12 must-read contemporary books like Starling by Kirsten Cram

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Starling

By: Kirsten Cram

4.36

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Alice Quinn's young life has never been marked by stability, and it's about to turn upside down aga…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Starling by Kirsten Cram , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. The Way We Live Now

By: Anthony Trollope

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and hi… read more

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2. Profile K

By: Helen Sarah Fields

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s going to kill you. He just doesn’t know it yet. There’s something wrong with me. For years I’v… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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4. The Gentleman From Peru

By: André Aciman

3.56

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

It’s been 10 years since a group of college friends made a vow: that the first to get rich would re… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Oh, qué espléndida música

By: Dorothy Evelyn Smith

4.54

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

¡Oh, qué espléndida la música de los días de la infancia, cuando todo era inmenso, el mundo entero … read more

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  • fiction
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6. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Leave No Trace (Kat and Lock, #2)

By: Jo Callaghan

4.31

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

DCS Kat Frank and AIDE Lock return in the provocative new thriller from the author of In the Blink … read more

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  • fiction
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8. The Puppet Master (Major Crimes, #3)

By: Sam Holland

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An incredible new unputdownable thriller which will keep you gripped from the first page to the las… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

By: Freya North

4.25

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

When your present meets your past, what do you take with you – and what do you leave behind? Ea… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Chamber

By: Will Dean

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

And Then There Were None meets The Last Breath in this tense and suspenseful locked-room thriller t… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge

By: Lizzie Pook

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An Arctic expedition. A mysterious death. And the lengths to which one woman will go to avenge her … read more

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  • fiction
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12. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

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  • fiction
"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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14. How to Solve Murders Like a Lady

By: Hannah Dolby

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

***Hannah Dolby's latest instalment of the adventures of Lady Detective Violet Hamilton is availabl… read more

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  • fiction
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15. Small Hours

By: Bobby Palmer

4.00

Format: 359 pages, Paperback

The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Arms & Legs

By: Chloe Lane

3.27

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In a Florida almost claustrophobic with life, New Zealand-born Georgie's marriage has stagnated. Bu… read more

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  • fiction
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17. Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

By: Ericka Waller

4.29

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget...Birdie, Ada and Jane … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Light That Bends Round Corners

By: Alexandra Carey

4.00

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

A contemporary book club fiction novel following the lives of two women from two very different bac… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen   Fisher

19. Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

By: Helen Fisher

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community a… read more

Similar categories in Helen Fisher's Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life book and Kirsten Cram's Starling

  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Instead of fearing a thing, try to understand it. Because understanding can change everything about the way that you feel."

-Helen Fisher, Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

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20. Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing

By: Lev Parikian

4.26

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

This is the miracle of flight as you’ve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the… read more

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21. Bird Spotting in a Small Town

By: Sophie Morton-Thomas

3.64

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

My feet are itching to walk to the shore, to leave the kids again, to sit with the birds and preten… read more

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22. Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love

By: Marianne Cronin

4.62

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The author of the beloved international hit The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot returns with … read more

Similar categories in Marianne Cronin's Eddie Winston Is Looking for Love book and Kirsten Cram's Starling

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Lucy Undying

By: Kiersten White

3.67

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

In this epic and seductive gothic fantasy, a vampire escapes the thrall of Dracula and embarks on h… read more

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24. Hold Back the Night

By: Jessica Moor

4.19

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Observer debut novelist of the year, comes a blistering, heart-wrenching new novel of comp… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Goodbye Again

By: Caitlin Moss

4.68

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Fated to meet. Destined to fall in love. Bound to fall apart. In Julia Waters’s world, everyth… read more

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26. A Little Trickerie

By: Rosanna Pike

4.33

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Listen. My one-time friend Maria did tell me once: "Make your own paradise, Tibb, since this world … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey – A Memoir of Travels through Love, Grief and Mythology by Laura Coffey

27. Enchanted Islands: A Mediterranean Odyssey – A Memoir of Travels through Love, Grief and Mythology

By: Laura Coffey

4.17

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

It started with a boy, of course. Seeking solace from the pain of heartbreak and her father's illne… read more

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28. Starling

By: Kirsten Cram

4.36

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Alice Quinn's young life has never been marked by stability, and it's about to turn upside down aga… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Cram's Starling book and Kirsten Cram's Starling

  • canada
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Seeing Dead

By: Edgar D. Jackson

4.53

Format: 642 pages, Paperback

Seeing Dead a sci-fi mystery set in Scotland, and it focuses on the mysterious disappearance of a s… read more

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30. Fire

By: John Boyne

4.39

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

On the face of it, Freya lives a gilded existence, dancing solely to her own tune. She has all the … read more

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  • fiction

24 best-selling fiction books like Starling by Kirsten Cram

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Anthony Trollope

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Transform Your Habits

Profile K

Helen Sarah Fields

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Soldier Sailor

Claire Kilroy

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Gentleman From Peru

André Aciman

3.56

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16 Top nonfiction books like Taking Flight: The Evolutionary Story of Life on the Wing by Lev Parikian

Transform Your Habits

Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death

Laura Cumming

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

Transform Your Habits

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Jellyfish Age Backwards: Nature's Secrets to Longevity

Nicklas Brendborg

3.92

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