18 Best fiction books like The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom

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The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

By: Mitch Albom

4.37

Format: 489 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Albom creates a magical world through his love of music in this remarkable new novel about th…

"Man suffers for his art."

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

"Man suffers for his art."

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

"some things you endure for a reason"

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

"some things you endure for a reason"

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

If you liked the fiction plot in The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom , here is a list of 18 books like this:

Cover of Smokol: Cerpen KOMPAS Pilihan 2008 by Nukila Amal, Agus Noor, Ayu Utami, Ratih Kumala, Triyanto Triwikromo, Ni Komang Ariani, Damhuri Muhammad, Beni Setia, Martin Aleida, Anton Septian, None, None, None, None

1. Smokol: Cerpen KOMPAS Pilihan 2008

By: Nukila Amal , Agus Noor , Ayu Utami , Ratih Kumala , Triyanto Triwikromo , Ni Komang Ariani , Damhuri Muhammad , Beni Setia , Martin Aleida , Anton Septian , None , None , None , None

3.46

Format: 169 pages, Paperback

Dari 51 cerpen yang dimuat di Harian Kompas selama 2008, peraih Khatulistiwa Literary Award 2004, L… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast by Charles Seabrook

2. The World of the Salt Marsh: Appreciating and Protecting the Tidal Marshes of the Southeastern Atlantic Coast

By: Charles Seabrook

4.29

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

The World of the Salt Marsh is a wide-ranging exploration of the southeastern coast€”its natural hi… read more

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3. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto: A Novel by Mitch Albom | Summary & Analysis

By: Instaread Summaries

3.77

Format: 300 pages,

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

4. Whistling Past the Graveyard

By: Susan Crandall

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Hardcover

The summer of 1963 begins like any other for nine-year-old Starla Claudelle. Born to teenage parent… read more

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5. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Cover of The Berry Pickers by Amanda    Peters

6. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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8. Go as a River

By: Shelley Read

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

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9. The First Ladies

By: Marie Benedict

4.04

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights a… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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10. Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

By: Lisa See

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

* NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!* An immersive historical novel inspired by the true story of a woma… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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11. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

Cover of The River We Remember by William Kent Krueger

12. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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13. Only the Beautiful

By: Susan Meissner

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A heartrending story about a young mother’s fight to keep her daughter, and the winds of fortune th… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of James by Percival Everett

14. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James   McBride

15. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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16. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

Cover of The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry

17. The Secret Book of Flora Lea

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.07

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

When a woman discovers a rare book that has connections to her past, long-held secrets about her mi… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The heart can hold much joy and great sorrow at the same time. It's a mystery. And it's also true."

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

"What a fairy tale is meant to do," she said, "if it's meant to do anything at all, Tolkien says, is give us new perspective on our world, the consolation of a happy ending. A recovery of sorts. Like …"

-Patti Callahan Henry, The Secret Book of Flora Lea

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18. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

Cover of The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom

19. The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

By: Mitch Albom

4.37

Format: 489 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Albom creates a magical world through his love of music in this remarkable new novel about th… read more

Similar categories in Mitch Albom's The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto book and Mitch Albom's The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

  • music
  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • inspirational
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Man suffers for his art."

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

"some things you endure for a reason"

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

"What you’re thinking about can be what you become."

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

"Public taste is as fickle as a child’s attention span"

-Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

Cover of All the Colors of the Dark by Chris  Whitaker

20. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. A Seal of Salvage

By: Clayton B. Smith

4.63

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Steeped in Newfoundland’s unique folklore and superstitions, A Seal of Salvage is a coming-of-age n… read more

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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4.28

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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