20 must-read fiction books like Left: A Love Story by Mary Hogan

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Left: A Love Story

By: Mary Hogan

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully crafted novel from the author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters , comes t…

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1. Inside the O'Briens

By: Lisa Genova

4.00

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Joe O’Brien is a forty-four-year-old police officer from the Irish Catholic neighborhood of Charles… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She was brought up strict Irish Catholic... Protestants were evil, monstrous people and somehow probably contagious, and Katie grew up fearing them, praying to God she'd never see one."

-Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens

"The room does feel strange, oppressive even, with the TV off. In fact, Katie can’t remember ever being in this room without it on. It’s as if they’re missing their fifth sibling, the one who never sh…"

-Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens

"You can be in Downward Dog, hating every second of it. Or you can be in this pose, peaceful and nonreactive, breathing calmly. Either way, you’re in this pose. You decide the quality of your experien…"

-Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens

"I have a son,' says JJ, marveling at the sound and truth of the words... 'You know, I love you and Mom... But I don't even know this baby and the love- ' JJ clears his throat and wipes his suddenly w…"

-Lisa Genova, Inside the O'Briens

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2. The Girls

By: Lori Lansens

3.80

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Meet Rose and Ruby: sisters, best friends, confidantes, and conjoined twins. Since their birth, Ros… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Art isn't a product. It's an experience"

-Lori Lansens, The Girls

"Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth."

-Lori Lansens, The Girls

"The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome."

-Lori Lansens, The Girls

"If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead."

-Lori Lansens, The Girls

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3. Before We Were Free

By: Julia Alvarez

3.90

Format: 192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don’t have to fly away fro… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Year of No Clutter by Eve O. Schaub

4. Year of No Clutter

By: Eve O. Schaub

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eve has a problem with clutter. Too much stuff and too easily acquired, it confronts her in every c… read more

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  • adult
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5. A Secret Kept

By: Tatiana de Rosnay

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

From Tatiana de Rosnay, author of the New York Times bestseller Sarah's Key, A Secret Kept plumbs t… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

6. The Book of Joe

By: Jonathan Tropper

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. The… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Bookstore

By: Deborah Meyler

3.60

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

A witty, sharply observed debut novel about a young woman who finds unexpected salvation while work… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Meyler's The Bookstore book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg

8. Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

By: Fannie Flagg

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Fannie Flagg's high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where … read more

Similar categories in Fannie Flagg's Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
Cover of The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, #2) by James Dashner

9. The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, #2)

By: James Dashner

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Maze Runner series comes The Rule of Thoughts, th… read more

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  • fiction
"We will win."

-James Dashner, The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, #2)

"The world is changing"

-James Dashner, The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, #2)

"Stay smart and run. Sounds like a sweet life."

-James Dashner, The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, #2)

"Listen, I'm not... Oh man, this is crazy. I can't do this."

-James Dashner, The Rule of Thoughts (The Mortality Doctrine, #2)

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10. Orbiting Jupiter

By: Gary D. Schmidt

3.83

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When Jack meets his new foster brother, he already knows three things about him: Joseph almost kill… read more

Similar categories in Gary D. Schmidt's Orbiting Jupiter book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • fiction
  • contemporary

11. Broken Angels

By: Gemma Liviero

3.76

Format: None pages,

A Nazi doctor. A Jewish rebel. A little girl. Each one will fight for freedom--or die trying. Impri… read more

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12. The Art of Starving

By: Sam J. Miller

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

More Happy Than Notmeets Glory O'Brien's History of the Futurein this gritty, contemporary YA debut… read more

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13. The Jazz Bird

By: Craig Holden

4.00

Format: 16 pages, Paperback

Cincinnati, 1927: a sensational murder trial captivates the nation. At stake: the lives of three me… read more

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14. The Enchanted

By: Rene Denfeld

3.73

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A wondrous and redemptive debut novel, set in a stark world where evil and magic coincide, The Ench… read more

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15. Bad Girls with Perfect Faces

By: Lynn Weingarten

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Timesbestselling author of Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girlscomes a stylish thri… read more

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16. Windfall

By: Jennifer E. Smith

4.11

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Let luck find you. Alice doesn't believe in luck--at least, not the good kind. But she does believe… read more

