If You Like Diane Chamberlain

Local best-selling author Diane Chamberlain focuses on relationships, families, and secrets, and the complex situations that arise when they mix. Several of her novels can be considered historical fiction, and others contain a dual narrative. Browse through the list below for books with similar themes that are also character-driven and compelling.
 

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1. Dreams of falling

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Author:
White, Karen (Karen S.)
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3.9 stars
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"On the banks of the North Santee River stands a moss-draped oak that was once entrusted with the dreams of three young girls. Into the tree's trunk, they placed their greatest hopes, written on ribbons, for safekeeping--including the most important one: Friends forever, come what may. But life can waylay the best of intentions"--Amazon.com.

2. The favorite daughter

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Author:
Henry, Patti Callahan
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3.8 stars
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3. A good neighborhood

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Author:
Fowler, Therese
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3.8 stars
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"A gripping contemporary novel that examines the American dream through the lens of two families living side by side in an idyllic neighborhood, and the one summer that changes their lives irrevocably."--

4. Hieroglyphics: a novel

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Author:
McCorkle, Jill, 1958-
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"Lil and Frank married young, having bonded over how they both lost a parent when they were children. Over time, their marriage grew and strengthened, with each still wishing for so much more understanding of the parents they'd lost prematurely. Now, after many years in Boston, they have retired in North Carolina. There, Lil, determined to leave a history for their children, sifts through letters and notes and diary entries-perhaps revealing more...

5. If only I could tell you

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Author:
Beckerman, Hannah
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4 stars
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"Audrey's dream as a mother had been for her two daughters, Jess and Lily, to be as close as only sisters can be. But now, as adults, they no longer speak to each other, and Audrey's two teenage granddaughters have never met. Audrey just can't help feeling like she's been dealt more than her fair share as she's watched her family come undone over the years, and she has no idea how to fix her family as she wonders if they will ever be whole again....

6. The many daughters of Afong Moy: a novel

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Author:
Ford, Jamie, 1968-
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet comes a powerful novel about the love that binds one family of women across generations. Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living. As Seattle's former poet laureate, that's how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental breakdowns into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter, Annabel, exhibits the same behavior and begins remembering...

7. Signal fires

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Author:
Shapiro, Dani
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"Late on a summer night in 1985, three teenagers are in a tragic car crash on the quiet, suburban Division Avenue. A girl is killed, and Theo and Sarah Wilf are left with a devastating secret that will haunt their family forever. By the time the Shenkmans move in across the street, the accident has faded into the past, but secrets haunt both families and cause them to become intimately intertwined. When Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant but lonely child,...