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Charlotte McConaghy

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Charlotte McConaghy is the author of the New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller WILD DARK SHORE, named Amazon’s Best Book of the Year So Far for 2025; as well as the New York Times Bestseller ONCE THERE WERE WOLVES, winner of the Indie Book Award for Fiction 2022; and the international bestseller MIGRATIONS, a TIME Magazine Best Book of the Year and the Amazon Best Fiction Book of the Year for 2020.

She started her writing career with a number of SF/F titles for YA readers; MIGRATIONS was her first foray into adult literature.

Her books have been translated into more than 25 languages, and are being adapted for film and television. She lives in Sydney with her partner and two children.

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Average rating: 4.11 · 465,245 ratings · 66,560 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wild Dark Shore 4.13 avg rating — 241,148 ratings — published 2025 — 26 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
	Once There Were Wolves 4.09 avg rating — 119,659 ratings — published 2021	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
	Migrations 4.12 avg rating — 98,953 ratings — published 2020 — 79 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
	Avery (The Chronicles of Kaya #1) 3.95 avg rating — 2,780 ratings — published 2013 — 4 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
	Thorne (The Chronicles of Kaya, #2) 4.15 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	Isadora (The Chronicles of Kaya #3) 4.27 avg rating — 491 ratings — published 2016 — 3 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
	Fury (The Cure, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 390 ratings — published 2014 — 3 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
	Arrival (Strangers of Paragor, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 274 ratings — published 2005 — 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
	Descent (Strangers of Paragor, #2) 4.41 avg rating — 169 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	Melancholy (The Cure, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2015 — 3 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

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“It isn’t fair to be the kind of creature who is able to love but unable to stay.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

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“But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Wild Dark Shore

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“There are languages without words and violence is one of them.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

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Polls

January Side Read Nominations ~ 1st Poll
Top 5 Books Move Onto Final Poll

The Night She Disappeared

by Lisa Jewell

13 votes, 43.3%

All The Lonely People

by Mike Gayle

3 votes, 10.0%

Once There Were Wolves

by Charlotte McConaghy

3 votes, 10.0%

The Other Passenger

by Louise Candlish

2 votes, 6.7%

The Downstairs Girl

by Stacey Lee

2 votes, 6.7%

The Winter King

by Bernard Cornwell

2 votes, 6.7%

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

by Anthony Bourdain

2 votes, 6.7%

The Shadows We Hide

by Allen Eskens

2 votes, 6.7%

West with Giraffes

by Lynda Rutledge

1 vote, 3.3%

A Psalm for the Wild-Built

by Becky Chambers

0 votes, 0.0%

30 total votes

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