22 Best contemporary books like Things Can Only Get Better: An absolutely heartwarming and uplifting read by David M. Barnett

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Things Can Only Get Better: An absolutely heartwarming and uplifting read

By: David M. Barnett

4.10

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

*FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALLING MAJOR TOM*'I loved it. Nostalgic without be…

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1. A Year of Marvellous Ways

By: Sarah Winman

3.87

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Cornwall, 1947. Marvellous Ways is a ninety-year-old woman who's lived alone in a remote creek for … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"He dived into a bottomless pit of sleep"

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"You have to risk failure to become excellent."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"There was no point in tears outliving eyes, so she let them fall."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

"Coming back from the dead is not quite the same as coming back to life."

-Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways

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2. The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr

By: Frances Maynard

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

A socially challenged young woman is finally forced to find her place in the world in this breathta… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Yours Truly

By: Kirsty Greenwood

3.98

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Your bum does not look big in that dress. Mmm, it tastes delicious! Of course you're better looking… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. Black Rabbit Hall

By: Eve Chase

3.53

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For fans of Kate Morton and Sarah Waters, here's a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets… read more

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5. The Last Time I Saw You

By: Jo Leevers

4.04

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

She’s waiting to become a mother—but first she has to find her own. Weeks away from the birth of… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Dream Home

By: T.M. Logan

3.97

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

IF YOU HAD NEVER OPENED THE DOOR, YOUR FAMILY WOULD BE SAFE . . . THE UNMISSABLE NEW THRILLER FR… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Island in the Sun

By: Katie Fforde

3.85

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

When Cass is asked by her father to take on an unusual photography project in the Caribbean Island … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Forever Home

By: Graham Norton

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. In a Thousand Different Ways

By: Cecelia Ahern

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Finding your way is never a simple journey… Alice sees the worst in people. She also sees the… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2)

By: Richard Coles

3.90

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been a few months since murder tore apart the community of Champton apart. As Canon Daniel Cl… read more

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  • fiction
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12. The Book of Beginnings

By: Sally Page

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes the next uplifting story … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Second Chance Store

By: Lauren Bravo

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The Day Shelley Woodhouse Woke Up

By: Laura Pearson

4.20

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Brand new from the #1 bestselling author of The Last List of Mabel Beaumont comes a powerful story … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Vanishing Tide

By: Hilary Tailor

4.30

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

What if all you inherit from your mother are her secrets? Isla knows her family kept things from… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

By: Samuel Burr

3.86

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties th… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"As far as she was concerned, it was something people didn't do enough of: to take a few moments to yourself, when your mind was at its clearest. To reflect on the endless possibilities of the day str…"

-Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

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19. Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly

By: Joanna Glen

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Costa-shortlisted author of THE OTHER HALF OF AUGUSTA HOPE and ALL MY MOTHERS The story… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Phoenix Ballroom

By: Ruth Hogan

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things: a heartfelt and inspiring … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Vintage Shop of Second Chances

By: Libby Page

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Among the cobbled streets of the Somerset town of Frome, Lou is embarking on the start of something… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Life and Otter Miracles

By: Hazel Prior

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Nineteen-year-old Phoebe and her widower father Al have recently moved to Devon, to a small cottage… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. The Botanist's Daughter

By: Kayte Nunn

3.90

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Winston Graham Historical Fiction Prize Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You just have to keep walking through the fire. And then you'll bloom."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"The truth had been hiding in plain sight: a margeurite was a type of daisy."

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"I love you as the plant that never blooms but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers. - Sonnet XVII, Pablo Neruda "

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

"Elizabeth had lent her an aquamarine dress, originally made for Georgiana, with elbow-length sleeves and intricate embroidery of butterflies and bees. It set Daisy's red hair ablaze. 'Fire on water,'…"

-Kayte Nunn, The Botanist's Daughter

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24. The Lifeline

By: Libby Page

4.19

Format: 391 pages, ebook

Everybody needs saving sometimes… For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alon… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. There Is a Light That Never Goes Out

By: David M. Barnett

4.22

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

How do you find love . . . when you have the loneliest job in the world? This is the story of Ga… read more

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  • fiction
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26. The House of Whispers

By: Anna Mazzola

3.64

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes the secrets of the past are more dangerous than the present... Rome, 1938. As the w… read more

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  • fiction
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27. Reasons to Go Outside

By: Esme King

4.28

Format: 343 pages, ebook

Pearl Winter hasn't been outside in forty-three years. Since she arrived on Dartmoor as a girl, … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Things Can Only Get Better: An absolutely heartwarming and uplifting read

By: David M. Barnett

4.10

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

*FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CALLING MAJOR TOM*'I loved it. Nostalgic without be… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. The Secrets of Flowers

By: Sally Page

4.33

Format: 432 pages, ebook

From the author of the phenomenal bestsellers The Keeper of Stories and The Book of Beginnings come… read more

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30. You Belong with Me

By: Mhairi McFarlane

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a charming, hilarious, and heartfelt new novel a… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She felt like Elizabeth Bennet promising her dad that Mr. Darcy wasn't a proud dick after all and that the great estate at Pemberley wasn't a factor, promise."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"We've come a long way since I was hired to write your life story, haven't we?' 'Fair to say, you understood the assignment. You haven't stopped writing it since."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"Do you know how much I wish I was there?' 'Is it as much as I wish you were here?' 'Is it like a whole-body longing that slides into a supercut of favourite memories? If so, yes."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"I've got a pint of black coffee with two sugars in the BA lounge, and I look like I've been exhumed by detectives who want to run toxicology tests to prove foul play. In a hailstorm. I wouldn't chang…"

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

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31. The Secret of the Brighton House

By: Cathy Hayward

4.07

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Her family lied to protect her. Will the truth tear them apart? Joanne’s always been told her moth… read more

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  • fiction

29 best-selling fiction books like Things Can Only Get Better: An absolutely heartwarming and uplifting read by David M. Barnett

Transform Your Habits

A Year of Marvellous Ways

Sarah Winman

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Seven Rules of Elvira Carr

Frances Maynard

4.22

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Yours Truly

Kirsty Greenwood

3.98

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The Last Time I Saw You

Jo Leevers

4.04

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21 best-selling fiction books like A Death in the Parish (Canon Clement, #2) by Richard Coles

Transform Your Habits

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night (New Hercule Poirot Mysteries, #5)

Sophie Hannah

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Last Dance (Detective Miller #1)

Mark Billingham

4.11

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Murder on Lake Garda

Tom Hindle

3.55

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