11 best-selling contemporary books like Cygnet by Season Butler

Cover of Cygnet by Season Butler

Cygnet

By: Season Butler

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best First Novel An utterly original coming-of-age tale, …

If you liked the contemporary plot in Cygnet by Season Butler , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of One Wish (Thirteen Treasures, #0.5) by Michelle Harrison

1. One Wish (Thirteen Treasures, #0.5)

By: Michelle Harrison

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Mass Market Paperback

One wish only, understood? There are rules, so listen good . . . The Spinney Wicket Wishing Tree ca… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Harrison's One Wish (Thirteen Treasures, #0.5) book and Season Butler's Cygnet

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3) by Tove Jansson, Elizabeth Portch

2. Finn Family Moomintroll (The Moomins, #3)

By: Tove Jansson , Elizabeth Portch

3.42

Format: None pages,

It is spring in the valley and the Moomins are ready for adventure Moomintroll and his friends Snuf… read more

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  • fiction
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3. The Boy in the Black Suit

By: Jason Reynolds

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Hardcover

Just when seventeen-year-old Matt thinks he can't handle one more piece of terrible news, he meets … read more

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  • fiction
  • african american
  • young adult
  • contemporary

4. The Summer We All Ran Away

By: Cassandra Parkin

3.00

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

When nineteen year old Davey finds himself drunk, beaten and alone, he is rescued by the oddly-asso… read more

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5. The Girl from Everywhere (The Girl from Everywhere, #1)

By: Heidi Heilig

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Nix has spent her entire life aboard her father's ship, sailing across the centuries, across the wo… read more

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6. East is East

By: None

4.31

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

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7. Edinburgh

By: Alexander Chee

4.04

Format: 431 pages,

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8. Counting Stars

By: Keris Stainton

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Big city, big dreams, no money, no problem... Six 'friends', one flat, big dreams... what could go … read more

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9. Haroun and the Sea of Stories (Khalifa Brothers, #1)

By: Salman Rushdie , None

4.30

Format: 189 pages,

Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushd… read more

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10. The French Lieutenant's Woman

By: John Fowles

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorset's Lyme Bay..."the largest bite from the underside … read more

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11. The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)

By: M.R. Carey

4.01

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Beyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable world. A world where ov… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"People will do what they got to do to be together. But it's the being together that matters more than the rules or the place."

-M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)

"I don't like people very much. I'm all in favour of them as a concept, but I don't get on with them at all when I have to mix with them."

-M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)

"I learned since then, and paid a price to learn, it that them as laid claim to great wisdom most often got nothing in their store but bare scrapings. And by the same token, them as think they're igno…"

-M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy, #1)

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12. Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

By: Rob Wilkins

4.68

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it’s the other way around.' At the tim… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Wakenhyrst

By: Michelle Paver

3.87

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

1906: A large manor house, Wake's End, sits on the edge of a bleak Fen, just outside the town of Wa… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Vox

By: Christina Dalcher

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in an America where half the population has been silenced, VOX is the harrowing, unforgettable … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"<>"

-Christina Dalcher, Vox

"you can't protest what you don't see coming."

-Christina Dalcher, Vox

"Everything lately seems to be a choice between degrees of hate."

-Christina Dalcher, Vox

"Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. That’s what they say, right?"

-Christina Dalcher, Vox

Cover of Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1) by Stephen Spotswood

15. Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)

By: Stephen Spotswood

4.03

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A wildly charming and fast-paced mystery written with all the panache of the hardboiled classics, F… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The lady of the house has gone adventuring and I know not where."

-Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)

"I'm to take Becca Collins out dancing and try to get a glimpse of her inner workings?' 'Don't be crude.' She sniffed and, dare I say it, blushed a little. 'I trust you to use your best judgment. Don'…"

-Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)

"It's the ones that look like they're sleeping that I have a hard time with. Eventually, I notice the stillness. The absence of things I take for granted: the slow in-and-out of regular breathing, the…"

-Stephen Spotswood, Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)

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16. Lost in the Garden

By: Adam S. Leslie

3.73

Format: 446 pages, Paperback

"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more

Similar categories in Adam S. Leslie's Lost in the Garden book and Season Butler's Cygnet

