6 Top science fiction books like The Stranding by Kate Sawyer

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The Stranding

By: Kate Sawyer

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid an…

If you liked the science fiction plot in The Stranding by Kate Sawyer , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

1. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You Are Here by David Nicholls

2. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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3. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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4. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

Similar categories in Jo Browning Wroe's A Terrible Kindness book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Absolutely and Forever book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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7. The Seventh Son

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.60

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Faulks's The Seventh Son book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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8. In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1)

By: Jo Callaghan

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the UK, someone is reported missing every 90 seconds. Just gone. Vanished. In the blink of an ey… read more

Similar categories in Jo Callaghan's In the Blink of An Eye (Kat and Lock, #1) book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • science fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Strange Sally Diamond

By: Liz Nugent

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father… read more

Similar categories in Liz Nugent's Strange Sally Diamond book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Last One at the Party

By: Bethany Clift

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

It's November 2023. The human race has been wiped out by the 6DM virus (Six Days Maximum - the long… read more

Similar categories in Bethany Clift's Last One at the Party book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
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11. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

By: Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more

Similar categories in Eleni Kyriacou's The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Coyne's Frank and Red book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

By: Freya North

4.25

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

When your present meets your past, what do you take with you – and what do you leave behind? Ea… read more

Similar categories in Freya North's The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1) by Jill   Johnson

15. The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1)

By: Jill Johnson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

I've always been better with plants than people . . . Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical … read more

Similar categories in Jill Johnson's The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1) book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Metronome

By: Tom Watson

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, striking debut by an award-winning author for fans of Emma Stonex, Francine Toon and Mega… read more

Similar categories in Tom Watson's Metronome book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • audiobook
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17. The Stranding

By: Kate Sawyer

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid an… read more

Similar categories in Kate Sawyer's The Stranding book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • literary fiction
  • post apocalyptic
  • apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • climate change fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Falling Animals

By: Sheila Armstrong

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

The disquieting story of an unidentified man as told by those who crossed paths with him on the las… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Armstrong's Falling Animals book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller

19. Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

By: Ericka Waller

4.29

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget...Birdie, Ada and Jane … read more

Similar categories in Ericka Waller's Goodbye Birdie Greenwing book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Under the Blue

By: Oana Aristide

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A road trip beneath clear blue skies and a blazing sun: a reclusive artist is forced to abandon his… read more

Similar categories in Oana Aristide's Under the Blue book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • apocalyptic
  • post apocalyptic
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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21. Girls

By: Kirsty Capes

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Capes's Girls book and Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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3.79

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3.62

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