26 best-selling fiction books like Red Thread of Fate by Lyn Liao Butler

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Red Thread of Fate

By: Lyn Liao Butler

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the wake of a tragedy and fueled by guilt from a secret she's kept for years, a woman discovers …

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1. The Language of Threads (Women of the Silk #2)

By: Gail Tsukiyama

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Readers of Women of the Silk never forgot the moving, powerful story of Pei, brought to work in the… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • china
  • fiction
  • novels
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2. My Enemy's Cradle

By: Sara Young

4.06

Format: 365 pages, Hardcover

Cyrla's neighbors have begun to whisper. Her cousin, Anneke, is pregnant and has passed the rigorou… read more

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  • romance
  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
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3. Goodbye for Now

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of ONE DAY, comes a fresh and warmhearted love story for the 21st century. Sometimes … read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Goodbye for Now book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

4. The Same Sky

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this heartrending and poignant novel, award-winning author Amanda Eyre Ward tells the story of A… read more

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5. The Expatriates

By: Janice Y.K. Lee

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

Mercy, a young Korean American and recent Columbia graduate, is adrift, undone by a terrible incide… read more

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6. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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7. Amazing Grace Adams

By: Fran Littlewood

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more

Similar categories in Fran Littlewood's Amazing Grace Adams book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adoption
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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9. The Evolution of Annabel Craig

By: Lisa Grunwald

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A young Southern woman sets out on a journey of self-discovery as the infamous 1925 Scopes Trial te… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. True Biz

By: Sara Nović

4.08

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

TRUE BIZ (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk Tr… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No one is comforted by salad."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

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11. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • adoption
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

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12. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

Similar categories in Joy-Ann Reid's Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • audiobook
Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

13. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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14. Good Fortune

By: C.K. Chau

3.43

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart and charming debut novel that brilliantly reimagines Pride and Prejudice, set in conte… read more

Similar categories in C.K. Chau's Good Fortune book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Brendan looked at Jane, Jane looked at Brendan, Elizabeth looked at Darcy, and Darcy stared at the opposite wall, straight at the grease-splattered calendar showing an outdated month."

-C.K. Chau, Good Fortune

"They left their daughters to grow into their hollowed Chinese, plugging English into whatever sprang a leak, stumbling on the wrong sounds, chasing intelligibility--but as Jade insisted, at least the…"

-C.K. Chau, Good Fortune

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15. Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

By: Kathleen West

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Small Admissions, a wry and cleverly observed de… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Sisters of the Lost Nation

By: Nick Medina

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

A young Native girl's hunt for answers about the women mysteriously disappearing from her tribe's r… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What am I supposed to do? Listen, Anna, we all try to get noticed. All the time. Everywhere. That’s lige. Especially for people like us. If the others, don’t notice us, we disappear."

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"We all reach for something… Sometimes what we long for is so out of reach that we get stuck or lost in our pursuit of it. The point is not to lose sight of what you already have because if you try to…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

"She said Frog eximplified transformation. He entered life in one form and left it in another. From egg to tadpole, to tadpole with legs, to amphibian with tail, to tailless frog, he was never the sam…"

-Nick Medina, Sisters of the Lost Nation

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17. Night Wherever We Go

By: Tracey Rose Peyton

3.85

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

A RECOMMENDED READ FROM: The Washington Post • Atlanta Journal-Constitution • CrimeReads • Library … read more

Similar categories in Tracey Rose Peyton's Night Wherever We Go book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Island Villa

By: Sarah Morgan

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A messy family drama and a steamy little romance unfold under the Mediterranean sun for the perfect… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Full Moon Over Freedom (Milagro Street, #2) by Angelina M. Lopez

19. Full Moon Over Freedom (Milagro Street, #2)

By: Angelina M. Lopez

3.95

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Gillian Armstead-Bancroft—Pride of the East Side and once-perfect bruja, wife, and mother—is going … read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Other People's Children

By: Jeff Hoffmann

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An “engrossing debut” novel (Laura Dave, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Thing He Tol… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Hoffmann's Other People's Children book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • adult fiction
  • adoption
  • family
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story by Keren Blankfeld

21. Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story

By: Keren Blankfeld

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Mesmerizing and inspirational.”—Judy Batalion, New York Times bestselling author of The Light of D… read more

Similar categories in Keren Blankfeld's Lovers in Auschwitz: A True Story book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • audiobook
Cover of Bride of the Sea by Eman Quotah

22. Bride of the Sea

By: Eman Quotah

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

During a snowy Cleveland February, newlywed university students Muneer and Saeedah are expecting th… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The way she talks about family—the way everyone here does—is more foreign to Hannah than anything else. She has always had only Mama. To have dozens of people feels like a gift, a gift of love that s…"

-Eman Quotah, Bride of the Sea

Cover of The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde

23. The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything

By: Kara Gnodde

3.40

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

With the offbeat charm of The Rosie Project and generous warmth of The One Hundred Years of Lenni a… read more

Similar categories in Kara Gnodde's The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. If You Leave Me

By: Crystal Hana Kim

3.69

Format: 417 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally riveting debut novel about war, family, and forbidden love—the unforgettable saga of… read more

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  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I realized we were lurching toward a new world—one where women would disappear with foreigners, where Americans would never leave us alone, where they didn't simply provide us with money but with the…"

-Crystal Hana Kim, If You Leave Me

Cover of Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3) by Abigail Hing Wen

25. Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3)

By: Abigail Hing Wen

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Return to the sparkling world of Loveboat, this time with Pearl Wong, on an entirely new, romantic,… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Hing Wen's Loveboat Forever (Loveboat, Taipei, #3) book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • romance
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. Before You Go

By: Tommy Butler

3.98

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this “dazzling debut” (Publishers Weekly), the moving story of one man’s quest for happiness is … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. The Vanishing Station

By: Ana Ellickson

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A lyrical and bold YA debut about an underground magic system in San Francisco—and the lengths one … read more

Similar categories in Ana Ellickson's The Vanishing Station book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • romance
  • audiobook
Cover of How to Find Your Way Home by Katy Regan

28. How to Find Your Way Home

By: Katy Regan

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What if the person you thought you'd lost forever walked back into your life? A warm, life-affi… read more

Similar categories in Katy Regan's How to Find Your Way Home book and Lyn Liao Butler's Red Thread of Fate

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Oslo, Maine

By: Marcia Butler

3.52

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A moose walks into a rural Maine town called Oslo. Pierre Roy, a brilliant twelve-year-old, loses h… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Booklover's Library by Madeline  Martin

30. The Booklover's Library

By: Madeline Martin

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

A heartwarming story about a mother and daughter in wartime England and the power of the books that… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Red Thread of Fate by Lyn Liao Butler

31. Red Thread of Fate

By: Lyn Liao Butler

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

In the wake of a tragedy and fueled by guilt from a secret she's kept for years, a woman discovers … read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • adoption
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • china
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Laurie Frankel

4.00

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3.75

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3.35

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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.27

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Uché Blackstock

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