7 must-read contemporary books like The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1) by Sara Shepard

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The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

By: Sara Shepard

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I had a life anyone would kill for. Then someone did. The worst part of being dead is that there's …

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1) by Sara Shepard , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Lord of Misrule (The Morganville Vampires, #5) by Rachel Caine

1. Lord of Misrule (The Morganville Vampires, #5)

By: Rachel Caine

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans coexist in (relatively) bloodless harmony. … read more

Similar categories in Rachel Caine's Lord of Misrule (The Morganville Vampires, #5) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
Cover of The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1) by Kady Cross

2. The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1)

By: Kady Cross

3.66

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

In 1897 England, 16-year-old Finley Jayne is convinced she's a freak. No normal Victorian girl has … read more

Similar categories in Kady Cross's The Girl in the Steel Corset (Steampunk Chronicles, #1) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
Cover of Strange Angels (Strange Angels, #1) by Lilith Saintcrow, Lili St. Crow

3. Strange Angels (Strange Angels, #1)

By: Lilith Saintcrow , Lili St. Crow

3.79

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

In Strange Angels , Dru Anderson has what her grandmother called “the touch.” (Comes in handy when … read more

Similar categories in Lilith Saintcrow's Strange Angels (Strange Angels, #1) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
"Who. Hit. You?"

-Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels (Strange Angels, #1)

"First one's free."

-Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels (Strange Angels, #1)

"To Gran, “strong medicine"

-Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels (Strange Angels, #1)

"Better to be strong than pretty and useless."

-Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels (Strange Angels, #1)

Cover of My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers, #1) by Rachel Vincent

4. My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers, #1)

By: Rachel Vincent

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

She doesn't see dead people. She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happen… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Vincent's My Soul to Take (Soul Screamers, #1) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
Cover of The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1) by Sara Shepard

5. The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

By: Sara Shepard

3.42

Format: None pages, Hardcover

I had a life anyone would kill for. Then someone did. The worst part of being dead is that there's … read more

Similar categories in Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For by Sara Pascoe

6. Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

By: Sara Pascoe

4.30

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

When you’re fourteen and life has been nothing but hurt and disappointment, maybe it’s time to stri… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
"What’s “ague?"

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Like water around rocks, people streamed around them as though this sort of interaction, noisy and involving foreigners, was nothing unusual."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

"Oscar looked up from his plate, and if a cat could laugh, he would have. ‘Boy, that’s ugly, even for a jinn. Looks like a cross between a rat, a frog and a bottlebrush."

-Sara Pascoe, Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For

Cover of Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1) by Sarah Rees Brennan

7. Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1)

By: Sarah Rees Brennan

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kami Glass loves someone she's never met... a boy she's talked to in her head ever since she was bo… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rees Brennan's Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery
  • young adult

8. The Secrets We Keep

By: Trisha Leaver

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A girl takes over her twin sister's identity in this emotionally charged page-turner about the comp… read more

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9. Ominous (Private, #13)

By: Kate Brian

4.18

Format: None pages,

The beginning of the end... After they discovered a shocking secret about the original Billings Gir… read more

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Cover of Incarnate (Newsoul, #1) by Jodi Meadows

10. Incarnate (Newsoul, #1)

By: Jodi Meadows

3.73

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

New soul Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated ove… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Meadows's Incarnate (Newsoul, #1) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
"The darkness was memory."

-Jodi Meadows, Incarnate (Newsoul, #1)

"Shrikes were songbirds; he ought to know."

-Jodi Meadows, Incarnate (Newsoul, #1)

"I'll be around my whole life. That's a long time to me."

-Jodi Meadows, Incarnate (Newsoul, #1)

"I hate being a teenager." "Why?" "Hormones." With a sad half smile, he left."

-Jodi Meadows, Incarnate (Newsoul, #1)

Cover of United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6) by Ally Carter

11. United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6)

By: Ally Carter

4.43

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Cammie Morgan has lost her father and her memory, but in the heart-pounding conclusion to the best-… read more

Similar categories in Ally Carter's United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
"What is a Gallagher Girl?"

-Ally Carter, United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6)

"Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?" "Alive."

-Ally Carter, United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6)

"That’s the thing about spies. Most of the secrets we keep are from each other."

-Ally Carter, United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6)

"You wanted to be treated like grown-ups? Well, that includes both the good and the bad."

-Ally Carter, United We Spy (Gallagher Girls, #6)

12. Nobody Does it Better (Gossip Girl, #7)

By: Cecily von Ziegesar

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

The uptown girls are headed downtown as Serena and Jenny take on their new fabulous roles as rock-s… read more

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13. The Impossible Knife of Memory

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For the past five years, Hayley Kincain and her father, Andy, have been on the road, never staying … read more

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14. The Body Finder (The Body Finder, #1)

By: Kimberly Derting

4.19

Format: 45 pages, Hardcover

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While … read more

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15. The Secret Hour (Midnighters, #1)

By: Scott Westerfeld

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. Time freezes. Nobody moves except… read more

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16. Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

By: Cecily von Ziegesar

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sl… read more

Similar categories in Cecily von Ziegesar's Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"I don't eat chicken abortions!"

-Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

"Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you"

-Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

"Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!"

-Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

17. Briar's Book (Circle of Magic, #4)

By: Tamora Pierce

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

There is an alternate cover edition of this book . Part of the 8-book Tamora Pierce reissue for Fa… read more

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18. Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

By: Susan Rowland

4.33

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Who is killing off members of the Falconer family and why? Such is the challenge confronting highly… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rowland's Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
"Falconers,"

-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"Mary tried to look reassuring. “It’s a house party, he said,"

-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"We’re so very sorry about this latest murder. Ignore Simon’s levity."

-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"He says it was tourists being careless, where I see a fiendishly clever murder attempt."

-Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

Cover of Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series) by Carolyn M. Bowen

19. Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

By: Carolyn M. Bowen

4.36

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • contemporary
"He wanted a stiff drink to get through the evening, for he knew they’d be wailing, and her family coming unglued."

-Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

"Elpidio sensed that David had more to say but was holding back due to their friendship. He wondered why David had gone along with Emiliana's seemingly impulsive ideas."

-Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

"He didn't want to give the cartel any time to persuade Emiliana into accepting a more enticing offer. He had reservations about her loyalty and feared she might make a deal without Elpidio's consent."

-Carolyn M. Bowen, Legacy of Shadows: An International Crime Thriller (The Family Legacy Series)

Cover of The Haunted House (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels #4) by Nicole Andelfinger

20. The Haunted House (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels #4)

By: Nicole Andelfinger

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Library Binding

There's a new girl in Sweet Valley...and she's a witch?! Join twin sisters Jessica and Elizabeth as… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Andelfinger's The Haunted House (Sweet Valley Twins Graphic Novels #4) book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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21. The Girls from Hush Cabin

By: Marie Hoy-Kenny

3.46

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In this suspenseful YA thriller from debut author Marie Hoy-Kenny, four former friends--each with t… read more

Similar categories in Marie Hoy-Kenny's The Girls from Hush Cabin book and Sara Shepard's The Lying Game (The Lying Game, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller

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