Cohen

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

It’s been a busy—and expensive—few years for Matt and Elise Sorenson and their young daughter Graci…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Alice Bliss

By: Laura Harrington

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Alice Bliss learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice … read more

Similar categories in Laura Harrington's Alice Bliss book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • realistic fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is …"

-Laura Harrington, Alice Bliss

"He begins to sing to her, very softly, almost not singing at all, just a whisper of a tune. He spins out the tune like it is a tale he is telling her, until he feels her body relax, until he feels he…"

-Laura Harrington, Alice Bliss

Cover of Family Tree by Barbara Delinsky

2. Family Tree

By: Barbara Delinsky

3.61

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Dana Clarke has always longed for the stability of home and family—her own childhood was not an eas… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Delinsky's Family Tree book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Gone Again (Jack Swyteck, #12) by James Grippando

3. Gone Again (Jack Swyteck, #12)

By: James Grippando

4.04

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

Sashi Burgette vanished three years ago on her way to school. The night after the teenager’s disapp… read more

Similar categories in James Grippando's Gone Again (Jack Swyteck, #12) book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Once Upon a River

By: Bonnie Jo Campbell

3.71

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

Bonnie Jo Campbell has created an unforgettable heroine in sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, a beauty w… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Jo Campbell's Once Upon a River book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. The Right Thing

By: Amy Conner

3.55

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

On a scorching August day in 1963, seven-year-old Annie Banks meets the girl who will become her be… read more

Similar categories in Amy Conner's The Right Thing book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Kin

By: Lesley Crewe

3.87

Format: 237 pages, Paperback

Traditions, created and subverted. Love, nurtured and destroyed. Friendships, marriages, and the wi… read more

Similar categories in Lesley Crewe's Kin book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • fiction
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7. The Woman Next Door

By: Cass Green

3.50

Format: None pages,

A No.1 e-book bestseller, perfect for fans of Herby Harriet Lane and In A Dark Dark Woodby Ruth War… read more

Similar categories in Cass Green's The Woman Next Door book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of The Alliance (The Alliance #1) by Jolina Petersheim

8. The Alliance (The Alliance #1)

By: Jolina Petersheim

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

When Leora Ebersole sees the small plane crash in her Old Order Mennonite community, she has no ide… read more

Similar categories in Jolina Petersheim's The Alliance (The Alliance #1) book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Summer of Good Intentions by Wendy Francis

9. The Summer of Good Intentions

By: Wendy Francis

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Cape Cod summers are supposed to remain reassuringly the same, but everything falls apart when thre… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Francis's The Summer of Good Intentions book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. Dear Carolina

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

3.77

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

A moving debut novel about two mothers--one biological and one adoptive--from a compelling new voic… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Woodson Harvey's Dear Carolina book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • family
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. A Game For All The Family

By: Sophie Hannah

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Justine thought she knew who she was, until an anonymous caller seemed to know better... After flee… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Hannah's A Game For All The Family book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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12. The Two-Family House

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

2.00

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Brooklyn, 1947: in the midst of a blizzard, in a two-family brownstone, two babies are born minutes… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Two-Family House book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook

13. Lies and Other Acts of Love

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dear Carolina was praised as "Southern fiction at its best." Now author Kristy Woodson Harvey prese… read more

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14. Lucky Us

By: Amy Bloom

3.49

Format: 465 pages, Hardcover

"My father's wife died. My mother said we should drive down to his place and see what might be in i… read more

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15. Dear Amy

By: Helen Callaghan

3.21

Format: 215 pages,

Margot Lewis is the agony aunt for The Cambridge Examiner. Her advice column, Dear Amy, gets all ki… read more

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16. The Good Father

By: Diane Chamberlain

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Four years ago, nineteen-year-old Travis Brown made a choice: to raise his newborn daughter on his … read more

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17. The Missing Witness (Quinn & Costa, #5)

