16 must-read contemporary books like The Things That We Lost by Jyoti Patel

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The Things That We Lost

By: Jyoti Patel

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

*** WINNER OF THE 2021 #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZE***Nik has lots of questions about his late f…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Things That We Lost by Jyoti Patel , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of In Memoriam by Alice Winn

1. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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  • fiction
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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2. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Rootless

By: Krystle Zara Appiah

3.83

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. 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

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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5. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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6. 73 Dove Street

By: Julie Owen Moylan

3.95

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The page-turning and evocative new novel set in 1950s London from the author of That Green Eyed Gir… read more

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  • fiction
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7. How (Not) to Have an Arranged Marriage

By: Amir Khan

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

He’s the perfect catch (according to his mother).From Dr Amir Khan, How (Not) To Have an Arranged M… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Ghost Girl, Banana

By: Wiz Wharton

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set between the last years of the "Chinese Windrush" in 1966 and Hong Kong's Handover to China in 1… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. This Family

By: Kate Sawyer

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Wandering Souls

By: Cecile Pin

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."

-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls

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11. Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments

By: Hema Sukumar

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A warm-hearted debut novel set in the beautiful coastal city of Chennai, for fans of Alexander McCa… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Garnett Girls

By: Georgina Moore

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this brilliant debut novel full of heart and warmth, three very different sisters--and their fre… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It wasn't until the small daily gestures of affection disappeared in a marriage that you noticed them or knew how much you relied on them to break up the grind of work and childcare. They were the be…"

-Georgina Moore, The Garnett Girls

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13. Fire Rush

By: Jacqueline Crooks

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Set amid the Jamaican diaspora in London at the dawn of 1980s, a mesmerizing story of love, loss, a… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Sunny by Sukh Ojla

14. Sunny

By: Sukh Ojla

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

This actually is a love story, just not the one Sunny was looking for... Sunny is the queen of l… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. 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

Cover of Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu

16. Here Again Now

By: Okechukwu Nzelu

3.87

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Okechukwu Nzelu comes a spellbinding literary novel that asks, how do you… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Things That We Lost

By: Jyoti Patel

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

*** WINNER OF THE 2021 #MERKY BOOKS NEW WRITERS' PRIZE***Nik has lots of questions about his late f… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Sad Girl Novel by Pip Finkemeyer

18. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Situationship

By: Taylor-Dior Rumble

3.35

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When the love of her life shows up with a girlfriend, Tia decides it's time to put herself out ther… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Baby Does A Runner

By: Anita Rani

4.07

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes you need to run, to find out where you really belong.Baby has had it with just about ever… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. A Home for the Lost

By: Sharon Maas

4.04

Format: 453 pages, ebook

He got them when they were most vulnerable, when they were down and out, poor and alone and in trou… read more

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  • fiction

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Alice Winn

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