10 must-read contemporary books like Learning to Speak Southern by Lindsey Rogers Cook

Cover of Learning to Speak Southern by Lindsey Rogers Cook

Learning to Speak Southern

By: Lindsey Rogers Cook

3.28

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing Southern story about confronting the difference between the family you're born into and t…

"Henry Hardware would be hers the way a church belongs to the pastor's wife, which is not at all."

-Lindsey Rogers Cook, Learning to Speak Southern

"Henry Hardware would be hers the way a church belongs to the pastor's wife, which is not at all."

-Lindsey Rogers Cook, Learning to Speak Southern

"Sarcasm and passive-aggression, two tenets of Southern speech, are difficult for non-native speakers. Bless their hearts."

-Lindsey Rogers Cook, Learning to Speak Southern

"Sarcasm and passive-aggression, two tenets of Southern speech, are difficult for non-native speakers. Bless their hearts."

-Lindsey Rogers Cook, Learning to Speak Southern

If you liked the contemporary plot in Learning to Speak Southern by Lindsey Rogers Cook , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of The Christmas Thief by Mary Higgins Clark, Carol Higgins Clark

1. The Christmas Thief

By: Mary Higgins Clark , Carol Higgins Clark

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, teams up with private investigator Regan … read more

Similar categories in Mary Higgins Clark's The Christmas Thief book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • fiction
Cover of The Potlikker Papers by John T. Edge

2. The Potlikker Papers

By: John T. Edge

3.81

Format: 50 pages, Audio CD

A people's history of Southern food that reveals how the region came to be at the forefront of Amer… read more

Similar categories in John T. Edge's The Potlikker Papers book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • audiobook

3. The River at Night

By: Erica Ferencik

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A high-stakes drama set against the harsh beauty of the Maine wilderness, charting the journey of f… read more

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4. Between, Georgia

By: Joshilyn Jackson

4.14

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase "in between a rock and a hard place" better than … read more

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5. Gods in Alabama

By: Joshilyn Jackson

3.22

Format: 402 pages, Paperback

For 10 years Arlene has kept her promises, and God has kept His end of the bargain. Until now. When… read more

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6. Peaches and Scream (Georgia Peach Mystery, #1)

By: Susan Furlong-Bolliger , Susan Furlong

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Mass Market Paperback

To help run the family peach farm during her parents' absence, Nola Harper returns to her childhood… read more

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7. Magnolia Wednesdays

By: Wendy Wax

3.00

Format: None pages,

From the author of The Accidental Bestsellercomes a wonderfully entertaining book about what to do … read more

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8. Driving with the Top Down

By: Beth Harbison

4.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Three women, two weeks, one convertible: sometimes life doesn't take you in the direction you expec… read more

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9. The Heirloom Garden

By: Viola Shipman

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

From the USA Today bestselling author of The Summer Cottage In her inimitable style, Viola Shipman… read more

Similar categories in Viola Shipman's The Heirloom Garden book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I’m nervous."

-Viola Shipman, The Heirloom Garden

"Isn't an ordinary life a grand one all its own, filled with great drama and tragedy, hopes, love, losses, and dreams?"

-Viola Shipman, The Heirloom Garden

"But most of all, it was a tribute to hope. Hope that something beautiful would grow despite the harsh winter, the frozen earth and a world that was constant at war."

-Viola Shipman, The Heirloom Garden

"Life is filled with overwhelming tragedy, but it's also filled with incomparable beauty. I read somewhere that god doesn't come to us in the happy times. He comes to us through our scars and wounds."

-Viola Shipman, The Heirloom Garden

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10. The Best Life Book Club

By: Sheila Roberts

3.78

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

It started as a book club. It became a way to build a better life together. Karissa Newcomb is r… read more

Similar categories in Sheila Roberts's The Best Life Book Club book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Last Carolina Girl

By: Meagan Church

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor." — Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselli… read more

Similar categories in Meagan Church's The Last Carolina Girl book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • southern
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Sometimes the strength you need comes in silence."

-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

"Sometimes tears are the only words worth sharing."

-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

"Sometimes yuh gotta love even when it don't make sense."

-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

"Sometimes family's not who you've been given. It's who you choose."

-Meagan Church, The Last Carolina Girl

Cover of How to Plot a Payback by Melissa    Ferguson

12. How to Plot a Payback

By: Melissa Ferguson

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

He crossed an ocean, and it still wasn't enough to escape his lifelong nemesis. Now he has to work … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Ferguson's How to Plot a Payback book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #2) by Kate Khavari

13. A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #2)

By: Kate Khavari

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

1920s London isn’t the ideal place for a brilliant woman with lofty ambitions. But research assista… read more

Similar categories in Kate Khavari's A Botanist's Guide to Flowers and Fatality (Saffron Everleigh Mystery, #2) book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Bucket List

By: Rachel Hanna

4.26

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

I NEVER wanted to be a daredevil. Even as the 49-year old adult that I am, I still don’t want to ri… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hanna's The Bucket List book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Waiting for the Night Song

By: Julie Carrick Dalton

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secret… read more

Similar categories in Julie Carrick Dalton's Waiting for the Night Song book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. A Beach Wish

By: Shelley Noble

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble returns to the beach in her latest summer read abou… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Noble's A Beach Wish book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Charleston Green (Tipsy Collins #1) by Stephanie  Alexander

17. Charleston Green (Tipsy Collins #1)

By: Stephanie Alexander

4.20

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

If Tipsy Collins learned one thing from her divorce, it's that everyone in Charleston is a little c… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Alexander's Charleston Green (Tipsy Collins #1) book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Learning to Speak Southern by Lindsey Rogers Cook

18. Learning to Speak Southern

By: Lindsey Rogers Cook

3.28

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A searing Southern story about confronting the difference between the family you're born into and t… read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • womens fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • drama
"Henry Hardware would be hers the way a church belongs to the pastor's wife, which is not at all."

-Lindsey Rogers Cook, Learning to Speak Southern

"Sarcasm and passive-aggression, two tenets of Southern speech, are difficult for non-native speakers. Bless their hearts."

-Lindsey Rogers Cook, Learning to Speak Southern

Cover of The Orphans of Mersea House by Marty Wingate

19. The Orphans of Mersea House

By: Marty Wingate

3.92

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In the tradition of Kristin Harmel and Elise Hooper, USA Today bestseller Marty Wingate transports … read more

Similar categories in Marty Wingate's The Orphans of Mersea House book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • womens fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Vietri Project by Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

20. The Vietri Project

By: Nicola DeRobertis-Theye

3.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A search for a mysterious customer in Rome leads a young bookseller to confront the complicated his… read more

Similar categories in Nicola DeRobertis-Theye's The Vietri Project book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Night the River Wept by Lo Patrick

21. The Night the River Wept

By: Lo Patrick

3.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Everybody's got good and bad in them. In the end, it just depends which side wins out. Arlene h… read more

Similar categories in Lo Patrick's The Night the River Wept book and Lindsey Rogers Cook's Learning to Speak Southern

  • drama
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

14 Top fiction books like Learning to Speak Southern by Lindsey Rogers Cook

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The Christmas Thief

Mary Higgins Clark , Carol Higgins Clark

3.63

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The Heirloom Garden

Viola Shipman

4.18

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The Best Life Book Club

Sheila Roberts

3.78

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The Last Carolina Girl

Meagan Church

4.00

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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The Summer Book Club

Susan Mallery

3.84

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The Happiness Plan

Susan Mallery

3.91

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The Friendship Club

Robyn Carr

3.82

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