8 Top fiction books like Amy Moves In by Marilyn Sachs

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Amy Moves In

By: Marilyn Sachs

3.78

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The first in a series of highly praised books about a poor, Jewish family living in the Bronx in th…

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Cover of Lover at Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #11) by J.R. Ward

1. Lover at Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #11)

By: J.R. Ward

4.30

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to being on his own. Disavowed from his bloodline, shunned by the ar… read more

Similar categories in J.R. Ward's Lover at Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #11) book and Marilyn Sachs's Amy Moves In

  • fiction
"I’m right here,"

-J.R. Ward, Lover at Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #11)

"Let me kiss you."

-J.R. Ward, Lover at Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #11)

"Blow me, Grim Reaper!"

-J.R. Ward, Lover at Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #11)

"I want to be with you, too,"

-J.R. Ward, Lover at Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #11)

Cover of Gone-Away Lake by Elizabeth Enright, Joe Krush, Beth Krush

2. Gone-Away Lake

By: Elizabeth Enright , Joe Krush , Beth Krush

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Summer has a magic all its own. When Portia sets out for a visit with her cousin Julian, she exp… read more

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  • childrens
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Things are always happening to my socks. One's always going off someplace. I don't know why."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

"Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

"Yes, except that nothing sleeps inside but furniture, and that's probably gone to pieces by now. Time gets into anything; yes, indeed it does; and weather helps it."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

"Mr. Payton was at work on his pipe again, lighting and coaxing it. "They need constant attention, pipes, like babies and guinea hens," he said, and sucked in the smoke."

-Elizabeth Enright, Gone-Away Lake

Cover of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

3. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

By: E.L. Konigsburg

3.76

Format: None pages,

When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from some… read more

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  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction

4. The Hero and the Crown (Damar, #2)

By: Robin McKinley

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Aerin could not remember a time when she had not known the story; she had grown up knowing it. It w… read more

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5. Love That Dog (Jack, #1)

By: Sharon Creech

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

"I guess it does look like a poem when you see it typed up like that." Jack hates poetry. Only girl… read more

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6. My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)

By: Jean Craighead George

2.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Terribly unhappy in his family's crowded New York City apartment, Sam Gribley runs away to the soli… read more

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Cover of You Like It Darker by Stephen        King

7. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear by Jinger Duggar Vuolo

8. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kid… read more

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9. 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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  • fiction
Cover of What You Wish For by Katherine Center

10. What You Wish For

By: Katherine Center

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Samantha Casey is a school librarian who loves her job, the kids, and her school family with passio… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
"If you never let yourself want anything,"

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"We made a choice to do joy on purpose. Not in spite of life’s sorrows. But because of them."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"...courage makes everything easier next time. And I'm not going to let you live your life in fear."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

"I'm telling you. I know all about darkness. That's why I am so hell-bent, every damn day, on looking for the light."

-Katherine Center, What You Wish For

Cover of Sign Here by Claudia  Lux

11. Sign Here

By: Claudia Lux

3.80

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A darkly humorous, surprisingly poignant, and utterly gripping debut novel about a guy who works in… read more

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  • fiction
"To breathe is miraculous."

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"Does it count as staying if leaving is always on the mind? How much lying does a marriage need to survive?"

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"It was the greatest irony of her life: how much she hated her body and how much she lived for the attention it garnered."

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

"Love is one of these things humans experience, twist to fit their cage of mortality, and then claim to have invented. I'm not blaming you, far from it. Love was made to be coveted, and humans are not…"

-Claudia Lux, Sign Here

Cover of Amy Moves In by Marilyn Sachs

12. Amy Moves In

By: Marilyn Sachs

3.78

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The first in a series of highly praised books about a poor, Jewish family living in the Bronx in th… read more

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  • new york
  • childrens
  • realistic fiction
  • middle grade
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction

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Stephen Graham Jones

4.21

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Michael Crichton

3.91

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