14 best-selling contemporary books like Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings

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Crooked Seeds

By: Karen Jennings

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin…

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Cover of Crooked Seeds by Karen Jennings

1. Crooked Seeds

By: Karen Jennings

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more

Similar categories in Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • south africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • family
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) by Colm Tóibín

2. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
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3. Safe Haven

By: Shankari Chandran

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The new novel from the Miles Franklin award-winning author of Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens. It was… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Safe Haven book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • crime
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

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5. The Spoiled Heart

By: Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more

Similar categories in Sunjeev Sahota's The Spoiled Heart book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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6. Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Butcher book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • mystery
  • fiction
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7. The Heart in Winter

By: Kevin Barry

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning writer Kevin Barry’s first novel set in America, a savagely funny and achingly romant… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Barry's The Heart in Winter book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"... the morning was starkly lit under a migraine - white and vast opening sky."

-Kevin Barry, The Heart in Winter

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8. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • family
  • fiction
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

Cover of The Alternatives by Caoilinn Hughes

11. The Alternatives

By: Caoilinn Hughes

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“A tale about sisterhood, a novel of ideas, a chronicle of our collective follies, a requiem for ou… read more

Similar categories in Caoilinn Hughes's The Alternatives book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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12. Shanghailanders

By: Juli Min

3.51

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in tim… read more

Similar categories in Juli Min's Shanghailanders book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Horse

By: Willy Vlautin

4.26

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning author Willy Vlautin explores loneliness, art, addiction, regret, love, and hard-won … read more

Similar categories in Willy Vlautin's The Horse book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Bear by Julia  Phillips

14. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

Cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

15. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

Similar categories in Yael van der Wouden's The Safekeep book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Bone Lands by Pip Fioretti

16. Bone Lands

By: Pip Fioretti

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

'Isn't it your job to stop people being murdered?' 1911, on a winter's night in arid New South W… read more

Similar categories in Pip Fioretti's Bone Lands book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Oye by Melissa Mogollon

17. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Road to the Country by Chigozie Obioma

18. The Road to the Country

By: Chigozie Obioma

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-racing, mystical novel about a university student in Lagos trying to save his bro… read more

Similar categories in Chigozie Obioma's The Road to the Country book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
"It has always seemed to him that the world was full of things; that even in one’s loneliest moments, there was often a crowd. But the things one loved remained invisible, hidden amongst the multitude…"

-Chigozie Obioma, The Road to the Country

Cover of Rosarita by Anita Desai

19. Rosarita

By: Anita Desai

3.30

Format: 71 pages, Kindle Edition

'Anita Desai is a magnificent writer' - Salman RushdieFrom three times Booker-shortlisted author An… read more

Similar categories in Anita Desai's Rosarita book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Godwin by Joseph O'Neill

20. Godwin

By: Joseph O'Neill

3.60

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The odyssey of two brothers crossing the world in search of an African soccer prodigy who might cha… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Neill's Godwin book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

21. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Karen Jennings's Crooked Seeds

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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