10 Best fiction books like Fools by Joan Silber

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Fools

By: Joan Silber

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Emotionally, it’s astounding. 'Linked' doesn’t begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven……

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1. You Will Know Me

By: Megan Abbott

3.43

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnasti… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can."

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

"...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change. That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard."

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

"This sensible, sensible girl. A girl who knew how to protect herself. Never a daredevil, never stunting without a safety mat, without spotters. A girl for whom instability was the ultimate enemy. Who…"

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

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2. Life Without a Recipe

By: Diana Abu-Jaber

2.00

Format: 88 pages, Hardcover

On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber's tough, independent sugar-fiend … read more

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3. All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation

By: Rebecca Traister

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A nuanced investigation into the sexual, economic, and emotional lives of women in America. In a pr… read more

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4. The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

By: Jane Gardam

4.10

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

The New York Times called Sir Edward Feathers one of the most memorable characters in modern litera… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction

5. An Officer and a Spy

By: Robert Harris

3.73

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Robert Harris returns to the thrilling historical fiction he has so brilliantly made his own. This … read more

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6. Arcadia

By: Lauren Groff

4.37

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the fields and forests of western New York State in the late 1960s, several dozen idealists set … read more

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7. Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life

By: Natalie Goldberg

3.76

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

Natalie Goldberg, author of the bestselling Writing Down The Bones, teaches a method of writing tha… read more

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8. After Rain

By: William Trevor

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . After Rain- Twelve remarkable s… read more

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9. Dreams from Bunker Hill (The Saga of Arthur Bandini, #4)

By: John Fante

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

My first collision with fame was hardly memorable. I was a busboy at Marx's Deli. The year was 1934… read more

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10. The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1)

By: Laurie R. King

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Long retired, Sherlock Holmes quietly pursues his study of honeybee behavior on the Sussex Downs. H… read more

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11. The Forgotten Waltz

By: Anne Enright

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this extraordinary novel, Anne Enright explores the momentous drama of everyday life; the volati… read more

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12. From a Far and Lovely Country (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, #24)

By: Alexander McCall Smith

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

The latest installment in Alexander McCall Smith's delightfully diverting No. 1 Ladies' Detective … read more

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  • fiction
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13. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

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14. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection

By: Haemin Sunim

4.22

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A #1 internationally bestselling book of spiritual wisdom about learning to love ourselves, with al… read more

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"You were rushing to lick honey off a razor’s edge."

-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection

"Ware vrijheid is vrij zijn van de angst om niet perfect te zijn"

-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection

"Our True self can never be lost, even for a single moment. Just like the present can never be lost- it is always here and now, wether or not we pay attention to it"

-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection

"Because I have experienced pain, I am able to embrace the pain of others. Because I have made mistakes, I am able to forgive others their mistakes. May my suffering become the seed of compassion"

-Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection

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16. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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17. The Titanic Survivors Book Club

By: Timothy Schaffert

3.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A remarkable tale about the life-changing power of books, following the Titanic librarian whose sur… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I would happily spend every minute of my future hearing about every minute of his past."

-Timothy Schaffert, The Titanic Survivors Book Club

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18. My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

By: Hannah Pick-Goslar

4.66

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT  NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, auth… read more

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19. The Collector’s Apprentice

By: B.A. Shapiro

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

It’s the summer of 1922, and nineteen-year-old Paulien Mertens finds herself in Paris—broke, disown… read more

Similar categories in B.A. Shapiro's The Collector’s Apprentice book and Joan Silber's Fools

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. The Poet's House

By: Jean Thompson

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A warm and witty story of a young woman who gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Fools

By: Joan Silber

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

"Emotionally, it’s astounding. 'Linked' doesn’t begin to describe the complex web Silber has woven…… read more

Similar categories in Joan Silber's Fools book and Joan Silber's Fools

  • new york
  • literary fiction
  • american
  • literature
  • religion
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary

7 must-read contemporary books like Fools by Joan Silber

Transform Your Habits

You Will Know Me

Megan Abbott

3.43

Transform Your Habits

The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2)

Jane Gardam

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Table for Two

Amor Towles

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Enter Ghost

Isabella Hammad

4.09

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15 Top fiction books like The Man in the Wooden Hat (Old Filth, #2) by Jane Gardam

Transform Your Habits

The Dressmaker

Beryl Bainbridge

3.55

Transform Your Habits

Someone at a Distance

Dorothy Whipple

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Blaming

Elizabeth Taylor , Jonathan Keates

3.76

Family Album

Penelope Lively

3.79

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