28 best-selling fiction books like Return to Shepherd Avenue by Charlie Carillo

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Return to Shepherd Avenue

By: Charlie Carillo

4.58

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Set fifty years after the events in SHEPHERD AVENUE, the now sixty-year-old Joey Ambrosio is a succ…

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1. Last Bus to Wisdom

By: Ivan Doig

4.08

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

The final novel from a great American storyteller. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmot… read more

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2. The Dry Grass of August

By: Anna Jean Mayhew

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully written debut, Anna Jean Mayhew offers a riveting depiction of Southern life in… read more

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3. Eva Luna

By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover… read more

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4. The Dollhouse

By: Fiona Davis

4.00

Format: 139 pages,

Fiona Davis's stunning debut novel pulls readers into the lush world of New York City's glamorous B… read more

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5. City Boy

By: Herman Wouk

3.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

'City Boy' spins a hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures… read more

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6. The Fortunate Pilgrim

By: Mario Puzo

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

Before The Godfather and The Last Don, there was Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and s… read more

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7. I'll Take You There

By: Wally Lamb

4.23

Format: 11 pages, ebook

New York Timesbestselling author Wally Lamb weaves an evocative, deeply affecting tapestry of one B… read more

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8. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

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9. When Ghosts Come Home

By: Wiley Cash

3.69

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

A tender and haunting story of a father and daughter, crime and forgiveness, race and memory. Wh… read more

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10. The Moonshiner's Daughter

By: Donna Everhart

4.23

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Set in North Carolina in 1960 and brimming with authenticity and grit, The Moonshiner's Daughter ev… read more

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  • fiction
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11. The Messy Lives of Book People

By: Phaedra Patrick

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Have you ever wished you were someone else? Mother of two Liv Green barely scrapes by as a maid … read more

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12. The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)

By: Susan Wiggs

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In this thought-provoking, wise and emotionally rich novel, New York Times bestselling author Susan… read more

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  • fiction
"Sometimes you have to let the right book find you"

-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)

"You’ll never be happy with what you want until you can be happy with what you’ve got."

-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)

"Autumn was San Francisco's summer. The days were bright and warm, scented with drying leaves and fading flowers and the ever-present salt air."

-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)

"Seeing him amid the yellow leaves and berry-colored hips of the spent roses, and the fading hollyhocks gone to seed along the garden wall, filled her heart."

-Susan Wiggs, The Lost and Found Bookshop (Bella Vista Chronicles, #3)

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13. While You Walked By

By: Regina Felty

4.49

Format: 279 pages, Kindle Edition

*The Wishing Shelf Finalist 2020* ‘A powerful and uplifting coming-of-age story. A FINALIST and hi… read more

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14. The Littlest Library

By: Poppy Alexander

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming literary-themed novel about a woman who turns an ordinary red phone box into the lit… read more

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"There was a book to cure ever ill and solve every problem that was what Mimi had always thought. It was like a tiny sanctuary providing a balm for all of life’s challenges."

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

"Manga is a highly respected form of storytelling. Calling it comics doesn’t do it justice. I’ll sort her out with some other graphic novels, too. It’s all stories. It all counts."

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

"There is that poem. Scott Holland, I think. How does it go? ‘I have only slipped away into the next room’…or something. Yes. ‘I have only slipped away into the next room. I am I and you are you. What…"

-Poppy Alexander, The Littlest Library

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15. The Memory Box

By: Kathryn Hughes

4.49

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

A heartbreakingly beautiful novel, The Memory Box unlocks an unforgettable epic story of love and w… read more

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16. The Trouble With Secrets (The Kilteegan Bridge Story, #1)

By: Jean Grainger

4.44

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork 1958 For eighteen year old Lena Mullery, life is predictable and d… read more

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17. The Unwilling

By: John Hart

4.15

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and seari… read more

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18. Last Summer Boys

By: Bill Rivers

4.41

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

In this rapturous coming-of-age debut, a naive-yet-determined Appalachian boy will go to any length… read more

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19. A Castle in Brooklyn

By: Shirley Russak Wachtel

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Spanning decades, an unforgettable novel about reckoning with the past, the true nature of friendsh… read more

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20. Well Behaved Wives

By: Amy Sue Nathan

3.99

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect wives, imperfect lives, and upending the rules of behavior in 1960s America. Law school … read more

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21. Sooley

By: John Grisham

4.13

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first … read more

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"Men, we don't deserve respect. Yet. Respect is out there on the floor, just waiting for us to go get it."

-John Grisham, Sooley

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22. Real Bad Things

By: Kelly J. Ford

3.56

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Cottonmouths, a Los Angeles Review Best Book of 2017, comes an evocative suspens… read more

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23. More Harm Than Good (The Kilteegan Bridge Story, #3)

By: Jean Grainger

4.58

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Kilteegan Bridge, Ireland 1974For each member of the O’Sullivan family there are turbulent times ah… read more

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24. What Divides Us (The Kilteegan Bridge Story, #2)

By: Jean Grainger

4.56

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

Kilteegan Bridge, Ireland 1963.On the face of it, life is idyllic for Eli and Lena Kogan. Living in… read more

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25. The Bookstore Sisters

By: Alice Hoffman

4.02

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman comes a heartfelt short story about family, in… read more

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"Oh, you're moonlight," he'd said. "Harder to see, but there for those who look."

-Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

"A lot of people don’t know what to do about grief. I don’t blame you for a thing."

-Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

"I don't think I'm the smart sister," Isabel said. "You are," Sophie told her. "You just have a lot to learn."

-Alice Hoffman, The Bookstore Sisters

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26. The Pieces We Keep

By: Kristina McMorris

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

In this richly emotional novel, Kristina McMorris evokes the depth of a mother's bond with her chil… read more

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"War doesn’t start with an explosion….It bears far more subtlety. A simmer beneath the surface, as if bringing broth to a boil."

-Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep

"Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched."

-Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep

"Not every loss was confirmed by an officer at the door. Nor a telegram with the power to sink a fleet. Loss, often the worst kind, also arrived through the deafening quiet of an absence."

-Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep

" Good had defeated evil, people proclaimed, a justification for atrocities best left forgotten. They would cling to this oversimplified truth while trading pats on the back and placing flowers on gra…"

-Kristina McMorris, The Pieces We Keep

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27. Sheltering Angel: A Novel Based on a True Story of the Titanic

By: Louella Bryant

4.56

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

"Sheltering Angel tells the true story of several lesser-known individuals whose lives were impacte… read more

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28. From These Broken Streets

By: Roland Merullo

4.28

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

Roland Merullo, bestselling author of Once Night Falls, returns with a galvanizing historical novel… read more

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29. Hadley & Grace

By: Suzanne Redfearn

4.11

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of In an Instant delivers a heart-pounding and emotional roller-coaster ride of self-dis… read more

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30. My Ride With Gus

By: Charles Carillo

4.17

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

First published in 1996New Year's Eve, 1995. Rising young architect Jimmy Gambar is on top of the w… read more

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31. Return to Shepherd Avenue

By: Charlie Carillo

4.58

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Set fifty years after the events in SHEPHERD AVENUE, the now sixty-year-old Joey Ambrosio is a succ… read more

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18 Best fiction books like When Ghosts Come Home by Wiley Cash

Transform Your Habits

The Postcard

Anne Berest

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Transform Your Habits

The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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