8 best-selling mystery books like The Valley and the Flood by Rebecca Mahoney

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The Valley and the Flood

By: Rebecca Mahoney

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Rose Colter is almost home, but she can't go back there yet. When her car breaks down in the Nevada…

"I understand that better when I go to speak and I can't get the words out. I don't cry though, not yet. Crying I think is going to take time, unwrapping those layers of performances and straight faces. But I was the one who wrapped them so I think I must know where the knots are tied."

-Rebecca Mahoney, The Valley and the Flood

"I understand that better when I go to speak and I can't get the words out. I don't cry though, not yet. Crying I think is going to take time, unwrapping those layers of performances and straight faces. But I was the one who wrapped them so I think I must know where the knots are tied."

-Rebecca Mahoney, The Valley and the Flood

"We don't just talk about terrible things to purge them from ourselves. We talk about them so that the people who love us can tell us when we're wrong. That we're being unkind to ourselves, or unfair, or that the things that have happened to us are not our fault. Because fear turns the world a different color and we don't always see clearly through it."

-Rebecca Mahoney, The Valley and the Flood

"We don't just talk about terrible things to purge them from ourselves. We talk about them so that the people who love us can tell us when we're wrong. That we're being unkind to ourselves, or unfair, or that the things that have happened to us are not our fault. Because fear turns the world a different color and we don't always see clearly through it."

-Rebecca Mahoney, The Valley and the Flood

If you liked the mystery plot in The Valley and the Flood by Rebecca Mahoney , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Edge of the Sea

By: Sue Hubbell , Rachel Carson , Bob Hines

4.21

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, writes this book focusing on the plants and invertebrates s… read more

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"In the lowest pools the Laminarias begin to appear, called variously the oarweeds, devil’s aprons, sea tangles, and kelps. The Laminarias belong to the brown algae, which flourish in the dimness of d…"

-Sue Hubbell, The Edge of the Sea

"Hearing the rising tide, I think how it is pressing also against other shores I know — rising on a southern beach where there is no fog, but a moon edging all the waves with silver and touching the w…"

-Sue Hubbell, The Edge of the Sea

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2. Everything All at Once

By: Katrina Leno

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Lottie Reeves has always struggled with anxiety, and when her beloved Aunt Helen dies, Lottie begin… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Everything All at Once book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. As You Wish

By: Chelsea Sedoti

3.93

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What if you could ask for anything- and get it? In the sandy Mojave Desert, Madison is a small town… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Sedoti's As You Wish book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy

4. How to Make a Wish

By: Ashley Herring Blake

3.99

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Grace, tough and wise, has nearly given up on wishes, thanks to a childhood spent with her unpredic… read more

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5. Egg & Spoon

By: Gregory Maguire

3.00

Format: 108 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy set in Tsarist Russia. Elena Rudina lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her fa… read more

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6. The Loop (The Loop Trilogy, #1)

By: Ben Oliver

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Life inside The Loop-the futuristic death row for teens under eighteen-is one long repetitive purga… read more

Similar categories in Ben Oliver's The Loop (The Loop Trilogy, #1) book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
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7. Any Sign of Life

By: Rae Carson

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a teenage girl thinks she may be the only person left alive in her town—maybe in the whole wor… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"I wanted to do something important like that. Something that would change the world for everyone who came after me."

-Rae Carson, Any Sign of Life

"My smidge of hope is a fragile thing, a tiny waving flame in a vast landscape of reeking darkness. I will shelter it, treasure it, coax it, because the alternative is despair, and I don't do despair."

-Rae Carson, Any Sign of Life

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8. Sinner's Isle

By: Angela Montoya

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding romantic fantasy about a powerful witch who will do anything to escape the remote is… read more

Similar categories in Angela Montoya's Sinner's Isle book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • fantasy
  • young adult
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9. The Jewel Thief

By: Jeannie Mobley

3.55

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A romance set in 17th century France, and centered around the broken history of the Hope Diamond. … read more

Similar categories in Jeannie Mobley's The Jewel Thief book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • young adult
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10. The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home (Welcome to Night Vale, #3)

By: Joseph Fink

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling authors of Welcome to Night Vale and It Devours! and the creato… read more

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  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • fiction
"In my rage, I can be anywhere, do anything. Vengeance is my path, and I must never once veer from it."

