24 Top fiction books like Chairs in the Rafters by Julia Glass

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Chairs in the Rafters

By: Julia Glass

3.50

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

In a seaside Jersey town, a risk-averse illustrator on the brink of leaving her husband for another…

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1. The Gate House (John Sutter, #2)

By: Nelson DeMille

3.81

Format: 677 pages, Hardcover

When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in h… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. Young Jane Young

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who make… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook

3. Sisterland

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Timesbestselling author of American Wife andPrep, returns with a mesmer… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

4. Delicious!

By: Ruth Reichl

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

In her bestselling memoirs Ruth Reichl has long illuminated the theme of how food defines us, and n… read more

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5. The Gold Coast

By: Nelson DeMille

3.97

Format: 179 pages,

Welcome to the fabled Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the… read more

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6. About Grace

By: Anthony Doerr

3.63

Format: 56 pages,

Beautifully written and compelling, About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr. Gr… read more

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7. A Memoir of Grief

By: Jennifer Weiner

4.21

Format: None pages, ebook

A haunting, original eStory from Jennifer Weiner. When Eleanor Goode meets Gerald King, she's a sen… read more

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8. Gone to Dust

By: None

3.62

Format: 208 pages,

Set in Minnesota, Gone to Dustis the debut private eye murder mystery from Emmy Award-winning Seinf… read more

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9. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Secret History of Christmas

By: Bill Bryson

3.84

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A cornucopia of Christmas delights from the bestselling author of A Short History of Nearly Everyth… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. Lucy by the Sea

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

As a panicked world goes into lockdown, Lucy Barton is uprooted from her life in Manhattan and bund… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Rules for Visiting

By: Jessica Francis Kane

3.73

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

A beautifully observed and deeply funny novel of May Attaway, a university gardener who sets out on… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I'm aware not everyone feels the way I do about trees, but I have no idea why not."

-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

"Consider the word visit. It’s from the Old French visiter, which meant “to inspect, examine, or afflict."

-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

"Are we a family damaged beyond repair? I don't know. I do believe in the power of words and stories to make sense of things."

-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

"She was the kind of person who had multiple copies of the books she loved most. That way, she said, she could always give one away."

-Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

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13. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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14. You Have Arrived at Your Destination

By: Amor Towles

3.49

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

Nature or nurture? Neither. Discover a bold new way to raise a child in this unsettling story of th… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Camino Winds (Camino Island, #2)

By: John Grisham

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen—even a murder in the midst of a hurricane,… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Okay, I talked to my lieutenant and he said don’t touch the body. He’s trying to find our homicide guy."

-John Grisham, Camino Winds (Camino Island, #2)

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16. The Bone Hacker (Temperance Brennan, #22)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twenty-second high-stakes thrill… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Unnatural Death (Kay Scarpetta, #27) by Patricia Cornwell

17. Unnatural Death (Kay Scarpetta, #27)

By: Patricia Cornwell

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In this thrilling new installment of Patricia Cornwell’s #1 bestselling Scarpetta series, chief med… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. Here One Moment

By: Liane Moriarty

4.15

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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19. A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

By: Louise Penny

4.46

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns in the eighteenth book in #1 New York Times bestseller Louis… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"They didn’t need proof. All a woman had to be was alive. Just being a woman was, in the church’s eyes, evil."

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

"He look at the canvas and saw bold swirls of reds and greens and yellows and bright blues all intermingled. They formed no image, and he got no feeling. He closed his eyes and paused. When he open th…"

-Louise Penny, A World of Curiosities (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #18)

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20. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Julia Glass's Chairs in the Rafters

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Alternate Side

By: Anna Quindlen

3.35

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

The tensions in a tight-knit neighborhood—and a seemingly happy marriage—are exposed by an unexpect… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Wasn't this what living in New York was supposed to be like, the skyline, the anonymity, coexistence without intimacy?"

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"When one of you wanted one life, and the other wanted something completely different, there was a technical term for that: irreconcilable."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." She actually sometimes thought that was the definition of marriage."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

"It was notable because they rarely quarreled anymore. Their marriage had become like the AA prayer: 'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change."

-Anna Quindlen, Alternate Side

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22. Two Women Walk into a Bar

By: Cheryl Strayed

4.06

Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition

Cheryl Strayed, the bestselling author of Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things , finds humor and connecti… read more

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  • novella
  • short stories
  • audiobook
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23. Oh William!

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. William, she conf… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Mensen zijn eenzaam, dat wil ik hier maar mee zeggen. Veel mensen kunnen niet tegen degenen die ze goed kennen zeggen wat ze misschien wel zouden willen zeggen."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Er was iets aan haar wat ten diepste -bijna wezenlijk- in harmonie was met zichzelf, zoals iemand is, denk ik, wanneer allebei zijn ouders van hem hebben gehouden."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

"Verdriet is zoiets- o, het is zoiets éénzaams; dat is het beangstigende ervan, denk ik. Het is alsof je langs de glaswand van een heel hoog gebouw naar beneden glijdt terwijl niemand je ziet."

-Elizabeth Strout, Oh William!

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24. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"...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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25. Wrecker

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Wrecker needs to deal with smugglers, grave robbers, and pooping iguanas—just as soon as he finishe… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. The Shallows (Nils Shapiro, #3)

By: Matt Goldman

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In the words of Lee Child on Gone to Dust, “I want more of Nils Shapiro.” New York Times Best Selli… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Cold Millions

By: Jess Walter

3.96

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Beautiful Ruins delivers another “literary miracle” … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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28. Broken Ice (Nils Shapiro, #2)

By: Matt Goldman

3.82

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Nils Shapiro has been hired to find missing Linnea Engstrom, a teenager from the small northern hoc… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. An Ambush of Widows

By: Jeff Abbott

3.86

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

In  New York Times  bestselling author Jeff Abbott’s latest novel of riveting psychological suspens… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. The Family

By: Naomi Krupitsky

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of an American Elena Ferrante, a captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. Chairs in the Rafters

By: Julia Glass

3.50

Format: 37 pages, Kindle Edition

In a seaside Jersey town, a risk-averse illustrator on the brink of leaving her husband for another… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novella
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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The Gate House (John Sutter, #2)

Nelson DeMille

3.81

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Young Jane Young

Gabrielle Zevin

4.47

Sisterland

Curtis Sittenfeld

3.81

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Somebody's Fool

Richard Russo

4.27

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A Killing of Innocents (Duncan Kincaid & Gemma James, #19)

Deborah Crombie

4.25

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The River We Remember

William Kent Krueger

4.29

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The Covenant of Water

Abraham Verghese

4.45

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4.49

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