14 must-read contemporary books like A Hand to Hold in Deep Water by Shawn Nocher

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A Hand to Hold in Deep Water

By: Shawn Nocher

4.17

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

Willy Cherrymill and his stepdaughter Lacey are deeply bruised by a past brimming with unanswered q…

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1. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

By: Anne Tyler

3.81

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Through every family run memories which bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimo… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"I'm falling into disrepair"

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

"Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth. 'What, cremation?' she asked. 'Death."

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

"There ought to be a while separate language, she thought, for words that are truer than other words - for perfect, absolute truth. It was the purest fact of her life: she did not understand him, and …"

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

"انت تصدقنى، أليس كذلك؟ فأنا لست عمياء. اعرف متى اكون غير معقولة. احيانا اقف خارج نفسى وأراقب كل شىء، منفصلة تماما. اقول لنفسى "توقفى الان" ، لكن الامر يبدو كما لو كنت... اتيه عجبا بنفسى، على ان اهاجم…"

-Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

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2. The Essay

By: Robin Yocum

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the … read more

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  • fiction
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3. Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)

By: Diane Chamberlain

3.80

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town fifty yea… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Legends of the Fall

By: Jim Harrison

4.12

Format: 29 pages,

'Legends of the Fall, an epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, explorati… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Walk the Blue Fields: Stories

By: Claire Keegan

3.46

Format: 103 pages, Paperback

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

6. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

By: Helen Simonson

4.11

Format: 288 pages,

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled wi… read more

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7. The Women of Christmas

By: Liz Curtis Higgs

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

God Reached Down from Heaven with the Best Gift of All A sacred season is about to unfold for three… read more

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8. Ordinary Grace

By: William Kent Krueger

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a you… read more

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9. Lottery

By: Patricia Wood

4.16

Format: None pages,

Perry's IQ is only 76, but he's not stupid. His grandmother taught him everything he needs to know … read more

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10. Go as a River

By: Shelley Read

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beaut… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
"Women endure. That’s what we do."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Loss has nothing to do with what you do deserve and don’t deserve."

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"I learned from their subtle relations... that love is a private matter, to be nurtured, and even mourned, between two beings alone. It belongs to them, and no one else, like a secret treasure, like a…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

"Try as we might to convince ourselves otherwise, the moments of our becoming cannot be carefully plucked like the ripest and most satisfying peach from the bough. In the endless stumble toward oursel…"

-Shelley Read, Go as a River

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11. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

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  • fiction
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12. All the Little Bird-Hearts

By: Viktoria Lloyd-Barlow

3.80

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

Sunday lives with her sixteen year old daughter Dolly, the same house she has lived in all her life… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Queen of Dirt Island

By: Donal Ryan

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the multi-award-winning and internationally bestselling author Donal Ryan, a searing, jubilant… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"Time will wind its own sweet way. We have no choice but to keep up."

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"Happiness was a strange notion, something that was wrapped neatly, and packed into the closing scenes of television shows and daytime films, sharply relieved on the screen, but blurry in real life, a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"her mother and grandmother and great-grandmother had walked her to the classroom door and Mammy had cried a bit and Granny had told her to cop on and Nana then had told Granny to cop on herself and t…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

"She felt sad in that moment for anyone in the world who didn’t have a mother like hers. A mother who was standing now above her quarry like a prizefighter in a swell of victory, looking slowly left a…"

-Donal Ryan, The Queen of Dirt Island

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14. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Butcher

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most accomplished storytellers, an extraordinary and arresting novel about a women’… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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16. Clarke

By: Holly Throsby

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

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17. The Habsburgs: To Rule the World

By: Martyn Rady

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the dynasty that dominated Europe for centuries In The Habsburgs, Mart… read more

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18. 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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19. The Undertaker's Assistant

By: Amanda Skenandore

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

An enthralling novel of historical fiction for fans of Lisa Wingate and Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Un… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"No one to mourn you in death meant no one to hurt you in life."

-Amanda Skenandore, The Undertaker's Assistant

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20. All You Have to Do Is Call

By: Kerri Maher

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women w… read more

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  • fiction
"I wish you could understand what it's like to have to stop doing something you love, something important , just because your body is made to carry children. No one else can do this for me...."

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"No matter what you want to call it," Veronica said, steering clear of words like cells and fetus that might further inflame Patty, "it resides inside a fully grown woman with a life to lead. Jane hel…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"[She] hadn't given a lot of thought to the many reasons why women needed abortions, but there was such a wide range: maternal health, money, rape and incest, shocking cluelessness about how pregnancy…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

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21. We Burn Daylight

By: Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic novel of star-crossed lovers set in a doomsday cult on the Texas prairie that asks: what wo… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Nonfiction

By: Julie Myerson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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23. The Quiet People

By: Paul Cleave

3.99

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Cameron and Lisa Murdoch are successful crime writers. They have been on the promotional circuit, j… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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25. We Hope for Better Things

By: Erin Bartels

4.22

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

When Detroit Free Press reporter Elizabeth Balsam meets James Rich, his strange request--that she l… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I’d always had mixed feelings about maples. While others pointed them out as happy harbingers of the cozy season to come, they had always seemed to me to be reckless—the first small flames of fall, e…"

-Erin Bartels, We Hope for Better Things

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26. Your Word Or Mine

By: Lia Middleton

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When 15-year-old Anabelle King was assaulted on her way home, she thought she had done everything r… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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27. The Ocean In Winter

By: Elizabeth de Veer

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex, eleven at the time, found thei… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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28. 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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29. Long After We Are Gone

By: Terah Shelton Harris

3.88

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

An explosive and emotional story of four siblings—each fighting their own personal battle—who retur… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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30. A Hand to Hold in Deep Water

By: Shawn Nocher

4.17

Format: 483 pages, Hardcover

Willy Cherrymill and his stepdaughter Lacey are deeply bruised by a past brimming with unanswered q… read more

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  • slice of life
  • fiction
  • family
  • mystery
  • contemporary
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31. Nell and Lady

By: Ashley Farley

4.11

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-stirring novel of family and forgiveness from bestselling author Ashley Farley. In her gra… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary

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Transform Your Habits

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Anne Tyler

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Essay

Robin Yocum

4.39

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Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)

Diane Chamberlain

3.80

Transform Your Habits

Legends of the Fall

Jim Harrison

4.12

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Persians: The Age of the Great Kings

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

4.06

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Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

4.22

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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

Katja Hoyer

4.17

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4.34

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