25 Best contemporary books like The Color of Lies by C.J. Lyons

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The Color of Lies

By: C.J. Lyons

3.62

Format: 336 pages, ebook

High school senior Ella Cleary has always been good at reading people. Her family has a rare medica…

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1. Phantom Limbs

By: Paula Garner

3.93

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you move on from an irreplaceable loss? In a poignant debut, a sixteen-year-old boy must lea… read more

Similar categories in Paula Garner's Phantom Limbs book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"It started the way so many good things do: with bacon."

-Paula Garner, Phantom Limbs

"All I wanted was for things to be like they used to be. Except for all the parts that couldn't be. Which I guess, was almost all of them."

-Paula Garner, Phantom Limbs

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2. Con Academy

By: Joe Schreiber

4.49

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Meet Will Shea, a con artist who has bluffed his way into one of the nation's most exclusive privat… read more

Similar categories in Joe Schreiber's Con Academy book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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3. Losing Brave

By: Stefne Miller , None , Bailee Madison

2.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actress Bailee Madison and Reader's Choice Award Finalist Stefne Miller, comes L… read more

Similar categories in Stefne Miller's Losing Brave book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • teen
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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4. 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 C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. One Was Lost

By: Natalie D. Richards

3.30

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Damaged. Deceptive. Dangerous. Darling.Are they labels or a warning? The answer could cost Sera eve… read more

Similar categories in Natalie D. Richards's One Was Lost book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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6. Not If I Save You First

By: Ally Carter

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Maddie thought she and Logan would be friends forever. But when your dad is a Secret Service agent … read more

Similar categories in Ally Carter's Not If I Save You First book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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7. Love and First Sight

By: Josh Sundquist

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Love is more than meets the eye. On his first day at a new school, blind sixteen-year-old Will Port… read more

Similar categories in Josh Sundquist's Love and First Sight book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

8. Inherit Midnight

By: Kate Kae Myers

3.82

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

The Competition Seventeen-year-old Avery VanDemere's ridiculously wealthy grandmother has decided t… read more

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9. The Window

By: Amelia Brunskill

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Anna is everything her identical twin is not. Outgoing and athletic, she is the opposite of quiet i… read more

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10. Girl on the Line

By: Faith Gardner

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Life’s tough when you didn’t expect to be living it. But now that Journey has a future, she appa… read more

Similar categories in Faith Gardner's Girl on the Line book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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11. Any Sign of Life

By: Rae Carson

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a teenage girl thinks she may be the only person left alive in her town—maybe in the whole wor… read more

Similar categories in Rae Carson's Any Sign of Life book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"I wanted to do something important like that. Something that would change the world for everyone who came after me."

-Rae Carson, Any Sign of Life

"My smidge of hope is a fragile thing, a tiny waving flame in a vast landscape of reeking darkness. I will shelter it, treasure it, coax it, because the alternative is despair, and I don't do despair."

-Rae Carson, Any Sign of Life

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12. A Secret Worth Keeping

By: Drew Strickland

3.79

Format: 211 pages, Kindle Edition

A perfect weekend. The perfect company. A perfect cabin. The perfect place to bury a body… For Jo… read more

Similar categories in Drew Strickland's A Secret Worth Keeping book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • suspense
  • audiobook
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13. Perfect Little Monsters

By: Cindy R.X. He

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl’s friends are suspects… read more

Similar categories in Cindy R.X. He's Perfect Little Monsters book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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14. How to Survive Your Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's How to Survive Your Murder book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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15. The Only Girl in Town

By: Ally Condie

3.23

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would you do if everyone you love disappeared? What if it was your fault? For July Fielding… read more

Similar categories in Ally Condie's The Only Girl in Town book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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16. 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 C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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17. TBH, This Is So Awkward (TBH, #1)

By: Lisa Greenwald

3.61

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

To be honest, middle school is rough! Cecily, Gabby, and Prianka have been BFFAE since pre-K, so it… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Greenwald's TBH, This Is So Awkward (TBH, #1) book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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18. 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 C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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19. Tell Me What Really Happened

By: Chelsea Sedoti

3.44

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

There are stories about the woods around Salvation Creek, about the people who have gone missing. N… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Sedoti's Tell Me What Really Happened book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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20. A Danger to Herself and Others

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.86

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Only when she’s locked away does the truth begin to escape… Four walls. One window. No way to e… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's A Danger to Herself and Others book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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21. We'll Never Tell

By: Wendy Heard

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A whodunit doused in Hollywood lore. No one at Hollywood High knows who’s behind We'll Never Tel… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Heard's We'll Never Tell book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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22. The Color of Lies

By: C.J. Lyons

3.62

Format: 336 pages, ebook

High school senior Ella Cleary has always been good at reading people. Her family has a rare medica… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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23. Friends Like These

By: Jennifer Lynn Alvarez

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Twisted secrets that will have readers guessing with every flip of the page. Perfect for fans of GO… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Alvarez's Friends Like These book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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24. Meet the Sky (Blink)

By: McCall Hoyle

3.69

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

It all started with the accident. The one that caused Sophie’s dad to walk out of her life. The one… read more

Similar categories in McCall Hoyle's Meet the Sky (Blink) book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. We Are All We Have

By: Marina Budhos

3.82

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

When a teenage girl’s single mom is taken by ICE, everything changes—all of her hopes and dreams fo… read more

Similar categories in Marina Budhos's We Are All We Have book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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26. Two Sides to Every Murder

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How to Survive Your Murder comes a propulsive thriller about two teens who retur… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Valentine's Two Sides to Every Murder book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"Even strong people need to fall apart."

-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

"You have to feel your feelings, even the unpleasant ones."

-Danielle Valentine, Two Sides to Every Murder

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27. Six Truths and a Lie

By: Ream Shukairy

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Six Muslim teens are falsely accused of a deadly attack in this timely and harrowing examination of… read more

Similar categories in Ream Shukairy's Six Truths and a Lie book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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28. Tell Me No Lies

By: Andrea Contos

3.03

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Riverdale meets Gone Girl in a shocking thriller about two sisters whose bond is tested when one gi… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Contos's Tell Me No Lies book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
"The worst thing you can do to a man is force him to admit the things he's done."

-Andrea Contos, Tell Me No Lies

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29. Impossible Music

By: Sean Williams

3.56

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Music is Simon’s life—which is why he is devastated when a stroke destroys his hearing. He resists … read more

Similar categories in Sean Williams's Impossible Music book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan by Gia Cribbs

30. The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan

By: Gia Cribbs

4.17

Format: 395 pages, Hardcover

No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan. Not the lawyers or the c… read more

Similar categories in Gia Cribbs's The Disappearance of Sloane Sullivan book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery thriller
  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • suspense
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
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31. Rainbow in the Dark

By: Sean McGinty

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A YA novel about identity, depression, giving up, and finding your way home.High school senior Rain… read more

Similar categories in Sean McGinty's Rainbow in the Dark book and C.J. Lyons's The Color of Lies

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"Flurries of incandescent snow drifting down from the sky. Neither of us says a word. There's a spell over everything."

-Sean McGinty, Rainbow in the Dark

"Is it OK to call them your friends? You've completed quests together, you've helped each other, so yes, you decide, friends. They're all you've got now. It's a lot better than having nobody at all."

-Sean McGinty, Rainbow in the Dark

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