19 must-read contemporary books like Unbecoming by Joanne Fedler

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Unbecoming

By: JOANNE FEDLER

3.64

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

You can do one night, Jo reminds herself as she follows five women into the Australian bush. Where…

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Cover of Close Your Eyes (Joseph O'Loughlin, #8) by Michael Robotham

1. Close Your Eyes (Joseph O'Loughlin, #8)

By: Michael Robotham

4.21

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

When a former student bungles a murder investigation, clinical psychologist Joseph O'Loughlin steps… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

By: Marian Keyes

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

What happens when a psychic tells Lucy that she'll be getting married within the year? Her roommate… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Return to the Little Coffee Shop of Kabul (The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul #2)

By: Deborah Rodriguez

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

The brand new novel from the author of the Top Ten Sunday Times bestseller The Little Coffee Shop o… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. Anything Is Possible

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.20

Format: None pages,

Short story collection Anything Is Possibleexplores the whole range of human emotion through the in… read more

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6. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

By: Chanel Contos

4.56

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read In 2021, Chan… read more

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8. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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9. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Southern Aurora

By: Mark Brandi

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable new novel from the Dagger award-winning author of Wimmera. A novel that shows sma… read more

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  • fiction
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11. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Children of Sugarcane

By: Joanne Joseph

4.49

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

"Shanti is a heroine that the reader will not easily forget. The story that is told here is worth n… read more

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  • fiction
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14. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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  • book club
  • contemporary
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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15. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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17. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3) by Jane Harper

18. Exiles (Aaron Falk, #3)

By: Jane Harper

4.05

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her pram, her mother vanishing… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Other Side of Beautiful

By: Kim Lock

3.94

Format: 368 pages, ebook

What happens when fate says 'go'? Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out nove… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No matter how people fought it, or denied it, or outraged about it. Death happened. Birth happened. Life happened. It was a devastating, as transformative, and a simple as that."

-Kim Lock, The Other Side of Beautiful

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20. Broken Ground (Inspector Karen Pirie, #5)

By: Val McDermid

4.18

Format: 458 pages, Kindle Edition

Alice Somerville's inheritance lies six feet under in a Highland peat bog - a pair of valuable vint… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club (Survivors' Book Club Mystery, #1) by Lynn Cahoon

21. The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club (Survivors' Book Club Mystery, #1)

By: Lynn Cahoon

3.60

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

Survivors become sleuths to find a missing member of their book club in new-age Sedona, Arizona . .… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. The Performance

By: Claire Thomas

3.59

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A novel about three women at turning points in their lives, and the one night that changes everythi… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Body of Lies (Gemma Woodstock #4)

By: Sarah Bailey

3.91

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

DS Gemma Woodstock returns to Smithson in a mysterious new thriller from the bestselling author of … read more

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  • fiction
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24. Virtual Strangers

By: Sam Canning

3.67

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you believe in love at first type? When Ada set up her own PR firm from a coffee shop, she di… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Heartsick

By: Jessie Stephens

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

'Heartbreak does not seem to be a brand of grief we respect. And so we are left in the middle of th… read more

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26. Only Happiness Here: In Search of Elizabeth von Arnim

By: Gabrielle Carey

3.64

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘When I discovered Elizabeth von Arnim, I found, for the first time, a writer who wrote about being… read more

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27. The Naturalist of Amsterdam

By: Melissa Ashley

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Amsterdam, at the turn of the 18th century. For as long as she can remember, Dorothea Graff has liv… read more

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  • fiction
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28. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Where the Light Gets In

By: Zoe Coyle

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For anyone who has ever loved and lost, and dared to rise again Delphi Hoffman, a wild child li… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Coyle's Where the Light Gets In book and JOANNE FEDLER's Unbecoming

  • fiction
Cover of Unbecoming by JOANNE FEDLER

30. Unbecoming

By: JOANNE FEDLER

3.64

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

You can do one night, Jo reminds herself as she follows five women into the Australian bush. Where… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Michael Robotham

4.21

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4.47

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Elizabeth Strout

3.57

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Deborah Rodriguez

4.16

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Amy Tintera

4.13

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Alex Finlay

3.79

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Sally Hepworth

4.04

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Garry Disher

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