Books like Remarkably Bright Creatures
If you liked Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Turtles All the Way Down
Because shares tags: contemporary, friendship, mystery.
Aza Holmes lives with intrusive thoughts while chasing a missing billionaire with Daisy.
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The Maid
Because shares tags: mystery, contemporary, friendship.
Hotel maid Molly Gray finds a dead guest and must use her eye for detail to clear herself.
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The Raven Boys
Because shares tags: mystery, friendship.
Blue Sargent joins four Aglionby boys hunting a Welsh king on a Virginia ley line.
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In a Dark, Dark Wood
Because shares tags: mystery, friendship.
Writer Nora joins hen party Clare in glass house where a murder happens.
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The Flatshare
Because shares tags: contemporary, friendship.
Two strangers share one bed on opposite shifts and fall in love through notes left around the flat.
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Slammed
Because shares tags: contemporary, grief.
Grieving Layken falls for neighbor Will, then learns he is her teacher, and poems carry them.
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Watership Down
Because shares tags: animals, friendship.
Hazel leads a small band of rabbits from a doomed warren to Watership Down, where survival means facing snares, farms and General Woundwort.
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Just for the Summer
Because shares tags: contemporary, grief.
Emma and Justin date to break a matching curse, then face sudden guardianship and illness on Lake Minnetonka.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Because shares tags: friendship, contemporary.
Two friends Alice and Eileen trade letters while navigating love with Felix and Simon.
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Something Borrowed
Because shares tags: contemporary, friendship.
Good girl Rachel loves her best friend's fiance through a summer of weddings and lies.
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Layla
Because shares tags: contemporary, mystery.
Leeds brings Layla back to the bed-and-breakfast where they met after a shooting changes her, then a new guest named Willow blurs every…
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In Five Years
Because shares tags: contemporary, friendship.
Dannie sees herself with another man in 2025, then meets him as her best friend Bella's boyfriend. A sad, readable story about plans,…
