16 must-read fiction books like Lifelines by Heidi Diehl

Cover of Lifelines by Heidi Diehl

Lifelines

By: Heidi Diehl

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation’s horrific rec…

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Cover of The Darkness Knows (Viv and Charlie Mystery, #1) by Cheryl Honigford

1. The Darkness Knows (Viv and Charlie Mystery, #1)

By: Cheryl Honigford

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Bright lights. Big city. Brutal murder. Chicago, 1938. Late one night before the ten o’clock sh… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler

2. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

By: Anne Tyler

3.81

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimo… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
"I'm falling into disrepair"

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

"Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth. 'What, cremation?' she asked. 'Death."

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

"There ought to be a while separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words - for perfect, absolute truth. It was the purest fact of her life: she did not understand him, and …"

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

"انت تصدقنى، أليس كذلك؟ فأنا لست عمياء. اعرف متى اكون غير معقولة. احيانا اقف خارج نفسى وأراقب كل شىء، منفصلة تماما. اقول لنفسى "توقفى الان" ، لكن الامر يبدو كما لو كنت... اتيه عجبا بنفسى، على ان اهاجم…"

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

3. The 9th Judgment (Women's Murder Club, #9)

By: James Patterson , Maxine Paetro

3.09

Format: None pages,

The most personalA young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to … read more

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  • fiction

4. 11th Hour (Women's Murder Club, #11)

By: James Patterson , Maxine Paetro

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Sm… read more

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5. 10th Anniversary (Women's Murder Club, #10)

By: James Patterson , Maxine Paetro

4.14

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Detective Lindsay Boxer's long-awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is cal… read more

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6. The Queen of Hearts

By: Kimmery Martin

3.59

Format: 320 pages,

A debut novel that pulses with humor and empathy and explores the heart's capacity for forgiveness.… read more

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7. 12th of Never (Women's Murder Club, #12)

By: James Patterson , Maxine Paetro

4.50

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

It's finally time! Detective Lindsay Boxer is in labor--while two killers are on the loose. Lindsay… read more

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8. The House on Firefly Beach

By: Jenny Hale

4.16

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing beats falling in love under the sun, with the sand beneath your feet. This gorgeous, feel-g… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey

9. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
Cover of Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy

10. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

By: Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following  New York Times  bestselling author and ac… read more

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11. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Lovely War by Julie Berry

12. Lovely War

By: Julie Berry

4.23

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

It's 1917, and World War I is at its zenith when Hazel and James first catch sight of each other at… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Oh, you,"

-Julie Berry, Lovely War

"Paris was made for two."

-Julie Berry, Lovely War

"The first casualty of war is the truth."

-Julie Berry, Lovely War

"If you love something, you must set it free."

-Julie Berry, Lovely War

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13. The Better Half

By: Alli Frank

3.89

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

After a difficult five years, at age forty-three, Nina Morgan Clarke’s time has finally arrived. Wi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Coast Road by Alan Murrin

14. The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and heartbreaking debut novel set in the 1990s in a claustrophobic coast town. With divo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey by Serena  Burdick

15. The Stolen Book of Evelyn Aubrey

By: Serena Burdick

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

What if you could write a new ending for yourself? England, 1898. When Evelyn first married the fa… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of In Bloom: Three Delightful Love Stories Perfect for Spring Reading by Fern Michaels

16. In Bloom: Three Delightful Love Stories Perfect for Spring Reading

By: Fern Michaels

4.02

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels—one of the most beloved authors of our time—is j… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
Cover of Redemption (Eva "Lightning Dance" Duran #1) by Deborah J. Ledford

17. Redemption (Eva "Lightning Dance" Duran #1)

By: Deborah J. Ledford

4.09

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

From award-winning author Deborah J Ledford comes a thrilling new series featuring a Native America… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Land of Big Numbers: Stories by Te-Ping Chen

18. Land of Big Numbers: Stories

By: Te-Ping Chen

3.94

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

A debut collection from an extraordinary new talent that vividly gives voice to the men and women o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"They were fond of each other, and that was more than you could say about most marriages."

-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories

"He did not look like a man who could stomach life's indignities, whether it was a closed door or an uncomfortable, vertigo-inducing passage through a birth canal."

-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories

"She laughed a lot, and easily. It wasn't until we actually became friends that I realized she was often very sad. America is like that, I must say, free and easy until you know better."

-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories

"A great wasteland of sorrow was opening up in him, unfolding dozens of tiny shacks, terrible squatters setting up residence, banging their miniature liquor bottles against his chest, a hundred feet t…"

-Te-Ping Chen, Land of Big Numbers: Stories

Cover of The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

19. The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

By: Nova Jacobs

3.55

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A mystery about a struggling bookseller whose recently deceased grandfather, a famed mathematician,… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
"Her brother's desk was austere, save for a small photo of Lewis and a coffee mug featuring a math geek's coy declaration of love: √-1 <3 μ."

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

"Please, this isn't a Poe mystery; it hardly requires a C. Auguste Dupin level of detection. It took me a few seconds. Most people go around thinking that life is magical and mysterious, filled with a…"

-Nova Jacobs, The Last Equation of Isaac Severy

Cover of Lifelines by Heidi Diehl

20. Lifelines

By: Heidi Diehl

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

It’s 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation’s horrific rec… read more

Similar categories in Heidi Diehl's Lifelines book and Heidi Diehl's Lifelines

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • germany
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
Cover of Eagle & Crane by Suzanne Rindell

21. Eagle & Crane

By: Suzanne Rindell

3.90

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

Two young daredevil flyers confront ugly truths and family secrets during the U.S. internment of Ja… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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3.40

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Margot Livesey

3.72

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Tim O'Brien

3.45

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3.64

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