29 must-read fiction books like Cold Sunflowers by Mark Sippings

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Cold Sunflowers

By: Mark Sippings

4.04

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Everything happens for a reason.’ It’s 1972. Raymond Mann is seventeen. He is fearful of life and …

If you liked the fiction plot in Cold Sunflowers by Mark Sippings , here is a list of 29 books like this:

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1. Stig of the Dump

By: Clive King

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Barney is a solitary eight-year-old, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the … read more

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  • fiction
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2. The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr

By: Frances Maynard

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

A socially challenged young woman is finally forced to find her place in the world in this breathta… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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3. The Light Years (Cazalet Chronicles, #1)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In 1937, the coming war is only a distant cloud on Britain's horizon. As the Cazalet households pre… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Little Big Things: A young man's belief that every day can be a good day

By: Henry Fraser

3.74

Format: 384 pages,

The memoir of the year by Henry Fraser, motivational speaker and mouth artist with a foreword by J.… read more

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5. Earth

By: John Boyne

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy-bestselling author John Boyne, an inescapably gritty story about one young man wh… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Book of Fire

By: Christy Lefteri

3.83

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

In present-day Greece, deep in an ancient forest, lives a family: Irini, a musician, who teaches ch… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. The Moonlight Gardening Club

By: Rosie Hannigan

4.21

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

New friends. New beginnings. Old secrets… Though they come from the same small Irish village, lo… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

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  • fiction
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11. I Wish I Knew: Poems to Soothe Your Soul & Strengthen Your Spirit

By: Donna Ashworth

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this fast-paced world, I Wish I Knew is a collection of poems to guide us through the wilderness… read more

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12. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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13. Crushing

By: Sophie Burrows

3.86

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Life is full of connections – if you know how to make them.  Crushing  follows two people -- one de… read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Only Child

By: Kayte Nunn

3.91

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

A decades-old crime threatens to tear apart three generations of women in this unputdownable myster… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Winter People

By: Gráinne Murphy

4.10

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Sis Cotter has lived her whole life in a small house by her beloved beach. Here, she grew up, reare… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Over My Dead Body

By: Maz Evans

4.36

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When the misanthropic Dr Miriam Price wakes up dead, her day has only just started to go wrong. … read more

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  • fiction
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17. The Path to the Sea

By: Liz Fenwick

4.06

Format: 449 pages, Kindle Edition

'Atmospheric, emotional and full of mystery – an absolute pleasure from page one' Veronica Henry ‘… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Toll for the Dead (Bridget Hart #7)

By: M.S. Morris

4.46

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

A solemn funeral. A bitter schism. A brutal murder. When the much-loved lord of the manor, Henry Bu… read more

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  • fiction
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19. What the Mountains Remember

By: Joy Callaway

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

At this wondrous resort, secrets can easily be hidden in plain sight when the eye is trained on bea… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Second Chance

By: Charlotte Butterfield

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Nell has always known her expiry date. After a psychic predicted her death date twenty years ago… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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21. Our Holiday

By: Louise Candlish

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of Our HouseTHERE’S TROUBLE IN PARADISE… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Cold Sunflowers

By: Mark Sippings

4.04

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Everything happens for a reason.’ It’s 1972. Raymond Mann is seventeen. He is fearful of life and … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Girls

By: Kirsty Capes

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Precipice

By: Robert Harris

4.23

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of passion, intrigue, and betrayal set in England in the months leading to the… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"There were twelve deliveries a day in London in 1914. It would be in his hands by mid-afternoon. Pg5"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"The worst crises in politics always occurred, in his experience, when two unrelated problems struck at once. The difficulties weren’t doubled, or even squared, but cubed. Pg345"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

"Major Hankey, secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, was brought in by Bongie, and placed in front of him on the table the large red and blue leather-bound volume known as the War Book, he o…"

-Robert Harris, Precipice

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25. The Revenge of Rita Marsh

By: Nilesha Chauvet

3.32

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

Rita Marsh is a good person. By day, she runs a care home, looking after the elderly and infirm.… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Rewitched

By: Lucy Jane Wood

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Belladonna Blackthorn hasn’t lost her magical spark . . . but she hasn’t seen it in a while, either… read more

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  • fiction
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27. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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  • fiction
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28. Hill of Secrets

By: Galina Vromen

4.16

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

In a desert outpost, nuclear scientists and their families face the toll of the secrets they keep f… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Pity Party

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • fiction
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31. The Figurine

By: Victoria Hislop

4.14

Format: 568 pages, Kindle Edition

In her irresistible new novel, Sunday Times No 1 bestselling author Victoria Hislop shines a light … read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Elizabeth Jane Howard

3.83

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Christy Lefteri

3.83

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Alan Murrin

3.99

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Joanna Cannon

3.65

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T.M. Logan

3.97

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C.L. Taylor

3.90

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Nicci French

3.96

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