21 Top fiction books like The Korean Word For Butterfly by Jamie Zerndt

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The Korean Word For Butterfly

By: Jamie Zerndt

3.50

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Set against the backdrop of the 2002 World Cup and rising anti-American sentiment due to a deadly a…

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1. My Absolute Darling

By: Gabriel Tallent

3.61

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

At 14, Turtle Alveston knows the use of every gun on her wall. She knows how to snare a rabbit, sha… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Dude, with your voice you are like, 'Look at all these books I've read,' but with your eyes you are like, 'Help me."

-Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling

"Her moments of happiness occur right at the margin of unbearable. She knows it will not last and she thinks, you can never forget, Turtle, what is like, here, without him. You have to hold tight on t…"

-Gabriel Tallent, My Absolute Darling

Cover of You Don't Want To Know by Lisa Jackson

2. You Don't Want To Know

By: Lisa Jackson

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Nothing Life as Ava Garrison knew it ended the day her toddler son Noah went missing. In the two… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. The Essay

By: Robin Yocum

4.39

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Jimmy Lee Hickam grew up along Red Dog Road, a dead-end strip of gravel and mud buried deep in the … read more

Similar categories in Robin Yocum's The Essay book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. Among the Lesser Gods

By: Margo Catts

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Tragedy and blessing. Leave them alone long enough, and it gets real hard to tell them apart." Ele… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of After She's Gone (Northwest #3) by Lisa Jackson

5. After She's Gone (Northwest #3)

By: Lisa Jackson

4.00

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

In this explosive new thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson delves into the d… read more

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  • fiction

6. Where There's Smoke

By: Jodi Picoult

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Jodi Picoult is a masterful storyteller, who "writes with a fine touch, a sharp … read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's Where There's Smoke book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • fiction
  • contemporary

7. Pretending to Dance

By: Diane Chamberlain

3.88

Format: 588 pages, Hardcover

Molly Arnette is very good at keeping secrets. She lives in San Diego with a husband she adores, an… read more

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8. The Song of the Mockingbird

By: Bill Cronin

3.78

Format: 288 pages,

Reynolds and Ryan Publishing paid best-selling author, Jack McNamara, more than a million dollars i… read more

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9. The Far Pavilions

By: M.M. Kaye

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

A magnificent romantic/historical/adventure novel set in India at the time of mutiny. The Far Pavil… read more

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10. The Valley of Amazement

By: Amy Tan

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity, that mov… read more

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11. Just One Look

By: Harlan Coben

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback

An ordinary snapshot causes a mother's world to unravel in an instant. After picking up her two you… read more

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12. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

By: Margaret Atwood

3.71

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Many things get broken in a war."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."

-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

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13. The Last Caretaker

By: Jessica Strawser

3.90

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

Katie’s divorce was, in a word, humiliating. So when her friend Bess offers a fresh start—a residen… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Strawser's The Last Caretaker book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Puma Years

By: Laura Coleman

4.34

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

In this rapturous memoir, writer and activist Laura Coleman shares the story of her liberating jour… read more

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"The jungle really seems to listen to everything. I've never felt so vulnerable. It won't stop listening, and I don't know how to tell it that I hate it."

-Laura Coleman, The Puma Years

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15. There's No Coming Back from This

By: Ann Garvin

3.95

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

“The show must go on” takes on a whole new meaning for one single mom in a witty and emotional nove… read more

Similar categories in Ann Garvin's There's No Coming Back from This book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Cut and Thirst

By: Margaret Atwood

3.15

Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition

Three women scheme to avenge an old friend in a darkly witty short story about loyalty, ambition, a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

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Cover of Maureen (Harold Fry #3) by Rachel Joyce

18. Maureen (Harold Fry #3)

By: Rachel Joyce

3.95

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry comes a moving novel told from… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Throwaway Jane (Karen Pantelli, #1) by Scott William Carter

19. Throwaway Jane (Karen Pantelli, #1)

By: Scott William Carter

4.33

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

Former FBI agent Karen Pantelli lives by a simple philosophy: never, ever care. Three years after a… read more

Similar categories in Scott William Carter's Throwaway Jane (Karen Pantelli, #1) book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • fiction
Cover of While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1) by Stacey Abrams

