14 must-read contemporary books like The Frequency of Us by Keith Stuart

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The Frequency of Us

By: Keith Stuart

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets German refugee Elsa Klein: she …

"Most people never have love – what they experience is desire and then routine. Real love, lasting love – it is rare. There isn’t enough to go around. So no, there was no one else for me."

-Keith Stuart, The Frequency of Us

"There are rare moments in your life so vivid that you know they will be unforgettable from the very outset. They have about them an ethereal quality separate from other events in our lives."

-Keith Stuart, The Frequency of Us

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Frequency of Us by Keith Stuart , here is a list of 14 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 Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • 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 Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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. 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 Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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5. Way Back

By: Sara Cox

4.18

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

THE BIG-HEARTED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THROWN, RADIO 2 BROADCASTER A… read more

Similar categories in Sara Cox's Way Back book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Maiden

By: Kate Foster

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a real-life case and winner of the Bloody Scotland Pitch Perfect Award, Kate Foster's T… read more

Similar categories in Kate Foster's The Maiden book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • science fiction
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8. Another Life

By: Jodie Chapman

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

She could be the girl dancing on tables one night, and the next she'd be hiding in the shadows. … read more

Similar categories in Jodie Chapman's Another Life book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. A Tidy Ending

By: Joanna Cannon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A delightfully sinister novel about a married woman living a nice, quiet suburban life—but things a… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Cannon's A Tidy Ending book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Keeper of Stories

By: Sally Page

4.08

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more

Similar categories in Sally Page's The Keeper of Stories book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

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11. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

Similar categories in Sally Page's The Book of Beginnings book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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12. The Fine Art of Invisible Detection

By: Robert Goddard

3.97

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The no. 1 ebook from the Sunday Times bestseller 'He's the high priest of plot ... deftly woven, bu… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goddard's The Fine Art of Invisible Detection book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. 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 Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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14. This Family

By: Kate Sawyer

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more

Similar categories in Kate Sawyer's This Family book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Thrown

By: Sara Cox

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Becky: a single mum who prides herself on her independence. She knows from painful experience that … read more

Similar categories in Sara Cox's Thrown book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. 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 Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Remember, Mr Sharma: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

By: A.P. Firdaus

4.03

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Delhi, 1997: It is India's fiftieth year of independence, the year of Hindu nationalists and atomic… read more

Similar categories in A.P. Firdaus's Remember, Mr Sharma: A BBC2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • fiction
Cover of The Vintage Shop of Second Chances by Libby Page

18. The Vintage Shop of Second Chances

By: Libby Page

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome, Lou is embarking on the start of something… read more

Similar categories in Libby Page's The Vintage Shop of Second Chances book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Frequency of Us by Keith Stuart

19. The Frequency of Us

By: Keith Stuart

3.97

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In Second World War Bath, young, naïve wireless engineer Will meets German refugee Elsa Klein: she … read more

Similar categories in Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • historical
  • war
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • science fiction
"Most people never have love – what they experience is desire and then routine. Real love, lasting love – it is rare. There isn’t enough to go around. So no, there was no one else for me."

-Keith Stuart, The Frequency of Us

"There are rare moments in your life so vivid that you know they will be unforgettable from the very outset. They have about them an ethereal quality separate from other events in our lives."

-Keith Stuart, The Frequency of Us

Cover of Should We Fall Behind by Sharon Duggal

20. Should We Fall Behind

By: Sharon Duggal

4.21

Format: None pages, None

Between The Covers BBC2 TV book club pick 2021. Jimmy Noone escapes his difficult life in a smal… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Duggal's Should We Fall Behind book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • fiction
Cover of The Lifeline by Libby Page

21. The Lifeline

By: Libby Page

4.19

Format: 391 pages, ebook

Everybody needs saving sometimes… For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alon… read more

Similar categories in Libby Page's The Lifeline book and Keith Stuart's The Frequency of Us

  • fiction
  • contemporary

21 must-read fiction books like The Frequency of Us by Keith Stuart

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

A Terrible Kindness

Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Transform Your Habits

The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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20 best-selling fiction books like Another Life by Jodie Chapman

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Nigdy, nigdy, nigdy

Linn Strømsborg

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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