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Kia Abdullah

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Kia Abdullah is a Times bestselling author and travel writer. Her novels include Take It Back, a Guardian and Telegraph thriller of the year, Truth Be Told which was shortlisted for a Diverse Book Award, and Next Of Kin which was longlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger Award and won the Adult Fiction Diverse Book Award 2022. Her new novel, Those People Next Door, is out now.

Kia has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Times, The Telegraph and the BBC, and has received a JB Priestley Award for Writers of Promise (2020). She is also the founder of Asian Booklist, a nonprofit that advocates for diversity in publishing.

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	Take It Back (Zara Kaleel, #1) 3.94 avg rating — 9,886 ratings — published 2019 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Next of Kin 4.12 avg rating — 7,299 ratings — published 2021 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perfectly Nice Neighbors 3.74 avg rating — 6,624 ratings — published 2023 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Truth Be Told (Zara Kaleel, #2) 4.19 avg rating — 1,919 ratings — published 2020 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Those People Next Door 3.63 avg rating — 295 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Child's Play 3.44 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life, Love And Assimilation 4.22 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Offer Papaya: 101 Tips for Your First Time Around the World by Kia Abdullah (Goodreads Author), Peter Watson (Goodreads Author) 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kia Abdullah 4 Books Collection Set liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conservative Soul: How We Lost It, How to Get It Back 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I—I want forgiveness, for others and for myself. I want to accept that the journey is all there is. That when you get there, there’s no there there and so you keep going, keep trying, keep looking for ways to fill that hole but it will never be filled because we are just human and life has a hole – it just does. That’s what I want.”
― Kia Abdullah, Take It Back

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“Leila was not a rule breaker. She believed in order, fairness and justice.”
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“What power could a holy book wield if you were intent on being deceitful?”
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The Friendship Club by Robyn Carr

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Take It Back by Kia Abdullah

1 vote, 14.3%

Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

1 vote, 14.3%

Run on Red by K.M. Hodge

0 votes, 0.0%

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

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Horse by Geraldine Brooks

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Meadow Falls by Carolyn Brown

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There's No Coming Back from This by Ann Garvin

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi

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One Wrong Word by Hank Phillippi Ryan

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Scythe by Neal Shusterman

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