15 Best fiction books like What's Worth Keeping by Kaya McLaren

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What's Worth Keeping

By: Kaya McLaren

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A book as wise and unflinching as an old growth forest, filled with the capricious beauty and bruta…

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1. The Accidental Bestseller

By: Wendy Wax

5.00

Format: 398 pages,

Once upon a time four aspiring authors met at their very first writers' conference. Ten years later… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Wax's The Accidental Bestseller book and Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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2. The Alaskan Laundry

By: Brendan Jones

4.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

A fresh debut novel about a lost, fierce young woman who finds her way to Alaska and finds herself … read more

Similar categories in Brendan Jones's The Alaskan Laundry book and Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life

By: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

4.44

Format: None pages, ebook

A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three. Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a … read more

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4. Forgotten

By: Catherine McKenzie

3.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Emma Tupper is a dedicated lawyer with a bright future. But when she takes a month-long leave of ab… read more

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5. Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician

By: Michelle Williams

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an … read more

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6. Deep Dish

By: Mary Kay Andrews

4.58

Format: None pages,

"Deep Dish is one delicious read. Mary Kay Andrews has cooked up a tale y'all will savor to the las… read more

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7. Finding Emma (Finding Emma, #1)

By: Steena Holmes

3.93

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Megan sees her daughter Emma everywhere. She's the little girl standing in the supermarket, the chi… read more

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8. Look on the Bright Side

By: Kristan Higgins

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unex… read more

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  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult
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9. The Cliff House (Cape Sanctuary #1)

By: RaeAnne Thayne

4.11

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

Na de dood van hun moeder vinden Daisy en Bea Davonport een nieuw thuis bij hun tante Stella in het… read more

Similar categories in RaeAnne Thayne's The Cliff House (Cape Sanctuary #1) book and Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. Everything Is Fine

By: Vince Granata

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more

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"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

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11. Before the Swallows Come Back: A story that touches the soul

By: Fiona Curnow

4.31

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah, and … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Curnow's Before the Swallows Come Back: A story that touches the soul book and Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping

  • fiction
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12. Close Knit

By: Jenny Colgan

3.98

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Follow Gertie MacIntyre from knitting circle to air stewardess in this glorious and romantic summer… read more

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  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
Cover of Long Gone (Detective Annalisa Vega, #2) by Joanna Schaffhausen

13. Long Gone (Detective Annalisa Vega, #2)

By: Joanna Schaffhausen

4.04

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Long Gone , the next installment of Joanna Schaffhausen's critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa V… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Woman I Was Before

By: Kerry Fisher

3.89

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

The perfect picture hides the darkest lies. A new home can be a happy ending. Or a fresh start. Or… read more

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  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Islanders

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

3.82

Format: 416 pages, ebook

J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read invo… read more

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  • womens fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The Color of Love (The Color of Heaven, #6)

By: Julianne MacLean

4.45

Format: None pages, None

Carla Matthews is a single mother struggling to make ends meet and give her daughter Kaleigh a dece… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Layover

By: David Bell

3.21

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

In this high concept psychological suspense novel from the USA Today bestselling author of Somebody… read more

Similar categories in David Bell's Layover book and Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping

  • adult
  • fiction
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18. The Sweeney Sisters

By: Lian Dolan

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"This is a big-hearted belly-laugh of a book, told with wit and poignancy. Family secrets, laughter… read more

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  • fiction
  • adult
  • family
  • contemporary
"That's the kind of luxury that men have. They can be awful and beloved. Women don't get that kind of leeway."

-Lian Dolan, The Sweeney Sisters

"Ethan knew it would never be the same. The moment that had blistered the sun, cold and burned out. Walk along young man. Walk along."

-Lian Dolan, The Sweeney Sisters

"My father lived to the age where he attained a deep luster, but never too shiny that you didn’t believe him for one minute, may we all understand our own quitting time so well."

-Lian Dolan, The Sweeney Sisters

"Tricia thought about all those training runs, those miserable, hot steamy miles and hills in August in the Berkshires with the team. Or the frigid early - morning speed workouts in January on the tra…"

-Lian Dolan, The Sweeney Sisters

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19. Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter

By: Lizzie Pook

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a feminist adventure story set… read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Pook's Moonlight and the Pearler's Daughter book and Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping

  • adult
  • fiction
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20. Little Pieces of Me

By: Alison Hammer

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Following her acclaimed debut novel, You and Me and Us, Alison Hammer offers a deeply moving story … read more

Similar categories in Alison Hammer's Little Pieces of Me book and Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult
"The only blank pages in your life story are the ones yet to be written." ~Helen, chptr 44"

-Alison Hammer, Little Pieces of Me

"She can't help. No one can. I rest my head in my hands and let the flood of hot angry tears fall. I can't even begin to wrap my head around the enormity of it all. She lied to me, probably lied to my…"

-Alison Hammer, Little Pieces of Me

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21. What's Worth Keeping

By: Kaya McLaren

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A book as wise and unflinching as an old growth forest, filled with the capricious beauty and bruta… read more

Similar categories in Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping book and Kaya McLaren's What's Worth Keeping

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
  • adult

12 must-read contemporary books like What's Worth Keeping by Kaya McLaren

Transform Your Habits

The Accidental Bestseller

Wendy Wax

5.00

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The Alaskan Laundry

Brendan Jones

4.64

Transform Your Habits

Look on the Bright Side

Kristan Higgins

4.25

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The Cliff House (Cape Sanctuary #1)

RaeAnne Thayne

4.11

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16 must-read fiction books like Close Knit by Jenny Colgan

Transform Your Habits

Close Knit

Jenny Colgan

3.98

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The Summer Swap

Sarah Morgan

4.05

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The Phoenix Ballroom

Ruth Hogan

4.23

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Irresponsible Adult

Lucy Dillon

4.01

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