12 best-selling mystery books like My Life as a Bench by Jaq Hazell

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My Life as a Bench

By: Jaq Hazell

3.46

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Ren Miller has died at age seventeen, and yet her consciousness lives on, inhabiting her memorial b…

If you liked the mystery plot in My Life as a Bench by Jaq Hazell , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Tease

By: Amanda Maciel

3.69

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

If you gulped through reading or streaming 13 Reasons Why, Tease is the book for you. Provocativ… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Maciel's Tease book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • fiction
  • young adult
"Don't add silence to your list of regrets."

-Amanda Maciel, Tease

"And I make them go into the restaurant, so there’s some exercise involved too. If walking across a parking lot counts."

-Amanda Maciel, Tease

"You're weird,' he says. Despite everythin, I smile. 'You're always saying that, but in fact, you're weird,' I say. 'Yeah, I know. Remember? That's how I can tell you're weird, too."

-Amanda Maciel, Tease

"I look down and see my hands uncapping the pen, turning the notepad right-side up on my knees. My mouth is dry, my stomach is in knots, my life is over, my heart is broken. I start to write."

-Amanda Maciel, Tease

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2. Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

By: Dorothy L. Sayers

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Rustic old Riddlesdale Lodge was a Wimsey family retreat filled with country pleasures and the thri… read more

Similar categories in Dorothy L. Sayers's Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2) book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • mystery
  • fiction
"Fou!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"Boil my brains!"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"I am abso-bally-lutely positive"

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

"The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere."

-Dorothy L. Sayers, Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)

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3. A Messy, Beautiful Life

By: Sara Jade Alan

2.96

Format: 63 pages, ebook

Life is funny sometimes. And not always the ha, ha kind. Like that one time where a hot guy tried t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Jade Alan's A Messy, Beautiful Life book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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4. Sully: My Search for What Really Matters

By: Jeffrey Zaslow , Chesley B. Sullenberger III

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Clint Eastwood, starring Tom Hanks--the inspirational autobiography… read more

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5. Saving It

By: Monica Murphy

3.80

Format: 654 pages, ebook

Eden: Josh Evans and I have been best friends forever. He knows all my secrets, and I know all of h… read more

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6. Anything You Do Say

By: Gillian McAllister

3.91

Format: None pages,

Joanna is an avoider. So far she has spent her adult life hiding bank statements and changing caree… read more

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7. Here Lies Daniel Tate

By: Cristin Terrill

4.79

Format: None pages, ebook

A young, street-savvy runaway looking for a place to call home realizes he might have conned his wa… read more

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8. The Queen B* and the Homecoming King (The Queen B*, #3)

By: Crista McHugh

4.18

Format: None pages, ebook

The Queen B*, Alexis Wyndham, has only three rules when it comes to dating that star quarterback, B… read more

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9. Possession in Death (In Death, #31.5)

By: J.D. Robb , Susan Ericksen

3.00

Format: 24 pages, Audio CD

"The devil killed my body. I cannot fight, I cannot find. I cannot free her. You must. You are the … read more

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10. The Last Legacy (The World of the Narrows, #3)

By: Adrienne Young

3.95

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

When a letter from her uncle Henrik arrives on Bryn Roth's eighteenth birthday, summoning her back … read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Young's The Last Legacy (The World of the Narrows, #3) book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • fiction
  • young adult
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11. Platform Seven

By: Louise Doughty

3.52

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkw… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The dead don't bother haunting graveyards- they are the last place on earth they need to haunt. The living do that job for them with their messy combination of grief, desire, imagination. There is no…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

"It's a deal we all make, I remember thinking. What kind of life will I live with this person? All relationships are a balancing act, after all, each individual perched on either side of a seesaw. You…"

-Louise Doughty, Platform Seven

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12. Snowglobe

By: Soyoung Park

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can es… read more

Similar categories in Soyoung Park's Snowglobe book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
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13. Her Dying Secret (Detective Josie Quinn, #20)

By: Lisa Regan

4.47

Format: 350 pages, ebook

She gently opens the woman’s tightly clenched fist, uncurling each finger to reveal a square of fol… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Regan's Her Dying Secret (Detective Josie Quinn, #20) book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • mystery
  • fiction
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14. The Village Healer’s Book of Cures

By: Jennifer Sherman Roberts

3.78

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

In seventeenth-century England, a female healer enflames the fury of a witchfinder in this propulsi… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Sherman Roberts's The Village Healer’s Book of Cures book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • mystery
  • fiction
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15. Not Like Other Girls

