Heartwarming Fiction

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Clean reads
• Fiction
• Heartwarming stories
• Strong characterization
• Emphasis on human relationships

These Is My Words
By Nancy E. Turner
F TURNER
Based on the real-life exploits of the author's great-grandmother, this fictionalized diary vividly details one woman's struggles with life and love in frontier Arizona at the end of the last century.

Cold Sassy Tree
By Olive Ann Burns
F BURNS
Cold Sassy Tree, a novel full of warm humor and honesty, is told by Willy Tweedy, a fourteen-year-old boy living in a small, turn-of-the-century Georgia town. Will's hero is his Grandpa Rucker, who runs the town's general store, carrying all the power and privilege thereof. When Grandpa Rucker suddenly marries his store's young milliner barely three weeks after his wife's death, the town is set on its ear.

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas
By James Patterson
F PATTERSO
Kate Wilkerson, found her perfect man at last, then one day, without explanation, he disappears leaving behind only a diary for her to read. The diary is written by a new mother for her baby son, Nicholas. Soon it becomes clear to Kate that the man who left is the husband and father of this young family.

The Quilter’s Apprentice
By Jennifer Chiaverini
F Chiaveri
Sarah, struggling to find a job and a sense of place in her new town, finds herself learning how to quilt from a cantankerous old woman who also teaches her about the deep love that can exist between friends. If you like this book about female friendships, there are eight more books in the series.

A Love like Lilly
By Kay Lynn Mangum
YA F MANGUM
Sixteen-year-old year old Jamie has a hard time when her Grandfather begins “dating” again after her beloved Grandmother dies. In this novel about nurturing old relationships and forming new ones, Jamie learns a lot about her Grandparents marriage, herself, and the ability of love to transform lives.