28 Best fiction books like Waiting for Eden by Elliot Ackerman

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Waiting for Eden

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary sp…

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1. Second Nature

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

3.36

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard’s novels, with their riveting stories and unfo… read more

Similar categories in Jacquelyn Mitchard's Second Nature book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. Father of the Rain

By: Lily King

3.71

Format: None pages,

Award-winning author Lily King's Father of the Rain: spans three decades in a riveting psychologica… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. Aquamarine

By: Carol Anshaw

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Olympic swimmer Jesse Austin is seduced and consequently edged out for a gold medal by her Australi… read more

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4. Crooked Seeds

By: Karen Jennings

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and darin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. L'Epaisseur d'un cheveu

By: Claire Berest

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sélection rentrée littéraire : Les 30 romans préférés des libraires Furet du Nord-Decitre « Il étai… read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • war
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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8. The Spoiled Heart

By: Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. River East, River West

By: Aube Rey Lescure

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Set against the backdrop of developing modern Chin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"They each had puzzle pieces that might never lock into a flat smooth hole."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She was alone and grown. And had somehow done the worst thing a Chinese woman could do, whore herself out to a white man"

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She told her mother the most important, most devastating thing that had happened to her and somehow it had turned into a fight."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

"She still said nothing. You are fifteen and this is living life, she thought. She'd be like Serena or Blair or those girls on TV. Powerful."

-Aube Rey Lescure, River East, River West

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11. The Wealth of Shadows

By: Graham Moore

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. Où vont les larmes quand elles sèchent

By: Baptiste Beaulieu

3.98

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

" Médecin le jour, écrivain la nuit, Baptiste Beaulieu mêle comme personne le drame et la drôlerie.… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. What Happened to Nina?

By: Dervla McTiernan

4.11

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

10 hours, 50 minutes From the #1 internationally bestselling author of The Murder Rule comes an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.04

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Bowring's The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1) book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Dixon, Descending

By: Karen Outen

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, heartrending debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibilities to one anot… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"This was the feel at the top of the world. He waited. For something... But the mountain dismissed him like an unwanted suitor. There was nothing here that cared for him. He was king of small purchase…"

-Karen Outen, Dixon, Descending

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16. Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World

By: Will Cockrell

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Featuring original interviews with mountain guides and climbers—including Jimmy Chin and Conrad Ank… read more

Similar categories in Will Cockrell's Everest, Inc.: The Renegades and Rogues Who Built an Industry at the Top of the World book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • audiobook
Cover of The Paper Wasp by Lauren Acampora

17. The Paper Wasp

By: Lauren Acampora

3.32

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from the acclaimed author of The Wonder Garden, The Paper Wasp is a riv… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Acampora's The Paper Wasp book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Leave No Trace (National Parks Thriller, #1)

By: A.J. Landau

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Landau's Leave No Trace (National Parks Thriller, #1) book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Navigating Fox

By: Christopher Rowe

3.74

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

Quintus Shu'al is the world's only navigating fox. He's also in disgrace after leading an expeditio… read more

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  • fiction
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20. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The Hearing Test

By: Eliza Barry Callahan

3.40

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

When the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a dee… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Barry Callahan's The Hearing Test book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He said that... helplessnes could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some be…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

"He said that... helplessness could give way to wonderful things, that helplessness looks like a very large net with very large holes and that I must be willing to trail that net in the sea for some t…"

-Eliza Barry Callahan, The Hearing Test

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22. The Curse of Pietro Houdini

By: Derek B. Miller

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the Dagger Award–winning author of Norwegian by Night comes a vivid, thrilling, and moving Wor… read more

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  • audiobook
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Fear is the enemy of art because it hinders us from creation. Anyone who uses fear to stop an artist from creating is an enemy of life."

-Derek B. Miller, The Curse of Pietro Houdini

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23. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

Cover of Allow Me to Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli

24. Allow Me to Introduce Myself

By: Onyi Nwabineli

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ever since she was a child, Anuri’s life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother.… read more

Similar categories in Onyi Nwabineli's Allow Me to Introduce Myself book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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25. Waiting for Eden

By: Elliot Ackerman

3.85

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary sp… read more

Similar categories in Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • military fiction
  • war
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hyvitys (Delta, #2) by Arttu Tuominen

26. Hyvitys (Delta, #2)

By: Arttu Tuominen

3.87

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Hyvityksessä keskiöön nousee ylikomisario Henrik Oksman, joka kantaa sisällään henkilökohtaista sal… read more

Similar categories in Arttu Tuominen's Hyvitys (Delta, #2) book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Darkest Season by R.J. Ellory

27. The Darkest Season

By: R.J. Ellory

4.12

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Jasperville, Quebec. A small town a thousand miles from anywhere. For Jack Devereaux, it's a thous… read more

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28. The Whispers

By: Greg Howard

3.94

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

Eleven-year-old Riley believes in the whispers, magical fairies that will grant you wishes if you l… read more

Similar categories in Greg Howard's The Whispers book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • family
  • fiction
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29. Toward Eternity

By: Anton Hur

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What does it mean to be human in a world where technology is quickly catching up to biology? In … read more

Similar categories in Anton Hur's Toward Eternity book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

Similar categories in Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger book and Elliot Ackerman's Waiting for Eden

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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31. The Middleman

By: Olen Steinhauer

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

"The Middleman is smart and entertaining and consistently intriguing..." --Scott Turow, The New Yor… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"That is why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it."

-Olen Steinhauer, The Middleman

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