5 Best womens fiction books like A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl by Jean Thompson

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A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

By: Jean Thompson

3.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Hom…

"Her mother chose to martyr herself to some domestic goddess routine that everybody else in the world had wised up to long ago."

-Jean Thompson, A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

"Her mother chose to martyr herself to some domestic goddess routine that everybody else in the world had wised up to long ago."

-Jean Thompson, A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

"Because what were older women meant to do with themselves, besides prop up everybody else's lives and drink too much wine at book club meetings? No one, Laura was convinced, was as invisible and as easily dismissed as the tribe of women like herself, with short gray hair and glasses."

-Jean Thompson, A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

"Because what were older women meant to do with themselves, besides prop up everybody else's lives and drink too much wine at book club meetings? No one, Laura was convinced, was as invisible and as easily dismissed as the tribe of women like herself, with short gray hair and glasses."

-Jean Thompson, A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

If you liked the womens fiction plot in A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl by Jean Thompson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. The Absence of Mercy

By: John Burley

3.94

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A doctor and father in small town Ohio weighs the need to catch a killer against his fears for his … read more

Similar categories in John Burley's The Absence of Mercy book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. 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

Similar categories in Maile Meloy's Do Not Become Alarmed book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Gravity of Birds

By: Tracy Guzeman

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this compelling debut novel, an art authenticator and an art historian are employed by a famous,… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Guzeman's The Gravity of Birds book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • contemporary
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

4. Behind the Scenes at the Museum

By: Kate Atkinson

3.00

Format: None pages,

Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whi… read more

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5. The Gilded Hour

By: Sara Donati

3.93

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

The year is 1883, and in New York City, it's a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tre… read more

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6. The Chilbury Ladies' Choir

By: Jennifer Ryan

3.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

"Just because the men have gone to war, why do we have to close the choir? And precisely when we ne… read more

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7. The Flowers of War

By: Geling Yan , Nicky Harman

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

The powerful Chinese novel about love and war on which Zhang Yimou (Raise the Red Lantern; Crouchin… read more

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8. Where the Light Enters (The Waverly Place, #2)

By: Sara Donati

4.20

Format: 652 pages, Hardcover

From the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati's enthralling epic a… read more

Similar categories in Sara Donati's Where the Light Enters (The Waverly Place, #2) book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Queen Bee (Lowcountry Tales, #12)

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

3.92

Format: 448 pages, ebook

New York Times-bestselling author Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the American South in this lates… read more

Similar categories in Dorothea Benton Frank's Queen Bee (Lowcountry Tales, #12) book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • womens fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. Good Company

By: Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A warm, incisive new novel about the enduring bonds of marriage and friendship.Flora Mancini has be… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney's Good Company book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Last Train to Key West (The Perez Family #3)

By: Chanel Cleeton

4.10

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1935 three women are forever changed when one of the most powerful hurricanes in history barrels… read more

Similar categories in Chanel Cleeton's The Last Train to Key West (The Perez Family #3) book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • womens fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Not Our Kind

By: Kitty Zeldis

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

With echoes of The Rules of Civility and The Boston Girl, a compelling and thought-provoking novel … read more

Similar categories in Kitty Zeldis's Not Our Kind book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The High Season

By: Judy Blundell

3.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”— People  … read more

Similar categories in Judy Blundell's The High Season book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • womens fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ah, now she knew what divorce really was. Sharing decisions with a person you would run down on the street."

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

"All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than al the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's wr…"

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

"All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than all the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's w…"

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

"Maybe all relationships, friendship, partner, parent and child, were held together by the things you did not say as much as the things you did. The unsaid was the keystone in the arch. Once you kicke…"

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

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14. Hummingbird

By: Natalie Lloyd

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Natalie Lloyd returns with her most personal book to date, a story about a girl … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Lloyd's Hummingbird book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. House of Sticks

By: Ly Tran

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York City Book Awards Hornblower Award Winner One of Vogue and NPR’s Best Books of the Year T… read more

Similar categories in Ly Tran's House of Sticks book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Bad Girls Never Say Die

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.69

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Moxie comes a gripping gender-flipped reimagining of The Outsiders tha… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mathieu's Bad Girls Never Say Die book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl by Jean Thompson

17. A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

By: Jean Thompson

3.32

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award finalist and the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Hom… read more

Similar categories in Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • womens fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • drama
"Her mother chose to martyr herself to some domestic goddess routine that everybody else in the world had wised up to long ago."

-Jean Thompson, A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

"Because what were older women meant to do with themselves, besides prop up everybody else's lives and drink too much wine at book club meetings? No one, Laura was convinced, was as invisible and as e…"

-Jean Thompson, A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

"Her parents didn't get it. Life was different now. The future, her future and that of everyone else her age, had blown up in slow motion. She lived the way she did because greed had sucked the juice …"

-Jean Thompson, A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

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18. Metropolis

By: B.A. Shapiro

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author B. A. Shapiro, a gripping novel that follows six mysterious characters whos… read more

Similar categories in B.A. Shapiro's Metropolis book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. My Name Is Iris

By: Brando Skyhorse

3.37

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Brando Skyhorse, the PEN/Hemingway Award—winning author of The Madonnas of Echo Park, returns with … read more

Similar categories in Brando Skyhorse's My Name Is Iris book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of With or Without You by Caroline Leavitt

20. With or Without You

By: Caroline Leavitt

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Leavitt has crafted an irresistible portrait of midlife ennui and the magic of breaking free.” — P… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Leavitt's With or Without You book and Jean Thompson's A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl

  • literary fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Emily Barr

3.54

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