27 must-read contemporary books like A Light in the Dark by Allee Richards

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A Light in the Dark

By: Allee Richards

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Trade Paperback

Iris doesn't remember the first time she met Nina. But she remembers the first time she paid attent…

If you liked the contemporary plot in A Light in the Dark by Allee Richards , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • contemporary
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2. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • contemporary
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3. Bite Back: Feminism, Media, Politics, and Our Power to Change It All

By: Hannah Ferguson

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Founder of Cheek Media Co. delivers the conversations we've been missing on everything from die… read more

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4. Women & Children

By: Tony Birch

4.22

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

It's 1965 and Joe Cluny is living in a working-class suburb with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby,… read more

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5. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

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  • contemporary
"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

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6. The Hummingbird Effect

By: Kate Mildenhall

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An epic, kaleidoscopic story of four women connected across time and place by an invisible thread a… read more

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  • contemporary
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7. No Hard Feelings

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more

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  • contemporary
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8. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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  • contemporary
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9. Lioness

By: Emily Perkins

3.43

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eat… read more

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  • contemporary
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10. Thanks for Having Me

By: Emma Darragh

3.62

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The first fiction title from JOAN, consisting of interwoven stories about three generations of wome… read more

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11. The Anniversary

By: Stephanie Bishop

3.10

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

For fans of Lisa Halliday and Susan Choi, The Anniversary is a simmering page-turner about an ascen… read more

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  • contemporary
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12. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

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  • contemporary
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13. The Opposite of Success

By: Eleanor Elliott Thomas

3.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

All Lorrie wants is to get promoted, accept her body and end global warming. By Friday. Is that rea… read more

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  • contemporary
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14. 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

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  • contemporary
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15. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

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  • contemporary
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16. Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast

By: Karina May

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Trade Paperback

What if the person getting you through the hardest time in your life is someone you've never met? … read more

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  • contemporary
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17. Body Friend

By: Katherine Brabon

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Late in the summer five years ago, when I was recovering from a surgical procedure, I met two women… read more

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  • contemporary
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18. Between You and Me

By: Joanna Horton

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between lo… read more

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  • contemporary
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19. One Day We're All Going to Die

By: Elise Esther Hearst

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming… read more

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  • contemporary
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20. Search History

By: Amy Taylor

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more

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  • contemporary
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21. Feast

By: Emily O'Grady

3.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yello… read more

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  • contemporary
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22. West Girls

By: Laura Elizabeth Woollett

3.36

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘I chose the jagged rocks, the broken bones, the spattered brains. I chose beauty. I'd choose it ag… read more

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  • contemporary
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23. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

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  • contemporary
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24. Marshmallow

By: Victoria Hannan

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more

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  • contemporary
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25. The Modern

By: Anna Kate Blair

3.10

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

In an age driven by desire, what happens when you want two different things?   Set in the pristin… read more

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  • contemporary
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26. A Light in the Dark

By: Allee Richards

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Trade Paperback

Iris doesn't remember the first time she met Nina. But she remembers the first time she paid attent… read more

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  • contemporary
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27. Others Were Emeralds

By: Lang Leav

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This debut adult novel combines her poetical lyricism and emotional acumen to create an enthralling… read more

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  • contemporary
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28. Sad Girl Novel

By: Pip Finkemeyer

3.09

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

'Brimful of humorous one-liners and subverted meme references ' ArtHub ' Stays one step ahead of… read more

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  • contemporary
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29. Together We Fall Apart

By: Sophie Matthiesson

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A beautifully crafted debut novel from a compelling new voice in Australian fiction. For the pas… read more

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30. The Honeyeater

By: Jessie Tu

3.59

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

A wildly inventive follow up to the acclaimed bestseller A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing, winner… read more

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  • contemporary
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31. A Language of Limbs

By: Dylin Hardcastle

4.56

Format: 277 pages, ebook

The first love of a teenage girl is a powerful thing, particularly when the object of that desire i… read more

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  • contemporary

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Charlotte Wood

3.68

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