5 must-read family books like The Weight of Memory by Shawn Smucker

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The Weight of Memory

By: Shawn Smucker

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Paul Elias receives a terminal diagnosis, he leaves his physician's office in a fog. Only one …

"We can never trust ourselves, never know our true motives. There is always something deeper at work, something unseen pulling us along to hidden ends. We paddle where we think we want to go, but all along it's the hidden current that takes us."

-Shawn Smucker, The Weight of Memory

"We can never trust ourselves, never know our true motives. There is always something deeper at work, something unseen pulling us along to hidden ends. We paddle where we think we want to go, but all along it's the hidden current that takes us."

-Shawn Smucker, The Weight of Memory

If you liked the family plot in The Weight of Memory by Shawn Smucker , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Maggie (Awakening #2)

By: Charles Martin

4.20

Format: None pages,

"When Maggie opened her eyes that New Year's Day some seventeen months ago, I felt like I could see… read more

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2. The Killing Tide (Coastal Guardians, #1)

By: Dani Pettrey

4.14

Format: 347 pages, Paperback

A Corpse That Only Leads to Secrets. An Old Flame with Danger Written all over Her. Things Are a… read more

Similar categories in Dani Pettrey's The Killing Tide (Coastal Guardians, #1) book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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3. Count the Nights by Stars

By: Michelle Shocklee

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A 2023 Christianity Today Book of the Year Award-winner! Count your nights by stars, not shadows… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Shocklee's Count the Nights by Stars book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • mystery
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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4. Fallout

By: Carrie Stuart Parks

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Samantha Williams’s carefully crafted life is about to be demolished as thoroughly as her art class… read more

Similar categories in Carrie Stuart Parks's Fallout book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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5. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

By: Karen Swallow Prior

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Contemporary American evangelicalism is suffering from an identity crisis--and a lot of bad press. … read more

Similar categories in Karen Swallow Prior's The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian
"For Hardy and other critics of the evangelical movement, too often the desire for purity encouraged hypocrisy, earnest ideals became mere performance, and the valuation of hard work turned into pursu…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

"The novel [ Pamela ] is also a very powerful early expression of the modern self, one who sees her soul as equal in human worth and dignity to anyone, regardless of social class or power--and this, t…"

-Karen Swallow Prior, The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis

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6. The Weight of Air

By: Kimberly Duffy

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1911, Mabel MacGinnis is Europe's strongest woman and has performed beside her father in the Man… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Duffy's The Weight of Air book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • family
  • fiction
"She'd tried so hard to be good. To be quiet and obedient and not a nuisance. But her trying never seemed to accomplish much of anything."

-Kimberly Duffy, The Weight of Air

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7. How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

By: Esau McCaulley

4.62

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black… read more

Similar categories in Esau McCaulley's How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian
"There is no Black faith that doesn't wrestle with the problem of evil. My reply to these questions is: We who have suffered must have some say in how that suffering is interpreted. We won the right, …"

-Esau McCaulley, How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South

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8. The Lost Girl of Astor Street

By: Stephanie Morrill

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Lydia has vanished. Lydia, who’s never broken any rules, except falling in love with the wrong boy.… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Morrill's The Lost Girl of Astor Street book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • mystery
  • fiction
"To love anyone is to risk."

-Stephanie Morrill, The Lost Girl of Astor Street

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9. Wishtress

By: Nadine Brandes

4.03

Format: 453 pages, Hardcover

She didn't ask to be the Wishtress. Myrthe was born with the ability to turn her tears into wish… read more

Similar categories in Nadine Brandes's Wishtress book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"When one fills each day with life, it makes time multiply"

-Nadine Brandes, Wishtress

"We may be on opposite sides, but that doesn't mean we're enemies."

-Nadine Brandes, Wishtress

"I've heard you. I want you to know that.' He held my gaze, his expression intense and determined. 'I know you're trying to get to the Well."

-Nadine Brandes, Wishtress

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10. A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

By: Angela Bell

4.02

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

Miss Clara Marie Stanton's family may be eccentric, but they certainly aren't insane. London, En… read more

Similar categories in Angela Bell's A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fantasy
  • fiction
"You are "

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"You are a maker. Not the Maker."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"Dearest Clara, I would rather be absurd with you than normal with anyone else."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

"Heaven knows you're precious and worth protecting even when men don't, and heaven will defend you even when men fail."

-Angela Bell, A Lady's Guide to Marvels and Misadventure

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11. What Happens Next

By: Christina Suzann Nelson

4.22

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

Popular podcaster and ex-reporter Faith Byrne has made a name for herself telling stories of greatn… read more

Similar categories in Christina Suzann Nelson's What Happens Next book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • family
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12. Labyrinth of Lies (Triple Threat, #2)

By: Irene Hannon

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When the daughter of a high-profile businessman disappears from an exclusive girls' boarding school… read more

Similar categories in Irene Hannon's Labyrinth of Lies (Triple Threat, #2) book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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13. Ghosted: An American Story

By: Nancy French

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more

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14. A Lovely Lie

By: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

3.86

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Is it better to believe a lovely lie or know the horrible truth? 1999: The night of their senior… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Lynn Hendricks's A Lovely Lie book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Premonition at Withers Farm

By: Jaime Jo Wright

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 1910 Michigan, Perliett VanHilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor, G… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Jo Wright's The Premonition at Withers Farm book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
"Empathy. Empathy was the emotion that warred with the brutality of death."

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Premonition at Withers Farm

"Living was sometimes far more terrifying than staring death in the face and accepting one’s fate."

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Premonition at Withers Farm

"But this time—for the first time in a long time—the not-saying-anything said absolutely everything."

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Premonition at Withers Farm

"Whether coming from a fellow mourner or God himself, words were hardly comforting when the heart had shattered into a thousand pieces."

-Jaime Jo Wright, The Premonition at Withers Farm

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16. Revival Season

By: Monica West

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The daughter of one of the South’s most famous Baptist preachers discovers a shocking secret about … read more

Similar categories in Monica West's Revival Season book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Ark and the Dove: The Story of Noah's Wife

By: Jill Eileen Smith

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Zara and Noah have walked together with the Creator for their entire lives, and they have done thei… read more

Similar categories in Jill Eileen Smith's The Ark and the Dove: The Story of Noah's Wife book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • family
  • fiction
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18. What We Hide (Tupelo Grove #1)

By: Colleen Coble

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Savannah Webster is trying to find her way forward. She and her husband, Hez, have been separated s… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Coble's What We Hide (Tupelo Grove #1) book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
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19. The Gold in These Hills

By: Joanne Bischof

4.03

Format: 323 pages, Paperback

Two second-chance love stories, hope across the centuries, and the legacy that binds them together.… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Bischof's The Gold in These Hills book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Sugar Birds

By: Cheryl Grey Bostrom

4.14

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

WINNER, 2021 AMERICAN FICTION AWARDS: Literary, General, and Cross-Genre Fiction SILVER MEDALIS… read more

Similar categories in Cheryl Grey Bostrom's Sugar Birds book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Weight of Memory

By: Shawn Smucker

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Paul Elias receives a terminal diagnosis, he leaves his physician's office in a fog. Only one … read more

Similar categories in Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory book and Shawn Smucker's The Weight of Memory

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • family
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
  • fantasy
"We can never trust ourselves, never know our true motives. There is always something deeper at work, something unseen pulling us along to hidden ends. We paddle where we think we want to go, but all …"

-Shawn Smucker, The Weight of Memory

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4.43

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