The Good House

10 best books like The Good House (Ann Leary): I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life, Ask Again, Yes, The Dutch House, The View from Penthouse B, Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love, The Last Romantics, I Miss You When I Blink: Essays, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, The Dearly Beloved, The Almost Sisters

I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

Author	Anne Bogel
ISBN	0801072921

For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.

I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary...

Ask Again, Yes

Author	Mary Beth Keane
ISBN	1982106980

How much can a family forgive?

A profoundly moving novel about two neighboring families in a suburban town, the bond between their children, a tragedy that reverberates over four decades, the daily intimacies of marriage, and the power of forgiveness.

Francis Gleeson and Brian...

The Dutch House

Author	Ann Patchett
ISBN	0062963678

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant...

The View from Penthouse B

Author	Elinor Lipman
ISBN	0547576218

Two sisters recover from widowhood, divorce, and Bernie Madoff as unexpected roommates in a Manhattan apartment

Unexpectedly widowed Gwen-Laura Schmidt is still mourning her husband, Edwin, when her older sister Margot invites her to join forces as roommates in Margot’s luxurious...

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Author	Dani Shapiro
ISBN	1524732710

The author of Hourglass now gives us a new memoir about identity, paternity, and family secrets—a real-time In the spring of 2016, through a genealogy website to which she had whimsically submitted her DNA for analysis, Dani Shapiro received the stunning news that her father was not her biological...

The Last Romantics

Author	Tara Conklin
ISBN	0062358227

“The greatest works of poetry are the stories we tell about ourselves."

When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time.

It begins...

I Miss You When I Blink: Essays

Author	Mary Laura Philpott
ISBN	1982102802

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“I've spent my adult life prowling bookshelves for the modern-day reincarnation of my favorite authors—Nora Ephron, Erma Bombeck, Jean Kerr, and Laurie Colwin—all rolled into one...Good news: I have finally found their successor.” —Elisabeth Egan, The...

The Lager Queen of Minnesota

Author	J. Ryan Stradal
ISBN	0399563059

A novel of family, Midwestern values, hard work, fate and the secrets of making a world-class beer.

Two sisters, one farm. A family is split when their father leaves their shared inheritance entirely to Helen, his younger daughter. Despite baking award-winning pies at the local nursing home,...

The Dearly Beloved

Author

Cara Wall

Charles and Lily, James and Nan. They meet in Greenwich Village in 1963 when Charles and James are jointly hired to steward the historic Third Presbyterian Church through turbulent times. Their personal differences however, threaten to tear them apart.

Charles is destined to succeed his...

The Almost Sisters

Author

Joshilyn Jackson

With empathy, grace, humor, and piercing insight, the author of Gods in Alabama pens a powerful, emotionally resonant novel of the South that confronts the truth about privilege, family, and the distinctions between perception and reality - the stories we tell ourselves about our origins and who...

Harry's Trees

Author	Jon Cohen
ISBN	0778364151

The first thing you learn when you climb a tree is to hold on. Now it’s time for Harry to learn to let go…

Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane, lifelong lover of trees, works as an analyst in a treeless US Forest Service office. When his wife dies in a freak accident, devastated, he makes his way...

Never Have I Ever

Author

Joshilyn Jackson

In this game, even winning can be deadly...

Amy Whey is proud of her ordinary life and the simple pleasures that come with it—teaching diving lessons, baking cookies for new neighbors, helping her best friend, Charlotte, run their local book club. Her greatest joy is her family: her devoted...