J.T. LeRoy
3.63 · 48 ratings
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Rene Denfeld
3.98 · 112 ratings
adult · fiction · mystery · crime · book · female-author · realistic · dark · drama · contemporary · audiobook · suspense · abuse · supernatural · literary-fiction · psychological · mental-illness · horror · child-abuse · law-enforcement
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Craig Raine
3.90 · 84 ratings
mental-illness · romance · book · literary-fiction · north-america · psychological · steamy · abuse · classics · season-summer · coming-of-age · literary · postmodernism · audiobook · contemporary · unreliable-narrator · university · crime · drama · transgressive-mc
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Gerry O'Brien
3.85 · 57 ratings
supernatural · high-school · magical-realism · dark · dark-academia · magic · death · realistic · law-enforcement · female-author · noir · thriller · crime · drama · fiction · murder · mystery · friendship · coming-of-age · killer
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Kate Elizabeth Russell
4.11 · 45 ratings
dark-academia · realistic · adult · fish-out-of-water · female-author · horror · sexual-assault · thriller · high-school · dark · fiction · mystery · transgressive-mc · female-mc · loner-mc · crime · drama · sad · age-gap · unreliable-narrator
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Gonçalo Neves
3.85 · 43 ratings
spooky · abuse · revenge · mental-illness · psychological · book · contemporary · audiobook · 21st-century · cheating · plot-twist · marriage · suspense · female-mc · domestic-drama · love-triangle · urban · mystery · fiction · womens-fiction
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Scott Shina
3.74 · 41 ratings
dark · epic · literary · 20th-century · coming-of-age · contemporary · audiobook · female-author · historical-fiction · sexual-assault · adult · realistic · womens-fiction · literary-fiction · book · crime · drama · abuse · classics · domestic-drama
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Miranda Cowley Heller
3.89 · 40 ratings
book · family · female-author · drama · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · sexual-assault · womens-fiction · mystery · young-adult · season-summer · fiction · female-mc · abuse · friendship · domestic-drama · coming-of-age · love-triangle · romance · cheating
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Martina Knápková
3.79 · 36 ratings
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Raven Leilani
3.58 · 35 ratings
drama · audiobook · 21st-century · contemporary · feminism · grief · marriage · coming-of-age · racism · season-summer · mental-illness · romance · bildungsroman · book · literary-fiction · poc-author · black-mc · female-author · realistic · adult
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Laura Ibáñez
3.58 · 35 ratings
womens-fiction · family · lgbtq · drama · female-mc · poc-mc · urban · humor · fiction · dark · new-adult · black-mc · female-author · realistic · adult · mental-illness · romance · bildungsroman · literary-fiction · book
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Tom Schulman
4.16 · 35 ratings
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Jennie Melamed
3.61 · 33 ratings
spirituality · fiction · action-adventure · mystery · drama · family · apocalyptic · cults · female-author · horror · death · dark · sci-fi · child-abuse · angst · abuse · supernatural · religion · young-adult · post-apocalyptic
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希瑟·古登考夫
3.94 · 30 ratings
domestic-drama · friendship · fiction · iowa · mystery · womens-fiction · sad · crime · drama · family · female-author · thriller · adult · realistic · epic · dark · usa · child-abuse · children · abuse
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Julia Hoban
3.89 · 28 ratings
family · suicide · contemporary · audiobook · grief · substance-abuse · coming-of-age · angst · abuse · young-adult · mental-illness · romance · book · psychological · female-author · realistic · self-harm · death · new-adult · dark
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Ali Land
3.86 · 28 ratings
death · realistic · thriller · female-author · horror · spooky · dark · epic · murder · mystery · serial-killers · fiction · friendship · family · bullying · crime · drama · unreliable-narrator · audiobook · contemporary
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Heidi W. Durrow
3.58 · 26 ratings
mental-illness · historical · realistic · death · female-author · historical-fiction · fiction · action-adventure · mystery · domestic-drama · poc-mc · female-mc · drama · family · social-commentary · survival · suicide · audiobook · middle-grade · racism
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Tara M. Stringfellow
4.15 · 26 ratings
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JoAnne Tompkins
3.81 · 26 ratings
womens-fiction · family · crime · drama · sad · friendship · mystery · fiction · spirituality · dark · usa · thriller · female-author · death · adult · realistic · mental-illness · north-america · book · literary-fiction
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Vinette Robinson
3.81 · 26 ratings
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Jean Kyoung Frazier
3.34 · 25 ratings
coming-of-age · lesbian-mc · young-adult · grief · dark · new-adult · substance-abuse · realistic · audiobook · contemporary · 21st-century · female-author · family · horror · bildungsroman · book · lgbtq · literary-fiction · mental-illness · parenthood
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Lisa O'Donnell
3.80 · 25 ratings
dark · new-adult · british-isles · united-kingdom · child-abuse · scotland · female-author · death · horror · realistic · siblings · europe · family · lgbtq · crime · drama · urban · friendship · domestic-drama · mystery
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Nico Walker
3.50 · 24 ratings
transgressive-mc · humor · action-adventure · mystery · fiction · mental-illness · prison · book · heist · literary-fiction · crime · drama · audiobook · 21st-century · contemporary · historical-fiction · military · noir · adult · psychological
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Julie Buntin
3.71 · 24 ratings
young-adult · dark · new-adult · high-school · female-author · realistic · death · womens-fiction · crime · drama · family · friendship · female-mc · fiction · mystery · suspense · substance-abuse · coming-of-age · 21st-century · audiobook
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Kayla Rae Whitaker
3.96 · 24 ratings
womens-fiction · alpha-mc · 21st-century · contemporary · audiobook · coming-of-age · feminism · grief · season-summer · rural · literary-fiction · bildungsroman · book · psychological · mental-illness · adult · realistic · death · female-author · secrets
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Juliet Grames
3.92 · 24 ratings
adult · realistic · siblings · ww2 · book · family · literary-fiction · drama · abuse · fiction · feminism · dark · magical-realism · 20th-century · coming-of-age · audiobook · sexual-assault · 21st-century · female-author · historical-fiction
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Michele Pawk
3.95 · 20 ratings
womens-fiction · romance · lgbtq · book · family · friendship · domestic-drama · female-mc · literary-fiction · psychological · fiction · steamy · young-adult · cheating · dark · new-adult · female-author · audiobook · contemporary · realistic
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Janel Moloney
3.95 · 20 ratings
domestic-drama · cheating · dark · new-adult · realistic · audiobook · contemporary · female-author · book · literary-fiction · family · lgbtq · psychological · steamy · womens-fiction · romance · young-adult · fiction · female-mc · friendship
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Amita Trasi
4.20 · 20 ratings
slavery · poc-author · book · kidnapping · literary-fiction · psychological · abuse · young-adult · coming-of-age · audiobook · survival · social-commentary · womens-fiction · crime · family · drama · friendship · female-mc · poc-mc · fiction
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