13 best-selling fiction books like Soon the Light Will Be Perfect by Dave Patterson

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Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

By: Dave Patterson

3.57

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

We the Animals meets Hillbilly Elegy in this taut portrait of poverty, Catholicism, and a family in…

If you liked the fiction plot in Soon the Light Will Be Perfect by Dave Patterson , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls

1. The Silver Star

By: Jeannette Walls

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen… read more

Similar categories in Jeannette Walls's The Silver Star book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Sweetbitter

By: Stephanie Danler

3.49

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A lush, raw, thrilling novel of the senses about a year in the life of a uniquely beguiling young w… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Danler's Sweetbitter book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

By: Maggie O'Farrell

4.33

Format: 700 pages, Paperback

Maggie O'Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires … read more

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4. An Irish Country Doctor (Irish Country #1)

By: Patrick Taylor

3.75

Format: None pages,

De jonge dokter Barry Laverty kan Ballybucklebo, een schilderachtig dorpje in Noord-Ierland, nauwel… read more

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5. Spotless (Spotless, #1)

By: Camilla Monk

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

Island Chaptal--nerdy IT engineer by day, romance novel junkie by night--just walked into her messy… read more

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6. The Courage Tree

By: Diane Chamberlain

3.93

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Eight-year-old Sophie Donohue just wanted to be like every other little girl. Which is why her moth… read more

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7. Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)

By: Seanan McGuire

5.00

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Twin sisters Jack and Jill were seventeen when they found their way home and were packed off to Ele… read more

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8. The Feast of Love

By: Charles Baxter

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

The Feast of Loveis a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us… read more

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9. The Memory Watcher

By: Minka Kent

3.00

Format: 136 pages,

Narrated by: Sally Vahle, Morgan Laure Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins Unabridged Release date: 05-02-17 … read more

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10. Little Faith

By: Nickolas Butler

3.88

Format: 336 pages, ebook

In this moving new novel from celebrated author Nickolas Butler, a Wisconsin family grapples with t… read more

Similar categories in Nickolas Butler's Little Faith book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"How can it all be random, chance, a beautiful cosmic accident? How?"

-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

"Part of being a parent is loving your child more than they'll ever love you," he said."

-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

"Lyle, part of being a Christian - hell, part of being a good person - is caring about everyone, all human life. And I love you, friend, I do. But there are times when I think you feel that a person f…"

-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

"I never understood organized religion," Otis said at length. "Be a good person. Don't hurt other folks. Don't cheat. Don't be greedy. That seems pretty straightforward to me. I don't need a goddamn g…"

-Nickolas Butler, Little Faith

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11. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch, #13)

By: Paul Doiron

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An eerie, windswept island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappe… read more

Similar categories in Paul Doiron's Hatchet Island (Mike Bowditch, #13) book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. Flight

By: Lynn Steger Strong

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Arresting and powerful,  Flight  examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Steger Strong's Flight book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

Cover of Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch by Erin French

15. Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

By: Erin French

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, a TIME world dining … read more

Similar categories in Erin French's Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • adult
  • audiobook
"I always knew food held this kind of power, this something so simple as a piece of flaky halibut served with a silky puree of parsnips, lightly dressed leaves of arugula, a squeeze of lemon and a spi…"

-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

"For me, food wasn't a competition about who could make the best dish. It's greatest power was to make taste and turn it into a long lasting memory. As a girl, I had learned from my father that good f…"

-Erin French, Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch

Cover of Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2) by Allen Eskens

16. Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)

By: Allen Eskens

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his ow… read more

Similar categories in Allen Eskens's Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2) book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • audiobook
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There are no miracles, my friend. God's hand is in everything; it's only when we can't explain it that we call it a miracle."

-Allen Eskens, Saving Emma (Boady Sanden, #2)

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17. Did I Say You Could Go

By: Melanie Gideon

3.68

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A suspenseful, gripping novel about families and friendships torn apart at the seams by obsession, … read more

Similar categories in Melanie Gideon's Did I Say You Could Go book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Perfect Lie

By: Jo Spain

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

He jumped to his death in front of witnesses . Now his wife is charged with murder. Five years a… read more

Similar categories in Jo Spain's The Perfect Lie book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

By: Samuel Burr

3.86

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, gloriously uplifting novel about the power of friendship and the puzzling ties th… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Burr's The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"As far as she was concerned, it was something people didn't do enough of: to take a few moments to yourself, when your mind was at its clearest. To reflect on the endless possibilities of the day str…"

-Samuel Burr, The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers

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20. Heartbroke

By: Chelsea Bieker

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Godshot and “a pitch-perfect ventriloquist of extraordinary talent and… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Bieker's Heartbroke book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Soon the Light Will Be Perfect by Dave    Patterson

21. Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

By: Dave Patterson

3.57

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

We the Animals meets Hillbilly Elegy in this taut portrait of poverty, Catholicism, and a family in… read more

Similar categories in Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect book and Dave Patterson's Soon the Light Will Be Perfect

  • literary fiction
  • american
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • poverty
  • adult
  • audiobook

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