9 must-read novels books like What Red Was by Rosie Price

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What Red Was

By: Rosie Price

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Kate Quaile meets Max Rippon in the first week of university, a life-changing friendship begin…

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1. Bad Dreams and Other Stories

By: Tessa Hadley

3.69

Format: 224 pages, ebook

In these short stories it’s the ordinary things that turn out to be most extraordinary: the history… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Hadley's Bad Dreams and Other Stories book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

By: Sheila Fischman , Gaétan Soucy

4.00

Format: None pages,

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Similar categories in Sheila Fischman's The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Little Deaths

By: Emma Flint

3.96

Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by a true story, Little Deaths, like celebrated novels by Sarah Waters and Megan Abbott, i… read more

Similar categories in Emma Flint's Little Deaths book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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5. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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6. Sparrow

By: James Hynes

4.00

Format: 394 pages, Hardcover

Told from the perspective of an enslaved boy being raised in a Roman brothel, a stunning literary h… read more

Similar categories in James Hynes's Sparrow book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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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8. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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9. Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gilmartin's Service book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Gosling Girl

By: Jacqueline Roy

3.78

Format: 400 pages, ebook

****PRE-ORDER THE NEW JACQUELINE ROY NOVEL, IN MEMORY OF US, COMING SOON**** ‘[The Gosling Girl] in… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Roy's The Gosling Girl book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Guilty Party

By: Mel McGrath

3.05

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

On a night out, four friends witness a stranger in trouble.They decide to do nothing to help.Later,… read more

Similar categories in Mel McGrath's The Guilty Party book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Tennis Lessons

By: Susannah Dickey

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Dickey's Tennis Lessons book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
  • adult
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13. What Red Was

By: Rosie Price

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Kate Quaile meets Max Rippon in the first week of university, a life-changing friendship begin… read more

Similar categories in Rosie Price's What Red Was book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
  • adult
  • drama
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14. Careering

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Careering book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Young Women

By: Jessica Moor

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and da… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Moor's Young Women book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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16. This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal

By: Octavia Bright

4.32

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It rarely felt like a choice, though,… read more

Similar categories in Octavia Bright's This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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17. Call Me Cassandra

By: Marcial Gala

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From Marcial Gala, the author of the award-winning The Black Cathedral, Call Me Cassandra is a dark… read more

Similar categories in Marcial Gala's Call Me Cassandra book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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18. Eleven Lines to Somewhere

By: Alyson Rudd

3.29

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

In a world of what-ifs, a connection has been made …When Ryan spots a young woman on the tube on hi… read more

Similar categories in Alyson Rudd's Eleven Lines to Somewhere book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Between the Lies

By: Louise Tickle

4.23

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

When it comes to families, is anyone a reliable witness? Cherry Magraw can never forget the date h… read more

Similar categories in Louise Tickle's Between the Lies book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

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20. Everyone I Know is Dying

By: Emily Slapper

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A razor-sharp, bleakly funny exploration of mental health crises, the societal pressures on young w… read more

Similar categories in Emily Slapper's Everyone I Know is Dying book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. You Belong with Me

By: Mhairi McFarlane

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a charming, hilarious, and heartfelt new novel a… read more

Similar categories in Mhairi McFarlane's You Belong with Me book and Rosie Price's What Red Was

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She felt like Elizabeth Bennet promising her dad that Mr. Darcy wasn't a proud dick after all and that the great estate at Pemberley wasn't a factor, promise."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"We've come a long way since I was hired to write your life story, haven't we?' 'Fair to say, you understood the assignment. You haven't stopped writing it since."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"Do you know how much I wish I was there?' 'Is it as much as I wish you were here?' 'Is it like a whole-body longing that slides into a supercut of favourite memories? If so, yes."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"I've got a pint of black coffee with two sugars in the BA lounge, and I look like I've been exhumed by detectives who want to run toxicology tests to prove foul play. In a hailstorm. I wouldn't chang…"

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

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Bad Dreams and Other Stories

Tessa Hadley

3.69

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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches

Sheila Fischman , Gaétan Soucy

4.00

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Little Deaths

Emma Flint

3.96

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

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The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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Radical Love

Neil Blackmore

4.05

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Palace of Shadows

Ray Celestin

3.67

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