25 best-selling fiction books like Mt. Moriah's Wake: A Novel by Melissa Norton Carro

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Mt. Moriah's Wake: A Novel

By: Melissa Norton Carro

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“ Mt. Moriah’s Wake  is an eloquent novel in which a woman experiences a spiritual homecoming and e…

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1. Miss Julia Hits the Road (Miss Julia, #4)

By: Ann B. Ross

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Miss Julia--that Southern spitfire of a certain age who is never less than charming, even when she'… read more

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2. Bearing Fruit: Ministry with Real Results

By: Lovett H. Weems Jr.

4.11

Format: 188 pages, Paperback

Thousands of congregations are in serious trouble. Children are not being taught the faith. Discipl… read more

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3. Still Life with Bread Crumbs

By: Anna Quindlen

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Still Life with Bread Crumbsbegins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between t… read more

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4. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

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"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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5. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

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6. Dear Mom and Dad: A Letter About Family, Memory, and the America We Once Knew

By: Patti Davis

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

A remarkably poignant writer for our troubled times, Patti Davis writes about love, loss, and the p… read more

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7. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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8. The Shadows We Hide (Joe Talbert, #2)

By: Allen Eskens

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Joe Talbert investigates the murder of the father he never knew, and must reckon with hi… read more

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9. The World Played Chess

By: Robert Dugoni

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer mone… read more

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10. Whale Fall

By: Elizabeth O'Connor

3.87

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut from an award-winning writer, about loss, isolation, folklore, and the joy and dis… read more

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11. Under the Palms (The Kingsleys, #2)

By: Kaira Rouda

3.94

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

During a weekend retreat, a powerful family plays a dangerous game of dark secrets and cold-blooded… read more

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12. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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13. Count the Ways

By: Joyce Maynard

4.22

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

In her most ambitious novel to date, New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard returns to the… read more

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14. We Must Not Think of Ourselves

By: Lauren Grodstein

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A heart-wrenching story of love and defiance set in the Warsaw Ghetto, based on the actual archives… read more

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"We had never practiced Judaism before, and I thought myself too old to try believing something new, or to take advantage of an accident of birth to claim some brown patch of desert as my home."

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"Our task is to pay attention... To listen to the stories. We want all political backgrounds, all religious attitudes. The illiterate and the elite. Every ideology. Interview everyone. Learn about the…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

"There should be another word for this feeling - a sort of sorrowful happiness, or a happiness that only deepens someone's sorrow. The closest I can come to it is the Portuguese word saudade, which ne…"

-Lauren Grodstein, We Must Not Think of Ourselves

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15. The Magic All Around

By: Jennifer Moorman

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Sometimes a family treasure hunt unfurls new paths in life. The Russell family members all seem to … read more

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16. The Bird Hotel

By: Joyce Maynard

4.30

Format: 457 pages, Kindle Edition

Enter the magical world of La Llorona with New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard.   After… read more

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"A person can start off fresh in this place,"

-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

"I hadn’t shaken my bone-deep sadness, but in small ways, I was coming back to life. My body, that had gone numb, began to feel again. Sun on my skin, good food, something as simple as the smell of th…"

-Joyce Maynard, The Bird Hotel

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17. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

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18. The Legacy of Foulstone Manor: A Gothic mystery of family secrets and lies... (J. C. Briggs Gothic Mysteries)

By: J. C. Briggs

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

An intriguing Gothic house mystery novel you don’t want to miss! Perfect for fans of Sarah Burton, … read more

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19. The House on Biscayne Bay

By: Chanel Cleeton

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and presen… read more

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"I think it did. He was quite staggered by the place. Then again, Vizcaya tends to have that effect. Is the home that grand? It Is. Vizcaya has brought the Mediterranean to Florida."

-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay

"I like to think of the houses I build as having their own personalities. Oh, there's the people who are their custodians to consider, of course, a symbiosis in the relationship between the house and …"

-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay

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20. By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

By: Piper Huguley

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The incredible untold story of Ann Lowe, Jackie Kennedy's wedding dress designer, a Black woman who… read more

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"It took one person. One lady with a good heart to see who I was and what I could do in this world."

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

"It has been many years since I let a man kiss me... When our lips met, parts of me that I had forgotten existed, thawed out from neglect and rose back to life like when Jesus was resurrected."

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

"The way she had seen me and treated me, was the way we should all see and treat one another. For to be able to see someone, to see them as a human being, to see them for what they can contribute in t…"

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

"For all of my life, ever since I was a little girl, I thought what I wanted was to be at one of these lovely dinner dances. Well. Now that I'm here, It's been marvelous, but I know that the main thin…"

-Piper Huguley, By Her Own Design: The Story of Ann Lowe, Society's Best-Kept Secret

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21. Imposter

By: Bradeigh Godfrey

3.93

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters, a lifetime of secrets Lilian and Rosie were once the closest of sisters, but the untim… read more

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22. The Apology

By: Jimin Han

3.47

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This sweeping intergenerational saga tells the story of a pampered and defiant South Korean matriar… read more

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23. All The Blood We Share

By: Camilla Bruce

3.52

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A sinister novel based on the real Bloody Benders, a family of serial killers in the old West bound… read more

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24. The Happiness Thief

By: Nicole Bokat

3.78

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Forty-one-year-old Natalie Greene lost her mom and her childhood memories in a car crash two decade… read more

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25. Where the Truth Lies

By: Anna Bailey

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a teenaged girl disappears from an insular small town, all of the community’s most devastating… read more

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"There are still people out there to whom we are not merely the sum of the bad things that have happened to us."

-Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

"How do you do this?" she'd asked a man at the bar, who'd told her he was leaving his wife. "How do you decide which parts of your life you want to keep and which parts you want to leave behind foreve…"

-Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

"Night is made for unspeakable longings. Night is made for not speaking at all, but for furtive glances under streetlamps on dusty back roads, for the scent of a lover's hair, for fingers brushing pas…"

-Anna Bailey, Where the Truth Lies

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26. Happyish

By: Jeanette Escudero

4.14

Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition

It was supposed to be a good day. On the one-year anniversary of her divorce, Alex Martinez is g… read more

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27. Guy's Girl

By: Emma Noyes

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

The boy who couldn’t love and the girl who wouldn’t. Ginny Murphy is a total guy’s girl. She’s… read more

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Cover of Street Corner Dreams: A Novel by Florence Reiss Kraut

28. Street Corner Dreams: A Novel

By: Florence Reiss Kraut

4.22

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

A suspenseful family saga, love story, and gangster tale, wrapped into one great book club read . .… read more

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29. A Delicate Marriage

By: Margarita Barresi

4.39

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From glittering ballrooms to verdant mountains to poverty-stricken slums, A Delicate Marriage takes… read more

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Cover of Mt. Moriah's Wake: A Novel by Melissa Norton Carro

30. Mt. Moriah's Wake: A Novel

By: Melissa Norton Carro

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

“ Mt. Moriah’s Wake  is an eloquent novel in which a woman experiences a spiritual homecoming and e… read more

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31. The Last Thing She Saw

By: Nina Laurin

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The latest thrilling and intense psychological suspense from the bestselling author of Girl Last Se… read more

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