15 must-read fiction books like Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

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Where the Crawdads Sing

By: Delia Owens

4.38

Format: 384 pages, ebook

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is b…

"We are married. Like the geese."

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

"We are married. Like the geese."

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

"Sand keeps secrets better than mud."

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

"Sand keeps secrets better than mud."

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

If you liked the fiction plot in Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

1. The Kite Runner

By: Khaled Hosseini

4.35

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and … read more

Similar categories in Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Bareh tu hazar dafa!"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"It hurts to say that,"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"Sad stories make good books"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

"For you, a thousand times over"

-Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

Cover of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

2. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

3.24

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when sh… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

3. The Lovely Bones

By: Alice Sebold

3.50

Format: 290 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Lovely Bonesis the story of a family devastated by a gruesome murder -- a murder recounted by t… read more

Similar categories in Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Help by Kathryn Stockett

4. The Help

By: Kathryn Stockett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Be prepared to meet three unforgettable women: Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home a… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Stockett's The Help book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

5. Ugly Love

By: Colleen Hoover

4.54

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she knows it isn't love at first sight. They wo… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Hoover's Ugly Love book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

6. The Nightingale

By: Kristin Hannah

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isab… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

7. It Ends with Us

By: Colleen Hoover

3.66

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

SOMETIMES THE ONE WHO LOVES YOU IS THE ONE WHO HURTS YOU THE MOST Lily hasn't always had it easy, b… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Hoover's It Ends with Us book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)

By: Stieg Larsson , Reg Keeland

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding amalgam of murder mystery, family saga, love story and financial intrigue. A Sensati… read more

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9. To Kill a Mockingbird

By: Harper Lee

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Paperback

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that … read more

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10. All the Light We Cannot See

By: Anthony Doerr

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths c… read more

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11. Gone Girl

By: Gillian Flynn

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne's fifth wedding anni… read more

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12. The Girl on the Train

By: Paula Hawkins

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every day the same Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she ratt… read more

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13. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

By: Heather Morris

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at… read more

Similar categories in Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"How can a race spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat?"

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"Good and evil coexist in the worst of times. It is then when hope shines through."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"You see your world reflected in a mirror, but I have another mirror I look into mine, and I see a world that will bring yours down."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

Cover of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

14. Where the Crawdads Sing

By: Delia Owens

4.38

Format: 384 pages, ebook

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is b… read more

Similar categories in Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"We are married. Like the geese."

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

"Sand keeps secrets better than mud."

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

"Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils"

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

"How much do you trade to defeat lonesomeness?"

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

Cover of The Notebook (The Notebook, #1) by Nicholas Sparks

15. The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)

By: Nicholas Sparks

4.15

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Set amid the austere beauty of the North Carolina coast begins the story of Noah Calhoun, a rural S… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Sparks's The Notebook (The Notebook, #1) book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If you're a bird... I'm a bird..."

-Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)

"You are, and always have been, my dream."

-Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)

"Every great love starts with a great story..."

-Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)

"Who am I? And how, I wonder, will this story end?"

-Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)

Cover of The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

16. The Silent Patient

By: Alex Michaelides

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photo… read more

Similar categories in Alex Michaelides's The Silent Patient book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Love that doesn't include honest doesn't deserve to be called love."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Sometimes it takes courage, you know, and a long time, to be honest."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

"Perhaps some of us are simply born evil, and despite our best efforts we remain that way."

-Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

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17. The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

By: Freida McFadden

4.32

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

“Welcome to the family,” Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile polit… read more

Similar categories in Freida McFadden's The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1) book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No puedo fiarme de nadie, salvo de mí misma."

-Freida McFadden, The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)

Cover of Educated by Tara Westover

18. Educated

By: Tara Westover

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mounta… read more

Similar categories in Tara Westover's Educated book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"An education is not so much about making a living as making a person."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut."

-Tara Westover, Educated

Cover of It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us #2) by Colleen Hoover

19. It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us #2)

By: Colleen Hoover

3.87

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of th… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Hoover's It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us #2) book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You finally gonna kiss her?"

-Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us #2)

"Being near him is second nature."

-Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us #2)

"Jealousy doesn't have an expiration date, apparently."

-Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us #2)

"You're stressing over things that haven't even happened yet."

-Colleen Hoover, It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us #2)

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20. Verity

By: Colleen Hoover

4.31

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Lowen Ashleigh is a struggling writer on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Hoover's Verity book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No one is likable from the inside out."

-Colleen Hoover, Verity

"The world was her manuscript. No surface was safe."

-Colleen Hoover, Verity

"I think the idea of me is better than the reality of me."

-Colleen Hoover, Verity

"Don’t focus on why you’re playing the game. Just focus on the finish line."

-Colleen Hoover, Verity

Cover of Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

21. Daisy Jones & The Six

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip,… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & The Six book and Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"...if you redeem yourself, then believe in your own redemption."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

"That’s the glory of being a man. An ugly face isn’t the end of you."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

"And, baby, when you think of me I hope it ruins rock 'n' roll Regret me"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

"If she knew how often I was thinking about her, she wouldn't feel lonely."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

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Khaled Hosseini

4.35

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Taylor Jenkins Reid

3.24

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