8 best-selling contemporary books like We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

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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 …

If you liked the contemporary plot in We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb

1. 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
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. A Map of the World

By: Frank Muller , C.J. Critt , Jane Hamilton

4.02

Format: 424 pages,

One unremarkable June morning, Alice Goodwin is, as usual, trying to keep in check both her temper … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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3. 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

Similar categories in Joyce Carol Oates's We Were the Mulvaneys book and Joyce Carol Oates's We Were the Mulvaneys

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • classics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
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4. 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
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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5. Black and Blue

By: Anna Quindlen

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

For eighteen years, Fran Benedetto kept her secret. And hid her bruises. And stayed with Bobby beca… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

6. I Know This Much Is True

By: Wally Lamb

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticu… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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9. Gap Creek

By: Robert Morgan

3.88

Format: None pages,

Young Julie Harmon works "hard as a man," they say, so hard that at times she's not sure she can st… read more

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10. 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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11. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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12. Burned Out

By: Dean Mafako

4.30

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more

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  • fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

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13. L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

By: Michael Bible

3.60

Format: 135 pages, ebook

Mentre tutti sono raccolti in preghiera, dall’ultima fila Iggy avanza verso il centro della chiesa.… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Quegli anni sono così malinconici e bizzarri. Per effetto del vento sembrava che le azalee levitassero a una spanna da terra. I cani dei vicini, Sale e Pepe, abbaiavano come due innamorati durante un…"

-Michael Bible, L’ultima cosa bella sulla faccia della terra

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14. Tutta la vita che resta

By: Roberta Recchia

4.51

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Uno strappo che sembrava impossibile da ricucire, una famiglia che nel corso degli anni ritrova la … read more

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  • fiction
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15. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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16. Svetimkūniai

By: Patricija Tilvikaitė

4.14

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

Meda jaučiasi pati save įkalinusi prestižinio darbo gniaužtuose. Ją į neviltį varo vidinis kritikas… read more

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17. Visi vieniši žmonės

By: Ignė Ale

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Nutrūkus ilgalaikiams santykiams, Uršulė grįžta gyventi į gimtąją Klaipėdą. Čia, būdama arčiau tėvų… read more

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"Daug dirbi, kad galėtum daug sau leisti, bet tada neturi laiko pasimėgauti tuo, ką turi."

-Ignė Ale, Visi vieniši žmonės

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18. Kritusių mazgas

By: Daina Kleponė

4.08

Format: 511 pages, Hardcover

Policijos pareigūnams radus savo bute nužudytos žurnalistės Saros Fogel kūną, užverda tikra velniav… read more

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19. Migruojantys paukščiai

By: Ignė Ale

3.91

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Gerdos darbas – keliauti po pasaulį ir rašyti. Ji prie nieko neprisiriša, niekur neįleidžia šaknų, … read more

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Cover of Pace separata (Italian Edition) by John Knowles

20. Pace separata (Italian Edition)

By: John Knowles

3.60

Format: 212 pages, Kindle Edition

Estate 1942. Mentre la guerra infuria in Europa, in un campus del New England un gruppo di adolesce… read more

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  • novels
  • classics
  • fiction
"Why talk about something you can't do anything about?"

-John Knowles, Pace separata (Italian Edition)

"the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse"

-John Knowles, Pace separata (Italian Edition)

"You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you."

-John Knowles, Pace separata (Italian Edition)

"And sometimes you need too much to know the facts, and so humbly and stupidly you stay."

-John Knowles, Pace separata (Italian Edition)

Cover of Pavojingi žodžiai by Undinė Radzevičiūtė

21. Pavojingi žodžiai

By: Undinė Radzevičiūtė

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Kaip sakoma Biblijoje, pradžioje buvo Žodis. Ir jis buvo ne tas. Kiekviena šalis, kiekviena vals… read more

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11 best-selling fiction books like We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

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She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

4.02

Transform Your Habits

A Map of the World

Frank Muller , C.J. Critt , Jane Hamilton

4.02

Transform Your Habits

We Were the Mulvaneys

Joyce Carol Oates

4.02

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Jewel

Bret Lott

3.37

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5 Best romance books like Visi vieniši žmonės by Ignė Ale

Transform Your Habits

Visi vieniši žmonės

Ignė Ale

4.17

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Paskutinis pavasaris

Ina Les

4.20

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Nuodas

Ilona Madelaine

4.42

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Regėtoja

Lavisa Spell

4.45

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