23 Best fiction books like Waiting for Peter by Elizabeth Musser

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Waiting for Peter

By: Elizabeth Musser

4.44

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

The day is almost boiling hot. I lay on the hot pavement of the driveway, my ears pricked forward, …

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1. Dorsvloer vol confetti

By: Franca Treur

3.20

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

De 12-jarige Katelijne groeit op als het enige meisje tussen zes broers in een streng (bevindelijk)… read more

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  • roman
  • fiction
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2. The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

By: Timothy J. Keller , Kathy Keller

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Renowned pastor of New York’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church and author of The Songs of Jesus, Timoth… read more

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"Like a surgeon, friends cut you in order to heal you."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Real love, the Bible says, instinctively desires permanence."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"A common vision can unite people of very different temperaments."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

"Friends become wiser together through a healthy clash of viewpoints."

-Timothy J. Keller, The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

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3. The Mistress of Tall Acre

By: Laura Frantz

3.86

Format: 445 pages, Paperback

The American Revolution is finally over, and Sophie Menzies is starved for good news. When her near… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
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4. Hidden Places

By: Lynn Austin

4.19

Format: 294 pages,

A deep yearning for home had led Eliza to Wyatt Orchards ten years ago. Now widowed with three youn… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
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5. Safely Home

By: Randy Alcorn

3.78

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

2002 Gold Medallion Award winner! Fans of Randy Alcorn will applaud this soul-stirring story of two… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction

6. Candle in the Darkness (Refiner's Fire, #1)

By: Lynn Austin

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
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7. All You Need is Fudge (Candy-Coated, #4)

By: Nancy CoCo

4.08

Format: 581 pages, ebook

Fudge shop owner Allie McMurphy is making fudgie treats for the annual yacht race--but a killer's s… read more

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  • fiction

8. Allie and Bea

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.00

Format: None pages,

Bea has barely been scraping by since her husband died. After falling for a telephone scam, she los… read more

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9. Beyond the Silence

By: Tracie Peterson , Kimberley Woodhouse

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lillian Porter has always wanted to fulfill her mother's dream of going west, so when she hears abo… read more

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10. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World

By: Vicki Myron , Bret Witter

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

How much of an impact can an animal have? How many lives can one cat touch? How is it possible for … read more

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11. The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.42

Format: 139 pages, Hardcover

Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller "a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century" in a … read more

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"If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jes…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn't mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting th…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"The targets of this story are not "wayward sinners" but religious people who do everything the Bible requires. Jesus is pleading not so much with immoral outsiders as with moral insiders. H wants to …"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

"I asked her what was so scary about unmerited free grace? She replied something like this: "If I was saved by my good works -- then there would be a limit to what God could ask of me or put me throug…"

-Timothy J. Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

12. Where We Belong

By: Lynn Austin

3.23

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

The Adventure of a Lifetime for Two Indomitable Socialite Sisters In the city of Chicago in 1892, t… read more

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13. A Voice in the Wind (Mark of the Lion, #1)

By: Francine Rivers , None

4.65

Format: None pages,

The first book in the bestselling Mark of the Lion series, A Voice in the Windbrings readers back t… read more

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14. Above the Bay of Angels

By: Rhys Bowen

4.19

Format: 323 pages, Kindle Edition

A single twist of fate puts a servant girl to work in Queen Victoria’s royal kitchen, setting off a… read more

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  • fiction
"The new century is coming. Young women should have a chance to make something of themselves. Heaven knows that most of the cooks in the great houses around the country are women. It's a natural art f…"

-Rhys Bowen, Above the Bay of Angels

"It is Jean-Paul Lepin. Chef Lepin." I could not stifle a grin. I thought he had said lapin , which is the French word for rabbit. "For a rabbit, you seem quite fearless." This made the other chefs ch…"

-Rhys Bowen, Above the Bay of Angels

"And on that table was the most impressive assortment of food: salmon mousse in the shape of a salmon; cold chickens; quail; a huge platter of oysters, shrimp and lobster claws; all kinds of salads; f…"

-Rhys Bowen, Above the Bay of Angels

"Her Majesty's daughter Princess Helena and her granddaughter Princess Thora are visiting. Here's the menu: consommé aux fines herbes, cheese croutons, poached fillet of sole with parsley sauce and po…"

-Rhys Bowen, Above the Bay of Angels

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15. Once Upon a Wardrobe

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

College student Megs Devonshire sets out to fulfill her younger brother George’s last wish by uncov… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
"The way stories change us can't be explained,' Padraig says. 'It can only be felt. Like love."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

"Because even with the dark and the light parts and the good parts and the bad parts, dinner must still be served."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

"The fantastic and the imaginative aren't escapism . . . Good stories introduce the marvelous. The whole story, paradoxically, strengthens our relish for real life. This excursion sends us back with r…"

-Patti Callahan Henry, Once Upon a Wardrobe

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16. Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2)

By: Jenny Colgan

3.60

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Carmen is at a loose end. Her gorgeous bookshop is the filming site of a cheesy Christmas movie, sh… read more

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  • fiction
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17. The Tuscan Child

By: Rhys Bowen

4.02

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times bestselling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves h… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Legacy of Mercy (Waves of Mercy, #2)

By: Lynn Austin

4.54

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Having returned to Chicago, young socialite Anna Nicholson can't seem to focus on her upcoming marr… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
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19. What Child Is This

By: Rhys Bowen

3.99

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

Christmas during World War II is a time for small miracles in this bittersweet short story by the N… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Last Exchange

