11 best-selling contemporary books like The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean

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The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

By: Felicity McLean

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered son…

"So many words, but none of them were enough. None of them brought those girls home."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"So we kept our mouthes closed, like we squeezed our eyes shut. Our family of four blind mice."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"Cordy kept strange private things curled up in her carelessness that were too tight for the rest of us to unravel."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"We thought we'd seen the worst when those girls disappeared, but seeing, and not seeing, is a funny old thing. Even now, I don't know which is crueller in the end."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Blood and Salt (Blood and Salt, #1) by Kim Liggett

1. Blood and Salt (Blood and Salt, #1)

By: Kim Liggett

3.54

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Romeo and Juliet meets Children of the Corn in this one-of-a-kind romantic horror. “When you fall … read more

Similar categories in Kim Liggett's Blood and Salt (Blood and Salt, #1) book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
"It's good to be afraid," I said. "It means you still have something to live for."

-Kim Liggett, Blood and Salt (Blood and Salt, #1)

"I didn't even like changing clothes for gym. Being bathed by a creepy cult was not on my favorite-things-to-do-list."

-Kim Liggett, Blood and Salt (Blood and Salt, #1)

Cover of Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story by Asa Akira

2. Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story

By: Asa Akira

3.67

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Asa Akira (28) has already had an extremely unusual life. Educated at the United Nations Internatio… read more

Similar categories in Asa Akira's Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

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3. Wonder Valley

By: Ivy Pochoda

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a teen runs away from his father's mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that … read more

Similar categories in Ivy Pochoda's Wonder Valley book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
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4. Children of Paradise

By: Fred D'Aguiar

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this beautifully imagined novel, based on the horrific true events at Jim Jones's utopian commun… read more

Similar categories in Fred D'Aguiar's Children of Paradise book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • literary fiction
  • fiction

5. The Forgotten Children

By: David Hill

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1959 David Hill's mother--a poor single parent living in England--reluctantly decided to send he… read more

Similar categories in David Hill's The Forgotten Children book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • australia
Cover of The Patterson Girls by Rachael Johns

6. The Patterson Girls

By: Rachael Johns

3.93

Format: 508 pages, Kindle Edition

How can four sisters build the futures they so desperately want, when the past is reaching out to c… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Patterson Girls book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • adult fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Hydra

By: Adriane Howell

3.62

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Anja is a young, ambitious antiquarian, passionate for the clean and balanced lines of mid-century … read more

Similar categories in Adriane Howell's Hydra book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • mystery
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Something Bad is Going to Happen by Jessie Stephens

8. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Stephens's Something Bad is Going to Happen book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Teacher's Pet

By: Hedley Thomas

4.14

Format: 619 pages, Kindle Edition

If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked. Hedley Thomas take… read more

Similar categories in Hedley Thomas's The Teacher's Pet book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • australia
  • audiobook
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10. You Made Me This Way

By: Shannon Molloy

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A harrowing and heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful book about one of our society's deepest shames… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Molloy's You Made Me This Way book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • australia
  • audiobook
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11. I.M.: A Memoir

By: Isaac Mizrahi

3.95

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Isaac Mizrahi is sui generis: designer, cabaret performer, talk-show host, a TV celebrity. Yet ever… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Mizrahi's I.M.: A Memoir book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • audiobook
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12. Wildflowers

By: Peggy Frew

3.29

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Frew's Wildflowers book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"

-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers

Cover of The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean

13. The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

By: Felicity McLean

3.43

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

'We lost all three girls that summer. Let them slip away like the words of some half-remembered son… read more

Similar categories in Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • australia
  • adult
  • audiobook
"So many words, but none of them were enough. None of them brought those girls home."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"So we kept our mouthes closed, like we squeezed our eyes shut. Our family of four blind mice."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"Cordy kept strange private things curled up in her carelessness that were too tight for the rest of us to unravel."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

"We thought we'd seen the worst when those girls disappeared, but seeing, and not seeing, is a funny old thing. Even now, I don't know which is crueller in the end."

-Felicity McLean, The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

Cover of Rejection: Fiction by Tony Tulathimutte

14. Rejection: Fiction

By: Tony Tulathimutte

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Whiting and O. Henry–winning author of Private Citizens (“the first great millennial novel… read more

Similar categories in Tony Tulathimutte's Rejection: Fiction book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Identity is diet history, single serving sociology; at its worst, a partriotism of trauma, or a prothesis of personality. Privilege discourse a well-meaning attempt to balance scales that have become…"

-Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection: Fiction

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15. Echoes

By: Ellen Datlow

3.70

Format: 816 pages, Paperback

The essential collection of beloved ghost stories, compiled by the editor who helped define the gen… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Datlow's Echoes book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • adult
  • fiction
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16. Devotion

By: Madeline Stevens

2.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A captivating debut novel about a woman who falls into an overwhelming mutual obsession with the Up… read more

Similar categories in Madeline Stevens's Devotion book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Gone Too Long by Lori Roy

17. Gone Too Long

By: Lori Roy

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

On the day a black truck rattles past her house and a Klan flyer lands in her front yard, ten-year-… read more

Similar categories in Lori Roy's Gone Too Long book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
Cover of What We'll Burn Last by Heather  Chavez

18. What We'll Burn Last

By: Heather Chavez

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Before She Finds Me comes a sharp and surprising thriller about two en… read more

Similar categories in Heather Chavez's What We'll Burn Last book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Island on the Edge of the World by Deborah Rodriguez

19. Island on the Edge of the World

By: Deborah Rodriguez

3.72

Format: 274 pages, ebook

Haiti. A poor country rich in courage, strength and love. As these four women are about to discover… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Rodriguez's Island on the Edge of the World book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Beartooth by Callan Wink

20. Beartooth

By: Callan Wink

4.27

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

Two brothers in dire straits, living on the edge of Yellowstone, agree to a desperate act of surviv… read more

Similar categories in Callan Wink's Beartooth book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
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21. This Is Me

By: Katie Price

3.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

.Celebrating twenty years since her bestselling debut autobiography, Being Jordan, and a stellar th… read more

Similar categories in Katie Price's This Is Me book and Felicity McLean's The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone

  • audiobook

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Blood and Salt (Blood and Salt, #1)

Kim Liggett

3.54

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Ivy Pochoda

4.43

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Children of Paradise

Fred D'Aguiar

4.22

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The Patterson Girls

Rachael Johns

3.93

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3.81

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3.63

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4.34

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