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Fall On Your Knees
If you liked...
Fall On Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald

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The Blind Assassin The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood



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The Virgin Suicides The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
She’s Come Undone
If you liked...
She’s Come Undone
by Wally Lamb

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Bastard Out Of Carolina Bastard Out Of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison

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Edible Woman Edible Woman
by Margaret Atwood

Read all of Oprah's Book Club selections? Try these suggested books that are similar in theme or style.

If you liked Cane River, by Lalita Tademy, try:
Slaves in the Family, by Edward Ball or
The Bonesetter’s Daughter, by Amy Tan

If you liked Breath, Eyes, Memory, by Edwidge Danticat, try:
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, by Julia Alvarez or
So Far From God, by Ana Castillo

If you liked The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen, try:
Century’s Son, by Robert Boswell or
Sister Crazy, by Emma Richler

If you liked Daughter of Fortune, by Isabel Allende, try:
Ahab’s Wife or, The Star-Gazer, by Sena Jeter Naslund or
Portrait in Sepia, by Isabel Allende

If you liked Drowning Ruth, by Christina Schwarz, try:
Eddie’s Bastard, by William Kowalski or
More Than You Know, by Beth Gutcheon

If you liked Ellen Foster, by Kaye Gibbons, try:
Crooked Little Heart, by Anne Lamott or
Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd

If you liked A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry try:
The Death of Vishnu, by Manil Suri or
Desirable Daughters, by Bharati Mukherjee

If you liked Gap Creek, by Robert Morgan, try:
The Rosewood Casket, by Sharyn McCrumb or
The Truest Pleasure, by Robert Morgan

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If you liked The Heart of a Woman, by Maya Angelou, try:
Even the Stars Look Lonesome, by Maya Angelou or
Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography, by Zora Neale Hurston

If you liked Here On Earth, by Alice Hoffman, try:
Charming Billy, by Alice McDermott or
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing, by Melissa Bank

If you liked House of Sand and Fog, by Andre Dubus, try:
Dancing After Hours, by Andre Dubus or
Gun Runner’s Daughter, by Neil Gordon

If you liked I Know This Much Is True, by Wally Lamb, try:
The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, or
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers

If you liked Icy Sparks, by Gwyn Hyman Rubio, try:
Motherless Brooklyn, by Jonathan Lethem, or
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers

If you liked Jewel, by Brett Lott, try:
Evening, by Susan Minot or
Family Pictures, by Sue Miller

If you liked A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines, try:
Your Blues Ain’t Like My Blues, by Bebe Moore Campbell or
In My Father’s House, also by Ernest Gaines

If you liked Midwives, by Chris Bohjalian, try:
What Girls Learn, by Karin Cook, or
One True Thing, by Anna Quindlen

If you liked Mother of Pearl, by Melinda Haynes, try:
Lady Moses, by Lucinda Roy or
Sweetbitter, by Regnald Gibbons

If you liked Open House, by Elizabeth Berg, try:
Back When We Were Grownups, by Anne Tyler, or
Dancing at the Harvest Moon, by K.C. McKinnon

If you liked The Pilot’s Wife, by Anita Shreve, try:
Charlotte Gray, by Sebastian Faulks, or
The Pull of the Moon, by Elizabeth Berg

If you liked The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, try:
Undiscovered Country, by Samantha Gillison, or
Fordlandia, by Eduardo Sguiglia

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If you liked The Reader, by Bernard Schlink, try:
Jump and Other Stories, by Nadine Gordimer

If you liked River Cross My Heart, by Breena Clarke, try:
Make Believe, by Joanna Scott, or
Betsey Brown, by Ntozake Shange

If you liked Stones from the River, by Ursula Hegi, try:
Floating in My Mother’s Palm, by Ursula Hegi, or
The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass

If you liked Sula, by Toni Morrison, try:
I Wish I Had a Red Dress, by Pearl Cleage, or
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison

If you liked Vinegar Hill, by Manette Ansay, try:
Remember Me, by Laura Hendrie, or
The Notebook of Lost Things, by Megan Staffel

If you liked A Virtuous Woman, by Kaye Gibbons, try:
Errands, by Judith Guest, or
Breathing Lessons, by Anne Tyler

If you liked We Were the Mulvaneys, by Joyce Carol Oates, try:
Peace Like a River, by Leif Enger or
The Five People You Meet In Heaven, by Mitch Albom

If you liked While I Was Gone, by Sue Miller, try:
Last Magician, by Janet Turner Hospital, or
Motherkind, by Jayne Anne Phillips

If you liked White Oleander, by Janet Fitch, try:
Martha Calhoun, by Richard Babcock, or
Anywhere But Here, by Mona Simpson

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