13 must-read contemporary books like The Last Summer of Ada Bloom by Martine Murray

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The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

By: Martine Murray

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel. Mart…

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Cover of Disorderly Conduct (The Academy, #1) by Tessa Bailey

1. Disorderly Conduct (The Academy, #1)

By: Tessa Bailey

4.23

Format: 510 pages, Mass Market Paperback

You don't know what you've got until it's gone... Police academy cadet Charlie Burns can't believe … read more

Similar categories in Tessa Bailey's Disorderly Conduct (The Academy, #1) book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Lamp Black, Wolf Grey

By: Paula Brackston

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the latest from Paula Brackston, a young artist goes to the Welsh mountains in search of love, b… read more

Similar categories in Paula Brackston's Lamp Black, Wolf Grey book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • fiction

3. Invincible Summer

By: Alice Adams

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

Four friends. Twenty years. One unexpected journey.Inseparable throughout college, Eva, Benedict, S… read more

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4. Cloudstreet

By: Tim Winton

3.93

Format: 512 pages,

Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australian… read more

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5. Everything Here is Beautiful

By: None

3.44

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters: Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the… read more

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6. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

By: Shubnum Khan

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more

Similar categories in Shubnum Khan's The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • adult
  • fiction
"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"

-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

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7. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Croft's The Extinction of Irena Rey book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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8. What Eden Did Next

By: Sheila O'Flanagan

4.08

Format: 419 pages, Kindle Edition

Five years after the death of her firefighter husband, Eden knows better than anyone that life can … read more

Similar categories in Sheila O'Flanagan's What Eden Did Next book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. 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

Similar categories in Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow's All the Little Bird-Hearts book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. 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

Similar categories in Joanna Cannon's The Trouble with Goats and Sheep book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • coming of age
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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11. Summer at the Santorini Bookshop

By: Rebecca Raisin

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A Greek island holiday. A fake-dating pact. A chance at true love? After losing her job as a boo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Raisin's Summer at the Santorini Bookshop book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. You Dreamed of Empires

By: Álvaro Enrigue

3.85

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagine… read more

Similar categories in Álvaro Enrigue's You Dreamed of Empires book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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13. Pheasants Nest

By: Louise Milligan

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wonders if they have discovered her missing yet. Has it broken in the news? Who has been assign… read more

Similar categories in Louise Milligan's Pheasants Nest book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Suite Life

By: Portia MacIntosh

3.86

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Gigi isn't looking for the one. Just someone...! As she gears up for her sister’s destination weddi… read more

Similar categories in Portia MacIntosh's The Suite Life book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. A Good Neighborhood

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.81

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology … read more

Similar categories in Therese Anne Fowler's A Good Neighborhood book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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16. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • adult
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17. Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

By: Michael Robotham

4.27

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN 9781668030998 can be found here The mystery of Evie C… read more

Similar categories in Michael Robotham's Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4) book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We exist before we are born and after we die."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"... everything I want is on the other side of fear."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"... as though men were the solution to every problem."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

"Introspection leads to self-analysis, which leads to self-hatred."

-Michael Robotham, Storm Child (Cyrus Haven, #4)

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18. The Creeper

By: Margaret Hickey

4.18

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

Victim ... or killer?For the last decade, the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria’s high c… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Hickey's The Creeper book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • fiction
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19. 17 Years Later

By: J.P. Pomare

4.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Is the truth sometimes best left buried? A crime masterpiece by bestselling author J. P. Pomare… read more

Similar categories in J.P. Pomare's 17 Years Later book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

By: Martine Murray

3.50

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel. Mart… read more

Similar categories in Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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21. Girl Falling

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Why would my best friend want to destroy my life?Finn and her best friend, Daphne, have grown up to… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Scrivenor's Girl Falling book and Martine Murray's The Last Summer of Ada Bloom

  • fiction
  • contemporary

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4.23

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5.00

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3.87

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3.26

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Katherine Arden

4.02

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Leigh Bardugo

3.84

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