5 best-selling novels books like Alternate Side by Anna Quindlen

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Alternate Side

By: Anna Quindlen

3.35

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood—and a seemingly happy marriage—are exposed by an unexpect…

"Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?"

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?"

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

If you liked the novels plot in Alternate Side by Anna Quindlen , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. After This

By: Alice McDermott

3.86

Format: 302 pages,

A vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Alice McDerm… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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2. Rescue

By: Anita Shreve

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A rookie paramedic pulls a young woman alive from her totaled car, a first rescue that begins a lif… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

3. Range Of Motion

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Paperback

'I can tell you how it happened. It's easy to say how it happened. He walked past a building, and a… read more

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4. Ordinary Life: Stories

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.82

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

In this superb collection of short stories, Berg takes us into the times in women's lives when memo… read more

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5. Cost

By: Roxana Robinson

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Hardcover

When Julia Lambert, an art professor, settles into her idyllic Maine house for the summer, she plan… read more

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6. A Change in Altitude

By: Anita Shreve

4.39

Format: None pages,

Margaret and Patrick have been married just a few months when they set off on what they hope will b… read more

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7. Sweetwater

By: Roxana Robinson

4.27

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

In this brilliant, luminous novel, one of our finest realist writers gives us a story of surpassing… read more

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8. A Good Hard Look

By: Ann Napolitano

4.32

Format: 210 pages,

Heartbreakingly beautiful and inescapably human, ordinary and extraordinary people chart their own … read more

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9. The Art of Mending

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.68

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

It begins with the sudden revelation of astonishing secrets--secrets that have shaped the personali… read more

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10. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • 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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11. 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

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  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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13. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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14. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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16. Alternate Side

By: Anna Quindlen

3.35

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood—and a seemingly happy marriage—are exposed by an unexpect… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's Alternate Side book and Anna Quindlen's Alternate Side

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?"

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." She actually sometimes thought that was the definition of marriage."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"It was notable because they rarely quarreled anymore. Their marriage had become like the AA prayer: 'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

Cover of Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid (The Deauville Street Families Book 1) by Cathy Lamb

17. Ten Kids, Two Lovebirds, and a Singing Mermaid (The Deauville Street Families Book 1)

By: Cathy Lamb

4.61

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Julia’s Chocolates and Henry’s Sisters, comes a humorous, hopeful no… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of A Very Inconvenient Scandal by Jacquelyn Mitchard

18. A Very Inconvenient Scandal

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

3.19

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard comes a thrilling family drama that ex… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

19. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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20. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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21. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Alice McDermott

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3.79

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