american style novels

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not sure if i'm being clear but i love american novels like anne tyler courtney sullivan beth o leary
any others that i'm missing out on?
i read a book ages ago about a homely girl living in a walmart store can't recall the title or author but that's the kind of thing i'm after?

Maybe Fannie Flagg? Adriana Trigiani? Elizabeth Strout? Rebecca Wells?

Maybe also try
Beatriz Williams.
Maggie Shipstead
Florence Adler Swims Forever Rachel Beanland
The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin
The Most Fun We Ever Had Claire Lombardo

I've never read any of the authors the OP mentions but I can second The Most Fun We Ever Had - Louise Lombardo, really enjoyed that. I've read some Elizabeth Strout too and quite liked it although quite slow and melancholy rather than homely and uplifting. I also enjoyed The Corrections -Jonathan Franzen, I really liked the characters and found it quite humorous though maybe a little darker than you're after. Maybe look up some of the NY Times charts or Oprah or Reece's book clubs?

Sorry, Claire Lombardo, not Louisa; think she was an actress in The House of Elliot?

thankyou yes i like johnathan franzen and elizabeth Strout
i'll look up some of the others you've mentioned

Laurie Graham. Some of hers aren't about America though.

I'm reading The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller at the moment. That might fit what you're looking for.

We were the Mulvaneys is excellent

The Glass Castle Janette Walls

The Glass Castle Janette Walls

Oh yes, that was excellent - I didn't see the twist at the end coming at all!

Curtis Sittenfeld, Barbara Kingsolver. David Ebershoff’s The 19th Wife is very good about America.

Another vote for The Paper Palace. Seating Arrangments by Maggie Shipstead capitulated me too

Alice Hoffman might fit the bill as well as Ann Patchett.

just read the most fun we ever had and loved it m going to check out some others from your lovely recommendations

Ann Patchett is good, especially Run and Commonwealth.
Elizabeth Strout
Carol Shields was Canadian but wrote similar books set in Canada and the US.

I am a big fan of Elizabeth Strout, Carol Shields, Ann Patchett, Anne Tyler and I also like Elinor Lipman and Benjamin Markovits and Cheryl Mendelson (Morningside Heights trilogy) who right similar style novels. Slightly different but same family type novels, I have also enjoyed Helga Flatland who is a Scandinavian author.

I’ve just discovered Anna Quindlen who fits into this category nicely.

Also Sue Miller and Alison Lurie. I am off to look up all the ideas on here now. I fear my to read list may be about to get much longer!

I love everything by Sittenfeld. Wish I could read American Wife for the first time again.

Mona Simpson, 'Anywhere But Here'.
Elinor Lipman, The Way Men Act is my favourite but I like all her books.
Armistead Maupin?

Lily King, Elizabeth McCracken, Vendela Vida, Mary Lawson, Sue Miller, Emma Straub.

So exciting i'm reading an Anna Quindlen novel now thanks to a recommendation on here and it's great
. Can I through in Courtney Sullivan as one of my favourites as well.

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