17 Best fiction books like The Dependents by Katharine Dion

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The Dependents

By: Katharine Dion

3.04

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. …

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1. Before I Say Goodbye

By: Mary Higgins Clark

3.81

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A young woman probing into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death receives a message f… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. These Girls

By: Sarah Pekkanen

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her third novel, internationally bestselling author Sarah Pekkanen examines the lives of three w… read more

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  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

By: James L. Swanson

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

A fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through … read more

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4. Between Them: Remembering My Parents

By: Richard Ford

4.40

Format: None pages, ebook

From American master Richard Ford, a memoir: his first work of nonfiction, a stirring narrative of … read more

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  • audiobook

5. Made for Love

By: Alissa Nutting

3.95

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane--his extreme… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

6. The Night the Lights Went Out

By: Karen White , None

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Audio CD

15 hours, 19 minutes From the New York Timesbestselling author of the Tradd Street series comes a s… read more

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7. Q is for Quarry (Kinsey Millhone, #17)

By: Sue Grafton

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quar… read more

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8. Fly Away Home

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Sometimes all you can do is fly away home . . . When Sylvie Serfer met Richard Woodruff in law scho… read more

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9. Burnt Mountain

By: Anne Rivers Siddons

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From one of our most acclaimed writers comes this dramatic tale of a well-born Southern woman whose… read more

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10. The Guest Cottage

By: Nancy Thayer

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

Sensible thirty-six-year-old Sophie Anderson has always known what to do. She knows her role in lif… read more

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11. The Cracked Spine (Scottish Bookshop Mystery, #1)

By: Paige Shelton

4.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In need of a good adventure, Delaney Nichols takes the leap and moves to Edinburgh, Scotland to sta… read more

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12. Splinters

By: Leslie Jamison

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more

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  • marriage
  • audiobook
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13. Memory Piece

By: Lisa Ko

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the early 1980s, Giselle Chin, Jackie Ong, and Ellen Ng are three teenagers drawn together by th… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The physicality of making things, the performance, temporarily displaced how stuck she felt, in this particular body, family, town, time."

-Lisa Ko, Memory Piece

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14. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

Similar categories in Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven book and Katharine Dion's The Dependents

  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew

By: Patti Davis

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the p… read more

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  • family
  • audiobook
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16. It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

By: Elizabeth Passarella

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A collection of refreshingly honest and hilarious essays from Southern Living columnist Elizabeth P… read more

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  • audiobook
"The whole crux of the Christian faith is that we cannot save ourselves... I know that I can't fix the brokenness inside me or overcome my own sin. For people who don't share my faith, this sounds tot…"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

"Epilogue: "I don't need these. Not any of this." "I want this camel. This is all I'm taking just to remember him by." "Sometimes you hold on to a big thing, an overwhelming thing because you believe …"

-Elizabeth Passarella, It Was an Ugly Couch Anyway: And Other Thoughts on Moving Forward

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17. Pretend I'm Dead

By: Jen Beagin

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Miranda July meets Mary Karr in this brilliant debut novel from Jen Beagin, Whiting Award winner an… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You respect me?" Sheila asked, surprised. "As a person?" "No, as a pigeon."

-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead

"She smiled. It was rare for her to find someone attractive physically and also to like what came out of their mouth."

-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead

"He was one of the fortunate ones. He'd emerged from childhood a whole person and his past wasn't some vast immovable mass with its own weather system."

-Jen Beagin, Pretend I'm Dead

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18. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

Similar categories in Christine Blasey Ford's One Way Back: A Memoir book and Katharine Dion's The Dependents

  • audiobook
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19. Pete and Alice in Maine

By: Caitlin Shetterly

3.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold in New York Cit… read more

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  • marriage
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. Tell the Machine Goodnight

By: Katie Williams

3.46

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Pearl's job is to make people happy. Every day, she provides customers with personalized recommenda… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Lo, Elliott was an artist. No crucible of hardship, no spiritual calling. Art was just something he was good at, therefore something he was praised for, therefore something he kept doing."

-Katie Williams, Tell the Machine Goodnight

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21. The Dakota Winters

By: Tom Barbash

3.49

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

An evocative and wildly absorbing novel about the Winters, a family living in New York City’s famed… read more

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  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I did this to myself back then, compared my accomplishments at twenty-three to those of spectacularly successful people (Picasso at twenty-three was finishing his Blue Period; Mick Jagger was writing…"

-Tom Barbash, The Dakota Winters

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22. Paris by the Book

By: Liam Callanan

3.16

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

A missing person, a grieving family, a curious clue: a half-finished manuscript set in Paris. Headi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe-deposit box for civilization."

-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book

"Stories provide a form, a mold. And a good story, one that's retold for generations, demands you pour the messy contents of your own life into it to see what happens as it hardens and sets."

-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book

"Every town, every book, is a way to say, look, there’s a new way, a different way. Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstor…"

-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book

"It’s only with mild surprise I find I don’t so much read anymore, but rather teeter, wonder, take flight, like Pascal, like Madeline, like Bemelmans, like Lamorisse, like my daughters. Like Robert. L…"

-Liam Callanan, Paris by the Book

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23. Lake Life

By: David James Poissant

3.71

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of the acclaimed story collection The Heaven of Animals, called “a wi… read more

Similar categories in David James Poissant's Lake Life book and Katharine Dion's The Dependents

  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After

By: Elizabeth Crane

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Rachel Cusk meets Nora Ephron in this intimate and evolving portrait about the end of a marriage an… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crane's This Story Will Change: After the Happily Ever After book and Katharine Dion's The Dependents

  • audiobook
  • marriage
  • contemporary
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25. Bright Burning Things

By: Lisa Harding

3.33

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Sonya used to perform on stage. She attended glamorous parties, dated handsome men, rode in fast ca… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Very Bad Company

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Every year executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company’s top employees for an e… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. The Stranger Inside

By: Laura Benedict

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Kimber Hannon's belief that she has complete control over her life is shattered the night that she … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

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  • audiobook
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29. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Katharine Dion's The Dependents

  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. The Captive

By: Fiona King Foster

3.36

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

A rural noir about a woman on a pulse-pounding expedition to deliver a fugitive—and forced to confr… read more

Similar categories in Fiona King Foster's The Captive book and Katharine Dion's The Dependents

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Dependents

By: Katharine Dion

3.04

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A wise and lyrical debut novel about a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriage. … read more

Similar categories in Katharine Dion's The Dependents book and Katharine Dion's The Dependents

  • death
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • book club
  • audiobook

14 must-read contemporary books like The Dependents by Katharine Dion

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Before I Say Goodbye

Mary Higgins Clark

3.81

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These Girls

Sarah Pekkanen

4.00

Made for Love

Alissa Nutting

3.95

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Memory Piece

Lisa Ko

3.22

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Halle Butler

4.12

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Perfume & Pain

Anna Dorn

4.06

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Maud Ventura

3.68

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