14 must-read book club books like The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

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The Giver of Stars

By: Jojo Moyes

4.29

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extra…

"You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?"

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

"You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?"

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

"You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?"

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

"You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?"

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

If you liked the book club plot in The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Alice Network

By: Kate Quinn

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Alice Network book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Great Alone

By: Kristin Hannah

3.28

Format: 437 pages,

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Great Alone book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. The Nightingale

By: Kristin Hannah

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isab… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook

4. Before We Were Yours

By: Lisa Wingate

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant … read more

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5. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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6. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • adult
  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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8. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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9. Go as a River

By: Shelley Read

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Read's Go as a River book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

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10. 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 Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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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11. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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12. Lessons in Chemistry

By: Bonnie Garmus

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to poi… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon."

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for t…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself b…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

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13. Hello Beautiful

By: Ann Napolitano

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

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14. The Dutch House

By: Ann Patchett

4.10

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to beg… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's The Dutch House book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"You don't have to like your work to be good at it."

-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

"We had stepped into the river that takes you forward."

-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

"Even the stupidest ideas have resonance once they’ve happened"

-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

"We were all so young, you know. We were still our best selves."

-Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

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15. The Giver of Stars

By: Jojo Moyes

4.29

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extra… read more

Similar categories in Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • book club
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?"

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

"Nothing more dangerous than a woman armed with a little knowledge"

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

"I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them."

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

"There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth had gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around."

-Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

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16. The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's The House of Eve book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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17. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

By: Kim Michele Richardson

4.22

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

An alternate cover edition for ISBN 978-1492671527 can be found here. In 1936, tucked deep into … read more

Similar categories in Kim Michele Richardson's The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1) book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"What I wanted most was to be okay as a Blue. I never understood why other people thought my color, any color, needed fixing."

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

"Well, them cloths are a lot like folks. Ain't much difference at all. Some of us is more spiffed up than others, some stiffer, and still, some softer. There's the colorful and dull, ugly and pretty, …"

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

"There's nothing wrong with your color, being you," he said firmly. "Nothing wrong with what the good Lord gives us in His world, Cussy Mary." He didn't know, couldn't know, the load I'd carried as a …"

-Kim Michele Richardson, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek (The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, #1)

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18. The Book of Lost Names

By: Kristin Harmel

4.43

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

Eva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books one morning when her eyes… read more

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  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"...we are only responsible for the things we do—or fail to do—ourselves."

-Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

"Remember that God’s plan for you might be different than the plan you have for yourself."

-Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

"Ah. I should have known. You’re one of us. … You’re someone who finds herself in the pages,"

-Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

"I know it’s sometimes hard to believe the best. Isn’t it better than believing the worst, though?"

-Kristin Harmel, The Book of Lost Names

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19. The Things We Cannot Say

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.53

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the Russian refugee… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Rimmer's The Things We Cannot Say book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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20. The Rose Code

By: Kate Quinn

4.45

Format: 624 pages, Paperback

The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns w… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Rose Code book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She was drunk on him, every nerve in her body singing."

-Kate Quinn, The Rose Code

"Once again, she’d thought, Why the hell not? and let him park an emerald on her finger."

-Kate Quinn, The Rose Code

"There was a thing a man's eyes did when he was in love, a softening at the very centers"

-Kate Quinn, The Rose Code

"Osla kept her letters cheerful; the last thing a man at war needed was gloom from the home front."

-Kate Quinn, The Rose Code

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21. The Four Winds

By: Kristin Hannah

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighti… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Four Winds book and Jojo Moyes's The Giver of Stars

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Love is what remains when everything else is gone."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

"Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

"Passion is a thunderstorm, there and gone. It nourishes, si, but it drowns, too."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

"Books had always been her solace. Novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her imagination."

-Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds

20 Best fiction books like The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes

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Kate Quinn

5.00

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Kristin Hannah

3.28

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Kristin Hannah

3.54

Transform Your Habits

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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