17 best-selling fiction books like Eveless Eden by Marianne Wiggins

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Eveless Eden

By: Marianne Wiggins

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A novel of intrigue and romance follows the adventures of an American journalist and a tough but pr…

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1. The Lowland

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.87

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Isolation offered its own form of companionship"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

"The blood of too many, dissolving the very stain."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

"In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

"With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland

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2. Cloudsplitter

By: Russell Banks

3.93

Format: 758 pages, Paperback

A triumph of the imagination and a masterpiece of modern storytelling, Cloudsplitter is narrated by… read more

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  • fiction
"It was like a dream, a beautiful, soothing dream of late autumn: low, gray skies, smell of woodsmoke, fallen leaves crackling beneath my feet, and somewhere out there, in the farmsteads and plantatio…"

-Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter

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3. The Namesake

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of h… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. 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

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

6. The Pursuit of Love

By: Nancy Mitford

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

Few aristocratic English families of the twentieth century enjoyed the glamorous notoriety of the i… read more

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7. The Black Echo (Harry Bosch, #1; Harry Bosch Universe, #1)

By: Michael Connelly

4.02

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is mo… read more

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8. God on the Rocks

By: Jane Gardam

3.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

With the birth of her baby brother, eight-year-old Margaret Marsh is banished from the house every … read more

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9. A Confederacy of Dunces

By: John Kennedy Toole , Walker Percy

3.89

Format: 394 pages, Paperback

Here is Ignatius Reilly: slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thom… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!"

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mothers got a hard road to travel, believe me."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

"Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns."

-John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

10. Spinsters

By: Pagan Kennedy

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Frannie and Doris, sisters and spinsters, are finally free from family ties and constraints. Taking… read more

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11. The Murder Rule

By: Dervla McTiernan

3.67

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

For fans of the compulsive psychological suspense of Ruth Ware and Tana French, a mother daughter s… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Because it has to be done. Because if you see something like this, and you can fix it, then it’s your mess to clean up."

-Dervla McTiernan, The Murder Rule

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12. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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13. Glory

By: NoViolet Bulawayo

3.70

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"

-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

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14. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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15. Study for Obedience

By: Sarah Bernstein

3.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, compressed masterwork from an extraordinary new voice in Canadian fiction. A young w… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I try always to be good."

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"How, I wondered, might a person, a people, take root, roots and rootlessness, the preservation of what little remains of the past, such were thoughts that blew through me on any given morning, standi…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"In taking a side, I thought uneasily, perhaps I ought to take the long view, the survival of the species as a whole. That was my problem, I thought, I was always thinking at the level of the individu…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

"I had hoped that here in the country I would experience the turn of the seasons differently, with less apprehension, I might come to see the form and plan of the world. Not to frame it within systems…"

-Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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16. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. None of This Is Serious

By: Catherine Prasifka

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and S… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

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18. Homeland Elegies

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal work about hope and identity in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Eleg… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Death in Her Hands

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.24

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

A novel of haunting metaphysical suspense about an elderly widow whose life is upturned when she fi… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"When you die, leave not a trace. Sweep up any evidence of your existence."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"How did people go on with their lives as though death weren't all around them?"

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"Suspicion invites danger, doesn't it? Keep the imagination soft and happy, and only good things will come."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

"But people lied all the time. It was a part of what kept us whole as individuals. A little lying never hurt anybody. It kept the bounds of what one person was distinct from what another person was."

-Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands

Cover of Eveless Eden by Marianne Wiggins

20. Eveless Eden

By: Marianne Wiggins

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A novel of intrigue and romance follows the adventures of an American journalist and a tough but pr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Jhumpa Lahiri

3.87

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The Namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri

4.11

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My Name Is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout

3.57

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

Jane Gardam

4.10

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Anne Enright

3.55

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Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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