-Joseph Fink, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home (Welcome to Night Vale, #3)

"There is power in being unremembered, in being overlooked. You should remember that power. People who aren't seen can see and hear all."

-Joseph Fink, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home (Welcome to Night Vale, #3)

"We all don't get happy lives. Maybe a happy life doesn't exist, at least not as some complete, discrete entity. We get what we get and we sort through how we feel about it moment by moment."

-Joseph Fink, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home (Welcome to Night Vale, #3)

"I had known all of this since I left my father's body at our burned estate, but I had stashed it away. I had poured this knowledge into a bottle, and let it age and collect dust deep in the cellar of…"

-Joseph Fink, The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home (Welcome to Night Vale, #3)

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11. The Electric Kingdom

By: David Arnold

3.86

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the sur… read more

Similar categories in David Arnold's The Electric Kingdom book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
"We're still here."

-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

"Is your mom dead?"

-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

"Sometimes I wonder if I’m the only twelve-year-old in the world."

-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

"But listening was about more than hearing; it was about when and where you put yourself in the story."

-David Arnold, The Electric Kingdom

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12. All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology

By: Circe Moskowitz

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, … read more

Similar categories in Circe Moskowitz's All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • fantasy
  • queer
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13. These Fleeting Shadows

By: Kate Alice Marshall

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, ca… read more

Similar categories in Kate Alice Marshall's These Fleeting Shadows book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mystery
  • paranormal
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14. Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2)

By: Zoe Hana Mikuta

3.94

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Godslayers--Zoe Hana Mikuta's high-octane sequel to Gearbreakers--is perfect for fans of Pacific Ri… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Hana Mikuta's Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2) book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Me...what? Ha. I'm good. I'm all good. It's just I want to punch something, and the impulse never really passes."

-Zoe Hana Mikuta, Godslayers (Gearbreakers, #2)

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15. The Last True Poets of the Sea

By: Julia Drake

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The Larkin family isn't just lucky—they persevere. At least that's what Violet and her younger brot… read more

Similar categories in Julia Drake's The Last True Poets of the Sea book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I had never had friends before, not like this."

-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

"In the fog, she kissed me once, very quickly, and it felt like courage."

-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

"I imagined her springing from her father’s head, fully formed, like Athena."

-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

"Why did adventures have to happen away from home? Couldn’t the puzzle be an adventure, too?"

-Julia Drake, The Last True Poets of the Sea

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16. The Bad Ones

By: Melissa Albert

3.66

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Goddess, goddess, count to five In the morning, who’s alive? In the course of a single winter’s… read more

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  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • fantasy
"Let's say your the girl who saved your best friends life. The person who apparently kept her alive With your love and your constancey. With your steadfast disregard for the worser parts of her nature…"

-Melissa Albert, The Bad Ones

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17. Icarus

By: K. Ancrum

4.08

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, this… read more

Similar categories in K. Ancrum's Icarus book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
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18. This Will Be Funny Someday

By: Katie Henry

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A girl walks into a bar… then onto a stage, and up to the mic. Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to … read more

Similar categories in Katie Henry's This Will Be Funny Someday book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"you are biologically incapable of being funny"

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"How do you know they both went to Harvard? Mom smiles. 'It's like with vegans, sweetheart. They tell you."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"...that's the biggest reason people laugh at anything. Surprise. Unpredictability. We love being wrong about things... The surprise is the best part."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

"The world wants girls to be pretty and polite,’ Mo says. ‘And careful and deferential and selfless. You can’t be any of those things onstage. The world is a better place when you’re onstage."

