8 must-read fiction books like Turtle Beach by Blanche d'Alpuget

Cover of Turtle Beach by Blanche d'Alpuget

Turtle Beach

By: Blanche d'Alpuget

3.19

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

While reporting on the refugee problem in Malaysia, the life of the Australian journalist, Judith W…

If you liked the fiction plot in Turtle Beach by Blanche d'Alpuget , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. Jasper Jones

By: Craig Silvey

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Late on a hot summer night in 1965, Charlie Bucktin, a precocious and bookish boy of thirteen, is s… read more

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Cover of Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton

2. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • fiction
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3. 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

Similar categories in Pip Williams's The Bookbinder book and Blanche d'Alpuget's Turtle Beach

  • fiction
  • historical 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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4. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Honeybee book and Blanche d'Alpuget's Turtle Beach

  • fiction
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

Cover of The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

5. The Woman in the Window

By: A.J. Finn

3.95

Format: 455 pages, Kindle Edition

Anna Fox lives alone, a recluse in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends he… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Finn's The Woman in the Window book and Blanche d'Alpuget's Turtle Beach

  • fiction
"No family, happy or unhappy, is quite like any other. Tolstoy was chock-fullo’shit. Remember that."

-A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

"Something I’ve noticed: In the absence of others, I swear more often and more loudly. Ed would be appalled. I’m appalled."

-A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

"Sometimes I’ve got too many thoughts at once. It’s like there’s a four-way intersection in my brain where everyone’s trying to go at the same time."

-A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

"The definition of insanity, Fox, Wesley used to remind me, paraphrasing Einstein, is doing the same thing again and again and expecting different result."

-A.J. Finn, The Woman in the Window

Cover of Love Stories by Trent Dalton

6. 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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"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

Cover of The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) by Richard Osman

7. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

By: Richard Osman

4.38

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) book and Blanche d'Alpuget's Turtle Beach

  • fiction
"But you can’t be ruled by hindsight, can you?"

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Love? Try Googling it. There aren't any answers."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"When you look backwards, everything is inevitable."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Ron's mouth opens, but, unusually for him, no words come out."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

Cover of The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) by Richard Osman

8. The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)

By: Richard Osman

3.88

Format: 382 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07S5D5TH7 In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely frien… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1) book and Blanche d'Alpuget's Turtle Beach

  • fiction
"If you hit women, you hit women"

-Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)

"Ron Ritchie is, as so often, having none of it."

-Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)

"The sun is up, the skies are blue, and murder is in the air"

-Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)

"It was a well-known fact that there were no calories in homemade cakes."

-Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)

Cover of The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) by Richard Osman

9. The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

By: Richard Osman

4.37

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

It's the following Thursday. Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with w… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2) book and Blanche d'Alpuget's Turtle Beach

  • fiction
"Does it hurt?" asks Ibrahim. "Only when I breathe," says Donna."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"Why did people always get so angry? We'll all be dead soon enough."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"La gente que nunca se pierde no ha viajado nunca a ningún sitio interesante."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

"He buys three other books too, because he wants the bookshop still to be there when he comes back next week."

-Richard Osman, The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club, #2)

Cover of Turtle Beach by Blanche d'Alpuget

10. Turtle Beach

By: Blanche d'Alpuget

3.19

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

While reporting on the refugee problem in Malaysia, the life of the Australian journalist, Judith W… read more

Similar categories in Blanche d'Alpuget's Turtle Beach book and Blanche d'Alpuget's Turtle Beach

  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Shari Lapena

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Ruth Ware

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