24 best-selling fiction books like The Undertaking of Billy Buffone by David Giuliano

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The Undertaking of Billy Buffone

By: David Giuliano

4.44

Format: 291 pages, None

The Undertaking of Billy Buffone is a story about the trauma - immediate and ongoing, personal and …

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1. A Rule Against Murder (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #4)

By: Louise Penny

3.61

Format: 160 pages,

It is the height of summer, and Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache are celebrating their wedding annive… read more

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2. Glass Houses (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #13)

By: Louise Penny

4.03

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

When a mysterious figure appears on the village green on a cold November day in Three Pines, Armand… read more

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3. A Great Reckoning (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #12)

By: Louise Penny

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Louise Penny pulls back the layers to reveal a brilliant and emotionally powerfu… read more

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4. The Boat People

By: Sharon Bala

4.50

Format: 282 pages,

When a rusty cargo ship carrying Mahindan and five hundred fellow refugees from Sri Lanka's bloody … read more

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5. Ordinary Grace

By: William Kent Krueger

4.09

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger comes a brilliant new novel about a you… read more

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6. The Book of Negroes

By: Lawrence Hill

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Abducted from Africa as a child and enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freed… read more

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7. The Nature of the Beast (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache #11)

By: Louise Penny

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

Hardly a day goes by when nine-year-old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to w… read more

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8. The Cruelest Month (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #3)

By: Louise Penny

2.83

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

'Many mystery buffs have credited Louise Penny with the revival of the type of traditional murder m… read more

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9. Shuggie Bain

By: Douglas Stuart

4.31

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who sp… read more

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"Rain was a natural state of Glasgow. It kept the grass green and the people pale and bronchial."

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

"Opposite the gates was a low concrete building. Dozens of men were spilling out of its windowless structure and stood in dark clumps on the Pit Road. At first it looked like they were leaving chapel,…"

-Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

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10. The Winemaker's Wife

By: Kristin Harmel

4.22

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The author of the engrossing international bestseller The Room on Rue Amélie returns with a moving … read more

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11. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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12. A Town Called Solace

By: Mary Lawson

4.02

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

Longlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize A Town Called Solace--the brilliant and emotionally radian… read more

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"Here's a truth about marriage, he thought, staring at the ceiling at three in the morning. People should be warned: think twice before you take those vows, because there is nothing, absolutely nothin…"

-Mary Lawson, A Town Called Solace

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13. Women Talking

By: Miriam Toews

3.62

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past … read more

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"All we women have are our dreams – so of course we are dreamers."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Doubt and uncertainty and questioning are inextricably bound together with faith"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"There must be satisfaction gained in accurately naming the thing that torments you."

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

"Perhaps all of us are crazy, Ona says. Of course we're all crazy, says Mejal. How can we not be?"

-Miriam Toews, Women Talking

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14. All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

By: Louise Penny

4.43

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

The 16th novel by #1 bestselling author Louise Penny finds Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sû… read more

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"You were going to say the Death Star, weren’t you?"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I'm put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will pick your…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"Regarding Notre Dame cathedral: "He could see the huge rose window that had, incredibly, survived the fire. It looked, behind the works, like a giant third eye. Gazing perpetually out at the City of …"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

"I just sit where I’m put, composed of stone and wishful thinking: That the deity that kills for pleasure will also heal, That in the midst of your nightmare, the final one, a kind lion will come with…"

-Louise Penny, All the Devils Are Here (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #16)

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15. A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

By: Louise Penny

4.30

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

Catastrophic spring flooding, blistering attacks in the media, and a mysterious disappearance greet… read more

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"Consequences,"

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"Civility. How can we expect it if we don't give it?"

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"It was, he knew, a sign of End of Days. Ruth refusing booze."

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

"Chief Inspector Gamache’s says there are ‘four sentences that lead to wisdom: I don’t know. I need help. I’m sorry. I was wrong."

-Louise Penny, A Better Man (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #15)

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16. Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

By: Louise Penny

4.33

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

When a peculiar letter arrives inviting Armand Gamache to an abandoned farmhouse, the former head o… read more

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"I don’t know. I need help. I was wrong. I’m sorry."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"In time, it wasn't all that long ago, but measured in events, it was an eternity."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"They looked at each other, and then, in unison, all three said, "Tell me what you know."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

"Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish."

-Louise Penny, Kingdom of the Blind (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #14)

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17. Hotline

By: Dimitri Nasrallah

4.15

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more

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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"

-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline

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18. 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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"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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19. Indians on Vacation

By: Thomas King

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Meet Bird and Mimi in this brilliant new novel from one of Canada’s foremost authors. Inspired by a… read more

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20. Yellow Wife

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.43

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Wench and Twelve Years a Slave, this harrowing story follows an enslaved woman … read more

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21. The Pull of the Stars

By: Emma Donoghue

3.96

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

In an Ireland doubly ravaged by war and disease, Nurse Julia Power works at an understaffed hospita… read more

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"Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I’m beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"I seem to have stumbled onto love, like a pothole in the night."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

"Neither of us mentioned the kissing, so as not to burst the bubble by touching it. So as not to think about what it meant for the two of us to kiss."

-Emma Donoghue, The Pull of the Stars

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22. State of Terror

By: Hillary Rodham Clinton

4.09

Format: 495 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thril… read more

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23. The Porcelain Moon

By: Janie Chang

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

France, 1918. In the final days of the First World War, a young Chinese woman, Pauline Deng, runs a… read more

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24. Betty

By: Tiffany McDaniel

4.41

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl di… read more

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"The earth is warm enough."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"A girl comes of age against the knife. She must learn to bear its blade. To be cut. To bleed."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"Your life is what makes you rich,' they insisted. 'The people you love and the people who love you back."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

"She was born to a woman as telling as a dream and to a man who was a Cherokee, a moonshiner, and a mythmaker."

-Tiffany McDaniel, Betty

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25. The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

By: Louise Penny

4.19

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Arma… read more

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"As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Armand knew the terror of that first step. He also knew that the key to a full life was taking it. The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Isabelle [Lacoste] sat quietly for a moment, looking into the naked woods. Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees. Homicide, she thought, was a perpetual winter."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"[Daniel and Annie] offered to stay on, but both Reine-Marie and Armand had said that it would probably be best if they returned when there wasn't a murderer among them. Which, in Three Pines, might p…"

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

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26. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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27. Bad Cree

By: Jessica Johns

3.92

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more

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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"

-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree

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28. Daughters of the Deer

By: Danielle Daniel

4.40

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ances… read more

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29. The Spoon Stealer

By: Lesley Crewe

4.40

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Born into a basket of clean sheets—ruining a perfectly good load of laundry—Emmeline never quite fi… read more

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"So much of our lives depend on just one move, one way or the other. If I'd turned left instead of right that day..."

-Lesley Crewe, The Spoon Stealer

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30. The Sugar Thief

By: Nancy Mauro

3.34

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A deliciously comedic family melodrama about an imploding social media star, a small-town Italian b… read more

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31. The Undertaking of Billy Buffone

By: David Giuliano

4.44

Format: 291 pages, None

The Undertaking of Billy Buffone is a story about the trauma - immediate and ongoing, personal and … read more

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15 must-read contemporary books like Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

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Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

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Douglas Stuart

4.31

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Michael Magee

4.06

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