27 must-read fiction books like Only Human by Diane Chandler

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Only Human

By: Diane Chandler

3.81

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Every betrayal has a consequence... One family... one summer... one woman... Anna Bond is flound…

If you liked the fiction plot in Only Human by Diane Chandler , here is a list of 27 books like this:

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1. The Hand That First Held Mine

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.04

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, an… read more

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"There on the landing sits the typewriter. It is clogged with dust, the ribbon dried and flimsy. Looking at it gives Felix a feeling close to vertigo. He realises he can replicate in his head the exac…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine

"The women we become after children, she typed, then stopped to adjust the angle of the paper....We change shape, she continued, we buy low-heeled shoes, we cut off our long hair, We begin to carry in…"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Hand That First Held Mine

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2. I See You

By: Clare Mackintosh

3.87

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

The twisty, gripping number one bestseller from Richard and Judy Book Club winner Clare Mackintosh,… read more

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"How fast can you run? When you really have to? In heels and a work skirt, with your bag banging against your side: how fast? When you’re late for your train and you have to get home, and you race dow…"

-Clare Mackintosh, I See You

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3. Yuki Chan in Brontë Country

By: Mick Jackson

3.09

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"They both stop and stare for a moment. Yuki feels she's spent about half her adult life thinking a… read more

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4. Tin Man

By: Sarah Winman

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a… read more

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5. Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)

By: Malorie Blackman

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Two young people are forced to make a stand in this thought-provoking look at racism and prejudice … read more

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6. Half of a Yellow Sun

By: None

3.73

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more

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7. Prophet Song

By: Paul Lynch

4.10

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more

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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."

-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song

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8. Still Life

By: Sarah Winman

4.17

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Tuscany, 1944: As Allied troops advance and bombs fall around deserted villages, a young English so… read more

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"But when have women not sacrificed to live as they feel?"

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"We were an unconventional family. Scandal was a rite of passage."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"No single act of generosity remains in isolation. The ripples are many."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

"He needed to know everyone was safe because without them he was nothing."

-Sarah Winman, Still Life

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9. All the Broken Places (The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, #2)

By: John Boyne

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for dec… read more

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  • fiction
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10. A Terrible Kindness

By: Jo Browning Wroe

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When we go through something impossible, someone, or something, will help us, if we let them . . . … read more

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11. Magpie

By: Elizabeth Day

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in … read more

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"She watches him walk around the room, naked apart from those silly flip-flops he's put on because his feet feel the cold. She marvels at his lack of self-consciousness. He has a good body: tall and b…"

-Elizabeth Day, Magpie

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12. Amazing Grace Adams

By: Fran Littlewood

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Forever Home

By: Graham Norton

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son … read more

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  • fiction
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14. The Marriage Portrait

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.01

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. The author of award-winning Hamnet… read more

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"May I keep this?"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

"Was there no hope? the tigress seemed to be asking her. Will I always remain here? Will I never return home?"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

"The animal was orange, burnished gold, fire made flesh; she was power and anger, she was vicious and exquisite;"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

"Is it possible for a woman to be so unsettled in spirit that a child will have no hope of taking root within her?"

-Maggie O'Farrell, The Marriage Portrait

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15. All My Mothers

By: Joanna Glen

4.44

Format: 400 pages, ebook

From the author of the Costa shortlisted debut, The Other Half of Augusta Hope, comes the story of … read more

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  • fiction
"What the hell is a man if he can’t cry for his son?"

-Joanna Glen, All My Mothers

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16. 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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  • fiction
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17. 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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18. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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19. Very Very Lucky

By: Amanda Prowse

4.37

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

A life-affirming story from million-copy bestselling author Amanda Prowse about having it all, losi… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Keeper of Stories

By: Sally Page

4.08

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard … read more

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"Perhaps guilt is like a disease. You can have it without knowing you do."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I think it's in people stories that you discover the best of what we can be."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I don't think guilt asks for permission to come in. I don't think it knocks and waits politely on the mat."

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

"I figured out long ago that if I listen to the few people who shout at me, I'm making them more important than they are. What they say will stay with me, upset me, and those loud voices would go on a…"

-Sally Page, The Keeper of Stories

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21. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

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22. The Wrong Daughter

By: Dandy Smith

4.11

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

The phone starts vibrating in my hand. It's my father. He never calls. Pulse racing in trepidation,… read more

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"That’s the thing with breakups- you aren’t just mourning the person you loved but also the life you planned together. Lost on the wind."

-Dandy Smith, The Wrong Daughter

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23. The Lost Bookshop

By: Evie Woods

4.09

Format: 448 pages, ebook

The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of myster… read more

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  • fiction
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24. All Good Things

By: Amanda Prowse

3.88

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

In this captivating story from the bestselling author of Picking up the Pieces, Daisy has always en… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Love Untold

By: Ruth Jones

4.33

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of wo… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Thrown

By: Sara Cox

3.81

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Becky: a single mum who prides herself on her independence. She knows from painful experience that … read more

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  • fiction
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27. The Island Swimmer

By: Lorraine Kelly

3.98

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

🎧Listening Length = 9 hrs and 16 mins Penned by “a Scottish Maeve Binchy” (Veronica Henry, autho… read more

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  • fiction
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28. How to Stop Time

By: Matt Haig

3.83

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

"She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip w… read more

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"The past is never gone. It just hides."

-Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

"Are you someone who watches life, or someone who participates?"

-Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

"Nothing fixes a thing so firmly in the memory as the wish to forget it."

-Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

"Truth is a straight line you sometimes need to curve, you should know that by now."

-Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

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29. Sorrow and Bliss

By: Meg Mason

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This novel is about a woman called Martha. She knows there is something wrong with her but she does… read more

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"We hugged each other like two people who had no practical experience of embracing, had only taught themselves the theory from a poorly worded manual."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"I have been unbearable but I have never been unloved. I have felt alone but I have never been alone and I've been forgiven for the unforgiveable things I have done."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"I have never understood why people think of champagne as celebratory rather than medicinal. (...) Surely the only time one needs one's blood effervesced is when life is utterly flat."

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

"After Barbara’s Contentious Divorce, Everyone Felt Genuinely Hurt, Including Justifiably Kin Left Melancholically Noting Or Perhaps Questioning Rumours Suggesting That, Unannounced, Vincent’d Wed an …"

-Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss

Cover of All We Left Unsaid by Natalie K. Martin

30. All We Left Unsaid

By: Natalie K. Martin

4.17

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

In this captivating novel of love, family and betrayal, two sisters mean everything to each other—u… read more

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"what you feel is what you feel. Just because someone else doesn’t have the same experience or it sounds weird doesn’t mean it’s not true."

-Natalie K. Martin, All We Left Unsaid

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31. Only Human

By: Diane Chandler

3.81

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Every betrayal has a consequence... One family... one summer... one woman... Anna Bond is flound… read more

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30 Best fiction books like All We Left Unsaid by Natalie K. Martin

Transform Your Habits

Reel (Hollywood Renaissance #1)

Kennedy Ryan

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Miss Pearly's Girls: A Captivating Tale of Family Healing

ReShonda Tate Billingsley

4.38

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Have We Met?

Camille Baker

3.80

Transform Your Habits

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Lola Akinmade Åkerström

3.82

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