24 Best fiction books like What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange

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What Happened to the McCrays?

By: Tracey Lange

4.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Tracey Lange, a poignant story about the resilience of famil…

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1. Listen for the Lie

By: Amy Tintera

4.13

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if you thought you murdered your best friend? And if everyone else thought so too? And what if… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Men say shit,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"What are you doing here?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"We were all so repressed in our twenties,"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

"Lucy, didn’t you want to be a writer once?"

-Amy Tintera, Listen for the Lie

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2. All the Sinners Bleed

By: S.A. Cosby

4.24

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to combust. Titus Crown is the first Black … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"In the former capital of the confederacy, equalities surest foothold was found on the autopsy table."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

"It occurred to him that no place was more confused about it's past or more terrified of the future than the South."

-S.A. Cosby, All the Sinners Bleed

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3. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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4. The Fury

By: Alex Michaelides

3.38

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneo… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Character is fate"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"Love is mutual respect, and constancy- and friendship"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"Do not despair at being different. For that very difference, initially such a source of shame, so humiliating, and painful, will one day become a badge of honor and pride"

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

"I'd never seen Lana lose control. I won't say it wasn't frightening; but then, uncontained emotion is always distressing to be around, isn't it? Particularly when it's from someone you love."

-Alex Michaelides, The Fury

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5. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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6. The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

By: Tana French

4.12

Format: 467 pages, Hardcover

It’s a blazing summer when two men arrive in a small village in the West of Ireland. One of them is… read more

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  • fiction
"She'll bake bread and make jam, because she likes those made her way, but she says she cooked a good meal from scratch every night of her marriage, and now if she wants to live mainly off toasted san…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

"Trey has a bone-deep mistrust of marriage or anything resembling it. She knows that Lena sometimes stays the night at Cal's place, but Lena also has a place of her own, which she can go back to whene…"

-Tana French, The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2)

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7. The Invisible Hour

By: Alice Hoffman

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The latest New York Times bestseller from beloved author Alice Hoffman celebrates the enduring magi… read more

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  • fiction
"A book doesn't live when it's written. It lives when it's read."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

"Mia now understood that Joel was well aware that once a girl walked into a library she could never be controlled again."

-Alice Hoffman, The Invisible Hour

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8. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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9. So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

By: Claire Keegan

3.99

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Librarian's Note: This is the entry for the short story collection. Please don't combine it with th… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You know what is at the heart of misogyny? When it comes down to it?’ ‘So I’m a misogynist now?’ ‘It’s simply about not giving,’ she said."

-Claire Keegan, So Late in the Day: Stories of Women and Men

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10. Trois

By: Valérie Perrin

4.29

Format: 672 pages, Paperback

« Je m'appelle Virginie. Aujourd'hui, de Nina, Adrien et Etienne, seul Adrien me parle encore. Nin… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"W życiu są ci, którzy zostają, i ci, którzy odjeżdżają, myśli Nina. I ci, którzy porzucają."

-Valérie Perrin, Trois

"Nina a appris qu'on ne construit rien avec quelqu'un, ni pour quelqu'un. Qu'une existence se fonde seul et que si par miracle on rencontre une âme un peu sœur, c'est cadeau."

-Valérie Perrin, Trois

"Imagine you’ve been unable to move for years because your fist is clenched inside a container, and to manage to pull your hand out, to free yourself, you just need to let go of what you’re clutching …"

-Valérie Perrin, Trois

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11. Talking at Night

By: Claire Daverley

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

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"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

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13. Beyond That, the Sea

By: Laura Spence-Ash

4.24

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of t… read more

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  • fiction
  • family
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14. The Last Love Note

By: Emma Grey

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

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15. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

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  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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16. The Rosewood Hunt

By: Mackenzie Reed

3.66

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Lily Rosewood dreams of taking over her family's company one day. Her grandmother, Rosewood Inc's c… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

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  • family
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18. Granite Harbor

By: Peter Nichols

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more

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  • fiction
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19. Shiner

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one you… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Trippy: The Peril and Promise of Medicinal Psychedelics

By: Ernesto Londoño

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look at the tremendous promise and inherent risks of the use of psychedelics in mental h… read more

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21. Honey

By: Isabel Banta

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The truth is my dad was always singing […]"

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"[…] she remains enigmatic, unbreachable; she unlocks herself only for certain people."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"Mike wants me to say I’m a normal girl. But I’m not, I never was. I always felt I had to prove I was better."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

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22. 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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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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24. Devil Is Fine

By: John Vercher

4.05

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Still reeling from a sudden tragedy, our biracial narrator receives a letter from an attorney: he h… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
"No way I'd let myself feel again like I felt that morning. Of course, I wouldn't. I didn't have to tell her any of that. When it's that easy to lie to yourself, lying to someone else is light work. […"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

"Among the many things unknown before becoming a parent is how to handle when the child becomes the teacher. They proffer up parental pearls dispensed to them, and while thinking they'd fallen on deaf…"

-John Vercher, Devil Is Fine

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25. Humor Me

By: Cat Shook

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A love letter to the New York City stand-up scene, as told by a charmingly jaded assistant at a lat… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. What Have You Done?

By: Shari Lapena

3.84

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

The new binge-worthy novel from the “queen of the one-sit read,” and New York Times bestselling aut… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. The Sequel (The Book Series, #2)

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

After the “insanely readable” (Stephen King) and “perfectly told” (Malcolm Gladwell) New York Times… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Penitence: A Novel

By: Kristin M.E. Koval

4.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Patchett and Celeste Ng, Penitenceis a poignant exploration of love and forgiven… read more

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29. What Happened to the McCrays?

By: Tracey Lange

4.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Tracey Lange, a poignant story about the resilience of famil… read more

Similar categories in Tracey Lange's What Happened to the McCrays? book and Tracey Lange's What Happened to the McCrays?

  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
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30. The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

By: Dan Slepian

4.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of two decades navigating a broken criminal justice sy… read more

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31. Johnny Careless

By: Kevin Wade

4.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“A fast-moving classic crime novel” (John Sandford) crafted by the veteran screenwriter and showrun… read more

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20 Top contemporary books like What Happened to the McCrays? by Tracey Lange

Transform Your Habits

Listen for the Lie

Amy Tintera

4.13

Transform Your Habits

All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Fury

Alex Michaelides

3.38

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Transform Your Habits

One Day

David Nicholls

5.00

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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