Very Good Mainstream Fiction
Explore a curated list of the best mainstream fiction books. Discover captivating stories, bestselling authors, and must-read novels for every fiction lover.
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Cage of Stars
by Jacquelyn Mitchard
The author of "The Deep End of the Ocean" delivers a compelling, emotionally charged tale of tragedy, revenge, and redemption, set in a close-knit Mormon …
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Once Upon a Day
by Lisa Tucker
From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of "Shout Down the Moon" and "The Song Readers" comes a wise, humorous, and deeply compassionate story about the …
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We are All Welcome Here
by Elizabeth Berg
The bestselling author of "The Art of Mending" and "The Year of Pleasures" follows the story of three women in 1965, Tupelo, Mississippi, each struggling …
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A Wedding in December
by Anita Shreve
At an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, seven former schoolmates gather to celebrate a wedding--a reunion that becomes the occasion of astonishing revelations as the …
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Can't Wait to Get to Heaven
by Fannie Flagg
Strange things begin to happen when Mrs. Shimfessle, an eighty-year-old woman, falls out of a fig tree in her own front yard, in an entertaining …
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Sandcastles
by Luanne Rice
Painter and art instructor Honor Dillon has made a peaceful life for herself with her three daughters, until the wedding of her eldest daughter, Regis, …
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The Pact
by Jodi Picoult
From Jodi Picoult, one of the most powerful writers in contemporary fiction, comes a riveting, timely, heartbreaking, and terrifying novel of families in anguish -- …
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Susannah's Garden
by Debbie Macomber
What she discovers is that things are not always as they once seemed. Some paths are dead ends. But some gardens remain beautiful . . …
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
In 1956, toward the end of his life, Reverend John Ames begins a letter to his young son, sharing the story of his life and …
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Close Range
by Annie Proulx
A collection of short stories, which includes the short story, Brokeback Mountain.
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Between the Bridge and the River
by Craig Ferguson
Bawdy, joyous, messy, hysterically funny, and guaranteed to offendregardless of religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, or professionBetween the Bridge and the River is the …
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Fan-Tan
by Marlon Brando
While serving time in a Hong King prison in 1927, Anatole Doultry saves the life of a Chinese prisoner whose employer is Madame Lai Choi …
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Adverbs
by Daniel Handler
Hello. I am Daniel Handler, the author of this book. Did you know that authors often write the summaries that appear on their book's dust …
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The Dew Breaker
by Edwidge Danticat
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "brilliant book, undoubtedly the best one yet by an enormously talented writer” (The Washington Post Book World), about love, remorse, and …
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Abide with Me
by Elizabeth Strout
After the tragic death of his young wife, Reverend Tyler Caskey, a New England minister, struggles to hold together his own life, his family, and …
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The English Teacher
by Lily King
A single mother has sheltered her son for many years at the private school where she works as an English teacher, but she is beginning …
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Un Lugar Llamado Nada
by Amy Tan
Een groep Amerikaanse toeristen op kunstreis in Myanmar verdwijnt spoorloos. Hun kort voor de reis vermoorde reisleidster reist als geest met hen mee en vertelt …
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel GarcĂa Márquez
A cause for celebration, this is the Nobel laureate's first work of fiction in ten years--a masterpiece by the master storyteller of our time.
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Purity of Blood
by Arturo PĂ©rez-Reverte
"In the second adventure of Arturo Perez-Reverte's Captain Alatriste series, the courageous swordsman-for-hire considers rejoining his old regiment to fight at Breda - but there …
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History of Love
by Nicole Krauss
Sixty years after a book's publication, its author remembers his lost love and missing son, while a teenage girl named for one of the book's …
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Goodnight Nobody
by Jennifer Weiner
A young mother moves to a postcard-perfect Connecticut town where she unravels crime while her children are in nursery school. Investigating a death, she discovers …
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The Palace of Dreams
by Ismail Kadare
When it was first published in the author's native country, THE PALACE OF DREAMS was immediately banned. The novel revolves around a secret ministry whose …
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Captive of My Desires
by Johanna Lindsey
Charming rogue Drew Anderson finally meets his match when James Malory introduces the daughter of his old pirate friend to London society in this latest …