14 Best contemporary books like Margreete's Harbor by Eleanor Morse

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Margreete's Harbor

By: Eleanor Morse

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its m…

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1. Miller's Valley

By: Anna Quindlen

3.89

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

For generations the Millers have lived in Miller’s Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life with in… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with someone else that just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's like making Christmas co…"

-Anna Quindlen, Miller's Valley

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2. The Poacher's Son (Mike Bowditch, #1)

By: Paul Doiron

3.84

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Game warden Mike Bowditch returns home one evening to find a cryptic message on his answering machi… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Nature will forgive humankind just about anything, and what it won’t forgive I hope never to witness."

-Paul Doiron, The Poacher's Son (Mike Bowditch, #1)

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3. The Book of Polly

By: Kathy Hepinstall

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Pol… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Hepinstall's The Book of Polly book and Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor

  • coming of age
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Arsonist

By: Sue Miller

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of While I Was Gone and The Senator's Wife, a superb new novel about a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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5. Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good (Mitford Years, #12)

By: Jan Karon

3.50

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

After five hectic years of retirement from Lord's Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

6. The Fifth Petal

By: Brunonia Barry

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling author of The Lace Readerreturns to Salem with this spellbinding new … read more

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7. Little Failure

By: Gary Shteyngart

4.15

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

After three acclaimed novels--The Russian Debutante's Handbook, Absurdistan, andSuper Sad True Love… read more

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8. The Undesired

By: Yrsa Sigurdardottir

3.70

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

The light spilling in from the corridor would have to do. Though weak, it was sufficient to show Al… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Ódinn couldn't tear his gaze from the small featured face, the red cheeks and delicate lips that she pursed shut as if to ensure she wouldn't say anything to disappoint her father."

-Yrsa Sigurdardottir, The Undesired

9. A Treacherous Paradise

By: Henning Mankell

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of the Kurt Wallander crime novels, a powerful stand-alon… read more

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10. Dark Corners

By: Ruth Rendell

3.00

Format: 136 pages,

When his father dies, Carl Martin inherits a house in an increasingly rich and trendy London neighb… read more

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11. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears

By: Dinaw Mengestu

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa thro… read more

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12. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

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  • audiobook
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

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16. Meet Me at the Museum

By: Anne Youngson

3.93

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Please be aware I am writing to you to make sense of myself ... When the curator of a Danish mus… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Our letters have meant so much to us because we have both arrived at the same point in our lives. More behind us than ahead of us."

-Anne Youngson, Meet Me at the Museum

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17. The Operator

By: Gretchen Berg

3.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a small town, everyone knows everyone else’s business . . .Nobody knows the people of Wooster, O… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"In every person's life there comes a moment; an opportunity for redemption, a chance at genuine personal growth, to become a better human being. Sometimes this moment is preceded by a jolt of clarity…"

-Gretchen Berg, The Operator

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18. The Disinvited Guest

By: Carol Goodman

3.36

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Lucy Harper still has traumatic memories and lingering health problems from the 2020 pandemic. So, … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Other Windsor Girl: A Novel of Princess Margaret, Royal Rebel

By: Georgie Blalock

3.63

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

In a historical debut evoking the style of The Crown, the daughter of an impoverished noble is swep… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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21. Rust & Stardust

By: T. Greenwood

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Camden, NJ, 1948. When 11 year-old Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she … read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"How could it be, how was it possible, when she felt like she was so far away, that the sky was the same?"

-T. Greenwood, Rust & Stardust

Cover of Leave No Trace (National Parks Thriller, #1) by A.J. Landau

22. Leave No Trace (National Parks Thriller, #1)

By: A.J. Landau

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a daring, brutal act of terrorism, an explosion rocks and topples the Statue of Liberty. Special… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Landau's Leave No Trace (National Parks Thriller, #1) book and Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. The Summer Country

By: Lauren Willig

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitiou… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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24. Lady in the Lake

By: Laura Lippman

3.50

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that comb… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Again, I have to ask: are you really missing if nobody misses you?"

-Laura Lippman, Lady in the Lake

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25. A Calling for Charlie Barnes

By: Joshua Ferris

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From National Book Award Finalist Joshua Ferris comes a “murderously funny” novel about a modern Am… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Ferris's A Calling for Charlie Barnes book and Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. A Parchment of Leaves

By: Silas House

4.22

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

In this nationally bestselling novel, A Parchment of Leaves, Silas House produced an iconic story o… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?"

-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

"Every morning I was renewed, though. Air and light healed me, over and over. I got to where I depended on it. When I was feeling my worst, I would step out into the yard and put my hands on the branc…"

-Silas House, A Parchment of Leaves

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27. The Nesting Dolls

By: Alina Adams

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Spanning nearly a century, from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, a page turning, epic … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Life has never given me what I wanted. But it has, once in a while, given me what I needed."

-Alina Adams, The Nesting Dolls

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28. The Lover

By: Rebecca Sacks

4.09

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the acclaimed City of a Thousand Gates returns with an intense, page-turning love sto… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Sacks's The Lover book and Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Nothing had ever felt this good. Nothing in my whole life had ever felt as good as being welcomed not just into a family but into a people. How could I go? I couldn’t go. Please, I whispered in my he…"

-Rebecca Sacks, The Lover

"Magic is words whose power does not require understanding or even belief - religion’s unregulated cousin. There are those who say that all words are magic, every sentence a spell. I live in Israel, I…"

-Rebecca Sacks, The Lover

"I lean against the kitchen sink, listening as the piano tells the one story that is every story: we are small, we are scared, we are brave. We love, we hurt, we fall apart, we change, we let go, we g…"

-Rebecca Sacks, The Lover

"What I wanted was for there to be a rocket siren now. Right now. A siren would crack the world open. That’s what I wanted. No more questions about history, justice, or power imbalances. Let it all ev…"

-Rebecca Sacks, The Lover

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29. Pitch Dark (Mike Bowditch, #15)

By: Paul Doiron

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Game Warden Mike Bowditch must chase down a cunning and dangerous fugitive in the North Maine Woods… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Margreete's Harbor by Eleanor  Morse

30. Margreete's Harbor

By: Eleanor Morse

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its m… read more

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  • music
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • dogs
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

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