17 must-read adult fiction books like The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter

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The Fourth Child

By: Jessica Winter

3.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her debut with a moving novel about motherhood …

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1. Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself

By: Cea Sunrise Person

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER  From the author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal comes the harrowi… read more

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  • family
  • audiobook
"Those who knew the truth about me hurt me the most, because they made me feel like my pain was insignificant."

-Cea Sunrise Person, Nearly Normal: Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself

2. Heft

By: Liz Moore

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Arthur Opp weighs 550 pounds and hasn't left his rambling Brooklyn home in a decade. Twenty miles a… read more

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3. Life's Work: A Moral Argument for Choice

By: Willie Parker , Lisa Miller

3.97

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

In Life's Work, an outspoken, Christian reproductive justice advocate and abortion provider (one of… read more

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4. The Emperor's Children

By: Claire Messud

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

From a writer "of near-miraculous perfection" (The New York Times Book Review) and "a literary inte… read more

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5. The Misfortune of Marion Palm

By: None

3.80

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A wildly entertaining debut about a Brooklyn Heights wife and mother who has embezzled a small fort… read more

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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
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Mercy Street

By: Jennifer Haigh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh is a… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. Astra

By: Cedar Bowers

4.21

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

If you could see yourself as others saw you, would you be any closer to the truth of who you really… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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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10. The Shape of Family

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.81

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

From the international bestselling author of Secret Daughter and The Golden Son comes a poignant, u… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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11. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

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  • family
  • audiobook
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12. Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

By: Kathleen West

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Small Admissions, a wry and cleverly observed de… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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13. Refugee High: Coming of Age in America

By: Elly Fishman

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For a century, Chicago's Roger C. Sullivan High School has been a landing place for migrants. In re… read more

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  • coming of age
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14. The Spectacular

By: Zoe Whittall

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of women strive for real freedom in this startling, provocative novel exploring s… read more

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  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Hot Stew

By: Fiona Mozley

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

London has changed a lot over the years. The Soho that Precious and Tabitha live and work in is bar… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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16. 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

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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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17. Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure

By: Menachem Kaiser

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Po… read more

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  • audiobook
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18. The Other's Gold

By: Elizabeth Ames

3.20

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"What she couldn't understand was people who didn't imagine everything."

-Elizabeth Ames, The Other's Gold

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19. Mother Daughter Widow Wife

By: Robin Wasserman

3.18

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Girls on Fire comes a psychologically riveting novel centered around a woman wit… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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20. The Fourth Child

By: Jessica Winter

3.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her debut with a moving novel about motherhood … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Winter's The Fourth Child book and Jessica Winter's The Fourth Child

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • religion
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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21. City of a Thousand Gates

By: Bee Sacks

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of great humanity, compassion, and astonishing immediacy, this inventive and unique debut c… read more

Similar categories in Bee Sacks's City of a Thousand Gates book and Jessica Winter's The Fourth Child

  • literary fiction
  • religion
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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22. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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23. Mercy House

By: Alena Dillon

3.94

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

A powerful debut novel of a refuge in Brooklyn for women in trouble—and the one woman who will risk… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • religion
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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24. Cloud Girls

By: Lisa Harding

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Thrown together by a harrowing twist of fate, two girls find hope and redemption in friendship in t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Do No Harm

By: Christina McDonald

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Emma loves her life. She’s the mother of a precocious kindergartener, married to her soulmate—a loy… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Memo

By: Rachel Dodes

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

If you could rewrite your life story, would you dare? That’s the question at the heart of this char… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. The Rib King

By: Ladee Hubbard

3.50

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Upstairs, Downstairs meets Parasite: The acclaimed author of The Talented Ribkins deconstructs pain… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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28. Bright and Tender Dark

By: Joanna Pearson

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Notes on an Execution and I Have Some Questions for You, an enthralling, wire-t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Our Kind of Game

By: Johanna Copeland

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"A rager of a psychological mystery about toxic men, murderous women and the art of constructing f… read more

Similar categories in Johanna Copeland's Our Kind of Game book and Jessica Winter's The Fourth Child

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. And So I Roar

By: Abi Daré

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl w… read more

Similar categories in Abi Daré's And So I Roar book and Jessica Winter's The Fourth Child

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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31. Plays Well with Others

By: Sophie Brickman

3.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Annie Lewin is at the end of her rope. She’s a mother of three young children; her crypto-VC husban… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

23 Top fiction books like The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Mercy Street

Jennifer Haigh

3.63

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Astra

Cedar Bowers

4.21

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Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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20 Top fiction books like Bright and Tender Dark by Joanna Pearson

Transform Your Habits

Bad Tourists

Caro Carver

3.69

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Safe and Sound

Laura McHugh

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Tell Me Who You Are

Louisa Luna

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Such a Bad Influence

Olivia Muenter

3.52

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