15 best-selling contemporary books like The End of Time: The most captivating book you'll read this summer by Gavin Extence

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The End of Time: The most captivating book you'll read this summer

By: Gavin Extence

4.35

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Beneath the stars, on a stony beach, stand two brothers. They are wearing lifejackets that are t…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The End of Time: The most captivating book you'll read this summer by Gavin Extence , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. Starter for Ten

By: David Nicholls

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first ter… read more

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2. The Brief History of the Dead

By: Kevin Brockmeier

3.67

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new … read more

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  • fiction
"Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way."

-Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead

"The people were created in the image of God and thus they were within the precinct of His grace, even the ones who didn't know Him...the ones who withdrew themselves from His presence."

-Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead

"Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than crying, which was what she knew she would be reduced to if she didn’t keep a hard eye on herse…"

-Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead

"Most people seemed to think that you fell asleep and then started dreaming, but as far as Minny could tell, the process was exactly the reverse — you started dreaming and that enabled you to fall asl…"

-Kevin Brockmeier, The Brief History of the Dead

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3. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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  • fiction
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4. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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5. The Dog of the North

By: Elizabeth Mckenzie

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the National Book Award-longlisted author of The Portable Veblen Penny Rush has problems. H… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"How could she know? We discover things about our spouses no one else ever will. Marriage is one long striptease of the soul."

-Elizabeth Mckenzie, The Dog of the North

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6. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 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
  • contemporary
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8. The Trial

By: Rob Rinder

4.24

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."

-Rob Rinder, The Trial

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9. Tackle!

By: Jilly Cooper

3.74

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Jilly Cooper's legendary hero returns! Rupert Campbell-Black, undefeated race-horse owner and ha… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Way Back

By: Sara Cox

4.18

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

THE BIG-HEARTED NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THROWN, RADIO 2 BROADCASTER A… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Paper Cup

By: Karen Campbell

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly ne… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Mother's Boy

By: Patrick Gale

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of the joys of Gale's writing is how even the smallest of characters can appear fully formed, d… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Swimming For Beginners

By: Nicola Gill

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

'The perfect mix of funny, poignant and heartwarming.' - Good Housekeeping 'Warm, witty but also … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Lie in Our Marriage (Detective Dan Riley #6)

By: Anna-Lou Weatherley

4.04

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

On a warm spring evening, guests gather in a perfectly manicured garden to celebrate Maggie and Len… read more

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  • fiction
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18. The Twilight Garden

By: Sara Nisha Adams

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There's life all around you, if you just take the time to look for it... In a small pocket of th… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

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20. The End of Time: The most captivating book you'll read this summer

By: Gavin Extence

4.35

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Beneath the stars, on a stony beach, stand two brothers. They are wearing lifejackets that are t… read more

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  • contemporary
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21. 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

20 must-read fiction books like The End of Time: The most captivating book you'll read this summer by Gavin Extence

Transform Your Habits

The Brief History of the Dead

Kevin Brockmeier

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

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You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Dog of the North

Elizabeth Mckenzie

3.61

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

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The Wren, the Wren

Anne Enright

3.55

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In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Children of Paradise

Camilla Grudova

3.49

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