7 Best mystery books like Heart Spring Mountain by Robin MacArthur

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Heart Spring Mountain

By: Robin MacArthur

3.33

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a…

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1. 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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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • 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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2. Making Rounds with Oscar: The Extraordinary Gift of an Ordinary Cat

By: David Dosa

3.87

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A remarkable cat. A special gift. A life-changing journey.They thought he was just a cat. When Osca… read more

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3. Mr. Splitfoot

By: Samantha Hunt

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A contemporary gothic from an author in the company of Kelly Link and Aimee Bender, Mr. Splitfoottr… read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
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4. Heart Spring Mountain

By: Robin MacArthur

3.33

Format: 288 pages, ebook

In this evocative first novel, a young woman returns to her rural Vermont hometown in the wake of a… read more

Similar categories in Robin MacArthur's Heart Spring Mountain book and Robin MacArthur's Heart Spring Mountain

  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels

5. 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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6. Fortune's Daughter

By: Alice Hoffman

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young and unmarried and far… read more

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7. 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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8. A Widow for One Year

By: John Irving

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richly comic as well as deeply disturbing, this is a multilayered love story of astonishing emotion… read more

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9. IQ (IQ, #1)

By: Joe Ide

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Anthony, Macavity, and Shamus Awards A resident of one of LA's toughest neighborhoods… read more

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10. History of Wolves

By: Emily Fridlund

3.73

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Fourteen-year-old Madeline lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minne… read more

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11. Lost Children Archive

By: Valeria Luiselli

3.81

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

From the two-time NBCC Finalist, an emotionally resonant, fiercely imaginative new novel about a fa… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
"Mouths open to the sun, they sleep."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

"Ağızlarını güneşe doğru açmış, uyuyorlar."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

"Our mother teach us to speak, and the world teaches us to shut up."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

"Perhaps no one really knows us who does not know the way we laugh."

-Valeria Luiselli, Lost Children Archive

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12. October in the Earth

By: Olivia Hawker

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

In Depression-era Kentucky, a defiant wife embarks on an impulsive and liberating journey in a powe… read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
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13. Night of Miracles (Mason, #2)

By: Elizabeth Berg

4.02

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about surprising friendships, community, and the way small acts of kindness can … read more

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  • family
  • fiction
"Lincoln sits on the chair and removes his shoes. Then he climbs in bed beside his mother, who does not respond. Jason hopes no one comes in and tells Lincoln to get off the bed. Because he would have…"

-Elizabeth Berg, Night of Miracles (Mason, #2)

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14. We Came Here to Forget

By: Andrea Dunlop

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of She Regrets Nothing comes a vivid novel about a young Olympic skier who loses ev… read more

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  • mystery
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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15. Soil: The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

By: Camille T. Dungy

4.19

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Boo… read more

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16. The East Indian

By: Brinda Charry

3.83

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a historical figure, an exhilarating debut novel about the first native of the Indian s… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"The dead, simply by passing into death, somehow become innocent of all charges; it is we, the living, who bear the burden of guilt. [Tony]"

-Brinda Charry, The East Indian

"I wondered: dies any man ever fully know any woman? He thinks he does--she is the girl living down the lane, the girl fetching water from the communal well, the girl who speaks in accents familiar, a…"

-Brinda Charry, The East Indian

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17. Confidence (Anna and Fin, #2)

By: Denise Mina

3.19

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

Deception. Theft. Murder. All you need is confidence. A brand new escapist thriller from the award-… read more

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  • mystery
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
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18. 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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  • mystery
  • family
  • fiction
  • novels
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19. Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

By: Pam Houston

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it m… read more

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"How to hang on to that full-body joy I knew I was capable of and still understand it as elegy."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"I pause over the words "Wilderness Ranch Subdivision." What the fuck, I wonder, what in the fuck is wrong with us anyway."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"We call such a limited number of relationships love in our lives, but there is always love around us—it’s as ubiquitous as oxygen."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"And even if the jig is up, even if it is really game over, what better time to sing about the earth than when it is critically, even fatally, wounded at our hands."

-Pam Houston, Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

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20. The Catch

By: Alison Fairbrother

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family in this electri… read more

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  • mystery thriller
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • mystery
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21. Like Happiness

By: Ursula Villarreal-Moura

3.83

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a youn… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction

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