If you like...Kristin Hannah

Kristin Hannah writes moving stories that focus on women's lives, relationships and families. If you're looking for more heartwarming stories of people dealing with universal issues try one of these books.

Updated August 16, 2023
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First frost
Allen, Sarah Addison.
Paper Book
From the New York Times bestselling author of GARDEN SPELLS comes a story of the Waverley family, in a novel as sparkling as the first dusting of frost on new-fallen leaves... It's October in Bascom, North Carolina, and autumn will not go quietly. As temperatures drop and leaves begin to turn...
The nearness of you
Garlock, Dorothy
Paper Book
Hooper's Crossing, New York, 1952. The post-war boom seems a million miles away . . . especially for a sheltered librarian who longs for the adventure and excitement of the big city. New York City. The hustle and bustle. The people and the excitement. It's all Lily Denton dreams...
The poisonwood Bible : a novel
Kingsolver, Barbara.
Paper Book
In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the Belgian Congo -- a place, he is sure, where he can save needy souls. But the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within this complex culture. Set against one of the most dramatic...
Stolen beauty
Lico Albanese, Laurie
Paper Book
"A powerful and important tale of love and war, art and family...I was transported." --Allison Pataki, New York Times bestselling author "Albanese artfully weaves Adele's story with Maria's harrowing life under the Nazis, but it's hard to read Stolen Beauty...
So happy together
McFadden, Maryann.
Paper Book
The girls of August
Siddons, Anne Rivers
Paper Book
Anne Rivers Siddons's New York Times bestselling novel about four friends whose lives are forever changed by the events of one summer. For fifteen years, four "girls of August" would gather together to spend a week at the beach, until tragedy interrupts their ritual....
Some luck
Smiley, Jane.
Paper Book
Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize: a powerful, engrossing new novel--the life and times of a remarkable family over three transformative decades in America.  On their farm in Denby, Iowa, Rosanna and Walter...
Before we were yours : a novel
Wingate, Lisa
Paper Book
THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT--Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller "Poignant, engrossing."--People * "Lisa Wingate takes an almost unthinkable chapter in our nation's history and...

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