13 must-read contemporary books like Unleashed by Cai Emmons

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Unleashed

By: Cai Emmons

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set amid California’s wildfire season, a vivid and magical novel following a family in crisis thrus…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Unleashed by Cai Emmons , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Mrs. Fletcher

By: Tom Perrotta

3.36

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

Eve Fletcher is floundering. A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved, clueless only child has j… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Doesn’t matter where you live. You’re always just kind of alone with your shit, you know?"

-Tom Perrotta, Mrs. Fletcher

"Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simp…"

-Tom Perrotta, Mrs. Fletcher

"But these old people in front of her tonight, they weren’t the future. They belonged to the past, and Margo had learned from bitter experience—not just with her mother, but with a whole generation of…"

-Tom Perrotta, Mrs. Fletcher

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2. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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  • fiction
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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3. Flight

By: Lynn Steger Strong

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Arresting and powerful,  Flight  examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

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4. Signal Fires

By: Dani Shapiro

3.91

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

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5. ADHD is Awesome: A Guide to (Mostly) Thriving with ADHD

By: Penn Holderness

4.32

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

Hi, friend! Welcome to the ADHD club. You're here because, like me, you've been diagnosed with a… read more

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6. Little Monsters

By: Adrienne Brodeur

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

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7. The Birth House

By: Ami McKay

4.03

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning the 20th century Ami McKay takes a primitive and superstitious rural community in Nova Sco… read more

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  • fiction
"No matter what you do, someone always knew you would."

-Ami McKay, The Birth House

"Each day brings another handful of opportunities. It's up to you to make the best of what you're given."

-Ami McKay, The Birth House

"If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing."

-Ami McKay, The Birth House

"Miss B. says, "It's a mama's faith what keeps her children right. I'm not talkin' 'bout the churchgoin' kind, neither. Miss Mabel's got faith in goodness. Tell me you can't help but believe in it too…"

-Ami McKay, The Birth House

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8. Our Best Intentions

By: Vibhuti Jain

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A pulsating debut about an immigrant family that gets caught in the middle of a criminal investigat… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. A Quiet Life

By: Ethan Joella

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, charact… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a pain…"

-Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

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10. A Council of Dolls

By: Mona Susan Power

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited, profoundly moving, and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award–winning Native Amer… read more

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  • fiction
"Shame invades one's thoughts like a parasite, twists them like wet laundry until all sense is wrung out."

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

"When Winona whispered her memories to me in later years, she said that Whitestone Hill was the day the world ended. I never asked what she meant, how the world could be gone when the sun was still in…"

-Mona Susan Power, A Council of Dolls

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11. Tell Me Who You Are

By: Louisa Luna

3.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The Silent Patient meets Gone Girl in this sharp psychological thriller about a psychiatrist with a… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Luna's Tell Me Who You Are book and Cai Emmons's Unleashed

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

3.69

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

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13. The Fortune Seller

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale e… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller book and Cai Emmons's Unleashed

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Crook, philanderer, asshole. Champion, genius, father. How are you supposed to weigh up someone's life?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Fortune Seller

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14. The Prospectors

By: Ariel Djanikian

3.67

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping rags-to-riches story of survival and greed across American history following a family tr… read more

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  • fiction
"How easy it was to adjust to extravagance."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

"Secrets have a way of nudging against their enclosures and bumping playfully against the walls."

-Ariel Djanikian, The Prospectors

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15. The House Party

By: Rita Cameron

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When a house party goes terribly wrong, a suburban town fractures, exposing disturbing truths about… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more

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  • fiction
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17. The Ingenue

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

My Dark Vanessa meets The Queen's Gambit in this new novel of suspense about the bonds of family, t… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You can love a dog like you loved people when you were a child. Without fear. Only this happens for opposite reasons: as a child, you love without knowledge and thus the threat of death; with a dog, …"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Ingenue

Cover of Unleashed by Cai Emmons

18. Unleashed

By: Cai Emmons

3.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set amid California’s wildfire season, a vivid and magical novel following a family in crisis thrus… read more

Similar categories in Cai Emmons's Unleashed book and Cai Emmons's Unleashed

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend

By: M.J. Wassmer

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapp… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2)

By: Fiona Barton

4.06

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Detective Elise King’s investigation into a woman’s murder is getting derailed by a reporter who in… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Barton's Talking to Strangers (Elise King, #2) book and Cai Emmons's Unleashed

  • fiction
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21. No One Will Know

By: Rose Carlyle

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A deliciously twisty and suspenseful novel from #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl i… read more

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  • fiction

20 Best fiction books like Unleashed by Cai Emmons

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Fletcher

Tom Perrotta

3.36

Transform Your Habits

Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Flight

Lynn Steger Strong

3.43

Transform Your Habits

Signal Fires

Dani Shapiro

3.91

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21 best-selling fiction books like Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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