Books like Still Alice
If you liked Still Alice by Lisa Genova, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Nineteen Minutes
Because shares tags: fiction, 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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The Casual Vacancy
Because shares tags: fiction, drama.
Barry Fairbrother dies and leaves a Pagford council seat open, sparking an election, a class war over the Fields, and trouble for local…
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And the Mountains Echoed
Because shares tags: 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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The Light Between Oceans
Because shares tags: drama, family.
Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and Isabel raise a boat baby on Janus Rock and face her true mother on shore.
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The Memory Keeper's Daughter
Because shares tags: family, drama.
On a snowy night a doctor gives away his newborn daughter and tells his wife she died.
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Dear John
Because shares tags: drama, family.
A soldier and a student trade letters through war until duty and waiting pull them apart.
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The Lovely Bones
Because shares tags: drama, family.
Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones retold: Susie watches from above as her family hunts her killer.
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My Sister's Keeper
Because shares tags: fiction, family.
Thirteen-year-old Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation so she can refuse to give her dying sister Kate a kidney.
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It Ends with Us
Because shares tags: 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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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Because shares tag: family.
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
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Tom Lake
Because shares tag: family.
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
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The Thorn Birds
Because shares tag: drama.
Meggie loves priest Ralph across decades on Drogheda sheep station.
