20 must-read fiction books like Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramírez

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Tell It to Me Singing

By: Tita Ramírez

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of se…

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1. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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2. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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3. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

Similar categories in Monica Wood's How to Read a Book book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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4. April May June July

By: Alison B. Hart

3.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A triumphant family story and sharply observed exploration of privilege, identity, and love in all … read more

Similar categories in Alison B. Hart's April May June July book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The Mother Act

By: Heidi Reimer

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Set against the sparkling backdrop of the theater world, this propulsive debut follows the complica… read more

Similar categories in Heidi Reimer's The Mother Act book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Missing White Woman

By: Kellye Garrett

3.53

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The truth is never skin deep.   It was supposed to be a romantic getaway weekend in New York City… read more

Similar categories in Kellye Garrett's Missing White Woman book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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8. The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America

By: Sara B. Franklin

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The woman behind some of the most important authors of the 20th century—including Julia Child, Anne… read more

Similar categories in Sara B. Franklin's The Editor: How Publishing Legend Judith Jones Shaped Culture in America book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • audiobook
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9. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Skin & Bones

By: Renée Watson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more

Similar categories in Renée Watson's Skin & Bones book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Night We Lost Him

By: Laura Dave

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dave's The Night We Lost Him book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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14. The Lion Women of Tehran

By: Marjan Kamali

4.50

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

From the nationally bestselling author of the “powerful, heartbreaking” (Shelf Awareness) The Stati… read more

Similar categories in Marjan Kamali's The Lion Women of Tehran book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When I am surrounded by books, I feel most at peace."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

"I wanted what Homa had. I wanted her family. Her living father, her kind mother. I wanted her fat, edible baby sister. I wanted the warmth and safety of her home."

-Marjan Kamali, The Lion Women of Tehran

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15. Jackpot Summer

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's Jackpot Summer book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's The Same Bright Stars book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramírez

17. Tell It to Me Singing

By: Tita Ramírez

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A Cuban American family is sent into a tailspin when the ailing matriarch confesses the first of se… read more

Similar categories in Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Nothing Less than Magic

By: Stacy Finz

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When a popular marriage counselor’s own marriage falls apart, she’s forced to question her methods—… read more

Similar categories in Stacy Finz's Nothing Less than Magic book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. 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 Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Second Tide's the Charm

By: Chandra Blumberg

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Love puts you in uncharted waters. At first glance, Hope Evans just landed the perfect spending… read more

Similar categories in Chandra Blumberg's Second Tide's the Charm book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Once More from the Top

By: Emily Layden

3.44

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive, layered novel about the meteoric rise of a legendary pop star and the secret she’s ke… read more

Similar categories in Emily Layden's Once More from the Top book and Tita Ramírez's Tell It to Me Singing

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

19 must-read contemporary books like Tell It to Me Singing by Tita Ramírez

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

Transform Your Habits

How to Read a Book

Monica Wood

4.29

Transform Your Habits

April May June July

Alison B. Hart

3.47

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21 Best fiction books like Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Rom-Commers

Katherine Center

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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