21 best-selling fiction books like Chenneville by Paulette Jiles

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Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles…

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Cover of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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2. The Berry Pickers

By: Amanda Peters

4.14

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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4. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

Similar categories in William Kent Krueger's The River We Remember book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

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5. Night Watch

By: Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In 1874, in the wake of the War, erasure, trauma, and namelessness haunt civilians and veterans, re… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Anne Phillips's Night Watch book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

Similar categories in Jesmyn Ward's Let Us Descend book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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7. The Trackers

By: Charles Frazier

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Cold Mountain and Varina, a stunning new novel that p… read more

Similar categories in Charles Frazier's The Trackers book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"Wiltson, every time you open your mouth, it's like you're competing against yourself to say something stupider than yesterday. And you always win."

-Charles Frazier, The Trackers

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8. The Last Ranger

By:

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Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling author of The River returns with a lush and vivid mystery set in Yellowstone Natio… read more

Similar categories in 's The Last Ranger book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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10. The Caretaker

By: Ron Rash

4.20

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Told against the backdrop of the Korean War as a small Appalachian town sends its sons to battle, T… read more

Similar categories in Ron Rash's The Caretaker book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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11. North Woods

By: Daniel Mason

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those … read more

Similar categories in Daniel Mason's North Woods book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

By: James McBride

4.00

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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13. Chenneville

By: Paulette Jiles

4.13

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawles… read more

Similar categories in Paulette Jiles's Chenneville book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • adventure
  • westerns
  • historical
  • civil war
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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14. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Table for Two by Amor Towles

15. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

Similar categories in Amor Towles's Table for Two book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

Cover of The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) by Tana French

16. 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

Similar categories in Tana French's The Hunter (Cal Hooper, #2) book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"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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17. Crow Mary

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.33

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Grissom's Crow Mary book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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18. The Vaster Wilds

By: Lauren Groff

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A taut and electrifying novel from celebrated bestselling author Lauren Groff, about one spirited g… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Groff's The Vaster Wilds book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • adventure
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"For what is a girl but a vessel made to hold the desires of men."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"O put the memory away, girl, she told herself sternly. For the sorrow could eat you entire."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"And humans were not made to be always alone; humans survive only in the company of other humans."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

"Against the resistance of other minds, one's thoughts are pulled out of their comfortable shapes, and true thinking begins."

-Lauren Groff, The Vaster Wilds

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19. Clear

By: Carys Davies

3.92

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, exquisite novel from an award-winning writer about a minister dispatched to a remote is… read more

Similar categories in Carys Davies's Clear book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Madstone by Elizabeth   Crook

20. The Madstone

By: Elizabeth Crook

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crook's The Madstone book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • adult fiction
  • adventure
  • westerns
  • historical
  • civil war
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

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21. The Glassmaker

By: Tracy Chevalier

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling historical novelist, a rich, transporting story that follows a family of glass… read more

Similar categories in Tracy Chevalier's The Glassmaker book and Paulette Jiles's Chenneville

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"...you never recover from losing someone; you just learn to accommodate the hole it makes in you."

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

"People who make things also have an ambiguous relationship with time. Painters, writers, wood-carvers, knitters, weavers and, yes, glassmakers: creators often enter an absorbed state that psychologis…"

-Tracy Chevalier, The Glassmaker

21 Top audiobook books like Chenneville by Paulette Jiles

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

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The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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4.29

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3.75

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Jayne Anne Phillips

3.79

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Percival Everett

4.54

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4.15

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