10 must-read contemporary books like Dark Horses by Susan Mihalic

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Dark Horses

By: Susan Mihalic

3.97

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl’s fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her a…

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1. My Absolute Darling

By: Gabriel Tallent

3.61

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

At 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use of every gun on her wall. She knows how to snare a rabbit, sha… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Tallent's My Absolute Darling book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Dude, with your voice you are like, 'Look at all these books I've read,' but with your eyes you are like, 'Help me."

-Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling

"Her moments of happiness occur right at the margin of unbearable. She knows it will not last and she thinks, you can never forget, Turtle, what is like, here, without him. You have to hold tight on t…"

-Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling

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2. Excavation: A Memoir

By: Wendy C. Ortiz

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Paperback

Wendy C. Ortiz was an only child and a bookish, insecure girl living with alcoholic parents in the … read more

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3. Sight Reading

By: Daphne Kalotay

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The critically acclaimed author of Russian Winter turns her "sure and suspenseful artistry" (Boston… read more

Similar categories in Daphne Kalotay's Sight Reading book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Firsts

By: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Mercedes Ayres has an open-door policy when it comes to her bedroom, but only if… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Elizabeth Flynn's Firsts book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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5. Breaking Free (Heartland, #3)

By: Lauren Brooke

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Pegasus, the only link to Amy's past, is growing weaker and Amy will try everything to nurse him ba… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Brooke's Breaking Free (Heartland, #3) book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • fiction
  • animals
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. After the Storm (Heartland, #2)

By: Lauren Brooke

3.85

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

This powerful series follows Amy Fleming through the loss of her mother and her struggle to continu… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Brooke's After the Storm (Heartland, #2) book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • fiction
  • animals
  • young adult
  • contemporary

7. Tampa

By: Alissa Nutting

3.59

Format: 83 pages, ebook

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. Sh… read more

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8. Gemma

By: Meg Tilly

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

After Hazen Wood kidnaps 12 year-old Gemma Sullivan, the two embark upon a cross-country journey th… read more

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9. Taming the Beast

By: Emily Maguire

3.93

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Clark is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English teacher,… read more

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10. Fortune's Fool

By: Mary Pagones

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition for  "Ma, I just kind of accidentally bought a horse so I'll need the trai… read more

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11. Young God

By: Katherine Faw Morris

3.97

Format: 649 pages, Hardcover

Stripped down and stylized--the sharpest, boldest, brashest debut of the year Meet Nikki, the most … read more

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12. Come What May (Heartland, #5)

By: Lauren Brooke

4.00

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

This powerful series follows Amy Fleming through the loss of her mother and her struggle to continu… read more

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13. Kde si sa vydala, tam si mlieko pýtaj

By: Júlia Marcinová

4.36

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Mám doma malý smaltovaný krúžok. Používal sa na ozdobu látkoveho obrúska pri sviatočne prestretom s… read more

Similar categories in Júlia Marcinová's Kde si sa vydala, tam si mlieko pýtaj book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • fiction
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14. The Mad Girl

By: Andrew Colvin

4.01

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

Some children fondly remember learning to ride a bicycle or to kick a soccer ball with their parent… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Colvin's The Mad Girl book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • fiction
  • young adult
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15. 24 dní do Vianoc

By: Michala Ries

4.47

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Bláznivá i dojemná romantická komédia zabalená do kúzla Vianoc Nina má dobre platené miesto, skv… read more

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16. My Dark Vanessa

By: Kate Elizabeth Russell

4.10

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the psychological dynamics of the relationship between a precocious yet naïve teenage gir… read more

Similar categories in Kate Elizabeth Russell's My Dark Vanessa book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • literary fiction
  • dark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • abuse
  • audiobook
"To be groomed is to be loved and handled like a precious, delicate thing"

-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

"I don’t feel forced, and I know I have the power to say no, but that isn’t the same as being in charge."

-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

"He's always going to be old. He has to be. That's the only way I can stay young and dripping with beauty."

-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

"I think we're very similar, Nessa," he whispers. "From the way you write, I can tell you're a dark romantic like me. You like dark things."

-Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

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17. Rust & Stardust

By: T. Greenwood

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she … read more

Similar categories in T. Greenwood's Rust & Stardust book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"How could it be, how was it possible, when she felt like she was so far away, that the sky was the same?"

-T. Greenwood, Rust & Stardust

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18. Animals Eat Each Other

By: Elle Nash

3.48

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

In Elle Nash’s stunning and powerful debut, a girl with no name embarks on a fraught three-way rela… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Animals Eat Each Other book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • dark
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Pain is closer to love than indifference, right?"

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I didn’t know if I was crying because it hurt so bad or if I was crying because I had failed by letting the pain hurt me so much."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"I did too many things to my body that made it feel old and tired, as though I were dragging all of the mistakes I’d ever made behind me with each step."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

"Maybe it wasn’t true love after all. That was disappointing. I had hoped it was true love, that something like that could exist. Instead, it was just sex. Like everything else."

-Elle Nash, Animals Eat Each Other

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19. Deliver Me

By: Elle Nash

3.95

Format: 275 pages, Kindle Edition

At a meatpacking facility in the Missouri Ozarks, Dee-Dee and her co-workers kill and butcher 40,00… read more

Similar categories in Elle Nash's Deliver Me book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • literary fiction
  • dark
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"I loved him like I loved a root canal: something painful but necessary. Like life was more painful without him."

-Elle Nash, Deliver Me

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20. Dark Horses

By: Susan Mihalic

3.97

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A darkly gripping debut novel about a teenage girl’s fierce struggle to reclaim her life from her a… read more

Similar categories in Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • animals
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • dark
  • adult
  • abuse
  • audiobook
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21. Crossed Lines

By: Lana Sky

3.80

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

Psychopath. Borderline. Crazy. Seventeen-year-old Maryanne Mayweather wears each term like a ba… read more

Similar categories in Lana Sky's Crossed Lines book and Susan Mihalic's Dark Horses

  • audiobook
  • dark
  • contemporary

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