27 Best fiction books like Shadow is a Colour as Light is by Michael Langan

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Shadow is a Colour as Light is

By: Michael Langan

3.69

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Over a century after Cézanne’s death his art still obsesses and enraptures. And for the characters…

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1. The Truth About Lorin Jones

By: Alison Lurie

3.66

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

This 1988 novel follows Polly Alter, who is researching a book about Lorin Jones, a brilliant paint… read more

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  • art
  • fiction
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2. The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

By: Anton DiSclafani

3.35

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

“Emotionally engaging...[A] romantic page turner.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “A sexy, su… read more

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  • fiction
"It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life."

-Anton DiSclafani, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

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3. Himself

By: Jess Kidd

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Blending strange kindnesses, casual violence and buried secrets: an unforgettable debut from a dark… read more

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  • fiction
"It is the smell of a million mould-blossomed pages, of a thousand decaying bindings, of a universe of dead words."

-Jess Kidd, Himself

"It’s the hottest April in living and dead memory. So hot that the crows are flying with their tongues hanging out of their heads."

-Jess Kidd, Himself

"She's put him out like a cat a million times, but like a cat he has a habit of slinking back and curling up into the warm corners of her mind."

-Jess Kidd, Himself

"And the trees still hold strong. Their canopies drinking every soft grey sky and their roots spreading down deep in the dark, nuzzling clutches of old bones and fingering lost coins. They throw their…"

-Jess Kidd, Himself

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4. Bodily Harm

By: Margaret Atwood

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harmis the story of Rennie Wilford, a young jour… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar #1)

By: Harlan Coben

4.00

Format: 416 pages,

Sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie … read more

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  • fiction
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6. The Prague Sonata

By: Bradford Morrow

3.32

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author Bradford Morrow, a literary quest novel that travels from Nazi… read more

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  • fiction
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7. Paris

By: Edward Rutherfurd

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps th… read more

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  • fiction

8. A Peculiar Grace

By: Jeffrey Lent

4.36

Format: 189 pages,

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9. The Singer's Gun

By: Emily St. John Mandel

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Hardcover

Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents deal in stolen goods and his first career… read more

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10. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

By: George Orwell

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

London, 1936. Gordon Comstock has declared war on the money god; and Gordon is losing the war. Near… read more

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11. P is for Peril (Kinsey Millhone, #16)

By: Sue Grafton

4.50

Format: None pages,

It is now nine weeks since Dr Dowan Purcell vanished without trace. The sixty-nine-year-old doctor … read more

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12. Fourteen Days

By: Margaret Atwood

3.23

Format: 363 pages, Hardcover

Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is a s… read more

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  • fiction
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13. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • fiction
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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14. The House of Doors

By: Tan Twan Eng

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more

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  • fiction
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."

-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors

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15. The Lover

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.80

Format: 43 pages, Kindle Edition

During a brutal winter, a young woman longing for love finds more than she expected in the woods, i… read more

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  • fiction
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16. 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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  • fiction
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17. The Little Village of Book Lovers

By: Nina George

3.41

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true lo… read more

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  • fiction
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18. The Last Watchman of Old Cairo

By: Michael David Lukas

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this spellbinding novel, a young man journeys from California to Cairo to unravel centuries-old … read more

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  • fiction
"When God first created the universe," he said, "it was a universe built on the idea of infinite justice. Each act of dishonesty or violence was accorded an equal punishment. A man stole his neighbor'…"

-Michael David Lukas, The Last Watchman of Old Cairo

Cover of The Canopy Keepers (The Scorched Earth, #1) by Veronica G. Henry

19. The Canopy Keepers (The Scorched Earth, #1)

By: Veronica G. Henry

3.80

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when nature will no longer stand by and accept its destruction? A female fire chief di… read more

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  • fiction
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20. This Impossible Brightness

By: Jessica Bryant Klagmann

3.54

Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition

Taking refuge on a remote island, a grieving woman develops unlikely connections with the community… read more

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  • fiction
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21. The Last Masterpiece

By: Laura Morelli

3.96

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In a race across Nazi-occupied Italy, two women—a German photographer and an American stenographer—… read more

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  • art
  • fiction
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22. American Duchess: A Novel of Consuelo Vanderbilt

By: Karen Harper

3.66

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Before Meghan and Harry, another American ‘princess’ captured the hand of an English aristocrat. N… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Curious Secrets of Yesterday by Namrata  Patel

23. The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

By: Namrata Patel

4.02

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secr… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Stealing

By: Margaret Verble

4.04

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

A gripping, gut-punch of a novel about a Cherokee child removed from her family and sent to a Chris… read more

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  • fiction
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25. What the Fireflies Knew

By: Kai Harris

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Jesmyn Ward's Salvage the Bones and Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, a comin… read more

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  • fiction
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26. 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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27. The Mayfair Bookshop

By: Eliza Knight

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

USA Today bestselling author Eliza Knight brings together a brilliant dual-narrative story about Na… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Christmas at the Cat Café

By: Jessica Redland

4.18

Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition

It had always been Tabby's dream to work with cats and an inheritance from her beloved nanna has fi… read more

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  • fiction
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29. The Physician's Daughter

By: Martha Conway

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Underground River comes this compelling new novel of female perseverance. Se… read more

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  • fiction
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30. The Maiden of All Our Desires

By: Peter Manseau

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Lauren Groff, Maggie O’Farrell, and Emma Donoghue, a devastating novel of love, intrigu… read more

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  • fiction
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31. Shadow is a Colour as Light is

By: Michael Langan

3.69

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

Over a century after Cézanne’s death his art still obsesses and enraptures. And for the characters… read more

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  • relationships
  • art
  • fiction

21 Best fiction books like The Lover by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Transform Your Habits

The Pram

Joe Hill

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Ankle Snatcher

Grady Hendrix

3.74

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Chandler Baker

3.77

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Jason Mott

3.77

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