19 Top adult fiction books like Familia by Lauren E. Rico

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Familia

By: Lauren E. Rico

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell…

If you liked the adult fiction plot in Familia by Lauren E. Rico , here is a list of 19 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 Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • 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. 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 Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • 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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4. 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 Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • 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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5. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

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6. My Side of the River

By: Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and wh… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez's My Side of the River book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • audiobook
  • family
  • contemporary
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7. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

Similar categories in Julia Alvarez's The Cemetery of Untold Stories book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Acts of Forgiveness

By: Maura Cheeks

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this stirring, tender-hearted debut about ambition and inheritance, a family grapples with how m… read more

Similar categories in Maura Cheeks's Acts of Forgiveness book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can't tour a plantation and come home to 512 Lewaro without understanding its significance. By walking through the front doors of their home, they were rewriting history."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

"During moments of national importance, it feels as though bills will be paid and mortgages covered, dreams no longer deferred. It feels as though, maybe, it can be less about money than about honor."

-Maura Cheeks, Acts of Forgiveness

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9. 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 Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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

Cover of Familia by Lauren E. Rico

12. Familia

By: Lauren E. Rico

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

What if your most basic beliefs about your life were suddenly revealed to be a lie? In this compell… read more

Similar categories in Lauren E. Rico's Familia book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

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

13. 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 Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • 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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14. The Things We Didn’t Know

By: Elba Iris Pérez

3.87

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The inaugural winner of Simon & Schuster’s Books Like Us contest, Elba Iris Pérez’s lyrical, cross-… read more

Similar categories in Elba Iris Pérez's The Things We Didn’t Know book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Long After We Are Gone

By: Terah Shelton Harris

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who retur… read more

Similar categories in Terah Shelton Harris's Long After We Are Gone book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Waves Take You Home

By: María Alejandra Barrios Vélez

3.96

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

In this heartfelt story about how the places we run from hold the answers to our deepest challenges… read more

Similar categories in María Alejandra Barrios Vélez's The Waves Take You Home book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

Similar categories in Marcela Fuentes's Malas book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life by Helen   Fisher

21. Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

By: Helen Fisher

4.44

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community a… read more

Similar categories in Helen Fisher's Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life book and Lauren E. Rico's Familia

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Instead of fearing a thing, try to understand it. Because understanding can change everything about the way that you feel."

-Helen Fisher, Joe Nuthin's Guide to Life

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