15 Best fiction books like The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church

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The Atomic Weight of Love

By: Elizabeth J. Church

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of The Aviator's Wife and Loving Frank, this resonant debut spans the years from Worl…

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1. Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

By: Stacey O'Brien

4.10

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

When biologist Stacey O'Brien first met a four-day-old baby barn owl with nerve damage in one wing,… read more

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  • birds
"To that which you tame, you owe your life."

-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

"Refusing to do your bidding is not the same as stupid."

-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

"It was a lot like working at Hogwarts, except that, instead of receiving letters from our owls, we would find coughed-up owl pellets in our coffee mugs."

-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

"Wesley was always outraged when he woke himself up with a screech in his sleep, and he blamed me. He would whip around to face me with an intense librarian’s stare as if I had broken a cardinal rule."

-Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

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2. Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

By: Bob Boilen

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

"Bob Boilen's book gets at something real and rare about the power of music."--New York Times Book … read more

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3. The Wind Is Not a River

By: Brian Payton

2.84

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

The Wind Is Not a Riveris Brian Payton's gripping tale of survival and an epic love story in which … read more

Similar categories in Brian Payton's The Wind Is Not a River book and Elizabeth J. Church's The Atomic Weight of Love

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. The Atomic Weight of Love

By: Elizabeth J. Church

3.47

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of The Aviator's Wife and Loving Frank, this resonant debut spans the years from Worl… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth J. Church's The Atomic Weight of Love book and Elizabeth J. Church's The Atomic Weight of Love

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • birds
  • book club

5. Epitaph

By: Mary Doria Russell

3.86

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, makes her Ecco debut with… read more

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6. A Natural History of the Senses

By: Diane Ackerman

3.83

Format: 35 pages, Trade Paperback

Diane Ackerman's lusciously written grand tour of the realm of the senses includes conversations wi… read more

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7. The House at Otowi Bridge: The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos

By: None

4.18

Format: 578 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Edith Warner, who lived for more than twenty years as a neighbor to the Indian… read more

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8. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Elizabeth J. Church's The Atomic Weight of Love

  • historical
  • book club
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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9. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • book club
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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10. The Covenant of Water

By: Abraham Verghese

4.45

Format: 724 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial ep… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Verghese's The Covenant of Water book and Elizabeth J. Church's The Atomic Weight of Love

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • book club
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11. Life, Loss, and Puffins

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

4.42

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

An exhilarating and emotional novel about grief, hope, friendship, and taking life one beautiful an… read more

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  • fiction
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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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  • historical
  • book club
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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13. Haven Point

By: Virginia Hume

3.91

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping debut novel about the generations of a family that spends summers in a seaside enclave o… read more

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  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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14. Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2)

By: Marta Molnar

4.35

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she’s been a horse walker, a milliner’s assistant, a … read more

Similar categories in Marta Molnar's Girl Braiding Her Hair: Inspired by the true story of a revolutionary female artist history forgot (Light & Life Series Book 2) book and Elizabeth J. Church's The Atomic Weight of Love

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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15. That Kind of Mother

By: Rumaan Alam

3.07

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

From the celebrated author of Rich and Pretty, a novel about the families we fight to build and tho… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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16. Radar Girls

By: Sara Ackerman

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary story inspired by the real Women’s Air Raid Defense, where an unlikely recruit and… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Anyone could see half her heart was missing."

-Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

"The true agony of death was left to the living."

-Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

"See you on the other side Rascal. Bulldog over and out."

-Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

"The more you loved something, the more you hurt when you lost it."

-Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

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17. The Life I Stole

By: Nikola Scott

4.26

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

May 1953. England is finally starting to recover from World War Two. Shop shelves are filling, the … read more

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  • historical
  • historical fiction
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18. The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt

By: Andrea Bobotis

3.62

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

Some bury their secrets close to home. Others scatter them to the wind and hope they land somewhere… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Bobotis's The Last List of Miss Judith Kratt book and Elizabeth J. Church's The Atomic Weight of Love

  • historical
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. The Family Ship

By: Sonja Yoerg

4.24

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Chesapeake Bay, 1980. Eighteen-year-old Verity Vergennes is the captain of the USS Nepenthe, and he… read more

Similar categories in Sonja Yoerg's The Family Ship book and Elizabeth J. Church's The Atomic Weight of Love

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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20. A Real Somebody

By: Deryn Collier

4.07

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

From author Deryn Collier comes a smart, charming postwar historical novel based on the true story … read more

Similar categories in Deryn Collier's A Real Somebody book and Elizabeth J. Church's The Atomic Weight of Love

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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21. Relative Strangers

By: A.H. Kim

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A twenty-first-century family drama featuring two sisters, their ex-hippie mother, multiple messy l… read more

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  • fiction

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Elizabeth J. Church

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4.43

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3.99

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