5 Top crime books like From a Shadow Grave by Andi C. Buchanan

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From a Shadow Grave

By: Andi C. Buchanan

3.98

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

This is no ordinary ghost story. Wellington, 1931. Seventeen-year-old Phyllis Symons' body is di…

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1. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

By: Guy Delisle

3.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most se… read more

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2. My Real Children

By: Jo Walton

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of h… read more

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3. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

By: Zoraida Córdova

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry n… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When she’d met Orquidea Montoya, she saw a whisper of a girl who wanted to become a scream."

-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

"People think they know about misfortune and bad luck. But there was being unlucky-like when you tripped over your shoelaces or dropped a five-dollar bill in the subway or ran into your ex when you we…"

-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

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4. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • adult
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5. Water

By: John Boyne

4.33

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the local… read more

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

By: Steve Brusatte

4.38

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more

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7. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • crime
  • fiction
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8. Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

By: Cal Flyn

4.20

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Investigative journalist Cal Flyn's ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT, an exploration of the world's most deso… read more

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"But the unplanned nature preserves that have formed up in the buffer zones have come to serve as a focus for bilateral cooperation after hostilities are over."

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"Further back, cooling ponds strewn with rusted pipes were busy with teals and moorhens. An old concrete streetlight stood incongruously in the woods beyond: some ravaged Narnia. Jays catcalled overhe…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"This is a corrupted world, yes - one long fallen from a state of grace - but it is a world too that knows how to live. It has a great capacity for repair, for recovery, for forgiveness - of a sort - …"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

"And so for a hundred years a forest grew up across the land, tall and dark and impenetrable, whose undergrowth curled and snarled into a thicket of bramble and black thorn. This was a forbidden fores…"

-Cal Flyn, Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape

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9. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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10. The Library Book

By: Susan Orlean

3.89

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of April 29, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the mo… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • crime
"You read and read and read and read," she said, "and then what?"

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"German poet Heinrich Heine [warned], 'There where one burns books, one in the end burns men."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"Writing a book, just like building a library, is an act of sheer defiance. It is a declaration that you believe in the persistence of memory."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

"The water dumped on the fire was now as much a problem as a solution. The librarians always worried more about floods than fire, and now they had both."

-Susan Orlean, The Library Book

Cover of In Waves by A.J. Dungo

11. In Waves

By: A.J. Dungo

4.37

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner and the shared lo… read more

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12. The Chosen and the Beautiful

By: Nghi Vo

3.55

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Immigrant. Socialite. Magician. Jordan Baker grows up in the most rarefied circles of 1920s Ame… read more

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  • lesbian
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • queer
"It was after midnight with that tired charm that all parties on the downturn acquire."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He wanted something agreeable, something sweeter around the edges, but I was never very good at sweet."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"He called me careless because he didn't have the words to sort out how jealous he was of my money and my freedom and how very few people in the world could act as I did."

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

"You weren't meant to look at people the way that Lieutenant Gatsby looked at Daisy Fay. You couldn't peel your skin back and show them how your heart had gone up in flames, how nothing that had come …"

-Nghi Vo, The Chosen and the Beautiful

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13. How to Loiter in a Turf War

By: Coco Solid

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more

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  • fiction
  • queer
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"

-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War

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14. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • queer
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15. The Descent of Monsters (Tensorate, #3)

By: Neon Yang

3.85

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

JY Yang continues to redefine the limits of silkpunk fantasy with their Tensorate novellas, which t… read more

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  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • fiction
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer
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16. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By: Josie Shapiro

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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17. In the Clearing

By: J.P. Pomare

4.07

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

The novel behind the hit TV series The Clearing released globally on Disney+ and Hulu. Amy has… read more

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  • mystery
  • adult
  • crime
  • fiction
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18. Sinopticon: A Celebration of Chinese Science Fiction

By: Xueting Christine Ni

4.01

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A stunning collection of the best in Chinese Science Fiction, from Award-Winning legends to up-and-… read more

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  • speculative fiction
  • fiction
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19. Better the Blood

By: Michael Bennett

4.01

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more

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  • mystery
  • crime
  • fiction
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20. All That We Know

By: Shilo Kino

4.61

Format: 333 pages, Kindle Edition

'I don't want to be a pioneer. I want to be the last; to enjoy the fruits of everyone else's hard l… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of From a Shadow Grave by Andi C. Buchanan

21. From a Shadow Grave

By: Andi C. Buchanan

3.98

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

This is no ordinary ghost story. Wellington, 1931. Seventeen-year-old Phyllis Symons' body is di… read more

Similar categories in Andi C. Buchanan's From a Shadow Grave book and Andi C. Buchanan's From a Shadow Grave

  • urban fantasy
  • lesbian
  • science fiction fantasy
  • adult
  • crime
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
  • queer

14 Top fiction books like From a Shadow Grave by Andi C. Buchanan

Transform Your Habits

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

Zoraida Córdova

3.93

Transform Your Habits

Water

John Boyne

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Pet

Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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15 must-read fiction books like How to Loiter in a Turf War by Coco Solid

Transform Your Habits

Pet

Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Transform Your Habits

How to Loiter in a Turf War

Coco Solid

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Lioness

Emily Perkins

3.43

Transform Your Habits

Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

Josie Shapiro

4.21

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