8 must-read crime books like The Summer We Forgot by Caroline George

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The Summer We Forgot

By: Caroline George

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Caroline George once again transports readers with lush, evocative prose, leading them to ask the q…

"We all feel eloquence we can’t put into words."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"Nostalgia makes hallowed ground from mundane places."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"In the pursuit of perfection, I forgot I was already enough."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"The people we welcome into our beginnings influence where we go"

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

If you liked the crime plot in The Summer We Forgot by Caroline George , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. It Started With Goodbye

By: Christina June

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sixteen-year-old Tatum Elsea is bracing for the worst summer of her life. After being falsely accus… read more

Similar categories in Christina June's It Started With Goodbye book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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2. Missing Clarissa

By: Ripley Jones

3.49

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

In a gripping novel perfect for fans of Sadie and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, two best friends s… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's Missing Clarissa book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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3. The Other Lola

By: Ripley Jones

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What happens when the people you love the most are the people you can trust the least? In the mo… read more

Similar categories in Ripley Jones's The Other Lola book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

By: Kara Swanson

4.26

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Peter Pan has crash-landed back on Neverland. But this is not the island he remembers. Desperate… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swanson's Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"You have always believed in the impossible, Peter. Don't give up yet."

-Kara Swanson, Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

"You won't save them with a blade. You can't heal a wound by making one."

-Kara Swanson, Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

"Neverwhere, life... it wasn't meant to be a freezeframe, Peter. It can't stay suspended forever. As much as it may hurt, we have to grow. If we don't grow, we don't live. We just stagnate and begin t…"

-Kara Swanson, Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

"you may be the boy who lost almost everything because of his mistakes and the brokenness of other people that he couldn't control, but you are also the boy who chose not to run. Who returned to his b…"

-Kara Swanson, Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

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5. Four Found Dead

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.45

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

At the movie theater where Jo works, the last show has ended. But the nightmare is just beginning. … read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's Four Found Dead book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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6. 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

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's The Summer She Went Missing book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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7. Vivid (The Color Theory, #1)

By: Ashley Bustamante

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

DANGER LURKS BEHIND EVERY COLOR When Ava Locke was five years old, she began a journey to join t… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Bustamante's Vivid (The Color Theory, #1) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"I don’t know how to need someone this way. All this time my emotions have been guarded by a stick house, and now a wildfire is outside my door."

-Ashley Bustamante, Vivid (The Color Theory, #1)

"How can I know for sure? How can I ever truly know? My heart wants to justify every action and begs me to believe he is being honest, but my intellect keeps flashing warning lights and asking questio…"

-Ashley Bustamante, Vivid (The Color Theory, #1)

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8. The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

By: Sara Ella

4.18

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Solve the clues. Face your fears. Survive the Trials. All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her N… read more

Similar categories in Sara Ella's The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"How is the world inside your mind any less real than the one outside it?"

-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

"Wonderland is what we imagine it to be, he says. You can become anything. Go anywhere. That's the magic of the Gene."

-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

"But it is when we are not ourselves that believing in the impossible - in the unseen - becomes most vital. We must believe in something beyond you or I."

-Sara Ella, The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)

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9. Radiant (The Color Theory, #2)

By: Ashley Bustamante

4.23

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Secrets Come in Every Shade After the introduction of Yellow magic in a society accustomed to on… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Bustamante's Radiant (The Color Theory, #2) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • fiction
  • young adult
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10. Calculated (Calculated #1)

By: Nova McBee

4.29

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

Librarian's Note: this is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B08MWMJR9J. Set in Shanghai and Se… read more

Similar categories in Nova McBee's Calculated (Calculated #1) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. The Counselors

By: Jessica Goodman

3.54

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Camp Alpine Lake is the only place where Goldie Easton feels safe. She's always had a special co… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Goodman's The Counselors book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. We Were Kings

By: Court Stevens

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Twenty years ago, eighteen-year-old Francis Quick was convicted of murdering her best friend Cora K… read more

Similar categories in Court Stevens's We Were Kings book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Girl Forgotten

By: April Henry

3.67

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Piper Gray starts a true-crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old cold case.  Seventeen … read more

Similar categories in April Henry's Girl Forgotten book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. Pretty Dead Queens

By: Alexa Donne

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Seaview High's homecoming queen is dead . . . and she's not the first. A thriller about a decades-o… read more

Similar categories in Alexa Donne's Pretty Dead Queens book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. A Night to Die For

By: Lisa Schroeder

3.27

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Night Of meets Carrie when a boy finds a girl's body in the ditch on prom night...and becomes t… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Schroeder's A Night to Die For book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

By: Chelsea Ichaso

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A gripping new psychological thriller from the author of Little Creeping Things—can a grieving girl… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Ichaso's Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I was gonna come back for you', I lied."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"Tyler is watching me like I'm his favorite Netflix show."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"No coffee? Sorry, the mountain-top Starbucks is fresh out."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

"This is going to be so much worse than that', I saw like an archvillian."

