10 Best contemporary books like Hide the Elephant by Jonathan Dunne

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Hide the Elephant

By: Jonathan Dunne

4.24

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

Forcefully-retired zoo-keeper Mick Munroe is hiding two BIG Alzheimer’s and a 42 year-old Indian e…

"I’m not comparing Gloria to an Indian elephant, but she was just as big in my life"

-Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

If you liked the contemporary plot in Hide the Elephant by Jonathan Dunne , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch, #5) by Paul Doiron

1. The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch, #5)

By: Paul Doiron

4.13

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is workin… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Just because you're done with the past doesn't mean the past is done with you."

-Paul Doiron, The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch, #5)

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2. Maigret and the Wine Merchant

By: Georges Simenon

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon. read more

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  • fiction
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3. Lost Among the Living

By: Simone St. James

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

England, 1921. Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders… read more

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  • fiction

4. My Italian Bulldozer

By: Alexander McCall Smith

2.00

Format: 88 pages,

When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already late… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction

5. Bellweather Rhapsody

By: Kate Racculia

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the youn… read more

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6. South Sea Tales

By: Jack London , Tony Horwitz

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like the celebrated Klondike Tales, the stories that comprise South Sea Talesderive their intensity… read more

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7. The Last Will of Moira Leahy

By: Therese Walsh

3.75

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Maeve Leahy is a busy professor of languages at a university in upstate New York. So busy that she … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

8. The Believer

By: Elizabeth Clark Wessel , Joakim Zander

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An intricately plotted and brilliantly conceived stand-alone sequel to the international bestseller… read more

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9. Ankle Snatcher

By: Grady Hendrix

3.74

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Obey the rules. It’s the only way to survive the night in a short story about what hides in the dar… read more

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  • fiction
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10. A Botanical Daughter

By: Noah Medlock

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mexican Gothic meets The Lie Tree by way of Oscar Wilde and Mary Shelley in this delightfully witty… read more

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  • fiction
"Grief can be a kind of exhaustion, after all."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Gregor now knew in his soul that greatness came at a price, and true greatness is paid for by the hour."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"He had tried sculpting in other materials - in clay, marble, wood, and bronze - but corpses were the only medium that really sang under his fingers."

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

"Simon, what do you understand to be the nature of a soul?" he said suddenly. Simon was staring darkly into the endless distance. He didn't refocus his gaze to reply. "That part of us which cannot be …"

-Noah Medlock, A Botanical Daughter

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11. The Little Venice Bookshop

By: Rebecca Raisin

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When Luna loses her beloved mother, she’s bereft: her mother was her only family, and without her L… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Raisin's The Little Venice Bookshop book and Jonathan Dunne's Hide the Elephant

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Say It Isn't So (Eva Rae Thomas #12) by Willow Rose

12. Say It Isn't So (Eva Rae Thomas #12)

By: Willow Rose

4.39

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

It is a dream come true for ten-year-old Becky when her parents take her and her younger sister on … read more

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13. Finding Junie Kim

By: Ellen Oh

4.25

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A story of family, hope, and survival, inspired by the author's mother’s real-life experiences duri… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • mental health
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14. Thirty Days of Darkness

By: Jenny Lund Madsen

3.49

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

A Danish literary author is challenged to write a crime novel in thirty days, travelling to a small… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Things Don't Break on Their Own by Sarah Easter Collins

15. Things Don't Break on Their Own

By: Sarah Easter Collins

3.95

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years ago, a young girl left home to walk to school. Her younger sister soon followed. … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Fatal, Family, Album (Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery #13) by Joanna Campbell Slan

16. Fatal, Family, Album (Kiki Lowenstein Scrap-n-Craft Mystery #13)

By: Joanna Campbell Slan

4.32

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

Two FBI agents come looking for Kiki's nanny, Brawny--And suddenly, the Detweiler household is turn… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Paint It Blackmail (John Kite #2) by Stuart Doughty

