24 Best fiction books like Every Bone a Prayer by Ashley Blooms

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Every Bone a Prayer

By: Ashley Blooms

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Misty's holler looks like any of the thousands of hollers that fork through the Appalachian Mountai…

"Those are things you did,"

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

"That’s why we tell stories,"

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

"That’s why we tell the stories,"

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

"None of us belongs only to ourselves."

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

If you liked the fiction plot in Every Bone a Prayer by Ashley Blooms , here is a list of 24 books like this:

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1. The Perfect Summer (Hubbard's Point)

By: Luanne Rice

4.07

Format: 429 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Old friendships--and love--make all things new again. The acclaimed author of Safe Harbor and ot… read more

Similar categories in Luanne Rice's The Perfect Summer (Hubbard's Point) book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. The Turtle Boy (Timmy Quinn #1)

By: Kealan Patrick Burke

3.62

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

School is out and summer has begun. For eleven year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marsha… read more

Similar categories in Kealan Patrick Burke's The Turtle Boy (Timmy Quinn #1) book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • coming of age
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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3. What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw

By: Leah Stewart

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After a series of missteps in the face of his newly found fame, actor Charlie Outlaw flees to a rem… read more

Similar categories in Leah Stewart's What You Don't Know About Charlie Outlaw book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Sorta Sisters

By: Adrian Fogelin

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Anna Casey likes living in North Florida with biology teacher Miss Johnette, her latest foster moth… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Fogelin's The Sorta Sisters book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • fiction

5. The Precious One

By: Marisa de los Santos

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Belong to Me, Love Walked In, and Falling Togethercomes a captivatin… read more

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6. A False Sense of Well Being

By: Jeanne Braselton

3.87

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE GEORGIA AUTHOR OF THE YEAR AWARD FOR FIRST NOVEL "Braselton's confident first novel i… read more

Similar categories in Jeanne Braselton's A False Sense of Well Being book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

7. If The Creek Don't Rise

By: Leah Weiss

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A strikingly sincere portrait of a town and its buried secrets from an outstanding new voice in sou… read more

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8. Hideout

By: Watt Key

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Sam has been given a fishing boat by his father, but he hates fishing. Instead he u… read more

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9. Bloodroot

By: Amy Greene

4.44

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Named for a flower whose blood-red sap possesses the power both to heal and poison, Bloodroot is a … read more

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10. What Mother Won't Tell Me

By: Ivar Leon Menger

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Raised on a remote island, a young woman soon realizes the most dangerous strangers are the ones in… read more

Similar categories in Ivar Leon Menger's What Mother Won't Tell Me book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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11. How Quickly She Disappears

By: Raymond Fleischmann

3.18

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Dry meets Silence of the Lambs in this intoxicating tale of literary suspense set in the relent… read more

Similar categories in Raymond Fleischmann's How Quickly She Disappears book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult
  • fiction
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12. Her Little Flowers

By: Shannon Morgan

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family’s ancestral home, a rambling Eliz… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Morgan's Her Little Flowers book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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13. Lucky Girl

By: Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Longing for independence, a young sheltered Kenyan woman flees the expectations of her mother for a… read more

Similar categories in Irene Muchemi-Ndiritu's Lucky Girl book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Elegy for the Undead

By: Matthew Vesely

3.91

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Jude and Lyle's newlywed life is shattered when a vicious attack leaves Lyle infected with a diseas… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Vesely's Elegy for the Undead book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
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15. Hell If We Don't Change Our Ways: A Memoir

By: Brittany Means

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Brittany Means’s childhood was filled with abuse, neglect, violence, and instability, in part cause… read more

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16. Clay's Quilt

By: Silas House

4.04

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

In his New York Times bestselling debut novel, Silas House introduced himself as an important voice… read more

Similar categories in Silas House's Clay's Quilt book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She had woken up with the song swirling around in her mind and couldn't make it sizzle down her arm and out onto the stiff strings of her fiddle."

