Books like The good mother by Sue Miller

Pride and Prejudice is a classic novel by Jane Austen.

After being murdered at fourteen, Susie Salmon watches from heaven as her family, friends, and killer grapple with grief and justice, revealing how love and forgiveness shape a family's future.

In the orderly suburb of Shaker Heights, a new family’s arrival and a custody dispute ignite tension, revealing secrets, art, and the complex pull of motherhood in a tightly knit community.

In 1964 South Carolina, Lily Owens, grieving her mother’s death, seeks refuge with a fierce stand‑in mother and a trio of black beekeeping sisters who open her to the secret world of bees, honey, and healing.

On Beauty explores a New England family’s life as they confront love, identity, and cultural divides over three decades, weaving personal struggles with broader conversations about race and belonging.

A powerful Iowa family drama that reinterprets Shakespeare’s *King Lear* as a modern US farm saga about inheritance, sibling rivalry and buried family secrets.

Susannah Nelson, 50, returns to the garden she loved as a teenager, but the past she's trying to escape is still there, leading her to question everything about her life and relationships with her loved ones.

When a coastal dog retrieves a bone that turns out to be human, Isa Wilde’s idyllic village of Salten is thrust into terror as her childhood friends uncover a dark secret, unraveling their shared past.

A woman tries to rekindle her relationship with her astronaut husband while struggling with family secrets and marital conflict.

Kate Foley adopts a baby son with the help of her widowed mother, and a man she doesn't even know claims to be his father. As they fight to keep their son, Kate risks everything to taste passion and believe in love for the first time.

No one in Seven Poplars, Delaware, expects Anna Yoder ever to marry. Among her six pretty, petite sisters, big and plain Anna feels like a plow horse. But then Samuel Mast, the handsome widowed father she has secretly loved for years, asks if he can court her. Surely Anna has misheard - Samuel has his pick of lovely brides! She's convinced he seeks a wife only as a mother for his five children. Or could a man like Samuel actually have a very romantic reason for wanting Anna by his side forever?

Sheriff Troy Davis struggles to find love in the small town of Cedar Cove while dealing with the unexpected death of his daughter and a series of mysterious break-ins.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

Three adult siblings—Margaret, Max, and Edie—navigate the turbulence of family life, health, and hidden secrets in this heartfelt saga of love, responsibility, and self‑discovery.

When her former lover becomes a widower, Minty Lloyd becomes his second wife, navigating ridicule from friends and sons while haunted by her earlier mistress, Rose. A surprising phone call forces Minty to confront the past and seek unexpected reconciliation.

While I Was Gone follows Jo Becker, a former bohemian-turned-veterinarian, as an old housemate’s arrival threatens to unravel her family, career and sense of identity in 1968 Massachusetts.

A romance story set in the fictional town of Virgin River, featuring a man who returns to help his family run the apple orchard and falls in love with a single mother.

After losing legal custody of her infant son, Susanna Miller disappears with his child, assuming a new identity and seeking refuge in Annapolis, Maryland, where she must confront past ties and new dangers.