30 must-read fiction books like American Past Time by Len Joy

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American Past Time

By: Len Joy

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

September 1953. Dancer Stonemason is three days away from his major league debut with the St. Louis…

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1. Abide with Me

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

After the tragic death of his young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles … read more

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  • fiction
"You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world."

-Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

"He thought of the words of the hymn he had always loved: Help of the helpless, O abide with me. He knew one could say - perhaps Rhonda Skillings might say - that this was merely the plea of a frighte…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Abide with Me

2. Dead End Girl (Violet Darger Book 1)

By: Tim McBain , L.T. Vargus

4.37

Format: 224 pages, ebook

Her body is broken. Wrapped in plastic. Dumped on the side of the road. She is the first. There wil… read more

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  • fiction
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3. The Big Dark Sky

By: Dean Koontz

4.03

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

A group of strangers bound by terrifying synchronicity becomes humankind’s hope of survival in an e… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Southern Lawyer (Joe Hennessy Legal Thriller #1) by Peter O'Mahoney

4. The Southern Lawyer (Joe Hennessy Legal Thriller #1)

By: Peter O'Mahoney

4.23

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

After more than twenty years away from the law, Joe Hennessy is forced back into the courtroom… … read more

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  • fiction
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5. What I Should've Said

By: Max Monroe

4.28

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

When grumpy, muscled-up artist Bennett Bishop bothers to speak, it’s usually to say something you’r… read more

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  • fiction
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6. A Storm of Infinite Beauty

By: Julianne MacLean

4.31

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Beyond the Moonlit Sea comes an atmospheric tale of how one woman’s … read more

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  • fiction
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7. A Different Kind of Gone

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.19

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

The truth behind a teenage girl’s disappearance becomes something to conceal in a gripping novel ab… read more

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  • fiction
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8. Housemoms

By: Jen Lancaster

3.52

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

Three grown women find escape and camaraderie on sorority row in a delightfully exhilarating novel … read more

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  • fiction
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9. Misjudged (Sam Johnstone, #1)

By: James Chandler

4.23

Format: 430 pages, Kindle Edition

When a disabled veteran takes a new job as an attorney in a small Wyoming town, he is thrust into a… read more

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  • fiction
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10. The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

By: Elly Griffiths

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor—until Nelso… read more

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  • fiction
"It's a locked room mystery,' says Tony. 'Like in the books.' 'Nothing,' says Nelson, 'is like it is in the books."

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

"The churches are all closed. She was surprised how shocked she'd been to hear this news. Judy might be a lapsed Catholic, but she'd always assumed that, all her life, mass would be carrying on somewh…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

"The air is so sweet and pure that it almost takes her breath away. It's as if nature is conspiring to make lockdown a less terrifying experience. Ruth has already noticed herself becoming interested …"

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

"There are no commuters, no children jostling for school buses, no taxis, no old men in hats driving in the centre of the road. It should feel like heaven but, as Nelson drives through the old city ga…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Locked Room (Ruth Galloway, #14)

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11. The Lost Letters of Aisling

By: Cynthia Ellingsen

4.34

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman faces the past she fled in a heart-stirring novel about unforgettable love and indomitable … read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
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12. The Night of Many Endings

By: Melissa Payne

4.14

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

From Melissa Payne, bestselling author of Memories in the Drift, comes an emotionally rich, feel-go… read more

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  • fiction
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13. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more

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  • fiction
"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

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14. Ten Years Later

By: S.E. Green

4.00

Format: 124 pages, Kindle Edition

They told him his daughter died. But what if she didn’t? Ten years ago, Keaton Young turned his … read more

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15. The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride

By: Joe Siple

4.63

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

With all his family and friends gone, one-hundred-year-old Murray McBride is looking for a reason t… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
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16. The Hike

By: Susi Holliday

3.59

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

Four hikers enter the mountains. Only two return. But is it tragedy? Or treachery? When sisters … read more

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  • fiction
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17. Olivia Strauss Is Running Out of Time

By: Angela Brown

3.66

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman has no choice left but to enjoy the adventure of life—and its surprises—in a funny and emot… read more

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  • book club
  • fiction
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18. The Vibrant Years

By: Sonali Dev

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Living on their own terms means being there for one another. When sixty-five-year-old Bindu Desa… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Veridian Sterling Fakes It by Jennifer Gooch Hummer

19. Veridian Sterling Fakes It

By: Jennifer Gooch Hummer

3.78

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

In this colorful and humorous tale, a hopeful young painter finds herself embroiled in the world of… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Final Hunt (The Final Hunt, #1)

By: Audrey J. Cole

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Alone in a hunting cabin, off-grid in an untamed wilderness. How does a marriage come to this? A… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Family Reservations

By: Liza Palmer

3.67

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful mother. Three daughters. And a fast-paced, cutthroat culinary legacy up for grabs in a d… read more

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  • fiction
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22. Last Summer Boys

By: Bill Rivers

4.41

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

In this rapturous coming-of-age debut, a naive-yet-determined Appalachian boy will go to any length… read more

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  • fiction
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23. Annie's Rainbow

By: Fern Michaels

4.29

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

A suspenseful tale of one woman’s journey to protect what matters most by beloved storyteller Fern … read more

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  • fiction
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24. Mayluna

By: Kelley McNeil

4.48

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

A legendary band, an iconic lead singer, and their mysterious connection to a woman whose love help… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Broken Bayou

By: Jennifer Moorhead

4.18

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

In this debut thriller, a troubled child psychologist returns to a small Louisiana town to protect … read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Implied Consent: A Maureen Gould Legal Thriller by Keenan Powell

26. Implied Consent: A Maureen Gould Legal Thriller

By: Keenan Powell

4.42

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Secrets bind the shamed to the guilty. Truth will set them free. When a tearful young woman appe… read more

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  • fiction
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27. The Break

By: Katie Sise

4.09

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Can she trust the people she loves? Can she trust herself? A new mother is pushed to the edge in a … read more

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  • fiction
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28. The Wild Road Home

By: Melissa Payne

4.52

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

A beautiful and enriching novel about unforgettable love and the power of friends and family by Mel… read more

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  • fiction
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29. Friends with Secrets

By: Christine Gunderson

4.16

Format: 392 pages, Kindle Edition

In a funny and suspenseful debut, Christine Gunderson explores the myth of the perfect mother, the … read more

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  • fiction
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30. The Anti-Heroes

By: Jen Lancaster

3.91

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Two best friends, stalled and dissatisfied, change the course of their lives in a wildly funny nove… read more

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  • fiction
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31. American Past Time

By: Len Joy

4.43

Format: None pages, None

September 1953. Dancer Stonemason is three days away from his major league debut with the St. Louis… read more

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  • baseball
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4.23

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Michael Stagg

4.47

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