19 must-read christian books like Swimming in the Deep End by Christina Suzann Nelson

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Swimming in the Deep End

By: Christina Suzann Nelson

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A moving novel entwining the many faces of motherly love Jillian Cline has the perfect daughter:…

If you liked the christian plot in Swimming in the Deep End by Christina Suzann Nelson , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. Water's Edge

By: Robert Whitlow

3.72

Format: 368 pages,

Sometimes small towns hold the biggest secrets. Ambitious young attorney Tom Crane is about to beco… read more

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2. The Secret Life of Sarah Hollenbeck

By: Bethany Turner

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

Becoming a Christian is the best and worst thing that has ever happened to Sarah Hollenbeck. Best b… read more

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3. The Wings of Poppy Pendleton

By: Melanie Dobson

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In this compelling new time-slip mystery, a little girl goes missing from her family's castle in th… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Dobson's The Wings of Poppy Pendleton book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Roads We Follow (Fog Harbor, #2)

By: Nicole Deese

4.39

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

As the youngest daughter of a country music legend, Raegan Farrow longs to establish an identity aw… read more

Similar categories in Nicole Deese's The Roads We Follow (Fog Harbor, #2) book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Appalachian Song

By: Michelle Shocklee

4.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Forever within the memories of my heart. Always remember, you are perfectly loved. Bertie Jenkins… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Shocklee's Appalachian Song book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • adoption
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6. A Million Little Choices

By: Tamera Alexander

4.44

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes secrets just won’t stay hidden . . . From USA Today bestselling author and Christy Award… read more

Similar categories in Tamera Alexander's A Million Little Choices book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • womens fiction
  • christian
  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Edge of Belonging

By: Amanda Cox

4.45

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When Ivy Rose returns to her hometown to oversee an estate sale, she soon discovers that her grandm… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cox's The Edge of Belonging book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • adoption
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I guess the longer you hold a secret, the harder it is to let it go."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"You find a use for everything. Yet you discard yourself at every opportunity."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"It was freeing in a way, to have a family built on love by choice and not relational obligation."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

"She’d memorized the verse about peace that passes all understanding, but all she felt was the weight of depression."

-Amanda Cox, The Edge of Belonging

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8. Life Flight (Extreme Measures, #1)

By: Lynette Eason

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

EMS helicopter pilot Penny Carlton is used to high stress situations, but being forced to land on a… read more

Similar categories in Lynette Eason's Life Flight (Extreme Measures, #1) book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

By: Sara Brunsvold

4.37

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Aidyn Kelley is talented, ambitious, and ready for a more serious assignment than the fluff pieces … read more

Similar categories in Sara Brunsvold's The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Ours is a God of new life~Mrs. Kip"

-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

"Keep the fight in your veins, honey. Never let it fade."

-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

"Hard things usually end in the biggest blessings. ~Mrs. Kip"

-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

"Lord, you are so good, and your love holds everything together."

-Sara Brunsvold, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip

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10. Long Way Home

By: Lynn Austin

4.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this portrait of war and its aftermath, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood frien… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Austin's Long Way Home book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • family
  • fiction
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11. 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

Similar categories in Charles Martin's The Last Exchange book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...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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12. Just for the Summer

By: Melody Carlson

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Ginny Masters manages a popular boutique hotel in Seattle and manages it with aplomb. But the daily… read more

Similar categories in Melody Carlson's Just for the Summer book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Under the Bayou Moon

By: Valerie Fraser Luesse

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Restless with the familiarity of her Alabama home, Ellie Fields accepts a teaching job in a tiny Lo… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Fraser Luesse's Under the Bayou Moon book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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14. The Divine Proverb of Streusel

By: Sara Brunsvold

4.29

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Shaken by her parents' divorce and discouraged by the growing chasm between herself and her serious… read more

Similar categories in Sara Brunsvold's The Divine Proverb of Streusel book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • womens fiction
  • christian
  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
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15. Double Indemnity

By: Robert Whitlow

4.26

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Someone stands to gain millions of dollars from a hunter’s accidental death . . . unless that death… read more

Similar categories in Robert Whitlow's Double Indemnity book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Embers in the London Sky

By: Sarah Sundin

4.22

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Sundin's Embers in the London Sky book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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17. A Piece of the Moon: A Heartwarming Novel about Small Town Life Set in West Virginia in the 1980s

By: Chris Fabry

4.36

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

2022 Carol Award Winner! An inspiring southern fiction story from the bestselling author of War Roo… read more

Similar categories in Chris Fabry's A Piece of the Moon: A Heartwarming Novel about Small Town Life Set in West Virginia in the 1980s book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...there is no gift to the world like a man doing what he enjoys."

-Chris Fabry, A Piece of the Moon: A Heartwarming Novel about Small Town Life Set in West Virginia in the 1980s

"Love, like treasure, stays buried until somebody decides to dig. [Narrator (TD Lovett)]"

-Chris Fabry, A Piece of the Moon: A Heartwarming Novel about Small Town Life Set in West Virginia in the 1980s

"She [Pidge Bledsoe] supposed there was something gentle in every man, even the mean ones."

-Chris Fabry, A Piece of the Moon: A Heartwarming Novel about Small Town Life Set in West Virginia in the 1980s

"...every day was bad news and worse than the one before it, and that was all you could expect from life."

-Chris Fabry, A Piece of the Moon: A Heartwarming Novel about Small Town Life Set in West Virginia in the 1980s

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18. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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19. All Manner of Things

By: Susie Finkbeiner

4.42

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

When Annie Jacobson's brother Mike enlists as a medic in the Army in 1967, he hands her a piece of … read more

Similar categories in Susie Finkbeiner's All Manner of Things book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • coming of age
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
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20. Lifemark

By: Chris Fabry

4.42

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

For eighteen years, she tried to believe she had made the right decision--for him.But if she never … read more

Similar categories in Chris Fabry's Lifemark book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Swimming in the Deep End by Christina Suzann Nelson

21. Swimming in the Deep End

By: Christina Suzann Nelson

4.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A moving novel entwining the many faces of motherly love Jillian Cline has the perfect daughter:… read more

Similar categories in Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End book and Christina Suzann Nelson's Swimming in the Deep End

  • womens fiction
  • christian
  • christian fiction
  • coming of age
  • adoption
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family

19 Top fiction books like Swimming in the Deep End by Christina Suzann Nelson

Transform Your Habits

The Wings of Poppy Pendleton

Melanie Dobson

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Roads We Follow (Fog Harbor, #2)

Nicole Deese

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Appalachian Song

Michelle Shocklee

4.49

Transform Your Habits

A Million Little Choices

Tamera Alexander

4.44

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20 Top fiction books like Just for the Summer by Melody Carlson

Transform Your Habits

The Summer We Started Over

Nancy Thayer

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Roads We Follow (Fog Harbor, #2)

Nicole Deese

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Just for the Summer

Melody Carlson

3.49

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