16 best-selling adult fiction books like Summer Island by Kristin Hannah

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Summer Island

By: Kristin Hannah

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer Island: Thirty-four year old Ruby Bridge is a not-too-successful comedienne who uses her mot…

"The measure of a society is its compassion."

-Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

"A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE."

-Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

"Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten."

-Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

"A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. "

-Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

If you liked the adult fiction plot in Summer Island by Kristin Hannah , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Seaview Inn

By: Sherryl Woods

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Hannah Matthews is undeniably tougha single mom, a top-tier PR exec, a breast cancer survivor. On t… read more

Similar categories in Sherryl Woods's Seaview Inn book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook

2. Winter Storms (Winter, #3)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Instant National Bestseller Gather under the mistletoe for one last round of caroling with the Quin… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Winter Storms (Winter, #3) book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

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3. The Five-Star Weekend

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend … read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's The Five-Star Weekend book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • drama
"She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow."

-Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

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4. Look on the Bright Side

By: Kristan Higgins

4.25

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the author of Pack Up the Moon comes a funny, romantic, and deeply moving novel about the unex… read more

Similar categories in Kristan Higgins's Look on the Bright Side book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. The Summer We Started Over

By: Nancy Thayer

4.00

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two sisters reconnect and pursue their dreams on the beautiful island of Nantucket, overcoming life… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Thayer's The Summer We Started Over book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • drama
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7. Summers at the Saint

By: Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kay Andrews's Summers at the Saint book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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8. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Summer Island by Kristin Hannah

10. Summer Island

By: Kristin Hannah

3.97

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer Island: Thirty-four year old Ruby Bridge is a not-too-successful comedienne who uses her mot… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's Summer Island book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • drama
"The measure of a society is its compassion."

-Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

"A WOMAN'S PLACE IS IN THE HOUSE...AND THE SENATE."

-Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

"Caro: "Bite me." Ruby: "I gave that up in kindergarten."

-Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

"A daughter without her mother is a woman broken. It is a loss that turns to arthritis and settles deep into her bones. "

-Kristin Hannah, Summer Island

Cover of This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

11. This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's This Summer Will Be Different book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

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12. What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradis… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2) book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Lust is great in the bedroom, but like is better at breakfast, lunch and dinner."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

"She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

"Ava adores carols that evoke London streets during a new snowfall, the Yule log, brightly lit windows on a square of stately brick homes."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

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13. Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Travel to the bright Caribbean one last time in the satisfying conclusion to the nationally bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3) book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When you're in love, every day is like a present you get to open."

-Elin Hilderbrand, Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)

"Anyone can fall in love, but not just anyone can achieve forgiveness and acceptance and real, deep respect for his or her former partner the way these two have."

-Elin Hilderbrand, Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)

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14. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

Cover of The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin

15. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Giffin's The Summer Pact book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Shelterwood by Lisa Wingate

16. Shelterwood

By: Lisa Wingate

3.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping novel inspired by the untold history of women pioneers who fought to protect children ca… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Wingate's Shelterwood book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What lucky people we readers are that we live not just one life, but many, and diving into yet another is as easy as opening a book."

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"That was a perilous area. . .Graves could be anywhere and undoubtedly are. We walk over history, unaware, every day in all places. We sleep atop it. When we rest our heads at night, we've no way of k…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"The light between them outshines the November day. My heartstrings tug, and I want to call my mother and my grandmother, the women who built me - who implanted the idea that whatever path I chose for…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

"I take a deep breath, lose myself in the healing power of feeling the world breathe, water over stones, wind against trees, last year's dry leaves tumbling along expanses of rock, in the play of clou…"

-Lisa Wingate, Shelterwood

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17. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. 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

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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20. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Briar Club book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

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21. Natural Selection

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.69

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

When her boyfriend bails at the last minute, a New York woman embarks on their couples’ cruise alon… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Natural Selection book and Kristin Hannah's Summer Island

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook

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