-Silas House, Clay's Quilt

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17. The Floating Girls

By: Lo Patrick

3.35

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"A masterly achievement." – Publishers Weekly STARRED review "Many readers are looking for the n… read more

Similar categories in Lo Patrick's The Floating Girls book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • coming of age
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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18. Every Bone a Prayer

By: Ashley Blooms

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Misty's holler looks like any of the thousands of hollers that fork through the Appalachian Mountai… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • coming of age
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • southern gothic
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Those are things you did,"

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

"That’s why we tell stories,"

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

"That’s why we tell the stories,"

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

"None of us belongs only to ourselves."

-Ashley Blooms, Every Bone a Prayer

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19. Every Now and Then

By: Lesley Kagen

3.64

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

For fans of Where the Crawdads Sing and This Tender Land. A heartfelt coming-of-age story about … read more

Similar categories in Lesley Kagen's Every Now and Then book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • coming of age
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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20. Winterland

By: Rae Meadows

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Perfection has a cost . . . Reminiscent of Maggie Shipstead’s Astonish Me and Julia Phillips’s Disa… read more

Similar categories in Rae Meadows's Winterland book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • adult
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21. Some Kind of Hate

By: Sarah Darer Littman

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Declan Taylor is furious at the world. After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, he accid… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Darer Littman's Some Kind of Hate book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Watching You Without Me

By: Lynn Coady

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning story collection Hellgoing--an electrifying,… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Coady's Watching You Without Me book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There is something about knowing you are not safe in sleep that gives a person bad dreams. The expectation of being woken every night — that feeling of insecurity and dread I remember carrying around…"

-Lynn Coady, Watching You Without Me

"I thought my life with Kelli could be balanced, mitigated,. That Irene had just been doing it all wrong these years. I' thought we could hang out like normal sisters, run errands, go for lattes with …"

-Lynn Coady, Watching You Without Me

Cover of Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett by Marta McDowell

23. Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett

By: Marta McDowell

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Blooming with photos, illustrations, and botanical paintings, McDowell’s gorgeous book opens an iv… read more

Similar categories in Marta McDowell's Unearthing The Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

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24. Wicked Dreams

By: Lisa Jackson

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling authors return with a chilling new thriller set on an isolated islan… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jackson's Wicked Dreams book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • fiction
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25. Lost Boy Found

By: Kirsten Alexander

3.50

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Perfect for fans of the NYT bestseller Sold on a Monday, this Southern historical novel based on th… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Alexander's Lost Boy Found book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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26. Calling Ukraine

By: Johannes Lichtman

3.48

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and author of Such Good Work Johannes Lichtman returns … read more

Similar categories in Johannes Lichtman's Calling Ukraine book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. A Bend in the Stars

By: Rachel Barenbaum

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an amb… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Barenbaum's A Bend in the Stars book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult
  • fiction
"[...] survivors like that, well, they understood better than anyone how to get back on their feet."

-Rachel Barenbaum, A Bend in the Stars

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28. The Wild

By: Owen Laukkanen

3.45

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

With an instantly compelling protagonist who finds herself fighting for her life in the wilderness … read more

Similar categories in Owen Laukkanen's The Wild book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. The Hummingbird Dagger

By: Cindy Anstey

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

1833. After young Lord James Ellerby witnesses a near-fatal carriage accident on the outskirts of h… read more

Similar categories in Cindy Anstey's The Hummingbird Dagger book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • fiction
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30. Sugar Run

By: Mesha Maren

3.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On the far side the view was nothing but ridgelines, the craggy silhouettes rising up against the n… read more

Similar categories in Mesha Maren's Sugar Run book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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31. The World After Alice

By: Lauren Aliza Green

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Seating Arrangements and The Most Fun We Ever Had, a gorgeous and gripping story of … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Aliza Green's The World After Alice book and Ashley Blooms's Every Bone a Prayer

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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