12 must-read family books like The Blue Window by Suzanne Berne

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The Blue Window

By: Suzanne Berne

3.36

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Orange Prize­–winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood comes a “sharply witty” and “i…

If you liked the family plot in The Blue Window by Suzanne Berne , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Prayers for Sale by Sandra Dallas

1. Prayers for Sale

By: Sandra Dallas

3.75

Format: 272 pages,

Hennie Comfort is eighty-six and has lived in the mountains of Middle Swan, Colorado since before i… read more

Similar categories in Sandra Dallas's Prayers for Sale book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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2. To the End of the Land

By: David Grossman , Jessica Cohen

4.01

Format: 581 pages, Hardcover

From one of Israel’s most acclaimed writers comes a novel of extraordinary power about family life—… read more

Similar categories in David Grossman's To the End of the Land book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A soldier who looked as if he were around fifteen, with soft, smooth cheeks, lay next to Ilan with his eyes closed, curled up and mumbling quickly, devotedly. Ilan touched his leg and asked him to sa…"

-David Grossman, To the End of the Land

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3. The Princess of Las Vegas

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.53

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Princess Diana impersonator and her estranged sister find themselves drawn into a dangerous game … read more

Similar categories in Chris Bohjalian's The Princess of Las Vegas book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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5. Earth's the Right Place for Love

By: Elizabeth Berg

4.11

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful new novel by the beloved author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep tells the story … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Berg's Earth's the Right Place for Love book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
"Your girlfriend won't stay pretty for long. I myself was a hot tomato, but look at me now. 'Pretty' goes away, but what can come in its place is 'beautiful.' And that's better. Do you know what I mea…"

-Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

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6. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

Similar categories in Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. 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 Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
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8. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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9. Little Monsters

By: Adrienne Brodeur

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Brodeur's Little Monsters book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

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10. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

Similar categories in Claire Messud's This Strange Eventful History book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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11. 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

Similar categories in Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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12. The Stolen Child

By: Ann Hood

4.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unlikely duo ventures through France and Italy to solve the mystery of a child’s fate in this mo… read more

Similar categories in Ann Hood's The Stolen Child book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Small World

By: Laura Zigman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more

Similar categories in Laura Zigman's Small World book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"

-Laura Zigman, Small World

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14. Flores and Miss Paula

By: Melissa Rivero

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A wry, tender novel about a Peruvian immigrant mother and a millennial daughter who have one final … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Rivero's Flores and Miss Paula book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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15. Carmen and Grace

By: Melissa Coss Aquino

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally riveting coming-of-age drama, the story of two cousins lured into the underground dr… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Coss Aquino's Carmen and Grace book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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16. The Life of the Mind

By: Christine Smallwood

3.28

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A witty, intelligent novel of an American woman on the edge, by a brilliant new voice in fiction--"… read more

Similar categories in Christine Smallwood's The Life of the Mind book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Moonrise Over New Jessup

By: Jamila Minnicks

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2021 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, a thought-provoking and encha… read more

Similar categories in Jamila Minnicks's Moonrise Over New Jessup book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. Speech Team

By: Tim Murphy

3.68

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive, witty, and moving novel starring four precocious Gen X teens–turned–twenty-first-cent… read more

Similar categories in Tim Murphy's Speech Team book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Blue Window

By: Suzanne Berne

3.36

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Orange Prize­–winning author of A Crime in the Neighborhood comes a “sharply witty” and “i… read more

Similar categories in Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Wife's Promise (The Goswell Quartet #1) by Kate Hewitt

20. The Wife's Promise (The Goswell Quartet #1)

By: Kate Hewitt

4.12

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

Alice looked at the young girl standing alone on the platform, sensing the same vulnerability she’d… read more

Similar categories in Kate Hewitt's The Wife's Promise (The Goswell Quartet #1) book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • family
  • historical fiction
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21. And So I Roar

By: Abi Daré

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl w… read more

Similar categories in Abi Daré's And So I Roar book and Suzanne Berne's The Blue Window

  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

21 Best fiction books like The Blue Window by Suzanne Berne

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Prayers for Sale

Sandra Dallas

3.75

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To the End of the Land

David Grossman , Jessica Cohen

4.01

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The Princess of Las Vegas

Chris Bohjalian

3.53

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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21 best-selling fiction books like Little Monsters by Adrienne Brodeur

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After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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