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Burnt Sugar

By: Avni Doshi

3.26

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Uma história de obsessões e traição. Uma história de amor envenenada, cujos protagonistas, ao contr… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Ma naps on the sofa, and for a moment I can imagine what she’ll look like when she dies, when her face slackens and the air abandons her lungs. Around her are objects, papers, photo frames filled wit…"

-Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar

Cover of Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure by Monisha Rajesh

18. Around the World in 80 Trains: A 45,000-Mile Adventure

By: Monisha Rajesh

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Monisha Rajesh announced plans to circumnavigate the globe in eighty train journeys, she was m… read more

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  • audiobook
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19. The Fortune Men

By: Nadifa Mohamed

3.80

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Arctic Zoo

By: Robert Muchamore

3.95

Format: 370 pages, Kindle Edition

From London . . .Georgia gets straight As at school, writes essays for fun, has been placed first i… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. We, The Survivors

By: Tash Aw

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
"Friendship is not necessary for closeness"

-Tash Aw, We, The Survivors

Cover of The Surprising Days of Isla Pembroke by Tamsin Keily

22. The Surprising Days of Isla Pembroke

By: Tamsin Keily

3.39

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Some days you remember forever. But what if you could live them again? If Isla Pembroke could tu… read more

Similar categories in Tamsin Keily's The Surprising Days of Isla Pembroke book and Season Butler's Cygnet

  • fiction
Cover of Shiner by Amy Jo Burns

23. Shiner

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one you… read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Shiner book and Season Butler's Cygnet

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Careless by Kirsty Capes

24. Careless

By: Kirsty Capes

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's easy to fall between the cracks... At 3.04pm on a hot, sticky day in June, Bess f… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding by Ellena Savage

25. Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

By: Ellena Savage

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘I mean who cares about opinions, gossip, whatever, when bodies are so vulnerable, in search only o… read more

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  • contemporary
"Sadness is not always a terrible illness. Sadness is, perhaps, the most honest response to living."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"I need to manage the unmanageable, to contain, correct and formalise the world, because I need to survive it."

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"Is 'self-care' a neoliberal scam promoting individualistic coping strategies in the absence of broader social obligations or the possibility of radical structural change? (Well, yes, I say to myself …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

"If there is always a question, and I believe there is, in this case it is this: where is home and what is freedom. The promise we accept is that freedom is the freedom to make ourselves anew, but in …"

-Ellena Savage, Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding

Cover of A River of Golden Bones (The Golden Court, #1) by A.K. Mulford

26. A River of Golden Bones (The Golden Court, #1)

By: A.K. Mulford

3.65

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

A sleeping curse. A fallen court. A secret twin. Twins Calla and Briar have spent their entire … read more

Similar categories in A.K. Mulford's A River of Golden Bones (The Golden Court, #1) book and Season Butler's Cygnet

  • fiction
  • audiobook
"The moon knew we needed each other, better than I ever understood, and now I know I was meant to be yours just as you were meant to be mine."

-A.K. Mulford, A River of Golden Bones (The Golden Court, #1)

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27. little scratch

By: Rebecca Watson

3.75

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In the formally experimental tradition of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and Ducks, Newburyport … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Watson's little scratch book and Season Butler's Cygnet

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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28. Version Zero

By: David Yoon

3.36

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the brilliant mind of New York Times best-selling author David Yoon comes a lightning-fast and… read more

Similar categories in David Yoon's Version Zero book and Season Butler's Cygnet

  • adult fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Cygnet by Season Butler

29. Cygnet

By: Season Butler

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Writers’ Guild Award for Best First Novel An utterly original coming-of-age tale, … read more

Similar categories in Season Butler's Cygnet book and Season Butler's Cygnet

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • african american
  • audiobook
Cover of The All True Adventures (and Rare Education) of the Daredevil Daniel Bones by Owen Booth

30. The All True Adventures (and Rare Education) of the Daredevil Daniel Bones

By: Owen Booth

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

A gloriously moving and entertaining, picaresque debut novel, about a young man’s sentimental educa… read more

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  • fiction

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3.18

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3.42

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Jason Reynolds

3.46

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Deborah Levy

3.94

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Claire Keegan

4.18

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Eliza Clark

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