By: Allison Brennan

4.14

Format: 411 pages, Hardcover

When a key witness goes missing, Quinn and Costa must find her before a killer silences her for goo… read more

Similar categories in Allison Brennan's The Missing Witness (Quinn & Costa, #5) book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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18. The Son of the House

By: Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

SHORTLISTED for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2021 • FINALIST for the Nigeria Prize for Literature 20… read more

Similar categories in Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia's The Son of the House book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) by Ian Ferguson

19. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)

By: Ian Ferguson

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more

Similar categories in Ian Ferguson's I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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20. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

Similar categories in Jann Arden's The Bittlemores book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Mothers

By: Genevieve Gannon

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

What if you gave birth to someone else’s child? An emotional family drama about two couples, one ba… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Gannon's The Mothers book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. What My Sister Knew

By: Nina Laurin

3.52

Format: None pages, Audiobook

We're not just siblings; we're twins. We're supposed to be able to read each other's thoughts. Alth… read more

Similar categories in Nina Laurin's What My Sister Knew book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wartime Sisters by Lynda Cohen Loigman

23. The Wartime Sisters

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

3.83

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

Two estranged sisters, raised in Brooklyn and each burdened with her own shocking secret, are reuni… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Wartime Sisters book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Whispers of War

By: Julia Kelly

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In August of 1939, as Britain watches the headlines in fear of another devastating war with Germany… read more

Similar categories in Julia Kelly's The Whispers of War book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen

25. The Summer We Lost Her

By: Tish Cohen

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

It’s been a busy—and expensive—few years for Matt and Elise Sorenson and their young daughter Graci… read more

Similar categories in Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Royal Runaway by Lindsay Emory

26. The Royal Runaway

By: Lindsay Emory

3.47

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Princess Diaries and The Royal We comes a fun and daring novel about a modern-day p… read more

Similar categories in Lindsay Emory's The Royal Runaway book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But in the silence of the night in this funny little house in my too-big borrowed clothes, alternative narratives had begun to take shape and substance."

-Lindsay Emory, The Royal Runaway

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27. The Summer Country

By: Lauren Willig

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitiou… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Willig's The Summer Country book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • mystery
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. The Last Book Party

By: Karen Dukess

3.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the t… read more

Similar categories in Karen Dukess's The Last Book Party book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I loved how kindly the weather changed on mornings like this, as if sparing you the shock of awakening into a bright, clear day and instead taking your hand and gently guiding you from the cloud of s…"

-Karen Dukess, The Last Book Party

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29. Vera

By: Carol Edgarian

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing feat of imagination, a grand adventure set in 1906 San Francisco—a city leveled by q… read more

Similar categories in Carol Edgarian's Vera book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Doesn’t everyone have at least two opposing natures warring inside them?"

-Carol Edgarian, Vera

"For I was indeed a student of human nature, as every orphan and hooker and unwanted kid must be."

-Carol Edgarian, Vera

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30. Other People's Children

By: Jeff Hoffmann

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An “engrossing debut” novel (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Tol… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Hoffmann's Other People's Children book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Perfect Couple

By: Lisa Hall

3.83

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

When Emily applies for a job as a housekeeper for widower Rupert, it’s a chance to start over – a s… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Hall's The Perfect Couple book and Tish Cohen's The Summer We Lost Her

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook

27 Top fiction books like The Summer We Lost Her by Tish Cohen

Transform Your Habits

Alice Bliss

Laura Harrington

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Family Tree

Barbara Delinsky

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Gone Again (Jack Swyteck, #12)

James Grippando

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Once Upon a River

Bonnie Jo Campbell

3.71

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22 Top fiction books like The Last Book Party by Karen Dukess

Transform Your Habits

Laura & Emma

Kate Greathead

3.19

Transform Your Habits

The Ponder Heart

Eudora Welty

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Neon in Daylight

Hermione Hoby

3.16

Transform Your Habits

Our Little Racket

Angelica Baker

4.00

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