9 must-read family books like The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange

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The Connellys of County Down

By: Tracey Lange

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she know…

If you liked the family plot in The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Berry Pickers by Amanda    Peters

1. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera

2. 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 Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of Happiness Falls by Angie  Kim

3. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

Cover of The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

4. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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5. 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 Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • 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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6. 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 Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

Cover of The Half Moon by Mary Beth Keane

7. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beth Keane's The Half Moon book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Evil Eye by Etaf Rum

8. Evil Eye

By: Etaf Rum

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more

Similar categories in Etaf Rum's Evil Eye book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

Cover of Banyan Moon by Thao Thai

9. Banyan Moon

By: Thao Thai

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When Ann Tran gets the call that her fiercely beloved grandmother, Minh, has passed away, her life … read more

Similar categories in Thao Thai's Banyan Moon book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

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10. The Wishing Game

By: Meg Shaffer

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents … read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Cover of The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

11. The Collected Regrets of Clover

By: Mikki Brammer

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

Cover of The Last Love Note by Emma Grey

12. The Last Love Note

By: Emma Grey

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more

Similar categories in Emma Grey's The Last Love Note book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

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13. The Leftover Woman

By: Jean Kwok

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two ver… read more

Similar categories in Jean Kwok's The Leftover Woman book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

14. Shark Heart

By: Emily Habeck

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their weddin… read more

Similar categories in Emily Habeck's Shark Heart book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

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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 Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin

16. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Return of Ellie Black by Emiko Jean

17. 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 Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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 The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange

18. The Connellys of County Down

By: Tracey Lange

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she know… read more

Similar categories in Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
Cover of The Intern by Michele Campbell

19. The Intern

By: Michele Campbell

3.80

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

A young Harvard law student falls under the spell of a charismatic judge in this timely and thrilli… read more

Similar categories in Michele Campbell's The Intern book and Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Wedding People by Alison Espach

20. 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 Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • 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

Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz    Moore

21. 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 Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

21 Best audiobook books like The Connellys of County Down by Tracey Lange

Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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10 Best book club books like The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

Transform Your Habits

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

Lisa See

4.36

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