24 must-read fiction books like Desert Blues by Bill Albert

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Desert Blues

By: Bill Albert

3.21

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

An orphaned teenager moves in with his cocktail-waitress aunt in 1950s Palm Springs, in a novel wit…

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1. Whatever Makes You Happy

By: William Sutcliffe

3.30

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

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Cover of Watching The Bodies (Jake Boulder #1) by Graham  Smith

2. Watching The Bodies (Jake Boulder #1)

By: Graham Smith

3.71

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

Watching The Bodies: an explosive new crime thriller from a critically acclaimed authorWhen Jake Bo… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Seventh Heaven

By: Alice Hoffman

3.76

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Nora Silk doesn’t really fit in on Hemlock Street, where every house looks the same. She's divorced… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Brian's Choice (Plain and Simple Miracles #0.5) by Vannetta Chapman

4. Brian's Choice (Plain and Simple Miracles #0.5)

By: Vannetta Chapman

0.00

Format: 798 pages,

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5. Household Saints

By: Francine Prose

4.09

Format: 148 pages,

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  • fiction
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6. The Lawyer Lifeguard (BookShots)

By: James Patterson

3.33

Format: 170 pages,

Are you the lawyer who got blown up with his girlfriend? Defense lawyer Brian Lord survived the car… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Do Not Become Alarmed

By: Maile Meloy

4.11

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

From a beloved, award-winning writer, the much-anticipated novel about what happens when two famili… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Labor Day

By: Joyce Maynard

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

With the end of summer closing in and a steamy Labor Day weekend looming in the town of Holton Mill… read more

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  • fiction

9. Mistaken Identity (Rosato & Associates, #4)

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.49

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

Bennie Rosato, the head of her own law firm, specializes in police misconduct cases. However, nothi… read more

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10. Fearless

By: Rafael Yglesias

4.00

Format: 16 pages,

Yglesias's New York Times-bestselling novel of trauma, loss, and the bonds formed between victims o… read more

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11. The Education of Dixie Dupree

By: Donna Everhart

3.46

Format: None pages, ebook

In 1969, Dixie Dupree is eleven years old and already an expert liar. Sometimes the lies are for he… read more

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12. That Old Cape Magic

By: None , Richard Russo

3.35

Format: 9 pages, Audio CD

Following Bridge of Sighs —a national best seller hailed by The Boston Globe as “an astounding achi… read more

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  • fiction
"Maybe money did talk, as people claimed, but all it said to them was goodbye."

-None, That Old Cape Magic

"The attraction of cynicism was that it so often put you in the right, as if being right led directly to happiness."

-None, That Old Cape Magic

"Late middle age, he was coming to understand, was a time of life when everything was predictable and yet somehow you failed to see any of it coming."

-None, That Old Cape Magic

"Stories worked much the same way…A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation."

-None, That Old Cape Magic

13. Taft

By: Ann Patchett

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. But when his son is tak… read more

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14. Mrs. Ted Bliss

By: Stanley Elkin

4.50

Format: None pages,

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15. Legal Tender (Rosato & Associates, #2)

By: Lisa Scottoline

3.69

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

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16. Traplines

By: Eden Robinson

3.73

Format: 112 pages,

The menacing underside of family life is the subject of Eden Robinson's debut collection. In crackl… read more

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17. The Long Flight Home

By: Alan Hlad

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here Inspired by fascinating, true, yet … read more

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  • fiction
"It wasn't a miracle. You believed. And made it happen."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

"Of wartime London: It looked as if London was being cremated, one piece at a time."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

" Be an egg , Susan thought. One could be soft with fear inside, but hard as slate outside."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

"Ollie watched the cemetery disappear in the distance and wondered if there would be enough trees in all of Britain to build the coffins."

-Alan Hlad, The Long Flight Home

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18. A Dangerous Business

By: Jane Smiley

3.17

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling author of A Thousand Acres: a mystery set … read more

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  • fiction
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19. 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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  • fiction
Cover of The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26) by Anne Hillerman

20. The Way of the Bear (Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito, #26)

By: Anne Hillerman

4.17

Format: 281 pages, Hardcover

Fossil harvesting, ancient lore, greed, rejected love and murder combine in this gripping new insta… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Coleman Hill

By: Kim Coleman Foote

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Coleman Hill is the exhilarating story of two American families whose fates become intertwined in t… read more

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  • fiction
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22. The Old Neighborhood

By: Avery Corman

4.05

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

A Madison Avenue adman returns to the Bronx of his youth in this New York Times bestseller by the a… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Save What's Left by Elizabeth Castellano

23. Save What's Left

By: Elizabeth Castellano

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An outrageously funny debut novel about a woman who moves to a small beach town looking for peace, … read more

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  • fiction
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24. Southernmost

By: Silas House

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel about judgment, courage, heartbreak, and change, author Silas House wrestles… read more

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  • fiction
"Some nights he thinks they are just a dream God is having"

-Silas House, Southernmost

"Surely there is a light in that boy that will never go out, no matter what he has to face along the way. That's all a father can hope for his child, that a little fire will burn in them to keep them …"

-Silas House, Southernmost

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25. In the Face of the Sun

By: Denny S. Bryce

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Go On Girl Book Club 2021 New Author of the Year | She Reads Best Literary Historical Fiction Comin… read more

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  • fiction
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26. A Letter to Three Witches (A Cupcake Coven Romance, #1)

By: Elizabeth Bass

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Bewitched meets Practical Magic in this sparkling and quirky rom-com with an enchanted twist. When … read more

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  • fiction
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27. Regrets Only

By: Kieran Scott

3.59

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In a fast-paced new novel in the vein of Big Little Lies , a single mom goes undercover to investig… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Desert Blues

By: Bill Albert

3.21

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

An orphaned teenager moves in with his cocktail-waitress aunt in 1950s Palm Springs, in a novel wit… read more

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  • fiction
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29. Bottle Grove

By: Daniel Handler

3.07

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp tale of two couples, two marriages, a bar, and a San Francisco start-up from a best-s… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Savage Gerry

By: John Jantunen

3.49

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

"John Jantunen consistently zigs where other narratives would zag, creating a story that is far str… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Paradise, Nevada

By: Dario Diofebi

3.46

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From an exhilarating new literary voice--the story of four transplants braving the explosive politi… read more

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  • fiction

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William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

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Monique Truong

4.11

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Ethan Canin

3.63

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