23 best-selling fiction books like A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib

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A Pure Heart

By: Rajia Hassib

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters, their divergent fates and the secrets of one family …

"The only thing one "

-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart

"The only thing one "

-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart

"God knows what's in everyone's heart. Works are judged based on the intentions behind them, on the purity of one's heart."

-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart

"God knows what's in everyone's heart. Works are judged based on the intentions behind them, on the purity of one's heart."

-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart

If you liked the fiction plot in A Pure Heart by Rajia Hassib , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

By: Sandra Uwiringiyimana , Abigail Pesta

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this powerful memoir, Sandra Uwiringyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, te… read more

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  • africa
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's okay to express yourself. It doesn't mean you're weak"

-Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

"I knew the sounds of war before I knew how to do a cartwheel."

-Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child

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2. Something Beautiful Happened: A Story of Survival and Courage in the Face of Evil

By: Yvette Manessis Corporon

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Seventy years after her grandmother helped hide a Jewish family on a Greek island during World War … read more

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3. In the Midst of Winter

By: Isabel Allende

3.72

Format: 10 pages, Audiobook

New York Times and worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende r… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"El amor siempre se me ha dado a medias"

-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter

"Lo tuyo, niña, no es una enfermedad del cuerpo, sino del alma"

-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter

"Lo más temible de la muerte era la idea de la eternidad. Muerto para siempre, qué horror"

-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter

"El corazón no se rompe como un huevo. Y si fuera un huevo, ¿no es mejor romperlo para que se demarren los sentimientos? Es el precio por una vida bien vivida."

-Isabel Allende, In the Midst of Winter

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4. The Unseen World

By: None

3.92

Format: 290 pages,

Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who direct… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions (Kopp Sisters #3)

By: Amy Stewart

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gunand Lady Cop Makes Troublecontinues her extraordinary… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Borrower

By: Rebecca Makkai

4.35

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with readin… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

7. Salt Houses

By: Hala Alyan

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more

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8. Faith

By: Jennifer Haigh

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When Sheila McGann sets out to redeem her disgraced brother, a once-beloved Catholic priest in subu… read more

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9. The Blood of Flowers

By: Anita Amirrezvani

4.19

Format: 208 pages,

In the fabled city of Isfahan, in seventeenth-century Persia, a young woman confronts a dismal fate… read more

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10. Together Tea

By: Marjan Kamali

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Together Tea, Marjan Kamali's delightful and heartwarming debut novel, Darya has discovered the … read more

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11. 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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12. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

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  • audiobook
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13. Sparks Like Stars

By: Nadia Hashimi

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanist… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Grief starts before anyone has gone missing."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

"If faith was a life raft, mine was riddled with holes."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

"Let people serve you information, but never let them serve you your opinion."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

"You need no one to confirm you. You are everything you believe yourself to be."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

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14. The Beauty of Your Face

By: Sahar Mustafah

4.19

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face wit… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • islam
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"You do not laugh at someone who is trying; only at fools who do not give themselves a chance."

-Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face

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15. Alternate Side

By: Anna Quindlen

3.35

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood—and a seemingly happy marriage—are exposed by an unexpect… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?"

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." She actually sometimes thought that was the definition of marriage."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"It was notable because they rarely quarreled anymore. Their marriage had become like the AA prayer: 'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

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16. Swift River

By: Essie J. Chambers

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

10 hours, 30 minutes A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK | A Most Anticipated Book from… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your hometown makes you and breaks you and makes you again."

-Essie J. Chambers, Swift River

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17. The Sun Sets in Singapore

By: Kehinde Fadipe

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Basking in Singapore’s nonstop sunshine, low tax rate, and luxury goods market, Dara, Amaka, and Li… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The House of Broken Bricks

By: Fiona Williams

3.83

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ain’t nothing wrong with being broken. Nothing at all. You’re like these houses, not a whole brick … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Improvement

By: Joan Silber

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

One of our most gifted writers of fiction returns with a bold and piercing novel about a young sing… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Fierce loyalty. That's how the Kurds survived for two and a half thousand years while the Hitties and the Phrygians died out. Communal Loyalty."

-Joan Silber, Improvement

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20. The Wildest Sun

By: Asha Lemmie

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain , Asha Lemmie's next sweeping a… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Great Unexpected

By: Dan Mooney

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A curmudgeon and his eccentric new roommate join together to plan an epic escape in this charming, … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. The Last Book Party

By: Karen Dukess

3.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive tale of ambition and romance, set in the publishing world of 1980’s New York and the t… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I loved how kindly the weather changed on mornings like this, as if sparing you the shock of awakening into a bright, clear day and instead taking your hand and gently guiding you from the cloud of s…"

-Karen Dukess, The Last Book Party

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23. Much Ado about Nada

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A sparkling second-chance romance inspired by Jane Austen's Persuasion... Nada Syed is stuck. On… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Life really was bizarre on occasion."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

"He didn't want anything to change, ever. And so nothing changed for anyone in her family. Ever."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

"A world doesn't exist where I don't choose you, Nada beta, over everyone else. I will always choose you."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

"My parents want to leave a legacy. We want to create our own. We're all just making it up as we go along."

-Uzma Jalaluddin, Much Ado about Nada

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24. Lost in Paris

By: Elizabeth Thompson

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

When a deed to an apartment in Paris turns up in an old attic trunk, an estranged mother and daught… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. The Map of Salt and Stars

By: Zeyn Joukhadar

3.92

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

Nour es una niña de once años cuyo padre acaba de morir. Su madre, cartógrafa que dibuja los mapas … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Stories are powerful,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"I don’t understand why we were shelled."

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The sea has a way of showing us ourselves,"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

"The most important places on a map are the places we haven't been yet"

-Zeyn Joukhadar, The Map of Salt and Stars

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26. Things Past Telling

By: Sheila Williams

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Erne… read more

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  • africa
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. Dog Days

By: Ericka Waller

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Ericka Waller's Dog Days is a debut novel about the way dogs can bring out the best in us in the fa… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. The Volcano Daughters

By: Gina María Balibrera

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A saucy, searingly original debut about two sisters raised in the shadow of El Salvador’s brutal di… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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29. A Pure Heart

By: Rajia Hassib

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A powerful novel about two Egyptian sisters, their divergent fates and the secrets of one family … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • islam
  • egypt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The only thing one "

-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart

"God knows what's in everyone's heart. Works are judged based on the intentions behind them, on the purity of one's heart."

-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart

"Rose wished everyone would study ancient Egyptian religion, then go on to study Judaism, Christianity, Coptic Christianity-as she did during her MA in Egypt-and Islam, and then go on to read about ev…"

-Rajia Hassib, A Pure Heart

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30. Like Mother, Like Mother

By: Susan Rieger

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An enthralling novel about three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern by Lynda Cohen Loigman

31. 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

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Transform Your Habits

In the Midst of Winter

Isabel Allende

3.72

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The Unseen World

None

3.92

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The Borrower

Rebecca Makkai

4.35

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ariel Lawhon

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