23 best-selling novella books like Mother Country by Etaf Rum

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Mother Country

By: Etaf Rum

4.19

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

A young Palestinian American woman comes to terms with the lessons imparted by her mother in an evo…

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1. The Other Side of the Road

By: Andrea Bartz

3.73

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A couple preparing for the future discovers that their dream house will cost them far more than the… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Bartz's The Other Side of the Road book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. The Lover

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.80

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, i… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's The Lover book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Everywhere You Look (Never Tell Collection, #1)

By: Liv Constantine

3.48

Format: 47 pages, Kindle Edition

All it takes is one shocking revelation on a New York street for a woman to unlock the secrets and … read more

Similar categories in Liv Constantine's Everywhere You Look (Never Tell Collection, #1) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. Murder at the Royal Ruby

By: Nita Prose

3.17

Format: 27 pages, Kindle Edition

The curtain rises, and the chandelier falls—taking the star of the show down with it. An ambitious … read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. Slot Machine Fever Dreams

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.14

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s called Sin City for a reason. Dark secrets emerge when a young bartender meets a stranger on a… read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's Slot Machine Fever Dreams book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. The Mosquito

By: B.A. Paris

3.63

Format: 32 pages, Kindle Edition

After his marriage fails, he hopes a vacation in France will relax and restore him. But fate has so… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Amelia's Shadow (Blaze Collection)

By: Marie Benedict

3.62

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

For pilot Ruth Nichols, a soaring rivalry with Amelia Earhart becomes a deep friendship in a short … read more

Similar categories in Marie Benedict's Amelia's Shadow (Blaze Collection) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

Similar categories in Adania Shibli's Minor Detail book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

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9. Just a Girl

By: Alyssa Cole

3.49

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

Social media can be a dangerous game. A young woman’s world teeters on the verge of implosion when … read more

Similar categories in Alyssa Cole's Just a Girl book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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10. The Bad Friend

By: Caroline Kepnes

3.21

Format: 44 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets, betrayal, and jealousy are at the heart of a friendship in an unnerving short story about … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Kepnes's The Bad Friend book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Jackrabbit Skin

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.40

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets and rage can get under the skin in an unsettling short story by Ivy Pochoda, award-winning … read more

Similar categories in Ivy Pochoda's Jackrabbit Skin book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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12. Scorpions (Never Tell Collection, #4)

By: Rachel Howzell Hall

3.36

Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition

A man’s lifetime of secrets and lies. A woman on the hunt for his hidden riches. But there’s a stin… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Howzell Hall's Scorpions (Never Tell Collection, #4) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Persephone (Into Shadow, #2)

By: Lev Grossman

3.02

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A teenage nobody crosses a line that will change her life forever in this short coming-of-age story… read more

Similar categories in Lev Grossman's Persephone (Into Shadow, #2) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Garden (Into Shadow, #1)

By: Tomi Adeyemi

2.80

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

In this dreamlike short story told in alternating prose and verse, number one New York Times bestse… read more

Similar categories in Tomi Adeyemi's The Garden (Into Shadow, #1) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. These Cold Strangers (We Could Be Heroes)

By: J.T. Ellison

3.99

Format: 63 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison comes a chilling tale about how a reporter’s de… read more

Similar categories in J.T. Ellison's These Cold Strangers (We Could Be Heroes) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6)

By: Veronica G. Henry

3.43

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

Amid the modern trappings of 1950s Savannah, an ancient evil threatens a young widow and her daught… read more

Similar categories in Veronica G. Henry's The Candles Are Burning (Into Shadow, #6) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection)

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.22

Format: 50 pages, Kindle Edition

A single mother in segregated Virginia pushes back on societal prejudice and her own family’s judgm… read more

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's Fallen Grace (Blaze Collection) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Forgotten Chapter

By: Pam Jenoff

3.95

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

Out of the chaos and uncertainty of war, a shy young bookseller comes into her own in a short story… read more

Similar categories in Pam Jenoff's The Forgotten Chapter book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Tune in Tomorrow (Blaze Collection)

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.61

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

An enterprising woman in a man’s world. A vision that changed daytime television. A galvanizing sho… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Benjamin's Tune in Tomorrow (Blaze Collection) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

By: Nghi Vo

3.63

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman posing as a medium who can channel the spirit world comes face to face with the truth in th… read more

Similar categories in Nghi Vo's What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"She tried to lie back down, but her heart took a while to slow, and when it did, she found herself lying awake. She was exhausted, but her body was restless, humming like the wires that webbed the sk…"

-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

"He looked disheveled, still in his clothes, and there was a packet of papers in his hands. She moved to the side of the hall, giving him ample room to pass to the earth closet, but he was still watch…"

-Nghi Vo, What the Dead Know (Into Shadow, #4)

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21. Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7)

By: Garth Nix

3.31

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

A cynical “fixer” for a silent-film studio must confront the shadows behind the bright lights in th… read more

Similar categories in Garth Nix's Out of the Mirror, Darkness (Into Shadow, #7) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. The June Paintings (Blaze Collection)

By: Maggie Shipstead

3.71

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

On a remote island, an unfulfilled young female painter finds a singular kind of inspiration in thi… read more

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  • novella
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. The Heart of a Mother

By: Julie Clark

3.67

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

A fateful decision from the past haunts a wealthy Californian. Desperate to make things right, she … read more

Similar categories in Julie Clark's The Heart of a Mother book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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24. In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home

By: Mona Hajjar Halaby

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Refugees are like seeds that scatter in the wind, and land in different soils that become their re… read more

Similar categories in Mona Hajjar Halaby's In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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25. People Like Them

By: Minka Kent

4.09

Format: 56 pages, Kindle Edition

Nobody’s perfect—although one beautiful couple certainly comes close. Discover the cracks beneath t… read more

Similar categories in Minka Kent's People Like Them book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. Something More

By: Jackie Khalilieh

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism d… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Khalilieh's Something More book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No matter how far I've come and no matter how hard I try, beneath the mask will always be a girl who's afraid of being left behind."

-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

"Maybe if people can get past the things that make me different on the outside, then they might try to get to know the real me. And maybe I’ll let them."

-Jackie Khalilieh, Something More

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27. Mother Country

By: Etaf Rum

4.19

Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition

A young Palestinian American woman comes to terms with the lessons imparted by her mother in an evo… read more

Similar categories in Etaf Rum's Mother Country book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • cultural
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Fires to Come (Blaze Collection) by Asha Lemmie

28. Fires to Come (Blaze Collection)

By: Asha Lemmie

3.81

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

In early twentieth-century New York City, a young woman torn between two cultures must choose where… read more

Similar categories in Asha Lemmie's Fires to Come (Blaze Collection) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • novella
  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Barriers to Entry (Blaze Collection)

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.19

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

An inquisitive woman defies expectations to become the mother of forensic science in this absorbing… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's Barriers to Entry (Blaze Collection) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • feminism
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Trouble (We Could Be Heroes)

By: Janelle Brown

3.79

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

What does it take to be a good mother? A good neighbor? Straight answers are hard to find in this k… read more

Similar categories in Janelle Brown's Trouble (We Could Be Heroes) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • audiobook
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Catching Murphy (Missing collection)

By: Wilson Ring

4.05

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

For more than a year, over two brutal Northeast winters, the whole of Vermont was captivated by the… read more

Similar categories in Wilson Ring's Catching Murphy (Missing collection) book and Etaf Rum's Mother Country

  • short stories
  • audiobook

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