24 must-read fiction books like The Dying of the Light by Robert Goolrick

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The Dying of the Light

By: Robert Goolrick

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the author of the bestselling A Reliable Wife comes a dramatic, passionate tale of a glamorous…

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1. A Thousand Acres

By: Jane Smiley

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

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2. Cavendon Hall (Cavendon Hall, #1)

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author comes an epic saga of intrigue and mystique set in Edw… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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3. Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West

By: Dorothy Wickenden

3.71

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, close friends from childhood and gr… read more

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  • historical
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4. The Widow of Wall Street

By: Randy Susan Meyers

0.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

What's real in a marriage built on sand and how do you abandon a man you've loved since the age of … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
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5. Love and Other Consolation Prizes

By: Jamie Ford

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Audio CD

From the bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweetcomes a powerful novel, inspi… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult

6. Sisterland

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Timesbestselling author of American Wife andPrep, returns with a mesmer… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction

7. One More Day

By: Kelly Simmons

3.43

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

Don't look away No one wants to be the mother whose child disappears. It's unthinkable, the stuff o… read more

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8. Folly Beach (Lowcountry Tales, #8)

By: Dorothea Benton Frank

3.43

Format: 331 pages,

Folly Beach Home is the place that knows us best. . . . A woman returns to the past to find her fut… read more

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9. The Dressmaker

By: Kate Alcott

2.50

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Just in time for the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the Titaniccomes a vivid, romantic, a… read more

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10. Open House

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until th… read more

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11. Turning Angel (Penn Cage #2)

By: Greg Iles

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Paperback

After winning the most dangerous case of his career, prosecutor Penn Cage decides to remain in his … read more

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12. The Girls in the Picture

By: Melanie Benjamin

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An intimate portrait of the close friendship and powerful creative partnership between two of Holly… read more

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13. 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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  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • drama
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14. The Girl in White Gloves

By: Kerri Maher

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A life in snapshots… Grace knows what people see. She’s the Cinderella story. An icon of glamor… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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15. Belgravia

By: Julian Fellowes

3.77

Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition

FROM THE CREATOR OF DOWNTON ABBEY The New York Times bestselling novel about scandalous secrets and… read more

Similar categories in Julian Fellowes's Belgravia book and Robert Goolrick's The Dying of the Light

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"I would fight dragons, I would walk over flaming coals, I would enter the Valley of the Dead, if I thought I might have a chance of your heart."

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

"Oliver did not seem to understand that the only real fulfilment on this earth was to be gained through hard work. Life as a series of momentary pleasures satisfied no one. He needed to make an invest…"

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

"She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible unti…"

-Julian Fellowes, Belgravia

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16. 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
  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"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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17. The Arctic Fury

By: Greer Macallister

3.87

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

In early 1853, experienced California Trail guide Virginia Reeve is summoned to Boston by a mysteri… read more

Similar categories in Greer Macallister's The Arctic Fury book and Robert Goolrick's The Dying of the Light

  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Postmistress of Paris

By: Meg Waite Clayton

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Now an International bestseller, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, Good Morning America B… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"No one suspects American women of anything but needlepoint. Men so seldom imagine us capable of the things we're capable of."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris

"Even in the darkest times at Camp des Milles, the men kept making art and music, literature, theatre. It was how they stayed alive. How they helped the world right itself."

-Meg Waite Clayton, The Postmistress of Paris

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19. All You Have to Do Is Call

By: Kerri Maher

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A dramatic and inspiring novel based on the true story of the Jane Collective and the brave women w… read more

Similar categories in Kerri Maher's All You Have to Do Is Call book and Robert Goolrick's The Dying of the Light

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
"I wish you could understand what it's like to have to stop doing something you love, something important , just because your body is made to carry children. No one else can do this for me...."

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"No matter what you want to call it," Veronica said, steering clear of words like cells and fetus that might further inflame Patty, "it resides inside a fully grown woman with a life to lead. Jane hel…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

"[She] hadn't given a lot of thought to the many reasons why women needed abortions, but there was such a wide range: maternal health, money, rape and incest, shocking cluelessness about how pregnancy…"

-Kerri Maher, All You Have to Do Is Call

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20. A Danger to Herself and Others

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.86

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Only when she’s locked away does the truth begin to escape… Four walls. One window. No way to e… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's A Danger to Herself and Others book and Robert Goolrick's The Dying of the Light

  • fiction
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21. Better Luck Next Time

By: Julia Claiborne Johnson

3.60

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly anticipated second novel from the bestselling author of Be Frank with Me, a charming st… read more

Similar categories in Julia Claiborne Johnson's Better Luck Next Time book and Robert Goolrick's The Dying of the Light

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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22. Bright and Deadly Things

By: Lexie Elliott

3.45

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A remote back-to-basics mountaintop retreat in the French Alps turns deadly as an Oxford fellow fin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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23. The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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24. Jackie

By: Dawn Tripp

4.34

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
"not only because of the pleasure it will bring, but because the power of ideas, and the ability to express them, is the greatest power we have."

-Dawn Tripp, Jackie

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25. The Air You Breathe

By: Frances de Pontes Peebles

3.87

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

The story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and pride--and each woman's fea… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Can something be called a memory if it is untrue?"

-Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

"You are not you without me. And everything we are, together, is what we’re meant to be."

-Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

"But life isn't as orderly as a story or a song; it does not always begin and end at compelling points."

-Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

"Fame is longing. Not yours, but the audience’s. A star is nothing more, nothing less, than the public face of private desire."

-Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Air You Breathe

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26. Marley

By: Jon Clinch

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“By some uncanny act of artistic appropriation, [Clinch] has, without imitating Dickens, entered in… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"The situation is unendurable, and yet he endures."

-Jon Clinch, Marley

"The orchestra concludes to a merry burst of applause and the orchestra slides into a waltz—a much-needed chance for the dancers to catch their breath, perhaps even an opportunity for the whispering o…"

-Jon Clinch, Marley

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27. The Soviet Sisters

By: Anika Scott

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The German Heiress, Anika Scott, comes a gripping new historical nov… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Mother Next Door

By: Tara Laskowski

3.52

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

GOOD MOTHERS…Never show their feelings.Never spill their secrets.Never admit to murder.The annual H… read more

Similar categories in Tara Laskowski's The Mother Next Door book and Robert Goolrick's The Dying of the Light

  • adult
  • fiction
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29. The Breathtaker

By: Alice Blanchard

3.83

Format: 410 pages, Kindle Edition

When a tornado slams into Promise, Oklahoma, only three of the town’s terrified residents know that… read more

Similar categories in Alice Blanchard's The Breathtaker book and Robert Goolrick's The Dying of the Light

  • adult
  • fiction
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30. The Dying of the Light

By: Robert Goolrick

3.24

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the author of the bestselling A Reliable Wife comes a dramatic, passionate tale of a glamorous… read more

Similar categories in Robert Goolrick's The Dying of the Light book and Robert Goolrick's The Dying of the Light

  • gothic
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • 20th century
  • family
  • novels
  • adult
  • drama
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31. Secrets of Our House

By: Rea Frey

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A thrilling domestic drama set against the power of the wilderness, Secrets of Our House is a deepl… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • drama

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