8 Best adult fiction books like The End of the Day by Bill Clegg

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The End of the Day

By: Bill Clegg

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns w…

"Life appeared no more than a long, bleak unraveling, a stripping away of layers, like the skins of an onion, one by one, peeled back to expose what? The truth? Did it always end in nothing? Was there only a space the layers folded around that held no meaning beyond the years it took to arrive there?"

-Bill Clegg, The End of the Day

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1. Domestic Violets

By: Matthew Norman

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the tradition of Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta comes Matthew Norman's Domestic Violets--a da… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Norman's Domestic Violets book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. The Signal Flame

By: Andrew Krivak

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

The stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivak - a heartbreaking, captiv… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Krivak's The Signal Flame book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction

3. A Gate at the Stairs

By: Lorrie Moore

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A novel on the anxiety and disconnection of post-9/11 America, on the insidiousness of racism, the … read more

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4. Another City, Not My Own

By: Dominick Dunne

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the Trial of the Century as only Dominick Dunne can write it. Told from the po… read more

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5. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

Similar categories in Joanna Nell's Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • chick lit
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Alice Sadie Celine

By: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

3.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale i… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Blakley-Cartwright's Alice Sadie Celine book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The End of the Day

By: Bill Clegg

3.20

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following his acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Did You Ever Have a Family, Bill Clegg returns w… read more

Similar categories in Bill Clegg's The End of the Day book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Life appeared no more than a long, bleak unraveling, a stripping away of layers, like the skins of an onion, one by one, peeled back to expose what? The truth? Did it always end in nothing? Was there…"

-Bill Clegg, The End of the Day

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9. Pursuit

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.40

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

As a child, Abby had the same recurring nightmare night after night, in which she wandered through … read more

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's Pursuit book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Bad Animals

By: Sarah Braunstein

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A sexy, propulsive novel that confronts the limits of empathy and the perils of appropriation throu… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Braunstein's Bad Animals book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

By: Nova Jacobs

3.55

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician,… read more

Similar categories in Nova Jacobs's The Last Equation of Isaac Severy book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Her brother's desk was austere, save for a small photo of Lewis and a coffee mug featuring a math geek's coy declaration of love: √-1 <3 μ."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

"Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with a…"

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

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12. A House for Alice

By: Diana Evans

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Alice wants to go home to die. Her three daughters are divided on whether she stays or goes, and ta… read more

Similar categories in Diana Evans's A House for Alice book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Järnblomma (Fredrika Storm, #2)

By: Frida Skybäck

3.67

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

En mörk vårkväll hittar två tonåringar en kropp inmurad i väggen i ett ödehus i utkanten av Lund. B… read more

Similar categories in Frida Skybäck's Järnblomma (Fredrika Storm, #2) book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • audiobook
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14. The Mission House

By: Carys Davies

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In The Mission House, Hilary Byrd flees his demons and the dark undercurrents of contemporary life … read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's The Mission House book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Secrets of the Huon Wren

By: Claire van Ryn

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Senior journalist Allira is writing a story for Folk magazine when she meets Nora, a nursing home r… read more

Similar categories in Claire van Ryn's The Secrets of the Huon Wren book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Run Me to Earth

By: Paul Yoon

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 19… read more

Similar categories in Paul Yoon's Run Me to Earth book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Instrumentalist

By: Harriet Constable

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Venice. 1704. In this city of glittering splendour, desperation and destitution are never far away.… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Constable's The Instrumentalist book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Imperfects

By: Amy Meyerson

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY GOOD MORNING AMERICA · PARADE · OK! MAGAZINE · ELLE CANADA · CHRISTIAN SCIENC… read more

Similar categories in Amy Meyerson's The Imperfects book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"If we don't tell stories, they disappear. You must write everything. You must keep us alive."

-Amy Meyerson, The Imperfects

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19. The History of Sound: Stories

By: Ben Shattuck

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A stunning collection of interconnected stories set in New England, exploring how the past is often… read more

Similar categories in Ben Shattuck's The History of Sound: Stories book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"[H]istory is personal, even when it isn't."

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

"Only two months. The memories of fireflies and swimming naked in the waterfall did nothing but make very fine and long incisions in the membrane of contentedness I’d built up over the years—a good ho…"

-Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

20. Spies in Canaan

By: David Park

3.84

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine in protecti… read more

Similar categories in David Park's Spies in Canaan book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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21. Family Law

By: Gin Phillips

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When an ambitious female lawyer becomes the victim of harassment, she must decide what's more impor… read more

Similar categories in Gin Phillips's Family Law book and Bill Clegg's The End of the Day

  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

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Andrew Krivak

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3.77

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Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

3.01

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Kevin Barry

4.02

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Morgan Talty

3.79

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Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

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