20. While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)

By: Stacey Abrams

3.96

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A gripping, complexly plotted thriller set within the halls of the U… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Abrams's While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1) book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Why American history? Other nations have achieved greatness with less hubris and narcissism." "Agreed. But America is a contradictory and precocious country, sir. We have, in a very short period of t…"

-Stacey Abrams, While Justice Sleeps (Avery Keene, #1)

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21. The Better Sister

By: Alafair Burke

3.79

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

From Alafair Burke—New York Times bestselling author of the runaway hit, The Wife—comes another twi… read more

Similar categories in Alafair Burke's The Better Sister book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Fifty Words for Rain by Asha Lemmie

22. Fifty Words for Rain

By: Asha Lemmie

3.88

Format: 449 pages, Hardcover

From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's q… read more

Similar categories in Asha Lemmie's Fifty Words for Rain book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • asia
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Nori ebbe un attimo di esitazione. Aveva solo qualche secondo. Non le veniva in mente niente da dire a quella donna. Erano una puttana e la sua signora, una principessa decaduta e una pezzente arricc…"

-Asha Lemmie, Fifty Words for Rain

Cover of Isaac and the Egg by Bobby  Palmer

23. Isaac and the Egg

By: Bobby Palmer

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreaking and heart-stealing, this bestselling modern-day fable is an unforgettable novel about… read more

Similar categories in Bobby Palmer's Isaac and the Egg book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. The Plotters

By: Kim Un-Su

3.58

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

From the novelist dubbed "the Korean Henning Mankell" (The Guardian) comes a fantastical crime nove… read more

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  • asia
  • fiction
"Black tea is steeped in imperialism. That's what gives it its flavor. Anything this flavorful has to be hiding an incredible amount of carnage."

-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters

"That's life. Not much to it. Just one big stinking, filthy squalid mess. But once you get a taste of it - ah! Then it's not so bad. Sometimes it's even delicious."

-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters

"He believed that people should emulate whales. He said that people had grown as small and crafty as rats , and that the days of taking slow, huge, beautiful strides had vanished, The age of giants wa…"

-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters

"But just as a vaccine company facing bankruptcy will ultimately survive not by making the world's greatest vaccine but, rather, the world's worst virus, so, too, did bodyguard and security firms need…"

-Kim Un-Su, The Plotters

Cover of Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought by Lily  Bailey

25. Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

By: Lily Bailey

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a … read more

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"For as long as I could remember, I wasn't me, I was me."

-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

"I suppose I should be thankful that if I have to go mad, at least I get to do it in a fashionable, aristocratic way."

-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

"I’d love to learn everything all over again, but learn it right this time. I’d love to return my brain to factory settings."

-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

"Two of us sat side by side in my head, woven together, inseparable. She didn't even have a name; she was just She. Really, it was hard to say where She ended and I began. But food was not shared with…"

-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

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26. You Look Beautiful Tonight

By: L.R. Jones

3.70

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

A secret admirer’s devotion turns deadly in a twisting novel of psychological suspense. Mia Ande… read more

Similar categories in L.R. Jones's You Look Beautiful Tonight book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Never Meant to Meet You by Alli Frank

27. Never Meant to Meet You

By: Alli Frank

4.14

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

From the authors of Tiny Imperfections comes a riotously funny, emotionally real look at race and r… read more

Similar categories in Alli Frank's Never Meant to Meet You book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • amazon
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Tender Victory

By: Taylor Caldwell

4.09

Format: 632 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller: The “touching and effective” story of an American minister who returns h… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Caldwell's Tender Victory book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • novels
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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29. The Korean Word For Butterfly

By: Jamie Zerndt

3.50

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

Set against the backdrop of the 2002 World Cup and rising anti-American sentiment due to a deadly a… read more

Similar categories in Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly book and Jamie Zerndt's The Korean Word For Butterfly

  • poetry
  • literary fiction
  • cultural
  • asia
  • amazon
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • drama
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30. Rooms Need Doors

By: Sisi Meir

3.22

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Her decision will change the fate of the entire family.Tiki and her family left Iraq and immigrated… read more

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Gabriel Tallent

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