21 Top fiction books like Maureen (Harold Fry #3) by Rachel Joyce

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Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from…

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1. Homecoming

By: Kate Morton

4.07

Format: 547 pages, Hardcover

Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the groun… read more

Similar categories in Kate Morton's Homecoming book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Stress can make even the most loving mother lose control."

-Kate Morton, Homecoming

"What is the truth anyway?" Jess had once been asked by a curious friend. "It's what happened." "According to whom?"

-Kate Morton, Homecoming

"There's other ways to travel." She was right. He had books, and there was no barrier to the places he could visit in his own mind."

-Kate Morton, Homecoming

"Bad things happen to the best of people, and we cannot let them overwhelm us. Life doesn’t always work out the way we plan, but it does work out in the end."

-Kate Morton, Homecoming

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2. Earth's the Right Place for Love

By: Elizabeth Berg

4.11

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful new novel by the beloved author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep tells the story … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Berg's Earth's the Right Place for Love book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your girlfriend won't stay pretty for long. I myself was a hot tomato, but look at me now. 'Pretty' goes away, but what can come in its place is 'beautiful.' And that's better. Do you know what I mea…"

-Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

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3. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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4. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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5. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

Similar categories in Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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7. Forever Home

By: Graham Norton

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son … read more

Similar categories in Graham Norton's Forever Home book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Whalebone Theatre

By: Joanna Quinn

4.06

Format: 558 pages, Hardcover

A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatr… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Quinn's The Whalebone Theatre book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Without passion we are only machines."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"A place where exiles gather to talk of passion."

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"The men repeatedly request that she play Elgar’s “Nimrod"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

"It pleases her immensely that she has created this. It reminds her of playing with the cardboard theatre in the attic, how her favourite part was lying on the floor, doing the voices, making the char…"

-Joanna Quinn, The Whalebone Theatre

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9. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2) book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

By: Laura Pearson

4.03

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first… Mabel Beaumont’s husban… read more

Similar categories in Laura Pearson's The Last List of Mabel Beaumont book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

Similar categories in Kate Atkinson's Shrines of Gaiety book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

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12. A Tidy Ending

By: Joanna Cannon

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A delightfully sinister novel about a married woman living a nice, quiet suburban life—but things a… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Cannon's A Tidy Ending book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

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14. The Keeper of Stories

By: Sally Page

4.08

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more

Similar categories in Sally Page's The Keeper of Stories book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

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15. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

Similar categories in Sally Page's The Book of Beginnings book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Broken Light

By: Joanne Harris

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Bernie Moon is feeling invisible. She's given her life to other people - her husband, her son, her … read more

Similar categories in Joanne Harris's Broken Light book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • british literature
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17. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3) book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • travel
  • novella
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)

By: A.J. Pearce

4.19

Format: 313 pages, Hardcover

London, April 1943. A little over a year since she married Captain Charles Mayhew and he went away … read more

Similar categories in A.J. Pearce's Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3) book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You didn’t miss someone any less, you just made room for other things to surround the gap they had left."

-A.J. Pearce, Mrs. Porter Calling (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #3)

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19. The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club

By: Helen Simonson

3.96

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A timeless comedy of manners—refreshing as a summer breeze and bracing as the British seaside—about… read more

Similar categories in Helen Simonson's The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • adult fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Vintage Shop of Second Chances

By: Libby Page

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome, Lou is embarking on the start of something… read more

Similar categories in Libby Page's The Vintage Shop of Second Chances book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Life and Otter Miracles

By: Hazel Prior

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Nineteen-year-old Phoebe and her widower father Al have recently moved to Devon, to a small cottage… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Prior's Life and Otter Miracles book and Rachel Joyce's Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

  • contemporary
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • british literature

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Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

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Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

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David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Forever Home

Graham Norton

3.90

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Trust

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3.83

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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