12 best-selling contemporary books like The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone by Alex McCarthy

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The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone

By: Alex McCarthy

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

'Small Things Like These meets Under Milk Wood - this slim but devastating novel captures an entire…

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1. Murder on Lake Garda

By: Tom Hindle

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of C… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Tangerinn

By: Emanuela Anechoum

3.92

Format: 245 pages, ebook

Il romanzo di una generazione che sa di dover partire ignorando la destinazione. In un mondo govern… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Gittersee

By: Charlotte Gneuß

3.89

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Jürgen Ponto-Preis 2023 1976, im Dresdner Vorort Gittersee: Karin ist 16, … read more

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  • fiction
"Ein älterer Mann stand um die Ecke und rauchte. Er zwinkerte mir zu. Sie haben da was am Auge, rief ich ihm zu, so Zuckungen, würd ich behandeln lassen."

-Charlotte Gneuß, Gittersee

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4. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

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5. Marschlande

By: Jarka Kubsova

4.21

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Zwei Frauen, die Jahrhunderte trennen – der Wunsch nach Selbstbestimmung, der sie verbindet »Marsch… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Shadowstitch (The Language of Magic, #2)

By: Cari Thomas

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Anna survived the attempt to bind her magic, but Anna and her coven aren’t free from danger yet. … read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Painter's Daughters

By: Emily Howes

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A story of love, madness, sisterly devotion, and control, about the two beloved daughters of renown… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Neon Roses

By: Rachel Dawson

3.92

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Eluned Hughes is stuck. It's 1984 in a valley in south Wales: the miners' strike is ravaging her co… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Glorious Exploits

By: Ferdia Lennon

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more

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  • fiction
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"

-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits

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10. The Silence Factory

By: Bridget Collins

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of the #1 international bestseller The Binding—a captivating story of got… read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Secret Ingredient

By: Sue Heath

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A delicious story that wraps itself around your heart’ Evie Woods, bestselling author of The Lost … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone

By: Alex McCarthy

3.91

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

'Small Things Like These meets Under Milk Wood - this slim but devastating novel captures an entire… read more

Similar categories in Alex McCarthy's The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone book and Alex McCarthy's The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone

  • modern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Views

By: Marc-Uwe Kling

4.10

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Ein schockierendes Verbrechen – und alle werden es sehen Die 16-jährige Lena Palmer verschwindet… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Ist falsche Hoffnung nicht ein Übel?"

-Marc-Uwe Kling, Views

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14. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

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  • fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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15. Local Fires

By: Joshua Jones

4.24

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Local Fires sees debut writer Joshua Jones turn his acute focus to his birthplace of Llanelli, Sout… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Open Up

By: Thomas Morris

3.77

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

The new collection from a literary star - five achingly tender, innovative and dazzling stories of … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Die schönste Version

By: Ruth-Maria Thomas

4.41

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

Die späten Nullerjahre, frühen 2010er Jahre in einer ostdeutschen Die schönste Version erzählt die… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Cowboy

By: Kandace Siobhan Walker

4.26

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The poems in Cowboy are knowing, millennial, internet-sick, funny, with deep of embodied and disem… read more

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20. Girls

By: Kirsty Capes

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Capes's Girls book and Alex McCarthy's The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Trophäe

By: Gaea Schoeters

4.11

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

Gaea Schoetersʼ preisgekrönter Roman ist von einer außerordentlichen erzählerischen Wucht. Die Tief… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 Best fiction books like The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone by Alex McCarthy

Transform Your Habits

Murder on Lake Garda

Tom Hindle

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Tangerinn

Emanuela Anechoum

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Gittersee

Charlotte Gneuß

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Mongrel

Hanako Footman

4.38

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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

The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Household

Stacey Halls

3.94

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