19 best-selling fiction books like Tiny Americans by Devin Murphy

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Tiny Americans

By: Devin Murphy

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the National Bestselling author of The Boat Runner comes a poignant, luminous novel that follo…

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1. The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

By: Aimee Bender

3.24

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

The wondrous Aimee Bender conjures the lush and moving story of a girl whose magical gift is really… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"YOU'RE IN MY MOUTH, I said. GET OUT OF MY MOUTH."

-Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

"It was the kind of conversation you could only hold in whispers."

-Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

"My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want."

-Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

"You took him out of school. But you didn't give him something better than school."

-Aimee Bender, The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

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2. #GIRLBOSS

By: Sophia Amoruso

4.39

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In #GIRLBOSSvertelt Sophia Amoruso het verhaal van haar ongelooflijke succes. Ze laat zien hoe iede… read more

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  • audiobook
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3. Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Award-winning investigative reporter Robert Kolker delivers a humanizing account of the true-life s… read more

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  • audiobook

4. The Perfect Girlfriend

By: None

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She's even become a flight attendant for his air… read more

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5. The General's Daughter

By: Nelson DeMille

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Captain Ann Campbell is a West Point graduate, the daughter of legendary General "Fighting Joe" Cam… read more

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6. The Bastard of Istanbul

By: Elif Shafak

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of t… read more

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7. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

By: Roxane Gay

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more

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8. Lives of Girls and Women

By: Alice Munro

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The only novel from Alice Munro -- award-winning author of The Love of a Good Woman-- is an insight… read more

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9. The One-in-a-Million Boy

By: Monica Wood

4.06

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The incandescent story of a 104-year-old woman and the sweet, strange young boy assigned to help he… read more

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10. The Tie That Binds

By: Kent Haruf

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Colorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the bac… read more

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11. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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12. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Counting Miracles

By: Nicholas Sparks

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel a… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Very Cold People

By: Sarah Manguso

3.38

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

No-one is watching Ruth. She, however, watches everyone and everything, and waits, growing up on th… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I like to visit with the exhausted girl who once was me"

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

"My life felt unreal and I felt half-invested. I felt indistinct, like someone else's dream."

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

"I thought I'd die of it, but I didn't die. You can learn to eat violence. There is pleasure in not resisting. I dedicated myself to teaching my bully just how much a person can consume."

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

"In fourth grade we played hard. The fifth-grade girls played four square, too, but they didn't jeer at each other when they played, and they hit the ball gently from square to square. Their slowness …"

-Sarah Manguso, Very Cold People

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15. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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16. Kinfolk

By: Sean Dietrich

4.50

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Sometimes it’s the most unlikely meetings that give us life’s greatest gifts. 1970s, Southern Alaba… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"But then, life was full of overlooked miracles. And miracles never happened the way you expect them to. They are softer than a baby's breath. They are, at times, as noticeable as a ladybug. A miracle…"

-Sean Dietrich, Kinfolk

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17. Mr. Texas

By: Lawrence Wright

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

A sharply drawn, page-turning send up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-sel… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. How to Love Your Daughter

By: Hila Blum

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The seemingly inexplicable estrangement between a woman and her grown daughter opens up a troubling… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Perestroika in Paris

By: Jane Smiley

3.99

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres and the New York Times best-selling Last… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Waiting for the Night Song

By: Julie Carrick Dalton

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A moving novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secret… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Queen Hereafter

By: Isabelle Schuler

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. Reboot

By: Justin Taylor

3.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A raucous and wickedly smart satire of Hollywood, toxic fandom, and our chronically online culture,… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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23. St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets

By: Annie England Noblin

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

If you love Susan Mallery and Jill Shalvis, you won’t want to miss this new novel of second chances… read more

Similar categories in Annie England Noblin's St. Francis Society for Wayward Pets book and Devin Murphy's Tiny Americans

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. Borgo Sud

By: Donatella Di Pietrantonio

3.73

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

È il momento più buio della notte, quello che precede l'alba, quando Adriana tempesta alla porta co… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"My mother was always unpredictable. She had unexpected kindness, then shut herself in again. I knew those attentions and their intermittence. I tried to win them, but it wasn't for merit or guilt tha…"

-Donatella Di Pietrantonio, Borgo Sud

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25. American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of All Day Is a Long Time by David  Sanchez

26. All Day Is a Long Time

By: David Sanchez

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Denis Johnson and Ocean Vuong: A captivating, searing, and ultimately redemptive debut … read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

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28. Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue

By: Christine Higdon

4.09

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Four working-class Vancouver sisters, still reeling from the impact of World War I and the pandemic… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

By: Bassey Ikpi

4.31

Format: 257 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal collection of essays exploring Nigerian-American author Bassey Ikpi’s experiences… read more

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  • audiobook
"Yoga was still terrible, like a game of Simon Says with no winner."

-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

"Ha, ha, ha. You will laugh to make sure the bitterness doesn’t escape and burn your throat on its way out."

-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

"The restlessness has begun, like a low hum in my belly. It follows me through my days. I am sleepless nights. The comfort found only in quiet."

-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

"It makes you feel unfinished, like in your family's eyes you will never be completely whole. And in your eyes, you have never been completely whole."

-Bassey Ikpi, I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying: Essays

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30. Tiny Americans

By: Devin Murphy

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From the National Bestselling author of The Boat Runner comes a poignant, luminous novel that follo… read more

Similar categories in Devin Murphy's Tiny Americans book and Devin Murphy's Tiny Americans

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. The Death of a Jaybird: Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind

By: Jodi M. Savage

4.46

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody’s Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often … read more

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Aimee Bender

3.24

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Roxana Robinson

3.87

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Counting Miracles

Nicholas Sparks

4.05

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Sarah Manguso

3.38

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Lisa See

4.36

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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Abraham Verghese

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