12 Top adult fiction books like The Mother Act by Heidi Reimer

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The Mother Act

By: Heidi Reimer

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica…

If you liked the adult fiction plot in The Mother Act by Heidi Reimer , here is a list of 12 books like this:

1. I Do Not Come to You by Chance

By: Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani

4.12

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

A deeply moving debut novel set amid the perilous world of Nigerian email scams, I Do Not Come to Y… read more

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2. 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 Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • 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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3. 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 Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • 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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4. 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 Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

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

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5. Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

By: Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

4.40

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

"Even in death, who has ownership over Black women's bodies?" Questions like this sit between th… read more

Similar categories in Yvette Lisa Ndlovu's Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose) book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • fiction
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6. April May June July

By: Alison B. Hart

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A triumphant family story and sharply observed exploration of privilege, identity, and love in all … read more

Similar categories in Alison B. Hart's April May June July book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Behind You

By: Catherine Hernandez

4.04

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

As terror grips a city, a young girl faces danger closer to home and chilling memories that last a … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Hernandez's Behind You book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mother Act by Heidi Reimer

8. The Mother Act

By: Heidi Reimer

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica… read more

Similar categories in Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • new york
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • 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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10. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • audiobook
Cover of Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

11. Spitting Gold

By: Carmella Lowkis

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously haunting debut for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Penner set in 19th-century Paris, b… read more

Similar categories in Carmella Lowkis's Spitting Gold book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • fiction
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12. A Trace of Sun

By: Pam Williams

3.73

Format: 389 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Don’t go Mammy please.’ Stuttered words filled her ears, sent frissons of guilt through her as she… read more

Similar categories in Pam Williams's A Trace of Sun book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Skin & Bones

By: Renée Watson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Skin & Bones book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • 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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15. The North Line

By: Matt Riordan

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Matt Riordan’s debut novel, a college student in need of quick money finds work on an Alaskan fi… read more

Similar categories in Matt Riordan's The North Line book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The House of Plain Truth

By: Donna Hemans

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A novel of fractured family and the search to protect–or discard–what unites them, this story trace… read more

Similar categories in Donna Hemans's The House of Plain Truth book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Trust Her

By: Flynn Berry

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters find they can't outrun their past in the riveting new thriller from the New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Flynn Berry's Trust Her book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Dominoes

By: Phoebe Mcintosh

3.76

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

A tender and provocative debut novel about a mixed-race British woman who makes the shocking discov… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Mcintosh's Dominoes book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Jackpot Summer

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's Jackpot Summer book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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 Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramírez

21. Tell It to Me Singing

By: Tita Ramírez

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of se… read more

Similar categories in Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing book and Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act

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

19 Top fiction books like The Mother Act by Heidi Reimer

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

Transform Your Habits

How to Read a Book

Monica Wood

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Drinking from Graveyard Wells: Stories (Contemporary Poetry And Prose)

Yvette Lisa Ndlovu

4.40

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20 must-read fiction books like Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramírez

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

Transform Your Habits

How to Read a Book

Monica Wood

4.29

Transform Your Habits

April May June July

Alison B. Hart

3.47

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