6 must-read family books like Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin

Cover of Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin

Crow Talk

By: Eileen Garvin

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop…

If you liked the family plot in Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of James by Percival Everett

2. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Underground Library by Jennifer    Ryan

3. The Underground Library

By: Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When the Blitz imperils the heart of a London neighborhood, three young women must use their fighti… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ryan's The Underground Library book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Miss Morgan's Book Brigade by Janet Skeslien Charles

4. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

By: Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more

Similar categories in Janet Skeslien Charles's Miss Morgan's Book Brigade book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy

5. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

Similar categories in Simon Van Booy's Sipsworth book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • animals
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Sandwich by Catherine Newman

6. 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

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

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

Cover of How to Read a Book by Monica Wood

7. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

Similar categories in Monica Wood's How to Read a Book book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

Cover of Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin

8. Crow Talk

By: Eileen Garvin

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Nationally bestselling author of The Music of Bees Eileen Garvin returns with a moving story of hop… read more

Similar categories in Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • animals
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • birds
  • nature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Night in Question by Susan  Fletcher

9. The Night in Question

By: Susan Fletcher

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and emotionally engaging novel infused with mystery and wisdom about love, friendship, an… read more

Similar categories in Susan Fletcher's The Night in Question book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"So walk into your life. Do what you want to do, Florrie, always – because a timid, obedient woman is quite the tragedy… Life. What a shame we only get one shot at it."

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

".. they discussed what they wanted from this life- this brief, single dance in the sunlight of life. "Adventures," she told him... "I've always wanted them." from the moment that Bobs drew the world …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"… how on earth had it come to this; how was she looking at care homes for the elderly when she still felt twenty years old inside, still believed she could do headstands, and when there was still so …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

"We think, for so long, that old age will never find us. We feel that we, as individuals, might somehow be exempt from it, that we might be given some sort of ticket that allows us to sidestep death, …"

-Susan Fletcher, The Night in Question

Cover of The Hazelbourne Ladies Motorcycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson

10. 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 Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Stolen Child by Ann Hood

11. The Stolen Child

By: Ann Hood

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this mo… read more

Similar categories in Ann Hood's The Stolen Child book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Wild and Heavenly Place by Robin Oliveira

12. A Wild and Heavenly Place

By: Robin Oliveira

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of My Name is Mary Sutter comes a sweeping story of star… read more

Similar categories in Robin Oliveira's A Wild and Heavenly Place book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bear by Julia  Phillips

13. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • animals
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • nature
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

Cover of Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate

14. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

Cover of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

15. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Twilight Garden by Sara Nisha Adams

16. The Twilight Garden

By: Sara Nisha Adams

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

There's life all around you, if you just take the time to look for it... In a small pocket of th… read more

Similar categories in Sara Nisha Adams's The Twilight Garden book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of How to Age Disgracefully by Clare Pooley

17. How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pooley's How to Age Disgracefully book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

Cover of The Glassmaker by Tracy Chevalier

18. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore

19. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella

20. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's The Same Bright Stars book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Briar Club by Kate Quinn

21. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Briar Club book and Eileen Garvin's Crow Talk

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

21 Top fiction books like Crow Talk by Eileen Garvin

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

James

Percival Everett

4.54

Transform Your Habits

The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

View all the books

21 must-read fiction books like The Underground Library by Jennifer Ryan

Transform Your Habits

The Underground Library

Jennifer Ryan

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Museum of Lost Quilts (Elm Creek Quilts, #22)

Jennifer Chiaverini

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Finding Margaret Fuller

Allison Pataki

4.11

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.