8 best-selling historical fiction books like The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

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The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y…

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1. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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2. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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3. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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5. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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6. How to End a Love Story

By: Yulin Kuang

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063310681. Two writers with a complicated history end up wor… read more

Similar categories in Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Swift River

By: Essie J. Chambers

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more

Similar categories in Essie J. Chambers's Swift River book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."

-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River

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8. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Giffin's The Summer Pact book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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11. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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12. The Unwedding

By: Ally Condie

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Ally Condie's The Unwedding book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."

-Ally Condie, The Unwedding

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13. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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14. Slow Dance

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up to… read more

Similar categories in Rainbow Rowell's Slow Dance book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I want to remember this day, she whispered. But I also want to have so many good days that this one gets lost in the plethora."

-Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

Cover of The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

15. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • gothic
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • audiobook
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16. 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

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • mystery
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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17. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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18. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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19. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's The Same Bright Stars book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. Like Mother, Like Daughter

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thril… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly McCreight's Like Mother, Like Daughter book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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21. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Briar Club book and J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

17 best-selling adult fiction books like The Cliffs by J. Courtney Sullivan

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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One Perfect Couple

Ruth Ware

3.68

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By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

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Percival Everett

4.54

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

Colm Tóibín

3.82

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Rachel Khong

4.04

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