19 best-selling fiction books like The Diary of Isabella M Smugge by Ruth Leigh

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The Diary of Isabella M Smugge

By: Ruth Leigh

4.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Meet Isabella Smugge – as in ‘Br-uge-s’, naturally! Instagram influencer, consummate show-off and e…

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1. Sensible Shoes: A Story about the Spiritual Journey

By: Sharon Garlough Brown

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sharon Garlough Brown tells the moving story of four strangers as they embark together on a journey… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
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2. Barefoot: A Story of Surrendering to God (Sensible Shoes #3)

By: Sharon Garlough Brown

3.29

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The spiritual journey takes unexpected turns for the women of Sensible Shoesin this third book of t… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction

3. Where My Heart Used to Beat

By: Sebastian Faulks

3.95

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The new bestseller from the author of Birdsongand A Week in December. "You don't live the life I h… read more

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4. Two Steps Forward: A Story of Persevering in Hope (Sensible Shoes #2)

By: Sharon Garlough Brown

3.44

Format: 216 pages,

The women from Sensible Shoes are taking their next steps in the spiritual formation journey. But e… read more

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5. A Noble Radiance (Commissario Brunetti, #7)

By: Donna Leon

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Donna Leon has topped European bestseller lists for more than a decade with a series of mysteries f… read more

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6. The Villa

By: Rosanna Ley

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

When Tess Angel receives a solicitor's letter inviting her to claim her inheritance - the Villa Sir… read more

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7. Old God's Time

By: Sebastian Barry

3.85

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-se immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"Per ell aquest era el sentit de la jubilació, de l'existència: estar-de immòbil, feliç i inútil"

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

"No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying."

-Sebastian Barry, Old God's Time

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8. Death Rocks (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #21)

By: L.J. Ross

4.64

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A COINCIDENCE...When the body of a talented photographer is found on the r… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

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"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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10. Practicing the Way: Be with Jesus, Become Like Him, Do As He Did

By: John Mark Comer

4.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The author of the international bestseller The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry calls us to rediscover… read more

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11. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

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  • fiction
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13. The Book Club Hotel

By: Sarah Morgan

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

This Christmas, USA Today bestselling author Sarah Morgan returns with another heartfelt exploratio… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"... Just because someone doens't ask for help doesn't mean they don't want it or need it. Particularly women. Women are so used to coping that sometimes they don't even realize there's another way..."

-Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

"... Just because someone doesn't ask for help doesn't mean they don't want it or need it. Particularly women. Women are so used to coping that sometimes they don't even realize there's another way..."

-Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

"It was like hugging a cat. Not Panther, because she is unusually cuddly, but you know what I mean; sometimes they go all stiff and rigid and you know that all they want is for you to stop so that the…"

-Sarah Morgan, The Book Club Hotel

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14. The Foundling

By: Stacey Halls

3.99

Format: 400 pages, ebook

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hosp… read more

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  • fiction
"Waarom moesten we de kaarten die ons waren toebedeeld, klakkeloos accepteren?"

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

"Mijn wereld was gekrompen tot de grootte van een walnoot. En toen was Daniel naar een van tante Cassandra's feestjes gekomen en had hij de noot gekraakt."

-Stacey Halls, The Foundling

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15. Enlightenment

By: Sarah Perry

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling new work of literary fiction from the author of The Essex Serpent, a story of love and a… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Thomas [Hart] lived where he'd been born, and where (so he often thought without rancor) he'd very likely die; and if he lived alone he was not lonely, that being a condition not of solitude but of l…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"So I told her this: that it's true I've only rarely been happy, and perhaps more often been sad. But I have been content. I have lived. I have felt everything available to me: I've been faithless, de…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"I wish I could say, James, that we forgave each other in the end. I wish I could say: she put her head on my shoulder and I welcomed it and we laughed and said all was well. But in fact we were quiet…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

"...in the ordinary way we love because we're loved, and give more or less what we're given. But to love without return is more strange and more wonderful, and not the humiliating thing I'd once taken…"

-Sarah Perry, Enlightenment

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16. The Stargazers

By: Harriet Evans

3.90

Format: 479 pages, Kindle Edition

Sunday Times Top 5 bestselling author Harriet Evans returns with an unputdownable tale of the infin… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. A Beautiful Spy

By: Rachel Hore

3.66

Format: 400 pages, ebook

From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a thrilling novel about a woman with an extraor… read more

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  • fiction
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18. An Extra Mile: A Story of Embracing God's Call (Sensible Shoes, #4)

By: Sharon Garlough Brown

4.59

Format: 381 pages, Paperback

The women of Sensible Shoes are navigating both deep joy and devastating loss. Can they find equili… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
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19. The Stranding

By: Kate Sawyer

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ruth lives in the heart of the city. Working, drinking, falling in love: the rhythm of her vivid an… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Skeleton Key

By: Erin Kelly

3.78

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

THIS REUNION WILL TEAR A FAMILY APART... Summer, 2021. Nell has come home at her family's insist… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Cuckoo in the Nest

By: Fran Hill

4.36

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

It’s the heatwave summer of 1976 and 14-year-old would be poet Jackie Chadwick is newly fostered by… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

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23. Braver

By: Deborah Jenkins

4.28

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Hazel has never felt normal. Struggling with OCD and anxiety, she isolates herself from others and … read more

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24. The Puzzle Wood

By: Rosie Andrews

3.37

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Deep in the woods, something is stirring. When Miss Catherine Symonds arrives to take up a posit… read more

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  • fiction
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25. The Continued Times of Isabella M Smugge

By: Ruth Leigh

4.80

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

"Now in her third year of living the rural dream, starry Instamum Issy Smugge is up against it. A s… read more

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26. Shy Creatures

By: Clare Chambers

4.43

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In all failed relationships there is a point that passes unnoticed at the time, which can later be … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. The Pilgrim

By: Joy Margetts

4.86

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Driven by ambition and family expectation, young Henry de Brampton is determined to make his mark. … read more

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28. The Diary of Isabella M Smugge

By: Ruth Leigh

4.60

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Meet Isabella Smugge – as in ‘Br-uge-s’, naturally! Instagram influencer, consummate show-off and e… read more

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  • christian fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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29. The Further Adventures of Isabella M Smugge

By: Ruth Leigh

5.00

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

The UK’s premier Instamum Isabella M Smugge has never met a hashtag she doesn’t like. And with her … read more

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30. A Great Deal of Ingenuity: A Collection of Pride and Prejudice Stories

By: Ruth Leigh

4.52

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

The pages of Pride and Prejudice sparkle with household names. Proud Darcy and prejudiced Elizabeth… read more

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31. The Healing

By: Joy Margetts

4.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Driven to despair by heart-breaking betrayal, nobleman Philip de Braose has lost faith in God and m… read more

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Old God's Time

Sebastian Barry

3.85

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Death Rocks (DCI Ryan Mysteries, #21)

L.J. Ross

4.64

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Sarah Morgan

4.00

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Sarah Perry

3.70

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J.M. Hall

3.18

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Death Comes to Marlow (Marlow Murder Club, #2)

Robert Thorogood

3.92

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Tom Hindle

3.55

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Rob Rinder

4.24

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