23 Top fiction books like This Shining Life by Harriet Kline

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This Shining Life

By: Harriet Kline

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Lovable, easy-going, charming Rich is dying of a brain tumour. Life and soul of every party, adored…

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1. A Year By The Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman

By: Joan Anderson

3.93

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Now available in paperback, the entrancing story of how one woman's journey of self-discovery gave … read more

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2. Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #2)

By: Anita Shreve

3.70

Format: 374 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In the textile-manufacturing region of New Hampshire in 1929, newlyweds Honora and Sexton Beecher w… read more

Similar categories in Anita Shreve's Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #2) book and Harriet Kline's This Shining Life

  • contemporary
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • drama
"Poverty, her mother has written, makes you clever, and Honora knows that this is true."

-Anita Shreve, Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #2)

"Her pace is furious as she walks along the beach, the surf competing with the noise in her head."

-Anita Shreve, Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #2)

"One day a man has a job, and life is full of possibilities. The next day the job and the car are gone, and the man cannot look his wife in the eye."

-Anita Shreve, Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #2)

"And though her husband will appear to come alive, she knows that it is lust - too quickly ignited and too quickly extinguished - that animates him."

-Anita Shreve, Sea Glass (Fortune's Rocks Quartet, #2)

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3. Tapestry of Fortunes

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A wonderful new novel about four women who take a trip into their past, to find again the people th… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Berg's Tapestry of Fortunes book and Harriet Kline's This Shining Life

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. The Vegas Diaries

By: Holly Madison

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

After leaving the Playboy mansion and Hugh Hefner's harem of 'girlfriends', Holly Madison was deter… read more

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5. Mary, Mary

By: Lesley Crewe

3.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

Longlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as… read more

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6. Dune Road

By: Jane Green

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The instant NY Timesbestseller from one of the most beloved voices in women's fiction. An ever-grow… read more

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7. French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France

By: Richard Goodman

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Paperback

A story about dirt--and about sun, water, work, elation, and defeat. And about the sublime pleasure… read more

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8. Keep Your Friends Close

By: Leah Konen

3.67

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

With friends like these, who needs enemies? Isolated and embroiled in a custody battle, Mary nee… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

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  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Keeping Up Appearances

By: Tricia Stringer

3.96

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

As tensions simmer in a small country town, three women are going to need more than CWA sausage rol… read more

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  • drama
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Sand Dollar Lane (Moonlight Harbor, #6)

By: Sheila Roberts

4.20

Format: None pages, None

Brody Green is finding it hard to recover after being dumped by his fiancée, Jenna Jones, then watc… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

By: Freya North

4.25

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

When your present meets your past, what do you take with you – and what do you leave behind? Ea… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Ford's Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame book and Harriet Kline's This Shining Life

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

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14. The Last Boat Home

By: Rachel Sweasey

4.27

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

1940: When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the… read more

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15. The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova

By: Ruth Hogan

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things--an uplifting, slightly mag… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Hogan's The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova book and Harriet Kline's This Shining Life

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. 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

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  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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17. The Book of Last Letters

By: Kerry Barrett

4.24

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Inspired by an incredible true story, a young nurse captures the final letters of injured soldiers … read more

Similar categories in Kerry Barrett's The Book of Last Letters book and Harriet Kline's This Shining Life

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Barbara Isn't Dying Yet

By: Alina Bronsky

3.74

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Walter Schmidt has lived his whole life within the narrow, “comfortable” confines of traditional ge… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • drama
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19. When I Was Yours

By: Lizzie Page

4.13

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

Big ones, little ones. Straggly hair, cropped hair, curls… the adults surge forward to choose and s… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Chocolate Maker's Wife

By: Karen Brooks

3.81

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Australian bestselling novelist Karen Brooks rewrites women back into history with this breathtakin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
" There are always three sides to every story: yours, theirs and God's. "

-Karen Brooks, The Chocolate Maker's Wife

"Is that not the Lord's duty? To smite sinners?" "If that were the case, my lady, I would be smitten where I stand."

-Karen Brooks, The Chocolate Maker's Wife

"If there's one thing money does buy, it's the leisure of time-- to make decisions. Better still, to make the right ones."

-Karen Brooks, The Chocolate Maker's Wife

"I don't know what it is about Rosamund today, but she's shining like King Midas on a dull day. Everything she touches is turning to gold-- gold dipped in diamonds and sprinkled with sunshine."

-Karen Brooks, The Chocolate Maker's Wife

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21. The Wildwater Women

By: Ellie Wood

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sometimes the best things in life happen when you dare to get out of your depth. Abby lives and … read more

Similar categories in Ellie Wood's The Wildwater Women book and Harriet Kline's This Shining Life

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Things Past Telling

By: Sheila Williams

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Erne… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. This Shining Life

By: Harriet Kline

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Lovable, easy-going, charming Rich is dying of a brain tumour. Life and soul of every party, adored… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • drama
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24. The Wishing Well

By: Anna Jacobs

4.30

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Family dramas and all their complications unfold amidst the dales of Lancashire…When her unfaithful… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Art of Murder (The Village Detectives, #1) by Fiona Walker

25. The Art of Murder (The Village Detectives, #1)

By: Fiona Walker

3.89

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to the beautiful English village of Inkbury. Tucked deep in the North Wessex Downs, its onl… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Golden Swift (The Silver Arrow, #2) by Lev Grossman

26. The Golden Swift (The Silver Arrow, #2)

By: Lev Grossman

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A lot has changed for Kate in a year. She and Tom are now full-fledged conductors of the steam-powe… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Jenny James Is Not a Disaster

By: Debbie Johnson

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it takes life falling apart . . . to piece yourself back together. Single mum Jenny is o… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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28. A Found Family at the Cornish Country Hospital: A BRAND NEW instalment in the beautiful, heartwarming Cornish Country Hospital series from bestseller Jo Bartlett for summer 2024

By: Jo Bartlett

4.54

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Preorder the BRAND NEW Instalment of bestselling author Jo Bartlett's Cornish Country Hospital Seri… read more

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29. A Home for Friendless Women

By: Kelly Hill

3.97

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In Victorian-era Louisville, the Home for Friendless Women is run by benevolent benefactors with on… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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30. Three Days in June

By: Anne Tyler

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A new Anne Tyler novel destined to be an instant classic: a socially awkward mother of the bride na… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. The Neapolitan Sisters

By: Margo Candela

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Three sisters. Three vastly different lives. A maelstrom of family secrets. For fans of María Ampar… read more

Similar categories in Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters book and Harriet Kline's This Shining Life

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

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Anita Shreve

3.70

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Tapestry of Fortunes

Elizabeth Berg

3.78

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Frank and Red

Matt Coyne

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Keeping Up Appearances

Tricia Stringer

3.96

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Leah Konen

3.67

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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Heather Gudenkauf

3.65

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B.A. Paris

3.59

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