16 Best contemporary books like Everything Is Just Beginning by Erin Bartels

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Everything Is Just Beginning

By: Erin Bartels

4.12

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

An Immersive Story of Music, Struggle, and Starting Over from an Award-Winning AuthorMichael Sulliv…

"That’s what does it. That’s what breaks your heart a little. And if it doesn’t break your heart a little, why bother?"

-Erin Bartels, Everything Is Just Beginning

If you liked the contemporary plot in Everything Is Just Beginning by Erin Bartels , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. The Wings of Poppy Pendleton

By: Melanie Dobson

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family's castle in th… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Dobson's The Wings of Poppy Pendleton book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. The Roads We Follow (Fog Harbor, #2)

By: Nicole Deese

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

As the youngest daughter of a country music legend, Raegan Farrow longs to establish an identity aw… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Deese's The Roads We Follow (Fog Harbor, #2) book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. The Rose and the Thistle

By: Laura Frantz

4.17

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley's father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacob… read more

Similar categories in Laura Frantz's The Rose and the Thistle book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"You cannot change the past, only how you regard or respond to it. Nor should you dwell on it."

-Laura Frantz, The Rose and the Thistle

"Her defenses had been bridged, compromised. She should have continued to find him maddening, even infuriating. NOT enthralling."

-Laura Frantz, The Rose and the Thistle

"You are still my English rose," he said, laying their clothing over a chairback. "While I remain your Scottish thistle." -Laura Frantz, the Rose and the Thistle 2023"

-Laura Frantz, The Rose and the Thistle

"Perhaps I should apply my scholarship to your speech, milord. Labor over a dictionary of your peculiar language. 'Tis a great garble of words and growls, at least to my Northumbrian ears."

-Laura Frantz, The Rose and the Thistle

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4. After the Shadows (Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing, #1)

By: Amanda Cabot

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but what awaits her … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cabot's After the Shadows (Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing, #1) book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3)

By: Gabrielle Meyer

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Meyer's For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3) book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. A Million Little Choices

By: Tamera Alexander

4.44

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes secrets just won’t stay hidden . . . From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award… read more

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  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Loyally, Luke

By: Pepper Basham

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Sometimes love means embracing the good, the bad . . . and even the impossible. Dear Reader, … read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's Loyally, Luke book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Divine Proverb of Streusel

By: Sara Brunsvold

4.29

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious… read more

Similar categories in Sara Brunsvold's The Divine Proverb of Streusel book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. The Secret to Happiness (Cape Cod Creamery, #2)

By: Suzanne Woods Fisher

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Escape to Cape Cod--where you just might find the secret to happiness Callie Dixon had the world… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Woods Fisher's The Secret to Happiness (Cape Cod Creamery, #2) book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. Embers in the London Sky

By: Sarah Sundin

4.22

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Sundin's Embers in the London Sky book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. The Weight of Air

By: Kimberly Duffy

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1911, Mabel MacGinnis is Europe's strongest woman and has performed beside her father in the Man… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Duffy's The Weight of Air book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She'd tried so hard to be good. To be quiet and obedient and not a nuisance. But her trying never seemed to accomplish much of anything."

-Kimberly Duffy, The Weight of Air

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12. He Should Have Told the Bees

By: Amanda Cox

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until hi… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's He Should Have Told the Bees book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

By: Jaime Jo Wright

4.18

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a position as housemaid at a midwestern Wisconsin castle and… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Jo Wright's The Vanishing at Castle Moreau book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
"A woman is a powerful creature, Daisy François. Do not underestimate the power you wield."

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

"I’m sorry. . . . For whatever happened to you to steal the life from your eyes. To make you so afraid."

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

"Death had avoided her, while life itself had extended a hand and insisted there was purpose. There was refuge."

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

"You realize that if you aren’t an ambassador for your own feelings and thoughts, then no one else shall be either?"

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Vanishing at Castle Moreau

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14. The Juliet Code (A Freddie and Grace Mystery, #3)

By: Pepper Basham

4.41

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley Finally Reach Their Honeymoon Destination Only to Encounter a New My… read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's The Juliet Code (A Freddie and Grace Mystery, #3) book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. The Words We Lost (Fog Harbor, #1)

By: Nicole Deese

4.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Three friends. Two broken promises. One missing manuscript. As a senior acquisitions editor for … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Deese's The Words We Lost (Fog Harbor, #1) book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Success is a slow, long process of repetition."

-Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost (Fog Harbor, #1)

"God is often made visible by the hands and feet of the people He places in our lives."

-Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost (Fog Harbor, #1)

"No heartache has ever gone unseen, and no darkness is ever too solid for light to overcome."

-Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost (Fog Harbor, #1)

"I can't erase the darkness for you, but I can be the one to hold the light when you're ready to come home."

-Nicole Deese, The Words We Lost (Fog Harbor, #1)

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16. The Foxhole Victory Tour

By: Amy Lynn Green

4.06

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

In World War II, worlds collide when performers across the United States unite to tour North Africa… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lynn Green's The Foxhole Victory Tour book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

By: Angela Bell

4.02

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, En… read more

Similar categories in Angela Bell's A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You are "

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"You are a maker. Not the Maker."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"Dearest Clara, I would rather be absurd with you than normal with anyone else."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"Heaven knows you're precious and worth protecting even when men don't, and heaven will defend you even when men fail."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

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18. What Happens Next

By: Christina Suzann Nelson

4.22

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne has made a name for herself telling stories of greatn… read more

Similar categories in Christina Suzann Nelson's What Happens Next book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cairo Curse (A Freddie and Grace Mystery, #2) by Pepper Basham

19. The Cairo Curse (A Freddie and Grace Mystery, #2)

By: Pepper Basham

4.23

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Clue meets Indiana Jones with a fiction-loving twist only Grace Percy can provide.   Newlyweds Lo… read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's The Cairo Curse (A Freddie and Grace Mystery, #2) book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I must say here is another perfectly good example of the value in having a rope along with you at all times."

