10 Best historical fiction books like Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy

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Shoulder Season

By: Christina Clancy

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen…

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1. Mean Spirit

By: Linda Hogan

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

SELECTED BY THE LITERARY GUILD "Extraordinary...If you take up no other novel this year, or next, t… read more

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2. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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3. Bad Summer People

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against … read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Princess of Las Vegas

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Princess of Las Vegas book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

By: J. Ryan Stradal

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more

Similar categories in J. Ryan Stradal's Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

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7. Pineapple Street

By: Jenny Jackson

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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8. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

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9. 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

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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10. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

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11. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Breakaway

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Breakaway book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Rom-Commers

By: Katherine Center

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Rom-Commers book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"If my life were a screenplay, I'd end the story right there and roll credits - and then maybe rewind and watch it again."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"But, it was okay. We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell - but it's not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

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14. Wine People

By: Michelle Wildgen

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rich, intoxicating escape into the hedonistic and cutthroat world of wine and what happens when t… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Wildgen's Wine People book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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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16. Northwoods

By: Amy Pease

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The dark underbelly of an idyllic Midwestern resort town is revealed in the aftermath of a murder w… read more

Similar categories in Amy Pease's Northwoods book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Besides, I have my pepper spray." When his expression turned skeptical, she looked at him as if he was utterly clueless. "I'm from Chicago," she said, slowly, as if explaining something to a backward…"

-Amy Pease, Northwoods

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17. Marrying the Ketchups

By: Jennifer Close

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the de… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Close's Marrying the Ketchups book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A reminder of how many people there were in the world. A reminder that sometimes the right person shows up just when you need him to."

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Mistakes were made all over the place, all around her, all the time, and she couldn't live her whole life with the sole purpose of not messing up. She didn't know if it would be a mistake or not, she…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Along with the regular brunch selections of eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles, they planned to serve individual portions of Poof in custard dishes. They also had a whole section for different kinds o…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

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18. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Shoulder Season by Christina Clancy

19. Shoulder Season

By: Christina Clancy

3.58

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The small town of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin is an unlikely location for a Playboy Resort, and nineteen… read more

Similar categories in Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Very Bad Company

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Every year executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company’s top employees for an e… read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Very Bad Company book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • adult fiction
  • 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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22. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Maid and the Socialite: The Brave Women Behind Green Bay's Scandalous Minahan Trials by Lynda Drews

23. The Maid and the Socialite: The Brave Women Behind Green Bay's Scandalous Minahan Trials

By: Lynda Drews

4.17

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

In the shadows of progress, two women's stories were erased. Until now. What if a respected surg… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Drews's The Maid and the Socialite: The Brave Women Behind Green Bay's Scandalous Minahan Trials book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • audiobook
Cover of Still True by Maggie Ginsberg

24. Still True

By: Maggie Ginsberg

4.28

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

One summer evening, Lib Hanson is confronted by her painful past when Matt Marlow, the forty-year-o… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Ginsberg's Still True book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Honey

By: Isabel Banta

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in… read more

Similar categories in Isabel Banta's Honey book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • coming of age
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The truth is my dad was always singing […]"

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"[…] she remains enigmatic, unbreachable; she unlocks herself only for certain people."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"Mike wants me to say I’m a normal girl. But I’m not, I never was. I always felt I had to prove I was better."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

Cover of Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online by Harriet Gibsone

26. Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online

By: Harriet Gibsone

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Music journalist, self-professed creep and former winner of the coveted ‘Fittest Girl in Year 11’ a… read more

Similar categories in Harriet Gibsone's Is This OK? One Woman's Search for Connection Online book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • audiobook
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27. 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 Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Testament of Harold's Wife by Lynne Hugo

28. The Testament of Harold's Wife

By: Lynne Hugo

3.74

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From award-winning author Lynne Hugo comes a witty, insightful, refreshingly unsentimental novel ab… read more

Similar categories in Lynne Hugo's The Testament of Harold's Wife book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We know about this. People are going to say a lot of idiot things to you."

-Lynne Hugo, The Testament of Harold's Wife

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29. The Northern Reach

By: W.S. Winslow

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of place and family ties, the weight of the stories w… read more

Similar categories in W.S. Winslow's The Northern Reach book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Tinsmith 1865 (Flats Junction) by Sara Dahmen

30. Tinsmith 1865 (Flats Junction)

By: Sara Dahmen

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

When her tinsmith father and brothers head West, Polish immigrant Marie Kotlarczyk has no choice bu… read more

Similar categories in Sara Dahmen's Tinsmith 1865 (Flats Junction) book and Christina Clancy's Shoulder Season

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Rooming House Diaries - Life, Love & Secrets by Bill Mathis

31. The Rooming House Diaries - Life, Love & Secrets

By: Bill Mathis

4.35

Format: 479 pages, Paperback

Six diaries and some correspondence are found in an old Chicago rooming house. The diaries span the… read more

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