13 best-selling novels books like Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris

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Songs in Ordinary Time

By: Mary McGarry Morris

3.37

Format: 120 pages,

Songs in Ordinary Timeis set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocenc…

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1. Drowning Ruth

By: Christina Schwarz

3.74

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In the winter of 1919, a young mother named Mathilda Neumann drowns beneath the ice of a rural Wisc… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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2. While I Was Gone

By: Sue Miller

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight."

-Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

"...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them."

-Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

"I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind."

-Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

"And then heard Detective Ryan’s pleased voice talking about Eli, about killers who’ve gone free: “They have to tell,"

-Sue Miller, While I Was Gone

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3. Vinegar Hill

By: A. Manette Ansay

3.39

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning a… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"It is a lonely thing, remembering for someone else."

-A. Manette Ansay, Vinegar Hill

"If we just had some time to ourselves, we could talk to each other the way we used to. Maybe about nothing in particular at first, but even that would be a start."

-A. Manette Ansay, Vinegar Hill

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4. 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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5. 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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6. Ellen Foster

By: Kaye Gibbons

4.00

Format: 321 pages,

"When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy. I would figure out this or that way and … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Clock Without Hands

By: Carson McCullers

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers's mo… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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8. Songs in Ordinary Time

By: Mary McGarry Morris

3.37

Format: 120 pages,

Songs in Ordinary Timeis set in the summer of 1960 - the last of quiet times and America's innocenc… read more

Similar categories in Mary McGarry Morris's Songs in Ordinary Time book and Mary McGarry Morris's Songs in Ordinary Time

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
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9. 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
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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10. 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
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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11. 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
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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12. Here on Earth

By: Alice Hoffman

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

After nearly twenty years of living in California, March Murray, along with her fifteen-year-old da… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. A Virtuous Woman

By: Kaye Gibbons

3.39

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

When Blinking Jack Stokes met Ruby Pitt Woodrow, she was twenty and he was forty. She was the caref… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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14. 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

15. Open House

By: Elizabeth Berg

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until th… read more

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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. 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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20. 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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21. Let Love Come Last

By: Taylor Caldwell

3.96

Format: 448 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Even when William made it clear he had married her only for offspring. . . Even when, brutally over… read more

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  • historical
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  • fiction
  • historical fiction

15 Best fiction books like Songs in Ordinary Time by Mary McGarry Morris

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Drowning Ruth

Christina Schwarz

3.74

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While I Was Gone

Sue Miller

3.68

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A. Manette Ansay

3.39

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She's Come Undone

Wally Lamb

4.02

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Phyllis A. Whitney

3.84

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Colleen McCullough

3.67

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Penny Vincenzi

4.25

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Anchee Min

3.31

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