Books like The Memory Keeper's Daughter
If you liked The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Tom Lake
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family, mothers.
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
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And the Mountains Echoed
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family, drama.
When Abdullah and Pari are split in 1952 Afghanistan, their parting echoes across decades from Kabul to Paris to California in linked…
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Dear John
Because shares tags: contemporary, drama, family.
A soldier and a student trade letters through war until duty and waiting pull them apart.
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Me Before You
Because shares tags: drama, contemporary, literary fiction.
Me Before You retold: Lou cares for Will in a Welsh annexe, trips and talks, choice and loss.
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It Ends with Us
Because shares tags: contemporary, family, drama.
It Ends with Us from Lily's flower shop to her marriage: alternating past and present, Ryle's cycles of violence, and why the ending…
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White Oleander
Because shares tags: literary fiction, mothers.
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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The Paper Palace
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
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The Karamazov Brothers
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.
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Still Alice
Because shares tags: family, drama.
Harvard professor Alice Howland faces early onset Alzheimer's and her family must adapt as memory fades.
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She's Come Undone
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
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Nineteen Minutes
Because shares tags: drama, family.
Sterling High student Peter Haddon commits a school shooting and lawyer Jordan McAfee defends him while Josie Cormier hides truth.
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Mansfield Park
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
