11 Top contemporary books like We Can Only Save Ourselves by Alison Wisdom

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We Can Only Save Ourselves

By: Alison Wisdom

3.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of The Virgin Suicides and The Fates Will Find Their Way, Alison Wisdom’s debut novel i…

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1. The Haunting of Velkwood

By: Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Bram Stoker Award­–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a chilling novel about three childhood… read more

Similar categories in Gwendolyn Kiste's The Haunting of Velkwood book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Because I'd prefer to live in a world with you in it."

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"I understood something that Brett wouldn't admit - that we were talking about family. And family is the ultimate trap, it's something you carry with you for life; the people you come from and the mar…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"There were things that seemed so impossible when we were young, things I gave up on long ago even though they aren't impossible anymore. There's the world we lived in then and the world we live in no…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

"It's always startling to see her... the way looks like a fever dream, like something not quite real. That valence of dark hair over her eyes, those lips always painted bright red as a pomegranate see…"

-Gwendolyn Kiste, The Haunting of Velkwood

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2. Magma

By: Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-year-old Lilja is in love. As a young university student, she is quickly smitten with the in… read more

Similar categories in Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir's Magma book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. The Asylum Confessions: Cults (The Asylum Confession Files, #4)

By: Jack Steen

4.28

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

They arrive alive. They leave dead. But first, they give me their deathbed confessions and this ti… read more

Similar categories in Jack Steen's The Asylum Confessions: Cults (The Asylum Confession Files, #4) book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
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4. Reputation

By: Sara Shepard

3.59

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

In this fast-paced new novel from Sara Shepard, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Pretty … read more

Similar categories in Sara Shepard's Reputation book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Maybe the best reputation is no reputation. Maybe it's best not to care whatsoever how people see you. Maybe the only thing that really matters is how you see yourself."

-Sara Shepard, Reputation

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5. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. No Escape

By: Maren Stoffels

3.52

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Following the success of her unputdownable debut, Escape Room, Maren Stoffels is back with a new st… read more

Similar categories in Maren Stoffels's No Escape book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • thriller
  • fiction
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7. Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more

Similar categories in Celine Saintclare's Sugar, Baby book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

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8. Midnight on Beacon Street

By: Emily Ruth Verona

2.88

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A suspenseful and entertaining debut thriller—and love letter to vintage horror movies—in which a t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Ruth Verona's Midnight on Beacon Street book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. A Step Past Darkness

By: Vera Kurian

3.55

Format: 440 pages, Hardcover

SIX CLASSMATES. ONE TERRIFYING NIGHT. A MURDER TWENTY YEARS IN THE MAKING… There’s something sin… read more

Similar categories in Vera Kurian's A Step Past Darkness book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Bodies to Die For

By: Lori Brand

3.87

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of You Shouldn't Have Come Here and None of This Is True, Bodies to Die For is a b… read more

Similar categories in Lori Brand's Bodies to Die For book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • audiobook
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11. American Rapture

By: C.J. Leede

4.51

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sop… read more

Similar categories in C.J. Leede's American Rapture book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • thriller
  • adult
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12. Cheat Day

By: Liv Stratman

3.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kit and David were college sweethearts. Now married and twelve years older, they live in Kit’s chil… read more

Similar categories in Liv Stratman's Cheat Day book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wasn't somebody's listless, repressed wife at all. I was a modern woman who happened to be listless and repressed on my own terms."

-Liv Stratman, Cheat Day

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13. The View Was Exhausting

By: Mikaella Clements

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Faking a love story is a whole lot easier than being in love . . . The world can see that intern… read more

Similar categories in Mikaella Clements's The View Was Exhausting book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Leo stood close behind her. “You want to do the Titanic thing?"

-Mikaella Clements, The View Was Exhausting

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14. Entitlement

By: Rumaan Alam

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A novel of money and morality from the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind … read more

Similar categories in Rumaan Alam's Entitlement book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Mesmerist

By: Caroline Woods

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Before hypnotism, there was mesmerism. In 1894 Minneapolis, in the wake of a national financial cr… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Woods's The Mesmerist book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. No One Will Know

By: Rose Carlyle

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A deliciously twisty and suspenseful novel from #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl i… read more

Similar categories in Rose Carlyle's No One Will Know book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
Cover of You Will Never Be Me by Jesse Q. Sutanto

17. You Will Never Be Me

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When cracks start forming in an influencer’s curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as v… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's You Will Never Be Me book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Madwoman

By: Chelsea Bieker

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Bieker's Madwoman book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Colony Club

By: Shelley Noble

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When young Gilded Age society matron Daisy Harriman is refused a room at the Waldorf because they d… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Noble's The Colony Club book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of We Can Only Save Ourselves by Alison Wisdom

20. We Can Only Save Ourselves

By: Alison Wisdom

3.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of The Virgin Suicides and The Fates Will Find Their Way, Alison Wisdom’s debut novel i… read more

Similar categories in Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves book and Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • cults
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg

21. 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 Alison Wisdom's We Can Only Save Ourselves

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

20 best-selling fiction books like We Can Only Save Ourselves by Alison Wisdom

Transform Your Habits

The Haunting of Velkwood

Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Magma

Þóra Hjörleifsdóttir

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Reputation

Sara Shepard

3.59

Transform Your Habits

youthjuice

E.K. Sathue

3.21

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21 must-read fiction books like A Step Past Darkness by Vera Kurian

Transform Your Habits

She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Only If You're Lucky

Stacy Willingham

3.56

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No One Can Know

Kate Alice Marshall

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Everyone Is Watching

Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

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