11 Top family books like Holiday Country by İnci Atrek

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Holiday Country

By: İnci Atrek

3.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A seductive and lyrical debut following a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic …

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1. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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3. 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 İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • 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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4. 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 İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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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5. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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6. 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 İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • womens fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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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8. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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9. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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10. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth O'Connor's Whale Fall book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Divorcées

By: Rowan Beaird

3.15

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Lois Saunders thought marrying the right man would cure her loneliness, but as picture-perfect as h… read more

Similar categories in Rowan Beaird's The Divorcées book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Fruit of the Dead

By: Rachel Lyon

3.54

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of o… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lyon's Fruit of the Dead book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Mobility

By: Lydia Kiesling

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive novel about class, power, politics, and desire by the celebrated author of The Golden … read more

Similar categories in Lydia Kiesling's Mobility book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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14. Ellipses

By: Vanessa Lawrence

2.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Set in the glossy world of New York City media, this sharp and witty debut novel follows a young wo… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Lawrence's Ellipses book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. 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 İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Holiday Country

By: İnci Atrek

3.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A seductive and lyrical debut following a young woman’s dangerous summer romance during an idyllic … read more

Similar categories in İnci Atrek's Holiday Country book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • womens fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Fortune Seller

By: Rachel Kapelke-Dale

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Middle-class Rosie Macalister has worked for years to fit in with her wealthy friends on the Yale e… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Kapelke-Dale's The Fortune Seller book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Crook, philanderer, asshole. Champion, genius, father. How are you supposed to weigh up someone's life?"

-Rachel Kapelke-Dale, The Fortune Seller

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18. Flores and Miss Paula

By: Melissa Rivero

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

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

19. 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 İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • 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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20. Honey

By: Victor Lodato

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Meet a woman as tenacious as Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge and as irresistible as Andrew Sean… read more

Similar categories in Victor Lodato's Honey book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers

By: Sarah Tomlinson

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous , a gripping debut about the complicate… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Tomlinson's The Last Days of the Midnight Ramblers book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Above the Salt

By: Katherine Vaz

3.72

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and sweeping love story that follows two Portuguese refugees who flee religious vio… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Vaz's Above the Salt book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"John thought that the greatest thing about America was its generosity, with spirit and hope and faith, but also with land and objects and inventions, a culture of magnanimity he would mourn if it wer…"

-Katherine Vaz, Above the Salt

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23. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

Similar categories in Ursula Villarreal-Moura's Like Happiness book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. Goldenseal: A Novel

By: Maria Hummel

3.35

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Gentleman in Moscow meets My Brilliant Friend in this novel of two estranged friends who reunite … read more

Similar categories in Maria Hummel's Goldenseal: A Novel book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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25. 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 İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Anthropologists

By: Aysegül Savas

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should th… read more

Similar categories in Aysegül Savas's The Anthropologists book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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27. 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 İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

29. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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30. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

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31. The Singer Sisters

By: Sarah Marian Seltzer

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It's 1996, and alt-rocker Emma Cantor is on tour, with her sights trained on a record deal. Emma's … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Marian Seltzer's The Singer Sisters book and İnci Atrek's Holiday Country

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Remember, Rose, a wild journey is what men have the freedom to do,' she said. 'Women must find salvation in laundry loads."

-Sarah Marian Seltzer, The Singer Sisters

"Would either Mary or Judie pick up on the quality she'd loved in Barry, too--in any man who possessed it: the steady eyes, the follw-up questions, the interest in seeing her eat? She couldn't quite e…"

-Sarah Marian Seltzer, The Singer Sisters

31 Top fiction books like Holiday Country by İnci Atrek

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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Family Family

Laurie Frankel

4.00

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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A Grandmother Begins the Story

Michelle Porter

3.84

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Chenneville

Paulette Jiles

4.13

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Absolution

Alice McDermott

3.81

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