14 best-selling contemporary books like Silver Alert by Lee Smith

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Silver Alert

By: Lee Smith

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off o…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Silver Alert by Lee Smith , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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 Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. Earth's the Right Place for Love

By: Elizabeth Berg

4.11

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful new novel by the beloved author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep tells the story … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Berg's Earth's the Right Place for Love book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your girlfriend won't stay pretty for long. I myself was a hot tomato, but look at me now. 'Pretty' goes away, but what can come in its place is 'beautiful.' And that's better. Do you know what I mea…"

-Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

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3. 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

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews

4. 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 Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • southern
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal

6. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

By: J. Ryan Stradal

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more

Similar categories in J. Ryan Stradal's Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

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7. Mrs. Plansky's Revenge

By: Spencer Quinn

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Quinn's Mrs. Plansky's Revenge book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Silver Alert by Lee  Smith

8. Silver Alert

By: Lee Smith

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off o… read more

Similar categories in Lee Smith's Silver Alert book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Sandwich by Catherine Newman

9. 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 Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • 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

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10. The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

By: Colleen Oakley

4.05

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitt… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Oakley's The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He stilled midair, and then a slow grin spread across his lips. “Do you even know how to work that thing?"

-Colleen Oakley, The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

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11. The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel

By: ReShonda Tate

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one … read more

Similar categories in ReShonda Tate's The Queen of Sugar Hill: A Novel of Hattie McDaniel book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Old Crimes: and Other Stories by Jill McCorkle

12. Old Crimes: and Other Stories

By: Jill McCorkle

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Beloved author Jill McCorkle delivers a collection of masterful stories that are as complex as nove… read more

Similar categories in Jill McCorkle's Old Crimes: and Other Stories book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • fiction
Cover of Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame by Olivia Ford

13. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Ford's Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

Cover of Save What's Left by Elizabeth Castellano

14. Save What's Left

By: Elizabeth Castellano

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An outrageously funny debut novel about a woman who moves to a small beach town looking for peace, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Castellano's Save What's Left book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

15. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. My Magnolia Summer

By: Victoria Benton Frank

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Escape to the South Carolina Lowcountry, where family bonds and hidden secrets run deep. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Benton Frank's My Magnolia Summer book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • southern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • audiobook
"Omitting the truth is also lying."

-Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

"Are you planning on kissing me behind a haystack or something?" "Oh, I plan on a lot worse, Maggie."

-Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

"Maybe violets don't have thorns like roses, or heavy fragrances like lilies or magnolias, but they are just as strong."

-Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

"I unrolled my knife bag and saw all my old friends staring back at me. Some girls liked diamonds, some liked pearls, but just give me a good knife. Knives are sexy, that's all there is to it."

-Victoria Benton Frank, My Magnolia Summer

Cover of This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew by Daniel Wallace

17. This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

By: Daniel Wallace

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronic… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Wallace's This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Night, Forgotten by Meghan Joyce Tozer

18. Night, Forgotten

By: Meghan Joyce Tozer

3.67

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

A dramatic and undeniably addictive psychological thriller about a young woman whose life changes i… read more

Similar categories in Meghan Joyce Tozer's Night, Forgotten book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Happier Life by Kristy Woodson Harvey

19. A Happier Life

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put h… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Woodson Harvey's A Happier Life book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Trends come and go; the simplicity of timeless meals with the ones you love is forever."

-Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life

Cover of If We're Being Honest by Cat Shook

20. If We're Being Honest

By: Cat Shook

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of We Are the Brennans by Tracey Lange and All Adults Here by Emma Straub, Cat Shook’s deb… read more

Similar categories in Cat Shook's If We're Being Honest book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"As it turns out porn does not automatically make a computer implode."

-Cat Shook, If We're Being Honest

Cover of Apologize My Ass by Lee    Smith

21. Apologize My Ass

By: Lee Smith

4.06

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

"Apologize My Ass" is a captivating and nostalgic coming-of-age novel that transports readers to th… read more

Similar categories in Lee Smith's Apologize My Ass book and Lee Smith's Silver Alert

19 must-read fiction books like Silver Alert by Lee Smith

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Earth's the Right Place for Love

Elizabeth Berg

4.11

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

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21 best-selling fiction books like Earth's the Right Place for Love by Elizabeth Berg

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Berry Pickers

Amanda Peters

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Earth's the Right Place for Love

Elizabeth Berg

4.11

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The Paris Daughter

Kristin Harmel

4.25

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