By: Charles Martin

4.33

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

“Here’s the catch—even if I make it out of here alive, I need a reason to breathe again.” When M… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
"...a life laid down is better than the one picked up. --MacTHOMAS POCKETS"

-Charles Martin, The Last Exchange

"Scars are just the body's response to things that shouldn't be there. A reminder of the pain. --MacTHOMAS POCKETS"

-Charles Martin, The Last Exchange

"...that's the thing about mountaintops. While we might prefer those "high" moments, most of life'--she [Joe] pointed at a town in the valley--'happens down there. Along the way.' She tilted her head …"

-Charles Martin, The Last Exchange

"After several minutes, she [Joe] turned toward him [Pockets]. 'What changes it?' 'Not -what-.' A pause. '-Who-.' 'Who then?' 'The one who walks with you down into your closet. Down where you hide the…"

-Charles Martin, The Last Exchange

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21. Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

By: Jamie Erickson

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Women were made to give life—and they can do that right in their own homes.  Hygge [HYOO-guh] ha… read more

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"I’m caring enough about me to enjoy the simple pleasures I’ve planned for during this dark season so I can approach my days with a sense of abundance rather than scarcity."

-Jamie Erickson, Holy Hygge: Creating a Place for People to Gather and the Gospel to Grow

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22. The Berlin Letters

By: Katherine Reay

4.21

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childho… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Becoming Mrs. Lewis

By: Patti Callahan Henry

4.05

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

In a most improbable friendship, she found love. In a world where women were silenced, she found he… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
"I'm trying because I must."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

"Desperation fuels one to believe idiocy is insight"

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

"You tolerate what you must when it becomes your reality."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

"If you knew all the answers, there'd be no need for trust, little one."

-Patti Callahan Henry, Becoming Mrs. Lewis

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24. He Should Have Told the Bees

By: Amanda Cox

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Beekeeper Beckett Walsh is living her dream, working alongside her father in their apiary, until hi… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
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25. The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

By: Charles Martin

4.41

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Combining heart-wrenching emotion with edge-of-your-seat tension, Charles Martin explores the true … read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
"Stripped bare, the human soul has one real desire: to know and be known."

-Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

"...girls need their father. Period. And I couldn’t really tell you why other than it’s the father who tells them who they are. Until he does, they’re just floating in the earth like that tooth. Burie…"

-Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

"There's a thing that happens when we start to believe the lies about ourselves, and when we think other people believe them too. Those lies become our prison. The bars we see through. They hold us ca…"

-Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

"While a deep need in each of us is to know and be known, there is one deeper. One that undergirds everything else. It's the stuff of us. Out of it, we breathe, or not. We wander the earth like shipwr…"

-Charles Martin, The Letter Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #2)

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26. The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

By: Charles Martin

4.27

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A riveting new story of heroism, heartache, and the power of love to heal all wounds. Murphy She… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
"Love is an amazing thing. It takes the brokenness, the scars, the pain, the darkness, everything, and makes it all new."

-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

"Belonging comes before identity. Ownership births purpose. Someone speaks whose we are, and out of that we become who we are. It's just the way the heart works."

-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

"...we wrestle and search. But regardless of where we search and how we try to answer the question or what we ingest, inject, or swallow to numb the nagging, only the Father gets to tell us who we are…"

-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

"...despite the mask we are all so good at wearing, we somehow manage to wake up every day hoping there's still a chance. That maybe, somehow, we can balance the debt ledger we carry in our hearts. Th…"

-Charles Martin, The Water Keeper (Murphy Shepherd, #1)

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27. The All-American

By: Susie Finkbeiner

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

2024 Michigan Notable Book It is 1952, and nearly all the girls 16-year-old Bertha Harding knows… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • young adult
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28. The British Booksellers

By: Kristy Cambron

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the c… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
"Perhaps days like this are exactly why we have books in the world. To remember that not all is lost, even if we find ourselves in the unknown. I like to think we provide a haven for the wanderer. And…"

-Kristy Cambron, The British Booksellers

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29. The First Love

By: Beverly Lewis

4.31

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

It's the summer of 1951, and Maggie Esh is in need of some hope. Sweet-spirited and uncommonly pret… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
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30. Between the Sound and Sea

By: Amanda Cox

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Every family has its secrets. Josephina Harris wouldn't mind if her family still had a few of their… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
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31. Waiting for Peter

By: Elizabeth Musser

4.44

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

The day is almost boiling hot. I lay on the hot pavement of the driveway, my ears pricked forward, … read more

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  • fiction
  • christian fiction
  • roman
  • young adult

16 Top christian fiction books like Waiting for Peter by Elizabeth Musser

Transform Your Habits

The Mistress of Tall Acre

Laura Frantz

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Hidden Places

Lynn Austin

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Safely Home

Randy Alcorn

3.78

Candle in the Darkness (Refiner's Fire, #1)

Lynn Austin

3.97

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31 best-selling fiction books like All You Need is Fudge (Candy-Coated, #4) by Nancy CoCo

Transform Your Habits

Clammed Up (A Maine Clambake Mystery, #1)

Barbara Ross

3.92

Transform Your Habits

All You Need is Fudge (Candy-Coated, #4)

Nancy CoCo

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Murder at the Blueberry Festival (Beacon Bakeshop, #3)

Darci Hannah

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Candy Slain Murder (Country Store Mysteries, #8)

Maddie Day

4.06

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