7 best-selling family books like Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object by Laurie Colwin

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Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object

By: Laurie Colwin

3.98

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. From the critically acclaimed auth…

"At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden."

-Laurie Colwin, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object

"At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden."

-Laurie Colwin, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object

If you liked the family plot in Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object by Laurie Colwin , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Did You Ever Have a Family

By: Bill Clegg

3.79

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

The stunning debut novel from bestselling author Bill Clegg is a magnificently powerful story about… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"I knew I didn’t want to be alone anymore."

-Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family

"[W]e’ve learned that grief can sometimes get loud, and when it does, we try not to speak over it."

-Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family

"The world’s magic sneaks up on you in secret, settles next to you when you have your head turned."

-Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family

"[A]s a parent you just have no idea what anything means. On some level everything your kids do and say is in code."

-Bill Clegg, Did You Ever Have a Family

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2. Someone at a Distance

By: Dorothy Whipple

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

'A very good novel indeed about the fragility and also the tenacity of love' commented the Spectato… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • novels
"With love, you don't even need butter on your bread; without it, an elaborate feast is necessary to make you come to the table."

-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance

"But Mrs. Brockington, old, alone, almost crippled by rheumatism, had faith and courage. She had more. She had a warm serenity, and when Ellen was with her, she almost had it too. For goodness is catc…"

-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance

"All those books, all those prayers and she had got nothing from them. When everything went well for her she had been able to pray, she couldn't now. There was such urgency in her present situation th…"

-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance

"A loved husband is the companion of companions, the supreme sharer, and a happy wife often sounds trivial when she is really sampling and enjoying their mutual and unique confidence. But in doing it,…"

-Dorothy Whipple, Someone at a Distance

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3. The Pink Hotel

By: Anna Stothard

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

A seventeen-year-old London girl flies to Los Angeles for the funeral of her mother Lily, from whom… read more

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  • romance
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.50

Format: None pages,

Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare a… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Father of the Rain

By: Lily King

3.71

Format: None pages,

Award-winning author Lily King's Father of the Rain: spans three decades in a riveting psychologica… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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6. The Europeans

By: Henry James , Tony Tanner , Patricia Crick

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eugenia, the daughter of American expatriates, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is be… read more

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  • literature
  • novels
  • fiction
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7. The Double Bind

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Chris Bohjalian's astonishing novel, nothing is what it at first seems. Not the bucolic Vermont … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

8. Les Parisiennes: How the Women of Paris Lived, Loved, and Died Under Nazi Occupation

By: Anne Sebba

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

What did it feel like to be a woman living in Paris from 1939 to 1949? These were years of fear, po… read more

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9. Tepper Isn't Going Out

By: Calvin Trillin

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Paperback

Murray Tepper would say that he is an ordinary New Yorker who is simply trying to read the newspape… read more

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10. Blueprints

By: Barbara Delinsky

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Returning to her beloved New England, the New York Times bestselling auth… read more

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11. The Custom of the Country

By: Edith Wharton , Linda Wagner-Martin

3.61

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton's second full-length work is a scathing yet… read more

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12. Dead Men Don't Ski

By: Patricia Moyes

3.89

Format: 32 pages,

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13. The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #3)

By: Dorothy Gilman

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Mass Market Paperback

While waiting for a view of her night-blooming cereus, the mild-seeming Mrs. Pollifax received urge… read more

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  • fiction
"the problems changed, but people were the same"

-Dorothy Gilman, The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #3)

"I've have grown a night-blooming cereus on my fire escape," she added almost shyly. He said quietly, "This is important. Why?" She hesitated. "Because lately I've had the feeling we rush toward somet…"

-Dorothy Gilman, The Elusive Mrs. Pollifax (Mrs. Pollifax, #3)

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14. The Tusk That Did the Damage

By: Tania James

3.68

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns and Aerogrammes , a tour de force set in … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult

15. The Greengage Summer

By: Rumer Godden

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by … read more

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16. Downtown Owl

By: Chuck Klosterman

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Somewhere in North Dakota, there is a town called Owl that isn't there. Disco is over, but punk nev… read more

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17. L.A. Woman

By: Eve Babitz

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

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18. Hild

By: Nicola Griffith

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Hardcover

Hild is born into a world in transition. In seventh-century Britain, small kingdoms are merging, us… read more

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19. 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
  • literature
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"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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20. Vintage Contemporaries

By: Dan Kois

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Slate editor Dan Kois makes his fiction debut with this stunning coming-of-age novel set in New Yor… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
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21. Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are

By: Rebecca Boyle

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate look at the Moon and its relationship to life on Earth--from the primordial soup to the… read more

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22. The Woman Who Ran Away from Everything

By: Fiona Gibson

3.98

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Kate is sick of being taken for granted by her husband Vince. It’s bad enough that she allowed hers… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. The Children's Bach

By: Helen Garner

3.53

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Helen Garner has been a literary institution in Australia for decades. Her perfectly formed novels … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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24. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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25. The Library of Borrowed Hearts

By: Lucy Gilmore

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A.J. Fikry meets The Bookish Life of Nina Hill in this charming, hilarious, and moving novel about … read more

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  • romance
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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26. Seven Steeples

By: Sara Baume

3.53

Format: 181 pages, Hardcover

Bell en Sigh verhuizen vanuit de drukte van de stad naar een huis aan de Atlantische Oceaan in het … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"October mornings peeled the night cloud back to its subcutaneous lilac tissue. The leaves earned their name by leaving the trees. Browned and blistered foliage cascaded from the sycamore, swilling in…"

-Sara Baume, Seven Steeples

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27. Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

By: Nicola Griffith

4.48

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

In the much anticipated sequel to Hild, Nicola Griffith's Menewood transports readers back to seven… read more

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  • fiction
"I hate thorns,"

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

"You are Christian?"

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

"Cadwallon is like a hawk,"

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

"If people felt safe, they stayed."

-Nicola Griffith, Menewood (The Hild Sequence, #2)

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28. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

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29. Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object

By: Laurie Colwin

3.98

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. From the critically acclaimed auth… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • literature
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
"At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden."

-Laurie Colwin, Shine On, Bright and Dangerous Object

Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

30. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Hill of Secrets

By: Galina Vromen

4.16

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

In a desert outpost, nuclear scientists and their families face the toll of the secrets they keep f… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction

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Bill Clegg

3.79

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Dorothy Whipple

4.21

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Anna Stothard

4.17

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3.50

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3.71

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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