7 Best romance books like Mercury by Amy Jo Burns

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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 …

If you liked the romance plot in Mercury by Amy Jo Burns , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • 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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2. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Listen for the Lie

By: Amy Tintera

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more

Similar categories in Amy Tintera's Listen for the Lie book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

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4. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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6. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • 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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8. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • 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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9. The Wives: A Memoir

By: Simone Gorrindo

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A captivating memoir that tells the story of one woman’s experience of joining a community of army … read more

Similar categories in Simone Gorrindo's The Wives: A Memoir book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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10. Darling Girls

By: Sally Hepworth

4.04

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

SISTERS, SECRETS, LOVE, AND MURDER... Sally Hepworth’s new novel has it all. For as long as they… read more

Similar categories in Sally Hepworth's Darling Girls book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She didn’t do well out of her routine."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"[…] the dogs burst out into the night in search of nocturnal animals to torment."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"She had a very specific routine that she had to follow if she was to have the slightest hope of drifting off."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

"Today had involved far too much talking. Norah appreciated the great wonder of communication as much as the next person, but she despised it in excess."

-Sally Hepworth, Darling Girls

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11. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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12. All We Were Promised

By: Ashton Lattimore

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A housemaid with a dangerous family secret conspires with a wealthy young abolitionist to help an e… read more

Similar categories in Ashton Lattimore's All We Were Promised book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Return of Ellie Black

By: Emiko Jean

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Detective Chelsey Calhoun’s life is turned upside down when she gets the call Ellie Black, a girl w… read more

Similar categories in Emiko Jean's The Return of Ellie Black book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"you cannot save yourself from heartbreak. You cannot save yourself from grief."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

"When you study what you’ve been through, what happened to you, it loses its power, and then you have a choice: stay or move on."

-Emiko Jean, The Return of Ellie Black

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15. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • 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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16. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Middletide

By: Sarah Crouch

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping and intensely atmospheric debut, disquiet descends on a small town after the suspi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Crouch's Middletide book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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19. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

Similar categories in Marjan Kamali's The Lion Women of Tehran book and Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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20. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Amy Jo Burns's Mercury

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

20 Top fiction books like Mercury by Amy Jo Burns

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

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3.97

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Holly Gramazio

3.53

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Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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Christina Lauren

4.14

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