10 must-read fiction books like She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

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She's Come Undone

By: Wally Lamb

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journe…

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1. Fall on Your Knees

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

3.97

Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback

They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
"She is why purgatory was invented."

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

"To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain."

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

"Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

"My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all."

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

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2. A Prayer for Owen Meany

By: John Irving

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, h… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. She's Come Undone

By: Wally Lamb

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journe… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

4. We Were the Mulvaneys

By: Joyce Carol Oates

4.02

Format: 424 pages,

The Mulvaneys of High Point Farm in Mt. Ephraim, New York, are a large and fortunate clan, blessed … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. The Memory Keeper's Daughter

By: Kim Edwards

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His so… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. The Rapture of Canaan

By: Sheri Reynolds

3.37

Format: 120 pages,

Oprah Book Club(r) Selection, April 1997: Members of the Church of Fire and Brimstone and God's Alm… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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7. Jewel

By: Bret Lott

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

(Oprah's Book Club) Jewel and her husband, Leston, have been blessed by a fifth child, a girl they … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
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8. The Book of Ruth

By: Jane Hamilton

3.37

Format: 120 pages,

Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award for best first novel, this exquisite book confron… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult

9. A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

3.72

Format: 134 pages,

Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehab… read more

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10. The Secret Life of Bees

By: Sue Monk Kidd

4.22

Format: 224 pages,

Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Beestells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has… read more

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11. Middlesex

By: Jeffrey Eugenides

4.03

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

Middlesextells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-A… read more

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12. The Deep End of the Ocean (Cappadora Family, #1)

By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story--a natio… read more

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13. Midwives

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.25

Format: None pages,

The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Redding… read more

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14. Where the Heart Is

By: Billie Letts

3.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Talk about unlucky sevens. An hour ago, seventeen-year-old, seven months pregnant Novalee Nation wa… read more

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15. The Poisonwood Bible

By: Barbara Kingsolver

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evan… read more

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16. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

By: Rebecca Wells

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed i… read more

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17. White Oleander

By: Janet Fitch

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleandertells the unforgettable story … read more

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18. Icy Sparks

By: Gwyn Hyman Rubio

3.78

Format: None pages,

Icy Sparks is the sad, funny and transcendent tale of a young girl growing up in the mountains of E… read more

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19. Stones from the River

By: Ursula Hegi

2.83

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Floating in My Mother's Palmcomes a stunning nov… read more

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20. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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21. House of Sand and Fog

By: Andre Dubus III

3.86

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In this “page-turner with a beating heart” (Boston Globe), a recovering alcoholic and addict down o… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk."

-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

"Lester wanted to rise up out of this like a cloud, to drift over the valley and shore to the Pacific, to dissolve into its huge green expanse like rain."

-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

"Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen."

-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

"It’s easy K. on one side of the page you got your costs and on the other side your benefits. All you do is mark which one is which, then you weigh one side against the other and you get your decision…"

-Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

8 Best contemporary books like She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

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A Prayer for Owen Meany

John Irving

4.33

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She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

4.02

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We Were the Mulvaneys

Joyce Carol Oates

4.02

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The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Kim Edwards

3.97

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She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

4.02

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A Map of the World

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4.02

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Joyce Carol Oates

4.02

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Jewel

Bret Lott

3.37

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