10 Top fiction books like Saving Miss Oliver's by Stephen Davenport

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Saving Miss Oliver's

By: Stephen Davenport

3.29

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

The fate of the beloved school is hanging in the balance... The prestigious boarding school Miss O…

If you liked the fiction plot in Saving Miss Oliver's by Stephen Davenport , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. A Tale for the Time Being

By: Ruth Ozeki

4.06

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and h… read more

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  • fiction
"Maketa,"

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Live. For Now. For the time being."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"True freedom comes from being unknown."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

"Forget the clock. It has no power over time."

-Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

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2. The Namesake

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

4.11

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of h… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Election

By: Tom Perrotta

4.18

Format: None pages,

A suburban New Jersey high school teacher confronts a student-body election gone haywire in this da… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Freedom

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.78

Format: 562 pages, Hardcover

Patty and Walter Berglund were the new pioneers of old St. Paul—the gentrifiers, the hands-on paren… read more

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  • fiction
"Success at sports is the province of the almost empty head."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"Du skal bare huske at det ikke er en perfekt krig i en perfekt verden."

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

"[Patty's] Copernican wish to the be sun around which all things revolved"

-Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

5. Girls in White Dresses

By: Jennifer Close

3.33

Format: 153 pages, Hardcover

Wickedly hilarious and utterly recognizable, Girls in White Dressestells the story of three women g… read more

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6. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Tracy Flick Can't Win by Tom Perrotta

7. Tracy Flick Can't Win

By: Tom Perrotta

3.64

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Reese Witherspoon “Tom Perrotta is…one of the great w… read more

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  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
"But it wasn't really about her looks; there was just this current running between us, a really strong connection. Her absence always felt abrupt and unfair when we parted at the end of the day, like …"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

"I try not to think too much about those days now - let the past be past. The truth is, we're all prisoners of our historical context. Anybody who says morality is absolute, that right and wrong don't…"

-Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

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8. The Midcoast

By: Adam White

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Propulsive . . . An absorbing look at small-town Maine and the thwarted drea… read more

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  • fiction
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9. The Sentence

By: Louise Erdrich

3.95

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more

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  • fiction
"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"

-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence

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10. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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11. Marrying the Ketchups

By: Jennifer Close

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the de… read more

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  • fiction
"A reminder of how many people there were in the world. A reminder that sometimes the right person shows up just when you need him to."

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Mistakes were made all over the place, all around her, all the time, and she couldn't live her whole life with the sole purpose of not messing up. She didn't know if it would be a mistake or not, she…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Along with the regular brunch selections of eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles, they planned to serve individual portions of Poof in custard dishes. They also had a whole section for different kinds o…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

Cover of Saving Miss Oliver's by Stephen Davenport

12. Saving Miss Oliver's

By: Stephen Davenport

3.29

Format: 377 pages, Paperback

The fate of the beloved school is hanging in the balance... The prestigious boarding school Miss O… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Davenport's Saving Miss Oliver's book and Stephen Davenport's Saving Miss Oliver's

  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • drama

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Hernan Diaz

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Anna Quindlen

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