16 must-read adult fiction books like The Last Sailor: A Historical Novel of Cape Cod by Sarah Anne Johnson

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The Last Sailor: A Historical Novel of Cape Cod

By: Sarah Anne Johnson

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"There is real life in Sarah Anne Johnson's new book, and genuine family drama too, all grounded in…

If you liked the adult fiction plot in The Last Sailor: A Historical Novel of Cape Cod by Sarah Anne Johnson , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles, #2) by Jeffrey Archer

1. The Sins of the Father (The Clifton Chronicles, #2)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

On the heels of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweep… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of Below Zero (Joe Pickett, #9) by C.J. Box

2. Below Zero (Joe Pickett, #9)

By: C.J. Box

4.22

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

In this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, a voice from the past has a chilling … read more

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3. The Outcast: A Modern Retelling of The Scarlet Letter

By: Jolina Petersheim

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Raised in an Old Order Mennonite community, Rachel Stoltzfus is a strong-willed single woman, conte… read more

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  • adult fiction
Cover of The Liar by Nora Roberts

4. The Liar

By: Nora Roberts

4.06

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Shelby Foxworth lost her husband. Then she lost her illusions …   The man who took her from Tenness… read more

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"You can have a coke since you never did learn to be civilized and drink coffee."

-Nora Roberts, The Liar

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5. The Forgotten Room

By: Lauren Willig , Karen White , Beatriz Williams

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

New York Timesbestselling authors Karen White, Beatriz Williams, and Lauren Willig present a master… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of The Art Forger by B.A. Shapiro

6. The Art Forger

By: B.A. Shapiro

4.20

Format: 445 pages, Hardcover

On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabell… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. Between Friends

By: Debbie Macomber

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The New York Times bestselling author presents a story in which every woman will recognize herself-… read more

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  • adult fiction
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8. Plain Truth

By: Jodi Picoult

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The small town of Paradise, Pennsylvania, is a jewel in Lancaster County - known for its picture-po… read more

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  • adult fiction
"A trial, it often came down to who had the best story."

-Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

"I wasn't going to wait around for some prince, when I could very well save myself."

-Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

"I wonder if you've got a minute." I have many minutes, all of them used toward a common purpose."

-Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

"If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?"

-Jodi Picoult, Plain Truth

9. The Secret Life of Violet Grant

By: Beatriz Williams

4.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Passion, redemption, and a battered suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author… read more

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10. The Paris Daughter

By: Kristin Harmel

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Book of Lost Names comes a gripping historical novel about two m… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical fiction
"This isn't a decision I make lightly, but being a parent is not about doing what is right for ourselves, is it? It's about sacrificing all we can, big and small, to give our children their best chanc…"

-Kristin Harmel, The Paris Daughter

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11. Hang the Moon

By: Jeannette Walls

3.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition. Most folk … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical fiction
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12. The Restoration of Celia Fairchild

By: Marie Bostwick

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

“The Restoration of Celia Fairchild is wise, witty, and utterly compelling.” —Jane Green, New York … read more

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  • adult fiction
"If God wants you to be somewhere or do something, He'll supply everything you need at the moment you need it. And not one moment before. Never forget, Celia, God is in the business of Just In Time in…"

-Marie Bostwick, The Restoration of Celia Fairchild

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13. The Woman with the Blue Star

By: Pam Jenoff

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Lost Girls of Paris comes a riveting tale of courage and unlikely friendship… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Flight

By: Lynn Steger Strong

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Arresting and powerful,  Flight  examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more

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  • adult fiction
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

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15. All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

By: William Landay

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mother vanished. A father presumed guilty. There is no proof. There are no witnesses. For the chi… read more

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"When a writer goes quiet, nothing is blocking and nothing is being blocked. He is just empty."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"In small letters, now a little blurry, it read Omnia mea mecum porto, Latin for “All that is mine I carry with me."

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"What about you, Mr. Glover. The smartest man in the room is usually the quietest. What do you think about all this?"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

"Who among you would stand up, step out of that jury box, and trade places with me? Who would be accused of a violent murder based on…nothing? How would you prove your innocence when there was never a…"

-William Landay, All That Is Mine I Carry with Me

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16. The Lions of Fifth Avenue

By: Fiona Davis

3.90

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roi… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical fiction
"Leave it to a librarian to point out the alliteration in my life’s tragedies."

-Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue

"History is made by people in power making decisions, and their notes and writings reveal the decision-making process."

-Fiona Davis, The Lions of Fifth Avenue

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17. 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

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  • adult fiction
"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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18. Overkill

By: Sandra Brown

3.98

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Former Super Bowl MVP quarterback Zach Bridger hasn’t seen his ex-wife, Rebecca Pratt, for some tim… read more

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19. A Will and a Way

By: Nora Roberts

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition

From “America’s favorite novelist” (The New Yorker), a young woman inherits a fortune—and an even g… read more

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20. Wild and Distant Seas

By: Tara Karr Roberts

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous debut, laced through with magic, following four generations of women as they seek to cha… read more

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  • historical fiction
Cover of Waypoints: My Scottish Journey by Sam Heughan

21. Waypoints: My Scottish Journey

By: Sam Heughan

4.29

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

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22. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

By: Jamie Ford

3.87

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how sh… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Don't change. Instead change the world."

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"We don't have to grieve only those we know. Sometimes we grieve for that which was lost. That which was never allowed to be."

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"The bandleader sang 'Every time I see a crowd of people, just like a fool, I stop and stare. It's really not the proper thing to do, but maybe you'll be there."

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

"Karma is more like a suitcase. You have to be unafraid to open it up and look at what's inside, to unpack the things you do not need. Karma is the climate of the past which shapes how much leeway we …"

-Jamie Ford, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

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23. The Last Garden in England

By: Julia Kelly

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the international bestseller The Light Over London and The Whispers of War comes… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical fiction
"Each new garden is like an unread book, its pages brimming with possibility."

-Julia Kelly, The Last Garden in England

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24. Surviving Savannah

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.18

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection fo… read more

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  • historical fiction
"Grief had been coiled quietly inside me since Papa's death 10 years ago-an absence that was as much a presence as any ghost."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

"I'd discovered that Savannah couldn't be fully explained to those who hadn't visited it. Photos, no matter how glorious, and movies, no matter how accurate, couldn't convey the way Savannah felt - se…"

-Patti Callahan Henry, Surviving Savannah

Cover of Wyatt (The Montana Marshalls, #4) by Susan May Warren

25. Wyatt (The Montana Marshalls, #4)

By: Susan May Warren

4.50

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

He’s lost her twice…he’s not going to lose her again... NHL Hockey Goalie Wyatt Marshall has eve… read more

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"His voice softened, and he looked at her, his beautiful eyes glossy. "Cookie, if I could, I'd start all over with you. Do things right. Honor us both." ...His mouth opened. Closed. He swallowed, and …"

-Susan May Warren, Wyatt (The Montana Marshalls, #4)

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26. The Newcomer

By: Mary Kay Andrews

3.93

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Mary Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads delivers her n… read more

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  • adult fiction
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27. Hideaway

By: Nora Roberts

4.07

Format: 454 pages, Hardcover

A family ranch in Big Sur country and a legacy of Hollywood royalty set the stage for Nora Roberts’… read more

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Cover of The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

28. The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

By: Heather B. Moore

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Based on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown in a powerful story about a largely unknown … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical fiction
"Sometimes the most joyful moments for one person brought on deep pain for another."

-Heather B. Moore, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown

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29. The Night Travelers

By: Armando Lucas Correa

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Four generations of women experience love, loss, war, and hope from the rise of Nazism to the Cuban… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Last Sailor: A Historical Novel of Cape Cod by Sarah Anne Johnson

30. The Last Sailor: A Historical Novel of Cape Cod

By: Sarah Anne Johnson

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"There is real life in Sarah Anne Johnson's new book, and genuine family drama too, all grounded in… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Anne Johnson's The Last Sailor: A Historical Novel of Cape Cod book and Sarah Anne Johnson's The Last Sailor: A Historical Novel of Cape Cod

  • adult fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Houseboat by Dane Bahr

31. The Houseboat

By: Dane Bahr

2.93

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

James Sallis meets Mindhunter in this stylish and atmospheric noir set in small town Iowa in the 19… read more

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4.03

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4.14

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