16 must-read contemporary books like Those People Behind Us by Mary Camarillo

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Those People Behind Us

By: Mary Camarillo

3.89

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

It’s the summer of 2017 in Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divid…

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1. The Rest of Her Life

By: Laura Moriarty

3.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In The Rest of Her Life, Laura Moriarty delivers a luminous, compassionate, and provocative look at… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege"

-Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life

"You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back"

-Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life

"Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence or information, affection or independence--so that child, in turn…"

-Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life

"She wondered when her daughter would realise that for the most part, people weren't that different. Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: The wanted to …"

-Laura Moriarty, The Rest of Her Life

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2. In Praise of the Bees

By: Kristin Gleeson

4.18

Format: 306 pages,

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  • fiction

3. Noah's Compass

By: Anne Tyler

4.07

Format: None pages,

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4. Jaded

By: Ela Lee

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"

-Ela Lee, Jaded

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5. Karma Under Fire

By: Love Hudson-Maggio

3.87

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

When Harlow Kennedy, an aspiring jewelry maker, meets Tej Mayur, the “it” chef of Atlanta’s hottest… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The Other Gwyn Girl

By: Nicola Cornick

4.30

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

1671 – London The Civil War is over and Charles II, the ‘Merry Monarch’, is revelling in the thr… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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7. The Heart of It All

By: Christian Kiefer

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A small, declining town in Ohio. A family bereaved by terrible loss. A searing narrative about how … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Before the Swallows Come Back: A story that touches the soul

By: Fiona Curnow

4.31

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, and … read more

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  • fiction
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9. One Wrong Word

By: Hank Phillippi Ryan

3.67

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A heart-racing new psychological thriller from USA Today bestselling and multiple award-winning aut… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Out of Ireland

By: Marian O'Shea Wernicke

4.01

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

In the late 1860s in Bantry, Ireland, sixteen-year-old Eileen O’Donovan is forced by her family to … read more

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  • fiction
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11. Bessie

By: Linda Kass

3.87

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson—, the college-educated daughter of poor Rus… read more

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  • fiction
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12. You Were Always Mine

By: Christine Pride

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed authors of the “emotional literary roller coaster” ( The Washington Post ) and Good M… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. House on Fire

By: D. Liebhart

4.17

Format: 282 pages, Paperback

HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO KEEP A PROMISE? Bernadette Rogers swore she’d never put her father in a … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Burial Plot

By: Elizabeth Macneal

4.02

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll Factory, The Burial Plot is an unstoppable his… read more

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  • fiction
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15. The Stark Beauty of Last Things

By: Celine Keating

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Stark Beauty of Last Things is set in Montauk, the far reaches of the famed Hamptons, an area u… read more

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  • fiction
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16. Between You and Us

By: Kendra Broekhuis

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When a grieving woman unexpectedly steps into a different outcome of her life, she must choose betw… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. A Whale of a Murder (Venus Bixby #1)

By: Valerie Taylor

4.18

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Sea breezes and fireworks fill the air in cozy Chatham Crossing, the peaceful and historic whaling … read more

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  • fiction
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19. Moon Road

By: Sarah Leipciger

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It’s irksome to her, how well she knows this man, how much he has changed and how exactly the same … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Playground

By: Richard Powers

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times best-selling author of T… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Lives Like Mine

By: Eva Verde

3.57

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

Pre-order IN BLOOM, the extraordinary new Eva Verde novel, out in paperback Summer 2024. ‘Londoner … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Irish Eyes (The American Songbook, #1)

By: Hope C. Tarr

4.38

Format: 441 pages, Kindle Edition

Aran Islands 1898. Eighteen-year-old Rose O’Neill leaves her beloved Ireland and boards a steame… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Attribution by Linda  Moore

23. Attribution

By: Linda Moore

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

Art historian Cate Adamson, still grieving the death of her brother and desperate to succeed, leave… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Those People Behind Us

By: Mary Camarillo

3.89

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

It’s the summer of 2017 in Wellington Beach, California, a suburban coastal town increasingly divid… read more

Similar categories in Mary Camarillo's Those People Behind Us book and Mary Camarillo's Those People Behind Us

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Neena Lee Is Seeing Things

By: Sheila Athens

4.33

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

When a travel writer haunted by old ghosts comes face to face with a new one—who just happens to be… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Such a Good Family by Caitlin  Weaver

26. Such a Good Family

By: Caitlin Weaver

3.94

Format: 371 pages, Kindle Edition

An unforgettable and emotionally charged story of two mothers whose lives are changed forever by a … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Poster Girl: A Jane Benjamin Novel

By: Shelley Blanton-Stroud

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Cynical young gossip columnist Jane Benjamin joins FDR’s Office of War Information, a propaganda un… read more

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28. A Cape May Christmas Story

By: Suzanne Simonetti

4.25

Format: 197 pages, Paperback

From USA Today bestselling author of The Sound of Wings. “This Christmas was different. Rita’s sons… read more

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  • fiction
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29. The Carousel

By: J.A. Stone

4.43

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

An emotional journey of four women connected by blood, love, loss and time. Pruett Fontaine is a… read more

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30. Girls

By: Kirsty Capes

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Josie and Vic

By: Debra Thomas

4.63

Format: 286 pages, Paperback

When Josie Serafini’s brother Vic loses his family in a tragic accident, Josie leaves her home and … read more

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27 Top fiction books like Those People Behind Us by Mary Camarillo

Transform Your Habits

The Rest of Her Life

Laura Moriarty

3.42

Transform Your Habits

In Praise of the Bees

Kristin Gleeson

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Jaded

Ela Lee

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Karma Under Fire

Love Hudson-Maggio

3.87

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7 Top fiction books like House on Fire by D. Liebhart

Transform Your Habits

This Funny Life: A Novel

Amy Fillion

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Last Patient of the Night (An AJ Docker Medical Thriller)

Gary Gerlacher

4.45

Transform Your Habits

House on Fire

D. Liebhart

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Nowhere Near Goodbye

Barbara Conrey

4.18

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