8 must-read thriller books like Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff

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Raft of Stars

By: Andrew J. Graff

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of …

If you liked the thriller plot in Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of The Deadwood Beetle by Mylène Dressler

1. The Deadwood Beetle

By: Mylène Dressler

3.11

Format: 192 pages, Audio

Tristan Martens, a retired entomologist, is shaken by the discovery of his mother's sewing table in… read more

Similar categories in Mylène Dressler's The Deadwood Beetle book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. The Absence of Mercy

By: John Burley

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A doctor and father in small town Ohio weighs the need to catch a killer against his fears for his … read more

Similar categories in John Burley's The Absence of Mercy book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction

3. The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People

By: None

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

This classic American memoir is about a farm and its people, of a boyhood on a southwestern Wiscons… read more

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4. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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5. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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8. Ashes in the Snow

By: Oriana Ramunno

4.12

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Auschwitz, 1943. It’s snowing outside and Block 10 looks even bleaker than usual. Gioele Errera,… read more

Similar categories in Oriana Ramunno's Ashes in the Snow book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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9. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

Similar categories in Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • literary fiction
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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11. The Madstone

By: Elizabeth Crook

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crook's The Madstone book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • literary fiction
  • adventure
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

Cover of Sunrise by the Sea (Little Beach Street Bakery, #4) by Jenny Colgan

12. Sunrise by the Sea (Little Beach Street Bakery, #4)

By: Jenny Colgan

3.97

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan returns to the setting of her beloved Little Beach S… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Colgan's Sunrise by the Sea (Little Beach Street Bakery, #4) book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff

13. Raft of Stars

By: Andrew J. Graff

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of … read more

Similar categories in Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • literary fiction
  • adventure
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Pelican Girls

By: Julia Malye

3.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping epic in the vein of Philipp Meyer’s The Son and Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko and inspired by a… read more

Similar categories in Julia Malye's Pelican Girls book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Girls Are Good

By: Ilaria Bernardini

3.16

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

In the tradition of My Dark Vanessa and The Divines, a bold coming-of-age novel set in the competit… read more

Similar categories in Ilaria Bernardini's The Girls Are Good book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. Fallen Mountains

By: Kimi Cunningham Grant

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

When Transom Shultz goes missing shortly after returning to his sleepy hometown of Fallen Mountains… read more

Similar categories in Kimi Cunningham Grant's Fallen Mountains book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The words just wouldn’t come out."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains

"Maybe in the end, not letting yourself forgive someone — you were the one who paid the price for that, nobody else."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains

"The past was never dead; it was never past. But it didn’t have to own you, either. It didn’t have to be all you were."

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains

"[Faulkner]"The past is never dead. It isn't even past." In an attempt to remind his sons that every action had a consequence...and that terrible truth had plagued Red and his brother all through adol…"

-Kimi Cunningham Grant, Fallen Mountains

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17. Le Présage

By: Peter Farris

4.06

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

Cynthia Bivins rend souvent visite à son père, Toxey, dans une maison de retraite de Géorgie. Un jo… read more

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18. The Long Road from Kandahar

By: Sara MacDonald

4.31

Format: 473 pages, Kindle Edition

The hand of friendship can span a thousand miles… Pakistan Among the almond orchards of the Swa… read more

Similar categories in Sara MacDonald's The Long Road from Kandahar book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • fiction
Cover of Other Parents by Sarah Stovell

19. Other Parents

By: Sarah Stovell

4.00

Format: 397 pages, Kindle Edition

They all have opinions. They all have secrets. In a small town like West Burntridge, it should be… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Stovell's Other Parents book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Célèbre

By: Maud Ventura

4.01

Format: 558 pages, Paperback

La célébrité est ma vie. Est-ce que j'étais préparée à un tel succès ? Bien sûr que oui. Cléo gra… read more

Similar categories in Maud Ventura's Célèbre book and Andrew J. Graff's Raft of Stars

  • fiction
Cover of Miss Atomic by Laure Coromines

21. Miss Atomic

By: Laure Coromines

4.25

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

À Saint George, dans l'Utah, l'été 1957 marquera les esprits à tout jamais. Pour soutenir les essai… read more

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