14 Best fiction books like River Under the Road by Scott Spencer

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River Under the Road

By: Scott Spencer

3.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Man in the Woods and Endless Love , a stunning…

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1. Mister Monkey

By: Francine Prose

4.00

Format: None pages, ebook

The acclaimed New York Timesbestselling author weaves an ingenious, darkly humorous, and brilliantl… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
Cover of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. by Adelle Waldman

2. The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

By: Adelle Waldman

2.00

Format: 375 pages,

Writer Nate Piven's star is rising. After several lean and striving years, he has his pick of both … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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3. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

Similar categories in Jane Gardam's The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) book and Scott Spencer's River Under the Road

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. The Dog Stars

By: Peter Heller

3.67

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

Hig somehow survived the flu pandemic that killed everyone he knows. Now his wife is gone, his frie… read more

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5. Ladder of Years

By: Anne Tyler

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Married with three almost-grown children, Delia Grinstead has vanished without trace or reason. But… read more

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6. Gentlemen of the Road

By: Michael Chabon , Gary Gianni

4.60

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

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7. Mercury

By: Margot Livesey

4.36

Format: 94 pages, ebook

Donald believes he knows all there is to know about seeing. An optometrist in suburban Boston, he i… read more

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8. The Murder Book (Alex Delaware, #16)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

In seventeen consecutive bestselling novels, Jonathan Kellerman has distinguished himself as the ma… read more

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9. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Cover of Serpentine (Alex Delaware, #36) by Jonathan Kellerman

11. Serpentine (Alex Delaware, #36)

By: Jonathan Kellerman

4.18

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old c… read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Motion of the Body Through Space

By: Lionel Shriver

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages bett… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She herself was only sixty, though hers was the first generation to append "only" to such a sobering milestone."

-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space

"I did not love running. Here's a pointer for you: no one does. They pretend to, but they are lying. The only good part is having run. In the moment, it's dull and hard as in effortful but not as in d…"

-Lionel Shriver, The Motion of the Body Through Space

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13. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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14. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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15. The Sweet Blue Distance

By: Sara Donati

4.31

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

In 1857 a young midwife braves the perilous journey west from New York City to Santa Fe, New Mexico… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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16. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Miss Eliza's English Kitchen by Annabel Abbs

17. Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

By: Annabel Abbs

3.92

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

In a novel perfect for fans of Hazel Gaynor’s A Memory of Violets and upstairs-downstairs stories, … read more

Similar categories in Annabel Abbs's Miss Eliza's English Kitchen book and Scott Spencer's River Under the Road

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
"God, I think blasphemously, is in a sip of coffee."

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"I can feel Mother's furious eyes upon me, but the tug of the kitchen is stronger: my new books, the fresh perch gleaming in the larder, the trugs of field mushrooms and damsons and pippin apples stil…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"The smell of bruised apples reaches me of a sudden. And in that moment I am back in Miss Eliza's kitchen, rich with cooking odors: the nutty smell of roasting coffee berries, the syrupy scent of frui…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

"But then, one bright morning, I walked out through woods of pine and birch. Foxgloves and wild clematis and briar roses were bursting from the earth. Birdsong shook the air. Swifts snipped at the sky…"

-Annabel Abbs, Miss Eliza's English Kitchen

Cover of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley

18. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

By: Kerry Howley

3.81

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more

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"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

Cover of How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard

19. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's How the Light Gets In book and Scott Spencer's River Under the Road

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. River Under the Road

By: Scott Spencer

3.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of Man in the Woods and Endless Love , a stunning… read more

Similar categories in Scott Spencer's River Under the Road book and Scott Spencer's River Under the Road

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

9 must-read contemporary books like River Under the Road by Scott Spencer

Transform Your Habits

The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.

Adelle Waldman

2.00

Transform Your Habits

The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

Jane Gardam

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore

3.31

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31 Best fiction books like Serpentine (Alex Delaware, #36) by Jonathan Kellerman

Transform Your Habits

Three-Inch Teeth (Joe Pickett #24)

C.J. Box

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Resurrection Walk (The Lincoln Lawyer, #7)

Michael Connelly

4.56

Transform Your Habits

Judgment Prey (Lucas Davenport, #33; Virgil Flowers, #15)

John Sandford

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Livid (Kay Scarpetta, #26)

Patricia Cornwell

3.92

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