7 must-read fiction books like The Lightkeeper's Daughter by Iain Lawrence

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The Lightkeeper's Daughter

By: Iain Lawrence

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Three years have passed since Squid McCrae last saw her parents and the remote island where she gre…

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1. The Christmas List

By: Richard Paul Evans

4.18

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box returns with a holiday novel of hope, lo… read more

Similar categories in Richard Paul Evans's The Christmas List book and Iain Lawrence's The Lightkeeper's Daughter

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret

By: Judy Blume

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Margaret Simon, almost twelve, likes long hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain, and things that are p… read more

Similar categories in Judy Blume's Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret book and Iain Lawrence's The Lightkeeper's Daughter

  • fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
Cover of The Lightkeeper's Daughter by Iain Lawrence

3. The Lightkeeper's Daughter

By: Iain Lawrence

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Three years have passed since Squid McCrae last saw her parents and the remote island where she gre… read more

Similar categories in Iain Lawrence's The Lightkeeper's Daughter book and Iain Lawrence's The Lightkeeper's Daughter

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
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4. Everything Sad Is Untrue

By: Daniel Nayeri

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Da… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Nayeri's Everything Sad Is Untrue book and Iain Lawrence's The Lightkeeper's Daughter

  • teen
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
"Every story is the sound of a storyteller begging to stay alive."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"I won't tell you about her yet, because sometimes love has to be kept secret. If other people find out, they will attack it."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Sometimes you just want somebody to look at a thing with you and say, "Yes. That is a thing you're looking at. You haven't lied to yourself."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

"Maybe there isn’t just one person designated for everybody. Maybe there’s a lot more to it---maybe you choose and you practice, and that’s what makes the love true."

-Daniel Nayeri, Everything Sad Is Untrue

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5. I Must Betray You

By: Ruta Sepetys

4.41

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Romania, 1989. Communist regimes are crumbling across Europe. Seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu … read more

Similar categories in Ruta Sepetys's I Must Betray You book and Iain Lawrence's The Lightkeeper's Daughter

  • fiction
  • teen
  • young adult
"A revolution eats its heroes."

-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

"I envied him, the courage to be himself. In public."

-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

"Fertility under state control? That's an abuse of human rights!' Bunu would wail."

-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

"I hadn’t yet absorbed one of life’s universal truths: Things that seem straightforward? Often aren’t."

-Ruta Sepetys, I Must Betray You

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6. Five Little Indians

By: Michelle Good

4.48

Format: 304 pages, ebook

Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential sch… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Good's Five Little Indians book and Iain Lawrence's The Lightkeeper's Daughter

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1)

By: Nora Dåsnes

4.34

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

In this fresh, sensitive, diary-style graphic novel, 12-year-old Tuva's questions about becoming a … read more

Similar categories in Nora Dåsnes's Cross My Heart and Never Lie (Cross My Heart, #1) book and Iain Lawrence's The Lightkeeper's Daughter

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary

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