25 Top fiction books like Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

Cover of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons

By: Anne Tyler

4.12

Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover

No other writer captures like Anne Tyler, with acerbic affection and compassionate clarity, the shi…

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1. Abide with Me

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

After the tragic death of his young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles … read more

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"You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world."

-Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

"He thought of the words of the hymn he had always loved: Help of the helpless, O abide with me. He knew one could say - perhaps Rhonda Skillings might say - that this was merely the plea of a frighte…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

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2. Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

By: Eddie Izzard

3.86

Format: 15 pages, Audio CD

Critically acclaimed, award-winning British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard details her childhood, … read more

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"But stinging nettles: They just love existing, don't they? They're bastards. Stinging nettles are the Nazis of the weed world."

-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

"It wasn't until I was an adult that I realized you could buy a packet of cereal with a free gift and then just stick your hand in and root around in the packet until you found the free thing. It seem…"

-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

"If you are an LGBT+ person and you come out, you have to go through your knight’s quest to create ground for yourself, to create a space for yourself, to stand there and say, “I exist. I have no reas…"

-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

"And there is a rule in every major religion, called the Golden Rule. Essentially: treat other people the way you’d like to be treated yourself. If we all did this, the whole world would work instanta…"

-Eddie Izzard, Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens

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3. The Lake House

By: Kate Morton

4.43

Format: None pages,

Living on her family's idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inq… read more

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4. A Prayer for Owen Meany

By: John Irving

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, h… read more

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5. Force of Nature (Aaron Falk, #2)

By: Jane Harper

3.24

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover

Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of Th… read more

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6. The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton , Maureen Howard

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocenceis Edith Wharton's masterful portrait of des… read more

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7. Our Souls at Night

By: Kent Haruf

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A spare yet eloquent, bittersweet yet inspiring story of a man and a woman who, in advanced age, co… read more

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8. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more

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9. Hornet Flight

By: Ken Follett

4.13

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdawsand Code to Zerowith an extraordinary novel of early da… read more

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10. Mothering Sunday

By: Graham Swift

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more

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11. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

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12. Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

3.96

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

In an isolated country town brought to its knees by endless drought, a charismatic and dedicated yo… read more

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13. Day's End (Hirsch, #4)

By: Garry Disher

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Hirsch’s rural beat is wide. Daybreak to day’s end, dirt roads and dust. Every problem that besets … read more

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14. The Tilt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.29

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A man runs for his life in a forest. A woman plans sabotage. A body is unearthed. Newly-minted… read more

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15. The Last Remains (Ruth Galloway, #15)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.41

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

The discovery of a missing woman's bones forces Ruth and Nelson to finally confront their feelings … read more

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16. The Last List of Mabel Beaumont

By: Laura Pearson

4.03

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

The list he left had just one item on it. Or, at least, it did at first… Mabel Beaumont’s husban… read more

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17. Mayflies

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more

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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

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18. A Town Called Solace

By: Mary Lawson

4.02

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize A Town Called Solace--the brilliant and emotionally radian… read more

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"Here's a truth about marriage, he thought, staring at the ceiling at three in the morning. People should be warned: think twice before you take those vows, because there is nothing, absolutely nothin…"

-Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace

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19. Trespasses

By: Louise Kennedy

4.00

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more

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20. Songbirds

By: Christy Lefteri

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a stunning novel about the disappearance … read more

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"Now that I could hear this woman’s song—a melody that told a story I couldn’t understand—I hoped with all of my heart that it wasn’t too late."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"You see, when you clump people together and don’t understand their personal stories, you can make up any bullshit and convince yourself it’s the truth."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

"Yes, I love thinking about beginnings. I don’t like endings, though I suppose I’m like most people in that. An ending can be staring you right in the face without you knowing it."

-Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

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21. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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22. One Year After You (One Day with You #2)

By: Shari Low

4.30

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

For forty years the fabulous Odette Devine has been a beloved matriarchal actress on Scotland’s lon… read more

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23. Strangers on a Train

By: Patricia Highsmith

3.73

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

" Strangers on a Train has lost none of its power to disturb…We will likely be reading Patricia Hig… read more

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"The word “marriage"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I know that Southern redhead type,"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"The train tore along with an angry, irregular rhythm."

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

"I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?"

-Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

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24. Silver (Martin Scarsden, #2)

By: Chris Hammer

4.01

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

For half a lifetime, journalist Martin Scarsden has run from his past. But now there is no escaping… read more

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25. In a Single Moment

By: Imogen Clark

4.09

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

From million-copy bestselling author Imogen Clark comes a story of two families, two babies and one… read more

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26. I Wanted You To Know

By: Laura Pearson

4.36

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

Dear Edie, I wanted you to know so many things. I wanted to tell you them in person, as you grew up… read more

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27. The Kingdoms

By: Natasha Pulley

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A time twisting alternative history that asks whether it's worth changing the past to save the futu… read more

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"You won't sit down, you will wander around being nice to people, and then you will collapse and die. Look at the state of you."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"He'd been stitching a fragile cloak of half-imagined hopes, barely with the substance of thule but there all the same. It dissolved and left him with a nasty residue of shame."

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

"His entire soul cramped. His heart locked and he couldn't breathe, never mind move, and everything in him was shrieking as if he'd thrust his hand into a fire. The second he stopped trying to leave, …"

-Natasha Pulley, The Kingdoms

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28. Cold Coast

By: Robyn Mundy

4.23

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In 1932, Wanny Woldstad, a young widow, travels to Svalbard, daring to enter the Norwegian trappers… read more

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29. White Ash Ridge

By: S.R. White

3.86

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A REMOTE HOTEL. FIVE GUESTS. ONE MURDER. During a broiling heatwave, the inner circle of a high-… read more

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30. Barcelona Dreaming

By: Rupert Thomson

3.61

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Set in Barcelona in the years leading up to the financial crash of 2008, these poignant interlinke… read more

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Cover of Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler

31. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant / The Accidental Tourist / Breathing Lessons

By: Anne Tyler

4.12

Format: 1056 pages, Hardcover

No other writer captures like Anne Tyler, with acerbic affection and compassionate clarity, the shi… read more

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Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.19

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Beth Moran

4.36

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