22 must-read fiction books like Mad Honey by Katie Welch

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Mad Honey

By: Katie Welch

3.74

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

When Beck Wise vanished, his girlfriend Melissa Makepeace poured herself into caring for the family…

If you liked the fiction plot in Mad Honey by Katie Welch , here is a list of 22 books like this:

Cover of The Photographer's Wife by Nick Alexander

1. The Photographer's Wife

By: Nick Alexander

3.24

Format: None pages, ebook

From the author of the #1 bestsellers, The French House, The Half-Life of Hannahand The Case of The… read more

Similar categories in Nick Alexander's The Photographer's Wife book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Country Girl

By: Edna O'Brien

3.87

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

"Country Girlis Edna O'Brien's exquisite account of her dashing, barrier-busting, up-and-down life.… read more

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3. Quartet in Autumn

By: Barbara Pym

3.90

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. Ireland

By: Frank Delaney

4.50

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In the winter of 1951, a storyteller arrives at the home of nine-year-old Ronan O'Mara in the Irish… read more

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Cover of Künstlers in Paradise by Cathleen Schine

5. Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"

-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

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6. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Learned by Heart book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • fiction
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7. Service Model

By: Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

To fix the world they first must break it further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Tchaikovsky's Service Model book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • fiction
Cover of A Meditation on Murder by Susan Juby

8. A Meditation on Murder

By: Susan Juby

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order—and solve … read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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9. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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10. 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

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
"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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11. 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 Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • 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

Cover of Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elamin Abdelmahmoud

12. Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

By: Elamin Abdelmahmoud

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An enlightening and deliciously witty collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and th… read more

Similar categories in Elamin Abdelmahmoud's Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • canada
"I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"We do things out of fear and we do things out of love and no one tells you what happens when you act from both places at once."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"It is a profound, transformative gift to have someone see you as you’d like to be seen, even if you don’t see yourself that way."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

"Love is a practice, a trail you carve out by traveling the same path over and over and over until it becomes familiar, until it lights the way home."

-Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

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13. Adrift

By: Lisa Brideau

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Last Thing He Told Me comes a page-turning thriller about hidden identities and the… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Brideau's Adrift book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
Cover of Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir by Cody Caetano

14. Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir

By: Cody Caetano

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

*LONGLISTED FOR CANADA READS 2023* NATIONAL BESTSELLERA family tries to learn from the mistakes of … read more

Similar categories in Cody Caetano's Half-Bads in White Regalia: A Memoir book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • canada
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15. Mad Honey

By: Jodi Picoult

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behin… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's Mad Honey book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Being gay or straight,"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"People always talk about their love for you is unconditional. Then you reveal your most private self to them, and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love."

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"Dark honey from the second harvest. It's made late in the season after the nectar drought at the end of July when the bees turn to goldenrod and sunflowers instead. It's deeper and richer, it tastes …"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don’t bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It’s a feudal relationship: protection…"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

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16. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

Similar categories in Jann Arden's The Bittlemores book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4) by Keigo Higashino

17. The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4)

By: Keigo Higashino

4.13

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the… read more

Similar categories in Keigo Higashino's The Final Curtain (Detective Kaga, #4) book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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18. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Johns's Bad Cree book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • fiction
  • canada
"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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19. Her First Palestinian

By: Saeed Teebi

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c… read more

Similar categories in Saeed Teebi's Her First Palestinian book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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20. 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

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life by Stefanie Green

21. This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life

By: Stefanie Green

4.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An international bestseller, this compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted d… read more

Similar categories in Stefanie Green's This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor's Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • canada
Cover of The Story of Us by Catherine  Hernandez

22. 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

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's The Story of Us book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation by Andrew Stobo Sniderman

23. Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation

By: Andrew Stobo Sniderman

4.54

Format: 384 pages, ebook

A heart-rending true story about racism and reconciliationDivided by a beautiful valley and 150 yea… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Stobo Sniderman's Valley of the Birdtail: An Indian Reserve, a White Town, and the Road to Reconciliation book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • canada
Cover of Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah  Willis

24. Girlfriend on Mars

By: Deborah Willis

3.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Amber Kivinen is moving to Mars. Or at least, she will be if she wins a chance to join MarsNow. She… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Willis's Girlfriend on Mars book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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25. Cocktail

By: Lisa Alward

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

One of the Globe and Mail 's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" • Listed in CBC Books Fiction to R… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Alward's Cocktail book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower by Charlie Angus

26. Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower

By: Charlie Angus

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2023 Trillium Book Award The world is desperate for cobalt. It drives the prolifer… read more

Similar categories in Charlie Angus's Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • canada
Cover of Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement by Toufah Jallow

27. Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

By: Toufah Jallow

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Toufah is the story of Toufah Jallow, a brilliant and inspiring young woman who, after she was forc… read more

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"But a country is not just its weather, it's buildings, it's people. A country is also its government, it's power structure, it's leaders, and it's way of life." (pg. 8)"

-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

"No person should be subjected to this.' If a woman's value, a woman's autonomy, her right to be free from assault, is dependent on her relationships as a mother, wife, a sister or daughter to the men…"

-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

"The absence of war doesn't necessarily equal peace,' I said." I loved this because it's such a poignant reminder that just because the extreme is not the case, doesn't mean that the opposite extreme …"

-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

"Social and religious circumstances pushed them down. Their strength and will pushed them forward- and perhaps in these ways they were more similar to the mothers and grandmothers of Western feminists…"

-Toufah Jallow, Toufah: The Woman Who Inspired an African #Metoo Movement

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28. Far Cry

By: Alissa York

4.01

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In a novel as compelling as the forbidden love at its heart, Alissa York, one of Canada's most dist… read more

Similar categories in Alissa York's Far Cry book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of A Convergence of Solitudes by Anita  Anand

29. A Convergence of Solitudes

By: Anita Anand

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

A story of identity, connection and forgiveness, A Convergence of Solitudes shares the lives of two… read more

Similar categories in Anita Anand's A Convergence of Solitudes book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • fiction
  • canada
Cover of Mad Honey by Katie  Welch

30. Mad Honey

By: Katie Welch

3.74

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

When Beck Wise vanished, his girlfriend Melissa Makepeace poured herself into caring for the family… read more

Similar categories in Katie Welch's Mad Honey book and Katie Welch's Mad Honey

  • mystery thriller
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty by Hillary Rodham Clinton

31. Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.25

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What would it be like to sit down for an impassioned, entertaining conversation with Hillary Clinto… read more

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