18 must-read fiction books like Bethlehem by Karen Kelly

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Bethlehem

By: Karen Kelly

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With the atmospheric storytelling of Kate Morton and Lisa Wingate, Karen Kelly weaves a shattering …

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1. The Perfect Summer (Hubbard's Point)

By: Luanne Rice

4.07

Format: 429 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Old friendships--and love--make all things new again. The acclaimed author of Safe Harbor and ot… read more

Similar categories in Luanne Rice's The Perfect Summer (Hubbard's Point) book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • womens
  • family
  • fiction
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2. Murder at the Brightwell (Amory Ames Mystery, #1)

By: Ashley Weaver

3.77

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

Amory Ames is a wealthy young woman who regrets her marriage to her notoriously charming playboy hu… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Weaver's Murder at the Brightwell (Amory Ames Mystery, #1) book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Well, one can't stop love, can one?"

-Ashley Weaver, Murder at the Brightwell (Amory Ames Mystery, #1)

"The letter wasn't at all in Milo's style. He would have issued a much more elegant threat on vastly superior stationery."

-Ashley Weaver, Murder at the Brightwell (Amory Ames Mystery, #1)

"We looked into one another's eyes, and I think we both knew in that instant that the past was behind us. We could never be to each other what we had been once."

-Ashley Weaver, Murder at the Brightwell (Amory Ames Mystery, #1)

"Poor darling," he said, shaking his head, "you're not cold-hearted enough to be a detective. You only want the disagreeable people to be guilty, and I'm afraid you'll find that life isn't like that."

-Ashley Weaver, Murder at the Brightwell (Amory Ames Mystery, #1)

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3. Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her

By: Melanie Rehak

3.76

Format: 314 pages, Paperback

A plucky “titian-haired” sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930. Eighty million books later, Nancy… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Rehak's Girl Sleuth: Nancy Drew and the Women Who Created Her book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • womens

4. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee

By: Sarah Silverman

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Hardcover

From the outrageously filthy and oddly innocent comedienne Sarah Silverman comes a memoir--her firs… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Silverman's The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

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5. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Cities of Smoke and Starlight (Gate Chronicles, #1)

By: Alli Earnest

3.67

Format: 488 pages, Paperback

Two lost souls. One dangerous mission. Kase is a screw up, and when he takes the blame for nearl… read more

Similar categories in Alli Earnest's Cities of Smoke and Starlight (Gate Chronicles, #1) book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
"You’re absolutely hilarious."

-Alli Earnest, Cities of Smoke and Starlight (Gate Chronicles, #1)

"The librarian went back to her ledgers, and Hallie trailed off, holding back all the Shakespearean insults that flooded into her mind, froward and unable worm being the most prominent. --Hallie"

-Alli Earnest, Cities of Smoke and Starlight (Gate Chronicles, #1)

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7. Desperate Deadly Widows (The Widows, #2)

By: Kimberly Belle

3.68

Format: 11 pages, Audible Audio

10 hours, 12 minutes The widows are back! Big hair and bigger lies collide in the highly anticip… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly Belle's Desperate Deadly Widows (The Widows, #2) book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

By: Tori Bovalino

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath… read more

Similar categories in Tori Bovalino's The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • fiction
"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"me standing there- just standing there- looking around and thinking, God, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be somewhere else, this is wrong, this is *wrong*."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"I don't like the way he say you. Like I different. Like I didn't just see one-of-me-like-me beat until she fall. [...] But my boy doesn't see. He can't see. Can't hear, either. He never tried to mimi…"

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

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9. One Big Happy Family

By: Jamie Day

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The newest, riveting summer suspense by the author of The Block Party, Jamie Day. The Precipice … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Day's One Big Happy Family book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Two Wars and a Wedding

By: Lauren Willig

3.89

Format: 435 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig: a dramatic coming-of-age story with a dual ti… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Willig's Two Wars and a Wedding book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Her Sister's Death

By: K.L. Murphy

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

She wanted the truth. She should have known better. When her sister is found dead in a Baltimore… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Murphy's Her Sister's Death book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The War Librarian

By: Addison Armstrong

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

The Paris Library meets The Flight Girls in this captivating historical novel about the sacrifice a… read more

Similar categories in Addison Armstrong's The War Librarian book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. The Memory of Lavender and Sage

By: Aimie K. Runyan

4.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Food critic Tempèsta Luddington has always felt like the odd person out in her family, ever since s… read more

Similar categories in Aimie K. Runyan's The Memory of Lavender and Sage book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • family
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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15. A Single Swallow

By: Zhang Ling

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling’s epic and intimate nove… read more

Similar categories in Zhang Ling's A Single Swallow book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby by Ellery Lloyd

16. The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby

By: Ellery Lloyd

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Some women won't be painted out of history . . . Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress a… read more

Similar categories in Ellery Lloyd's The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Chanel Sisters

By: Judithe Little

3.94

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

A novel of survival, love, loss, triumph—and the sisters who changed fashion forever Antoinette … read more

Similar categories in Judithe Little's The Chanel Sisters book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It was so much easier to dream when you knew what to dream of"

-Judithe Little, The Chanel Sisters

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18. The Heirloom

By: Jessie Rosen

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

He popped the question. She'll search the world to find the answer... Shea Anderson’s beloved No… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Rosen's The Heirloom book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Bethlehem

By: Karen Kelly

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With the atmospheric storytelling of Kate Morton and Lisa Wingate, Karen Kelly weaves a shattering … read more

Similar categories in Karen Kelly's Bethlehem book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • unfinished
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

20. The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern

By: Lynda Cohen Loigman

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It's never too late for new beginnings. On the cusp of turning eighty, newly retired pharmacist … read more

Similar categories in Lynda Cohen Loigman's The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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21. In Every Life

By: Rea Frey

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What happens when a husband's dying wish is for his wife to find a new love... before he's even gon… read more

Similar categories in Rea Frey's In Every Life book and Karen Kelly's Bethlehem

  • romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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