By: Meredith Adamo

4.13

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A girl risks everything to find her former best friend in this powerful debut mystery about trauma,… read more

Similar categories in Meredith Adamo's Not Like Other Girls book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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16. The Lodge

By: Miranda Rijks

4.09

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s so quiet at the lodge. But if you listen very hard, you can hear the screams. Anna has rebu… read more

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  • mystery
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17. Accidental Magic (Myrtlewood Mysteries, #1)

By: Iris Beaglehole

3.90

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to Myrtlewood, a quirky town, steeped in magic, tea and mystery… Life’s a struggle for R… read more

Similar categories in Iris Beaglehole's Accidental Magic (Myrtlewood Mysteries, #1) book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • mystery
  • fiction
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18. Five Years From Now

By: Paige Toon

4.03

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

'Tender, heartbreaking and magical . . .  I went from feeling warm and fuzzy to shock, delight befo… read more

Similar categories in Paige Toon's Five Years From Now book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Beholder

By: Ryan La Sala

3.92

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

"Beholder is a resplendent monster of power, secrets, wealth, and murderous interior design." - An… read more

Similar categories in Ryan La Sala's Beholder book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
"People look into mirrors with such unguarded curiosity, never thinking that someone else is looking back."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"We mustn’t light our way with the flame of fear. It’ll make the shadows of even small things into impossible monsters."

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"This book isn’t dedicated to you, Susan, but I know you’ll read it one day. So I just wanted to let you know you still owe me the rest of my security deposit. Hope those books of yours are going well!"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

"Our world is an artful illusion—of light, color, and sound. It feels spontaneous when you’re in it, but it isn’t. Beneath it all, or above it all, there’s something both significant and unknowable. A…"

-Ryan La Sala, Beholder

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20. The Next New Syrian Girl

By: Ream Shukairy

4.28

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Furia meets I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter about the unlikely friendship between two very d… read more

Similar categories in Ream Shukairy's The Next New Syrian Girl book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

By: Holly Bourne

3.94

Format: 400 pages, ebook

Welcome to Camp Reset, a summer camp with a difference. A place offering a shot at “normality” for … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"Because trying to use logic to explain anxiety is like using a banana to open a locked safe."

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

"I think real kindness, real compassion, is having the strength to stop and try and see where another person is coming from. To try and work out why they're being the way they're being. It takes time …"

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

"You don't have to stop looking after yourself just to help the world. In fact, sometimes it's better for the world if you put yourself first. That's not being selfish, in fact looking after yourself …"

-Holly Bourne, Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?

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22. The Ridiculous Misadventures of a Single Girl (Eat, Pray, #FML Book 2)

By: Gabrielle Stone

4.32

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

When Eat, Pray, #FML was published, it quickly found its audience, a worldwide tribe of women who f… read more

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23. From Here

By: Luma Mufleh

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to recon… read more

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24. I Will Find You Again

By: Sarah Lyu

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All the Bright Places meets You've Reached Sam in this teen psychological thriller about two girls … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Lyu's I Will Find You Again book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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25. Liars

By: Sarah Manguso

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Manguso's Liars book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."

-Sarah Manguso, Liars

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26. Sex Ed

By: Kristen Bailey

4.10

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Ed is a virgin. I didn’t know those existed – not at our age anyway. Maybe he was so drunk that he … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Bailey's Sex Ed book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Talk to the Paw

By: Melinda Metz

3.81

Format: 281 pages, ebook

SHE'S PUTTING HER LOVE LIFE ON PAWS Jamie Snyder is thirty-four and single but NOT ready to mingle.… read more

Similar categories in Melinda Metz's Talk to the Paw book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. My Life as a Bench

By: Jaq Hazell

3.46

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Ren Miller has died at age seventeen, and yet her consciousness lives on, inhabiting her memorial b… read more

Similar categories in Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • literary fiction
  • young adult
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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29. Twenty-Four Seconds from Now...

By: Jason Reynolds

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Jason Reynolds has done it again!...Fresh from start to finish…This is what it could be, should be… read more

Similar categories in Jason Reynolds's Twenty-Four Seconds from Now... book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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30. Into the Light

By: Mark Oshiro

3.98

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When you're like me, you have to lie. It’s been one year since Manny was cast out of his family … read more

Similar categories in Mark Oshiro's Into the Light book and Jaq Hazell's My Life as a Bench

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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31. We'll Prescribe You a Cat

By: Syou Ishida

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A cat a day keeps the doctor away… Discover the award-winning, bestselling Japanese novel that has… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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4.06

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Byron Graves

4.16

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Hannah V. Sawyerr

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