17. Paint It Blackmail (John Kite #2)

By: Stuart Doughty

4.08

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

A politician’s lie leads to the biggest art heist in history. Ex-cop and art specialist John Kite … read more

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18. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Jonathan Dunne's Hide the Elephant

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Just Cause (Hetta Coffey Series Book 14) by Jinx Schwartz

19. Just Cause (Hetta Coffey Series Book 14)

By: Jinx Schwartz

4.74

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

JUST SOMETIMES A GAL'S GOTTA GET HER REVENGE!Hetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht and… read more

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Cover of Just Like That (Hetta Coffey Mystery Series, Book15) (Hetta Coffey Series) by Jinx Schwartz

20. Just Like That (Hetta Coffey Mystery Series, Book15) (Hetta Coffey Series)

By: Jinx Schwartz

4.54

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

After all the kerfuffles she's been involved in since arriving in Mexico, she's sworn to mind her o… read more

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21. Memorials

By: Richard Chizmar

4.51

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Guilty One by Kiersten Modglin

22. The Guilty One

By: Kiersten Modglin

4.08

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

Your husband was involved in a fatal accident.One horrific sentence, delivered in an impersonal pho… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of JUST SO WRONG (Hetta Coffey Series Book 13) by Jinx Schwartz

23. JUST SO WRONG (Hetta Coffey Series Book 13)

By: Jinx Schwartz

4.67

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

HETTA COFFEY IS A SASSY TEXAN WITH A SNAZZY YACHT, AND SHE'S NOT AFRAID TO USE IT! Living aboard… read more

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24. The Book of Witching

By: C.J. Cooke

4.23

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A mother must fight for her daughter’s life in this fierce and haunting tale of witchcraft and reve… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Hide the Elephant by Jonathan  Dunne

25. Hide the Elephant

By: Jonathan Dunne

4.24

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

Forcefully-retired zoo-keeper Mick Munroe is hiding two BIG Alzheimer’s and a 42 year-old Indian e… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Dunne's Hide the Elephant book and Jonathan Dunne's Hide the Elephant

  • adventure
  • humor
  • animals
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
"I’m not comparing Gloria to an Indian elephant, but she was just as big in my life"

-Jonathan Dunne, Hide the Elephant

Cover of The Forest of Lost Souls: A Novel by Dean Koontz

26. The Forest of Lost Souls: A Novel

By: Dean Koontz

4.52

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless woman, raised in the forest, fights against a group of powerful men in a novel about goo… read more

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  • fiction
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27. Ushers: A Short Story

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Model Home by Rivers Solomon

28. Model Home

By: Rivers Solomon

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to Rivers Solomon's dark and wondrous Model Home, a new kind of haunted-house novel. The… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg

29. A Reason to See You Again

By: Jami Attenberg

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a… read more

Similar categories in Jami Attenberg's A Reason to See You Again book and Jonathan Dunne's Hide the Elephant

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Naturalist Society by Carrie Vaughn

30. The Naturalist Society

By: Carrie Vaughn

4.28

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

In this magical tale of self-discovery from New York Times bestselling author Carrie Vaughn, a youn… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Answer Is No: A Short Story by Fredrik Backman

31. The Answer Is No: A Short Story

By: Fredrik Backman

4.13

Format: 68 pages, Kindle Edition

In a hilarious short story from New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman, the absurdities … read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary

23 Top fiction books like Hide the Elephant by Jonathan Dunne

Transform Your Habits

The Bone Orchard (Mike Bowditch, #5)

Paul Doiron

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Maigret and the Wine Merchant

Georges Simenon

3.00

Transform Your Habits

Lost Among the Living

Simone St. James

2.62

My Italian Bulldozer

Alexander McCall Smith

2.00

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21 Top mystery books like Paint It Blackmail (John Kite #2) by Stuart Doughty

Transform Your Habits

One Kill Away

Alex MacLean

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Little Lost Secrets (Georgiana Germaine #2)

Cheryl Bradshaw

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Revenge (Redemption #1)

Henry Scott

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Bum Deal (Jake Lassiter #12)

Paul Levine

4.31

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