Books like Where the Crawdads Sing
If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Virgin Suicides
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age, mystery.
Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Because shares tags: mystery, coming of age, literary fiction.
Curious Incident retold: Christopher finds Wellington dead, maps primes, seeks truth in Swindon.
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White Oleander
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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She's Come Undone
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
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My Dark Vanessa
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Vanessa recalls teacher Strane abuse as adult reckoning looms.
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The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Because shares tags: mystery, murder mystery.
Aiden relives a murder day in eight hosts to solve Evelyn Hardcastle's killing.
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Kafka on the Shore
Because shares tags: coming of age, literary fiction.
Fifteen year old Kafka Tamura flees Tokyo while old Nakata, who talks to cats, drifts toward the same library town in Shikoku in parallel.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Because shares tags: coming of age, literary fiction.
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
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Everything I Never Told You
Because shares tags: literary fiction, mystery.
In 1977 Ohio, sixteen-year-old Lydia Lee is found dead in a lake, forcing her interracial family to face the secret pressures around race,…
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Demon Copperhead
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Born in a Lee County trailer, Damon Fields survives foster care, football fame, and opioid addiction in Appalachia.
