19 best-selling contemporary books like At Last Count by Claire Ross Dunn

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At Last Count

By: Claire Ross Dunn

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

For readers who love Mark Haddon, Miriam Toews, and Sally Rooney Paisley Ratchford is trying to …

If you liked the contemporary plot in At Last Count by Claire Ross Dunn , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. The Trap

By: Melanie Raabe , Imogen Taylor

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this twisted debut thriller, a reclusive author sets the perfect trap for her sister's murderer … read more

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2. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

Similar categories in Michael Crummey's The Adversary book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) by Waubgeshig Rice

3. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more

Similar categories in Waubgeshig Rice's Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2) book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
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4. Akin

By: Emma Donoghue

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the … read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Akin book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

Cover of I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) by Ian Ferguson

6. I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1)

By: Ian Ferguson

3.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A once-famous TV sleuth An amateur theater production An onstage murder A town full of suspects…… read more

Similar categories in Ian Ferguson's I Only Read Murder (Miranda Abbott, #1) book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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7. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

Similar categories in Dimitri Nasrallah's Hotline book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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8. The Fake

By: Zoe Whittall

3.44

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A con artist can make you feel like the luckiest person on earth just to be in their presence. But … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"There are worse things than telling a lie."

-Zoe Whittall, The Fake

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9. Astra

By: Cedar Bowers

4.21

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

If you could see yourself as others saw you, would you be any closer to the truth of who you really… read more

Similar categories in Cedar Bowers's Astra book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. Fayne: A Novel

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

4.26

Format: 736 pages, Hardcover

A beloved writer returns with a tale of science, magyk, love and identity. In the late nineteent… read more

Similar categories in Ann-Marie MacDonald's Fayne: A Novel book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
"Byrn speaks and I understand him without effort, his words as clear as spring water. / Ask a favour of the plover, he says. Borrow her eyes. / Then I am flying through the air, and the flying is his …"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fayne: A Novel

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11. Closer by Sea

By: Perry Chafe

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER CBC Books “86 Works of Canadian Fiction to Read in the First Half of 20… read more

Similar categories in Perry Chafe's Closer by Sea book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
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12. Recipe for a Good Life

By: Lesley Crewe

4.34

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Globe & Mail bestselling Lesley Crewe's new novel follows a mystery author with writer's block from… read more

Similar categories in Lesley Crewe's Recipe for a Good Life book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • fiction
  • canada
"Become an editor,' they said. 'You love books.' they said. I do love books; I just hate the people who write them."

-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life

"I met the Homeville Women's Institute, a whole gaggle of rural women who have monthly meetings to make their community better. They realized that by joining together they had a stronger voice, and th…"

-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life

"Life is like a recipe. What do you want in your life cake? What ingredients do you need to make it rise and taste wonderful? Sometimes the simplest recipe is the best, because the more you add to the…"

-Lesley Crewe, Recipe for a Good Life

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13. Twenty-Seven Minutes

By: Ashley Tate

3.22

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

"The rare gift that delivers it all: elevated prose, characters with depth, unpredictable twists, a… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Tate's Twenty-Seven Minutes book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

Similar categories in Suzette Mayr's The Sleeping Car Porter book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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15. The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

By: Donna Freitas

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving novel about a woman who thought she never wanted to be a mother—and the many ways t… read more

Similar categories in Donna Freitas's The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My love for Addie is terrifying, a perpetual state of vertigo, an ongoing condition of living on the edge of an abyss."

-Donna Freitas, The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

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16. All the Colour in the World

By: C.S. Richardson

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story of the restorative power of art in one man's life, set against the sweep of the twentieth… read more

Similar categories in C.S. Richardson's All the Colour in the World book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
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17. A New Season

By: Terry Fallis

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtf… read more

Similar categories in Terry Fallis's A New Season book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • novels
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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18. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Christina Wong's Denison Avenue book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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19. The Story of Us

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Canada Reads finalist Scarborough, a stunning new novel about the unbreakable bo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Behind You Is the Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj

20. Behind You Is the Sea

By: Susan Muaddi Darraj

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more

Similar categories in Susan Muaddi Darraj's Behind You Is the Sea book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Behind You by Catherine  Hernandez

21. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's Behind You book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
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22. The Inheritance

By: Joanna Goodman

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Forgotten Daughter comes a compu… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Goodman's The Inheritance book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • fiction
  • adult
  • canada
  • contemporary
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23. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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24. Mrs Van Gogh

By: Caroline Cauchi

3.83

Format: 481 pages, Kindle Edition

She’s been painted out of history…until now Who tells her story? In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh di… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Cauchi's Mrs Van Gogh book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • fiction
Cover of Starlight by Richard Wagamese

25. Starlight

By: Richard Wagamese

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The final novel from Richard Wagamese, the bestselling and beloved author of Indian Horse and Medic… read more

Similar categories in Richard Wagamese's Starlight book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

26. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

Similar categories in Shilpi Somaya Gowda's A Great Country book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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27. A Stone is Most Precious Where it Belongs

By: Gulchehra Hoja

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary memoir of a woman who gave up everything to help her people In February 2018, … read more

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Cover of At Last Count by Claire Ross Dunn

28. At Last Count

By: Claire Ross Dunn

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

For readers who love Mark Haddon, Miriam Toews, and Sally Rooney Paisley Ratchford is trying to … read more

Similar categories in Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada by Jane Philpott

29. Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada

By: Jane Philpott

4.35

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

An Instant #1 National Bestseller • From one of Canada's most respected and high-profile health pro… read more

Similar categories in Jane Philpott's Health for All: A Doctor's Prescription for a Healthier Canada book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • canada
  • mental health
Cover of real ones by Katherena Vermette

30. real ones

By: Katherena Vermette

4.10

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Mich… read more

Similar categories in Katherena Vermette's real ones book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of Hold My Girl by Charlene Carr

31. Hold My Girl

By: Charlene Carr

3.96

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Two women. Two eggs. One life-altering mistake. Katherine finally has it all. She's spent her enti… read more

Similar categories in Charlene Carr's Hold My Girl book and Claire Ross Dunn's At Last Count

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

28 Top fiction books like At Last Count by Claire Ross Dunn

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Akin

Emma Donoghue

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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