21 must-read fiction books like What We Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

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What We Kept to Ourselves

By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim

3.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee retu…

If you liked the fiction plot in What We Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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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 Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. 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 Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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4. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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5. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • historical
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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6. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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7. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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8. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

Similar categories in Kate Christensen's Welcome Home, Stranger book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Great Divide

By: Cristina Henríquez

3.70

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of the construction of the Panama Canal, casting light on the unsung people who lived… read more

Similar categories in Cristina Henríquez's The Great Divide book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ada had always believed that her mother, in rebuilding the house only three miles from where it had once been, had kept her world piteously small, but maybe what mattered, Ada thought as she gazed at…"

-Cristina Henríquez, The Great Divide

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11. Wellness

By: Nathan Hill

4.00

Format: 611 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Hill's Wellness book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

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12. The Storm We Made

By: Vanessa Chan

3.87

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781668015148. A novel about a Malayan mother who becomes an unl… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Chan's The Storm We Made book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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

Similar categories in Jacquelyn Mitchard's A Very Inconvenient Scandal book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of What We Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

14. What We Kept to Ourselves

By: Nancy Jooyoun Kim

3.45

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee retu… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • family
  • adult
  • historical fiction
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15. The Leftover Woman

By: Jean Kwok

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two ver… read more

Similar categories in Jean Kwok's The Leftover Woman book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • audiobook
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • historical fiction
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16. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Mercury book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • family
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

17. Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xóchitl González

3.82

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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18. The Other Mothers

By: Katherine Faulkner

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a young nanny is found dead in mysterious circumstances, new mom, Tash, is intrigued. She has … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Faulkner's The Other Mothers book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. 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

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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20. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

Similar categories in Shilpi Somaya Gowda's A Great Country book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Nancy Jooyoun Kim's What We Kept to Ourselves

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

18 must-read contemporary books like What We Kept to Ourselves by Nancy Jooyoun Kim

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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21 best-selling fiction books like A Great Country by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Last House

Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Transform Your Habits

Miss Morgan's Book Brigade

Janet Skeslien Charles

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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