-Pepper Basham, The Cairo Curse (A Freddie and Grace Mystery, #2)

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20. This Is Where It Ends

By: Cindy K. Sproles

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Award-Winning Author Pens a Unique Southern TaleWhen Minerva Jane Jenkins was just 14 years old, sh… read more

Similar categories in Cindy K. Sproles's This Is Where It Ends book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Cold Light of Day (Missing in Alaska, #1) by Elizabeth Goddard

21. Cold Light of Day (Missing in Alaska, #1)

By: Elizabeth Goddard

4.22

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Police Chief Autumn Long is fighting to keep her job in the quiet Alaska town of Shadow Gap when an… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Goddard's Cold Light of Day (Missing in Alaska, #1) book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Your job is important. But it’s not worth your life."

-Elizabeth Goddard, Cold Light of Day (Missing in Alaska, #1)

"God brought you here for a purpose greater than your own."

-Elizabeth Goddard, Cold Light of Day (Missing in Alaska, #1)

"He’d just have to do what a lot of people came to Alaska to do—vanish."

-Elizabeth Goddard, Cold Light of Day (Missing in Alaska, #1)

"This woman. She was feisty and determined. A force to be reckoned with."

-Elizabeth Goddard, Cold Light of Day (Missing in Alaska, #1)

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22. The All-American

By: Susie Finkbeiner

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

2024 Michigan Notable Book It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows… read more

Similar categories in Susie Finkbeiner's The All-American book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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23. The Seamstress of Acadie

By: Laura Frantz

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

As 1754 is drawing to a close, tensions between the French and the British on Canada's Acadian shor… read more

Similar categories in Laura Frantz's The Seamstress of Acadie book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. The British Booksellers

By: Kristy Cambron

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the c… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Cambron's The British Booksellers book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Perhaps days like this are exactly why we have books in the world. To remember that not all is lost, even if we find ourselves in the unknown. I like to think we provide a haven for the wanderer. And…"

-Kristy Cambron, The British Booksellers

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25. The Maid of Ballymacool

By: Jennifer Deibel

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Brianna Kelly was abandoned at Ballymacool House and Boarding School as an infant. She has worked t… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Deibel's The Maid of Ballymacool book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Ya were meant for greatness in this world, a stoir. Even if yer station never changes."

-Jennifer Deibel, The Maid of Ballymacool

"You're a daughter of the Creator of the universe. Ya have a purpose far grander than you could ever imagine."

-Jennifer Deibel, The Maid of Ballymacool

"Child, there's more to yer story than ye could ever know. And there's things the good Laird has for ye to do that no one else can."

-Jennifer Deibel, The Maid of Ballymacool

"Micheal studied the woman's face. She was beautiful, aye, but there was something about her, something he couldn't place, that absolutely captivated him."

-Jennifer Deibel, The Maid of Ballymacool

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26. Everything Is Just Beginning

By: Erin Bartels

4.12

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

An Immersive Story of Music, Struggle, and Starting Over from an Award-Winning AuthorMichael Sulliv… read more

Similar categories in Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • music
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"That’s what does it. That’s what breaks your heart a little. And if it doesn’t break your heart a little, why bother?"

-Erin Bartels, Everything Is Just Beginning

Cover of Second Time Around (Clean Childhood Crush Contemporary Romance Set in Oregon) by Melody Carlson

27. Second Time Around (Clean Childhood Crush Contemporary Romance Set in Oregon)

By: Melody Carlson

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Who doesn't love a second chance? When empty nester Mallory Farrell inherits her grandmother's r… read more

Similar categories in Melody Carlson's Second Time Around (Clean Childhood Crush Contemporary Romance Set in Oregon) book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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28. With Every Memory

By: Janine Rosche

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

After a tragic accident robs her of the last nine years of memories, Lori Mendenhall comes home to … read more

Similar categories in Janine Rosche's With Every Memory book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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29. The Road Before Us

By: Janine Rosche

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

How far would you go to fix the mistakes you've made and regain the trust you lost? For Jade Jessup… read more

Similar categories in Janine Rosche's The Road Before Us book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
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30. Born of Gilded Mountains

By: Amanda Dykes

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peak in 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Dykes's Born of Gilded Mountains book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Spatts is strong. - Rusty"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"I sometimes think, when our dreams seem impossible to us, perhaps we just haven't seen yet how God will chase after our hearts with those very dreams, in the unlikeliest ways."

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"Sunsets here were more an experience than a sight. They marked the soul. Pierced it, rearranged things with all that shifting color and light, and sealed it up again, a little more whole than it was …"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"On a stage of earth, beneath a canopy of stars, with a score of scattered laughter, Mercy watched a story unfold more enchanting than any the Dream Factory of Hollywood could have produced. Even the …"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

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31. Between the Sound and Sea

By: Amanda Cox

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Every family has its secrets. Josephina Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's Between the Sound and Sea book and Erin Bartels's Everything Is Just Beginning

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction

31 must-read fiction books like Everything Is Just Beginning by Erin Bartels

Transform Your Habits

The Wings of Poppy Pendleton

Melanie Dobson

4.22

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The Roads We Follow (Fog Harbor, #2)

Nicole Deese

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Rose and the Thistle

Laura Frantz

4.17

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Amanda Cabot

4.06

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Jilted (Discovered by Love #1)

Carla Laureano

4.05

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The Roads We Follow (Fog Harbor, #2)

Nicole Deese

4.39

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Irene Hannon

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