Books like Where the Crawdads Sing
12 books with a reading profile close to Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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Mad Honey
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, mystery
Olivia McAfee relocates to her New Hampshire childhood home to raise her son, Asher, and manage her father’s apiary after escaping an abusive marriage.
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Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, mystery
In rural Pennsylvania, a Amish farm woman, Katie Fisher, is accused of killing her newborn baby, whose body is found in a barn.
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The Thirteenth Tale
narrative, mystery
Margaret Lea, a quiet antiquarian bookshop assistant, receives a summons to the decaying Angelfield estate to interview Vida Winter, a prolific novelist famous for her invented pasts.
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Lonely Castle in the Mirror
narrative, mystery
Kokoro, a thirteen-year-old in Tokyo, has stopped attending school after being bullied, and spends her days at home.
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The Christie Affair
narrative, mystery
In December 1926, the mystery writer Agatha Christie disappears for eleven days, and her car is found abandoned near a chalk pit.
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Marina
narrative, mystery
In the labyrinthine streets of Barcelona, a young boy named Oscar Drai is drawn into a mysterious world when he discovers a forbidden book.
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Homecoming
by Kate Morton
narrative, mystery
On Christmas Eve in 1959, a traveler discovers the Turner family lifeless beside a creek on their South Australian estate.
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8
City of Girls
narrative, accessible
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York City after being expelled from Vassar College.
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9
West With Giraffes
narrative, accessible
In 1938, a hurricane strikes the New York harbor, leaving two young giraffes stranded on the docks.
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Elevation
by Stephen King
narrative, accessible
Scott Carey lives in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, and he has a puzzling medical problem: he is steadily losing weight, but he looks the same and weighs the same on the scale whether he is dressed or naked and c…
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
narrative, accessible
In 1930s Paris, a young orphan named Hugo Cabret lives in the hidden maintenance tunnels of a busy train station.
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