-Chelsea Ichaso, Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets

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17. The Summer We Forgot

By: Caroline George

3.64

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Caroline George once again transports readers with lush, evocative prose, leading them to ask the q… read more

Similar categories in Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"We all feel eloquence we can’t put into words."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"Nostalgia makes hallowed ground from mundane places."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"In the pursuit of perfection, I forgot I was already enough."

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

"The people we welcome into our beginnings influence where we go"

-Caroline George, The Summer We Forgot

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18. Someone Is Always Watching

By: Kelley Armstrong

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Blythe and her friends—Gabrielle, and brother and sister Tucker and Tanya—have always been a tight … read more

Similar categories in Kelley Armstrong's Someone Is Always Watching book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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19. The Headmaster's List

By: Melissa de la Cruz

3.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

One of them was driving. One of them was high. One of them screamed. And one of them died. When fif… read more

Similar categories in Melissa de la Cruz's The Headmaster's List book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. Activated (Calculated, #3)

By: Nova McBee

4.55

Format: 492 pages, Paperback

From Young-Adult author Nova McBee comes the third book in the gritty, action-filled Calculated ser… read more

Similar categories in Nova McBee's Activated (Calculated, #3) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You) by Jessie Weaver

21. Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You)

By: Jessie Weaver

3.53

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes the prettiest Instagram feeds hide the darkest—and bloodiest—secrets.Social media influen… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Weaver's Live Your Best Lie (Like Me Block You) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1) by Victoria     Lynn

22. Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

By: Victoria Lynn

4.01

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

Violet lives her quiet little life in her sleepy village. Trying to remain as dead to the politics … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Lynn's Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"Lord, it hurts."

-Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

"His pain affected her deeply."

-Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

"The Lord works in mysterious ways."

-Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

"I only did what anyone ought to do."

-Victoria Lynn, Once I Knew (The Chronicles of Elira #1)

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23. Winter, White and Wicked (Winter, White and Wicked, #1)

By: Shannon Dittemore

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Winter doesn't like the smuggler who's come to Whistlestop. She doesn't trust him, doesn't want me … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Dittemore's Winter, White and Wicked (Winter, White and Wicked, #1) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Winter's more than words and wind. She's a chill that clings to everything. She's power. And, like all great powers, she likes her companionship recognized. If she's talking to you, you'll know."

-Shannon Dittemore, Winter, White and Wicked (Winter, White and Wicked, #1)

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24. Simulated (Calculated #2)

By: Nova McBee

4.40

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

From Young-Adult author Nova McBee comes the second book in the gritty, action-filled Calculated se… read more

Similar categories in Nova McBee's Simulated (Calculated #2) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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25. The Nightmare Virus

By: Nadine Brandes

4.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Some viruses go after the body. But the Nightmare Virus goes after the mind.When dream technology g… read more

Similar categories in Nadine Brandes's The Nightmare Virus book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"You serve the Creator, right?' She nods but seems anxious. 'So create with Him."

-Nadine Brandes, The Nightmare Virus

"Nole used to say turning to God wasn't weakness. That being weak is where the true strength came from."

-Nadine Brandes, The Nightmare Virus

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26. Where Secrets Lie

By: Eva V. Gibson

3.46

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Told in two interwoven timelines—the summer when everything changed, and the summer that changes ev… read more

Similar categories in Eva V. Gibson's Where Secrets Lie book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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27. The Colors Of Rain

By: Abigail Hayven

4.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Evan made a deathbed promise to his dad to hold their family together and lead them well. In the fa… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Hayven's The Colors Of Rain book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"We all have skeletons in our closets, they say. My family included. But ours hid in the attic, not the closet. They hid among the journals, photos, shoe boxes, wedding dress, and board games. Ours we…"

-Abigail Hayven, The Colors Of Rain

Cover of Ignite (Volume 1) (The Phoenix Flame) by Kara Swanson

28. Ignite (Volume 1) (The Phoenix Flame)

By: Kara Swanson

4.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Can Mara survive in a world where the fire in her veins is worth killing for? In a frozen waste… read more

Similar categories in Kara Swanson's Ignite (Volume 1) (The Phoenix Flame) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • fiction
  • young adult
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29. Chromatic (The Color Theory, #3)

By: Ashley Bustamante

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Light is Found in Every Hue Magus is dying from the inside out, and only the destruction of the … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Bustamante's Chromatic (The Color Theory, #3) book and Caroline George's The Summer We Forgot

  • fiction
  • young adult

29 must-read fiction books like The Summer We Forgot by Caroline George

Transform Your Habits

It Started With Goodbye

Christina June

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Missing Clarissa

Ripley Jones

3.49

Transform Your Habits

The Other Lola

Ripley Jones

3.59

Transform Your Habits

Shadow (Heirs of Neverland, #2)

Kara Swanson

4.26

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27 Best fiction books like Where Secrets Lie by Eva V. Gibson

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Last Seen Leaving

Caleb Roehrig

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Someone Named Eva

Joan M. Wolf

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Missing Clarissa

Ripley Jones

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

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