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17. All I Love and Know

By: Judith Frank

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

With the storytelling power and emotional fidelity of Wally Lamb, this is a searing drama of a mode… read more

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18. The Art of Crash Landing

By: None

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

From a bright new talent comes this debut novel about a young woman who travels for the first time … read more

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19. Paperweight

By: Meg Haston

4.17

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center o… read more

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Cover of Loveboat Reunion (Loveboat, Taipei, #2) by Abigail Hing Wen

20. Loveboat Reunion (Loveboat, Taipei, #2)

By: Abigail Hing Wen

3.79

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past. Hearts were broken, reveng… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Hing Wen's Loveboat Reunion (Loveboat, Taipei, #2) book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. How to Make Friends with the Dark

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.08

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Here is what happens when your mother dies. It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outsi… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's How to Make Friends with the Dark book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • mental health
"Always the universe, against you."

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Are you going to kill yourself, Grace? Are you going to wrist, hang, gun?"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Last night scared me, how calm I felt, thinking about killing myself. The S word"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Somewhere in those hours, those minutes, those seconds, your mom was, and then she wasn't"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

Cover of The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager

22. The Family Roe: An American Story

By: Joshua Prager

4.13

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), … read more

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23. The Lovely and the Lost

By: Jennifer Lynn Barnes

4.00

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Kira Bennett’s earliest memories are of living alone and wild in the woods. She has no idea how lon… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lynn Barnes's The Lovely and the Lost book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. A Good House for Children

By: Kate Collins

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when he… read more

Similar categories in Kate Collins's A Good House for Children book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Only Love Can Hurt Like This by Paige Toon

25. Only Love Can Hurt Like This

By: Paige Toon

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In the spirit of Colleen Hoover and Jojo Moyes's Me Before You, an unforgettable and heartbreaking … read more

Similar categories in Paige Toon's Only Love Can Hurt Like This book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • romance
  • love
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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26. You Can't Stay Here Forever

By: Katherine Lin

3.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Named a must-read book of summer by: Good Morning America, People, the San Francisco Chronicle, the… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Lin's You Can't Stay Here Forever book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Getaway

By: Zoje Stage

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

It was supposed to be the perfect week away... Imogen and Beck, two sisters who couldn't be more di… read more

Similar categories in Zoje Stage's Getaway book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
Cover of A Lite Too Bright by Samuel       Miller

28. A Lite Too Bright

By: Samuel Miller

3.81

Format: 480 pages, ebook

Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is on the verge of a breakdown. He’s been stripped of his college sc… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Miller's A Lite Too Bright book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • mental health
"i am nothing but a mosaic of the people i’ve met & the things they’ve carried."

-Samuel Miller, A Lite Too Bright

Cover of Left: A Love Story by Mary Hogan

29. Left: A Love Story

By: Mary Hogan

3.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully crafted novel from the author of the critically-acclaimed Two Sisters , comes t… read more

Similar categories in Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • love
  • collections
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3) by Abigail Hing Wen

30. Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3)

By: Abigail Hing Wen

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Return to the sparkling world of Loveboat, this time with Pearl Wong, on an entirely new, romantic,… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Hing Wen's Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3) book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. That Pinson Girl

By: Gerry Wilson

4.41

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

In a bleak Mississippi farmhouse in 1918, Leona Pinson gives birth to an illegitimate son whose fat… read more

Similar categories in Gerry Wilson's That Pinson Girl book and Mary Hogan's Left: A Love Story

  • fiction

14 Top contemporary books like Left: A Love Story by Mary Hogan

Transform Your Habits

Inside the O'Briens

Lisa Genova

4.00

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The Girls

Lori Lansens

3.80

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A Secret Kept

Tatiana de Rosnay

4.03

The Book of Joe

Jonathan Tropper

3.82

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18 best-selling fiction books like Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt

Transform Your Habits

Life in a Fishbowl

Len Vlahos

3.54

Transform Your Habits

We Were Liars

E. Lockhart

4.28

Transform Your Habits

If He Had Been with Me

Laura Nowlin

3.31

Transform Your Habits

House Arrest

K.A. Holt

3.81

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