-Katie Henry, This Will Be Funny Someday

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19. Sometime in Summer

By: Katrina Leno

3.92

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From critically acclaimed author Katrina Leno comes a tender love letter to books and summertime, w… read more

Similar categories in Katrina Leno's Sometime in Summer book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
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20. All Alone with You

By: Amelia Diane Coombs

4.11

Format: 352 pages, ebook

HBO Max’s Hacks gets a romantic twist in the vein of Jenn Bennett in this swoon-worthy novel about … read more

Similar categories in Amelia Diane Coombs's All Alone with You book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
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21. Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize

By: Margo Rabb

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Clark has had it. After being bullied one too many times at the boarding school her parents en… read more

Similar categories in Margo Rabb's Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I'm not something you fix like a broken plate or revise like a term paper. I'm a person. You love a person by accepting who they are, not constantly fixing them or trying to shape or change or teach …"

-Margo Rabb, Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize

"They didn't believe me," I told Jack. "What kind of evidence do you and the police need? The killer to stick a knife in someone's neck in front of you and say, I'm committing murder right now-please …"

-Margo Rabb, Lucy Clark Will Not Apologize

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22. Compass and Blade

By: Rachel Greenlaw

3.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This world of sea and storm runs deep with bargains and blood. On the remote isle of Rosevear, … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Greenlaw's Compass and Blade book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • young adult
  • fiction
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • fantasy
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23. The River Has Teeth

By: Erica Waters

3.85

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Natasha’s sister is missing. Her car was found abandoned on the edge of a local nature preserve … read more

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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Seemed like it was always the greed of men that undid a successful woman."

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

"There will always be men in the world who want to control and hurt and kill us. Men who drug us and drive us off roads and hit us with their fists. Men who take girls and make them their toys. Men wh…"

-Erica Waters, The River Has Teeth

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24. The History of Jane Doe

By: Michael Belanger

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, deeply funny coming-of-age story about first love, first loss, and the power of history… read more

Similar categories in Michael Belanger's The History of Jane Doe book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
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25. The Black Girl Survives in This One

By: Desiree S. Evans

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Be warned, dear reader: The Black girls survive in this one. Celebrating a new generation of bes… read more

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  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
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26. Summer of Salt

By: Katrina Leno

4.00

Format: 288 pages, ebook

A magic passed down through generations . . . Georgina Fernweh waits with growing impatience fo… read more

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  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • queer
"Oh?"

-Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

"What more could I want?"

-Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

"I’ll have to build a widow’s walk,"

-Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

"And besides that, people don’t always think the truth."

-Katrina Leno, Summer of Salt

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27. Looking for Smoke

By: K.A. Cobell

4.27

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider,… read more

Similar categories in K.A. Cobell's Looking for Smoke book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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28. The Valley and the Flood

By: Rebecca Mahoney

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Rose Colter is almost home, but she can't go back there yet. When her car breaks down in the Nevada… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • magical realism
  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • paranormal
  • queer
"I understand that better when I go to speak and I can't get the words out. I don't cry though, not yet. Crying I think is going to take time, unwrapping those layers of performances and straight face…"

-Rebecca Mahoney, The Valley and the Flood

"We don't just talk about terrible things to purge them from ourselves. We talk about them so that the people who love us can tell us when we're wrong. That we're being unkind to ourselves, or unfair,…"

-Rebecca Mahoney, The Valley and the Flood

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29. Just Our Luck

By: Julia Walton

3.88

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Words on Bathroom Walls— now a major motion picture—comes a romance in the spiri… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • mental health
"She wasn't loud per se, but she filled a room. I knew she was there before I heard her, and I guess she filled more than the physical space. She filled my childhood."

-Julia Walton, Just Our Luck

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30. Checked

By: Cynthia Kadohata

3.87

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Hockey is Conor’s life. His whole life. He’ll say it himself, he’s a hockey beast. It’s his dad’s w… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Kadohata's Checked book and Rebecca Mahoney's The Valley and the Flood

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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31. The Lost Souls of Benzaiten

By: Kelly Murashige

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A fantastical and heartfelt debut, quirky and transportive, that follows a young outcast on a journ… read more

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  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • mental health

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Transform Your Habits

Everything All at Once

Katrina Leno

3.75

As You Wish

Chelsea Sedoti

3.93

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Ben Oliver

3.90

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Any Sign of Life

Rae Carson

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Nora Sakavic

4.59

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F.T. Lukens

3.99

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You Should Be So Lucky

Cat Sebastian

4.39

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S.T. Gibson

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