28 Top fiction books like Small Mercies by Richard Anderson

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Small Mercies

By: Richard Anderson

3.72

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A husband and wife living on a severely drought-afflicted property take a brief break, only to find…

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1. The Ninth Hour

By: Alice McDermott

3.59

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A magnificent new novel from one of America’s finest writers—a powerfully affecting story spanning … read more

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2. Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)

By: Laura Ingalls Wilder , Garth Williams

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded… read more

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3. Thin Air (Shetland Island, #6)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.91

Format: None pages,

A group of old university friends leave the bright lights of London and travel to Unst, Shetland's … read more

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4. All Change (Cazalet Chronicles #5)

By: Elizabeth Jane Howard

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is the 1950s and as the Cazalets' beloved matriarch, the Duchy, passes away, she takes with her … read more

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5. The Italian Wife

By: Kate Furnivall

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Italy, 1932 -- Mussolini's Italy is growing from strength to strength, but at what cost? One bright… read more

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6. Mothering Sunday

By: Graham Swift

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more

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7. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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8. The Winter Soldier

By: Daniel Mason

3.99

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Euro… read more

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9. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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10. If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more

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"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

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11. Shrines of Gaiety

By: Kate Atkinson

3.85

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more

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"The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?"

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."

-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety

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12. The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker

By: Joanna Nell

3.95

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

As the wife of retired ship’s doctor Dr Henry Parker, Evelyn is living out her twilight years aboar… read more

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13. Dirt Creek

By: Hayley Scrivenor

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Austral… read more

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14. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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15. Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year

By: Joanna Nell

3.77

Format: 352 pages, ebook

Husband and wife GPs Alan and Heather Winterbottom have worked side by side in their idyllic rural … read more

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16. The Other Side of Beautiful

By: Kim Lock

3.94

Format: 368 pages, ebook

What happens when fate says 'go'? Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out nove… read more

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"No matter how people fought it, or denied it, or outraged about it. Death happened. Birth happened. Life happened. It was a devastating, as transformative, and a simple as that."

-Kim Lock, The Other Side of Beautiful

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17. The Warsaw Orphan

By: Kelly Rimmer

4.37

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond t… read more

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18. When the Stars Go Dark

By: Paula McLain

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Anna Hart is a missing persons detective in San Francisco. When tragedy strikes her personal life, … read more

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"Getting your heart broken is the privilege of being human."

-Paula McLain, When the Stars Go Dark

"What is all the suffering for if not so we can see how alike we are, and not alone? Where will the mercy come from, if not from us?"

-Paula McLain, When the Stars Go Dark

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19. Oh William!

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more

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"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

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20. Winter Counts

By: David Heska Wanbli Weiden

3.84

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a dange… read more

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"There is no word for goodbye in Lakota. That's what my mother used to tell me. Sure, there are words like toksa, which meant "later," that were used by people as a modern substitute. She'd told me la…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

"But as I thought about it, I liked the idea more and more. Depredation claims. If something was stolen from you, all you had to do was file a claim and your losses would be restored. How about a depr…"

-David Heska Wanbli Weiden, Winter Counts

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21. The Younger Wife

By: Sally Hepworth

3.79

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

THE HUSBAND A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But f… read more

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"She just needed to reframe, that was all. People reframed all the time. People who realized they weren't going to live a long life. People who lost a loved one, suffered an accident, lost use of a li…"

-Sally Hepworth, The Younger Wife

"Being Tully’s sister required a very specific skill set. You had to be an animated conversationalist (Tully was easily bored) but also a calming influence. You had to be fully invested in whatever sh…"

-Sally Hepworth, The Younger Wife

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22. Love Untold

By: Ruth Jones

4.33

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of wo… read more

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23. And So It Begins (Stephanie King, #1)

By: Rachel Abbott

4.17

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Mark and Evie had a whirlwind romance. Evie brought Mark back to life after the sudden death of his… read more

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24. The Running Club

By: Ali Lowe

3.92

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

The rules of the running club are the same as they have always been: keep your breath steady, keep … read more

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25. The Bushranger's Wife

By: Cheryl Adnams

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

He stole her locket ... she stole his heart. Central Highlands of Victoria, 1861 Jack the Dev… read more

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26. Against the Loveless World

By: Susan Abulhawa

4.50

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more

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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"

-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World

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27. The Watchful Wife

By: Suzanne Leal

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A story of unshakeable belief and unbending faith from the author of The Deceptions.'The Watchful W… read more

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28. The Cartographer's Secret

By: Tea Cooper

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A map into the past. A long-lost young woman. And a thirty-year family mystery. The Hunter Valley, … read more

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29. The Mystery Woman

By: Belinda Alexandra

3.86

Format: 432 pages, ebook

In a small town, everyone is watching ... Secrets, scandal and betrayal in 1950s small town Austral… read more

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30. The Crimson Thread

By: Kate Forsyth

4.03

Format: 350 pages, Hardcover

In Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brut… read more

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31. Small Mercies

By: Richard Anderson

3.72

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A husband and wife living on a severely drought-afflicted property take a brief break, only to find… read more

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Hernan Diaz

3.83

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Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Kate Morton

4.07

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