25 Best fiction books like After Kilimanjaro by Gayle Woodson

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After Kilimanjaro

By: Gayle Woodson

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dr. Sarah Whitaker has always been an obedient overachiever, but she is burned out. Training to be …

If you liked the fiction plot in After Kilimanjaro by Gayle Woodson , here is a list of 25 books like this:

1. The Life She Was Given

By: Ellen Marie Wiseman

2.83

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

From acclaimed author Ellen Marie Wiseman comes a vivid, daring novel about the devastating power o… read more

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2. Thunder Bay (Cork O'Connor, #7)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.42

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Henry Meloux, Cork's friend and spiritual advisor, asks the Minnesota sheriff turned private invest… read more

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3. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble W… read more

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4. The Girl in the Letter

By: Emily Gunnis

3.99

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls… read more

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  • fiction
"Manai, kad ilgėsiesi tik gerųjų žmogaus savybių, bet iš tiesų pasiilgsti visko."

-Emily Gunnis, The Girl in the Letter

"Pavojinga lyginti save su kitais. Visą tiesą galime žinoti tik apie savo pačių gyvenimą."

-Emily Gunnis, The Girl in the Letter

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5. Sparks Like Stars

By: Nadia Hashimi

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanist… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Grief starts before anyone has gone missing."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

"If faith was a life raft, mine was riddled with holes."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

"Let people serve you information, but never let them serve you your opinion."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

"You need no one to confirm you. You are everything you believe yourself to be."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

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6. The Shadows We Hide (Joe Talbert, #2)

By: Allen Eskens

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Journalist Joe Talbert investigates the murder of the father he never knew, and must reckon with hi… read more

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  • fiction
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7. The Lighthouse (Five Island Cove, #1)

By: Jessie Newton

4.08

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

After the death of a childhood loved one, 5 best friends reunite in the small coastal town of Five … read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Prickly, wry, resistant to change yet ruthlessly honest and deeply empathetic, Olive Kitteridge is … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I think our job--maybe even our 'duty'--is to--To bear the burden of the mystery with as much grace as we can."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive, Again (Olive Kitteridge, #2)

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9. My Mother, Munchausen's and Me: A true story of betrayal and a shocking family secret

By: Helen Naylor

3.95

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

There was a time when I loved my mother. It’s shocking to imply that I stopped loving my mum becaus… read more

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10. The Saints of Swallow Hill

By: Donna Everhart

4.12

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

It takes courage to save yourself... In the dense pine forests of North Carolina, turpentiners l… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

By: Michael Robotham

4.16

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Guilt has to fall somewhere when logic fails."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"Maybe that's what's keeping me awake - the choices."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"A slow death, I know, but that's life, isn't it - a long, drawn-out suicide."

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

"As a forensic psychologist, I have met killers and psychopaths and sociopaths, but I refuse to define people as being good or evil. Wrongdoing is an absence of something good rather than something fa…"

-Michael Robotham, Good Girl, Bad Girl (Cyrus Haven, #1)

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12. Sunrising: The story of a family who chose Africa as their home - The pioneering generation (The Sunrising Series Book 1)

By: Susan Hubert

4.09

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

The sun was rising when they rode out of the gates and up the dust tracks towards the Umguza River.… read more

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13. The Sea Gate

By: Jane Johnson

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A broken family, a house of secrets—an entrancing tale of love and courage set during the Second Wo… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. A Class Apart (A Matter of Class, #1)

By: Susie Murphy

4.33

Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition

SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH CAP AWARDS 2023 'A beautifully written historical novel with character… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
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15. A Class Forsaken (A Matter of Class, #3)

By: Susie Murphy

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

EDITORS' CHOICE, HISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY 'This series keeps getting better…Once I started readi… read more

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  • romance
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16. The Cypress Maze

By: Fiona Valpy

4.39

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

In this haunting tale from the bestselling author of The Storyteller of Casablanca, Beatrice kept a… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
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17. The Passing Storm

By: Christine Nolfi

4.12

Format: 317 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, openhearted novel about family, reconciliation, and bringing closure to the secrets of … read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Irish Key (Emerald Isles)

By: Daisy O'Shea

4.43

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Take the key, my pet. I can’t ever go back. The last letter I had from Ireland was clear about tha… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Past Is Never

By: Tiffany Quay Tyson

4.11

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

A compelling addition to contemporary Southern Gothic fiction, deftly weaving together local legend… read more

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  • fiction
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20. The Victory Garden

By: Rhys Bowen

4.21

Format: 390 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of The Tuscan Child comes a beautiful and heart-rending novel of a woma… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
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21. The Memory of an Elephant

By: Alex Lasker

4.62

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

“The Memory of an Elephant" is an epic saga told by an aging African elephant as he makes a last, p… read more

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  • africa
  • fiction
"I remembered the second most important rule of life, but I should have paid more heed; when things are going well, embrace the days, because they never last for long. The dark wind is always waiting …"

-Alex Lasker, The Memory of an Elephant

"In almost every life there is a moment where a choice is made that changes everything from that point on; the road not taken, the courage to speak up or remain silent in a face of a bully, the carrie…"

-Alex Lasker, The Memory of an Elephant

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22. No Names to Be Given

By: Julia Brewer Daily

4.20

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

Today’s young women will not understand how our families made us feel shame so intensely; we surren… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Erin Litteken

23. The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

By: Erin Litteken

4.46

Format: 373 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Beekeeper of Aleppo. In the 1930s, Stalin… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
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24. His Secret Family

By: Ali Mercer

3.89

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s a beautiful day for a wedding. White roses scent the air and the summer sunlight streams in. A… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. The Missing Daughter

By: Emily Gunnis

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of the runaway bestseller The Girl in the Letter comes a heartwrenching, twisting n… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. The Fifth Daughter of Thorn Ranch

By: Julia Brewer Daily

4.32

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

An heiress to the largest ranch in Texas stumbles upon people living on her property. Will she surv… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. The Letter Home

By: Rachael English

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A rich, heartbreaking novel, moving between west of Ireland and Boston, of a mother's love, a baby … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. The Beach House

By: Jenny Hale

4.18

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

“Oh, my goodness,” she whispered. At the bottom of the box was a stack of letters. Tied with a ribb… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. Five Wives

By: Joan Thomas

3.57

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

In the tradition of The Poisonwood Bible and State of Wonder, a novel set in the rainforest of Ecua… read more

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  • fiction
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30. Summer of Secrets

By: Nikola Scott

4.11

Format: 343 pages, Kindle Edition

August 1939At peaceful Summerhill, orphaned Maddy hides from the world and the rumours of war. Then… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. After Kilimanjaro

By: Gayle Woodson

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Dr. Sarah Whitaker has always been an obedient overachiever, but she is burned out. Training to be … read more

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  • romance
  • africa
  • medical
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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Sparks Like Stars

Nadia Hashimi

4.29

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Jessie Newton

4.08

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4.11

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4.22

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4.43

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Sandy Taylor

4.32

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