Baby Love: Parenting, Custody Conflicts, and Child Care in Fiction

1.
The Light Between Oceans
The Light Between Oceans 4.04 avg rating — 473,461 ratings
2.
The Snow Child
The Snow Child 4.01 avg rating — 166,412 ratings
3.
The Help
The Help 4.47 avg rating — 2,962,106 ratings
4.
We Need to Talk About Kevin
We Need to Talk About Kevin 4.08 avg rating — 207,213 ratings
5.
Little Fires Everywhere
Little Fires Everywhere 4.07 avg rating — 1,279,640 ratings
6.
The Nightingale
The Nightingale 4.64 avg rating — 1,894,648 ratings
7.
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1)
The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 169,160 ratings
7.
Room
Room 4.08 avg rating — 826,340 ratings
9.
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 476,954 ratings
10.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,371 ratings
10.
Blessings
Blessings 3.66 avg rating — 19,471 ratings
10.
Silas Marner
Silas Marner 3.69 avg rating — 91,977 ratings
10.
Grace
Grace 4.27 avg rating — 380 ratings
14.
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes
The Secret Life of CeeCee Wilkes 4.13 avg rating — 57,158 ratings
14.
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
The Caucasian Chalk Circle 3.74 avg rating — 8,976 ratings
16.
The Red Thread
The Red Thread
by: Ann Hood
3.74 avg rating — 4,416 ratings
17.
Where the Line Bleeds
Where the Line Bleeds 3.78 avg rating — 5,253 ratings
17.
Pigs in Heaven (Greer Family, #2)
Pigs in Heaven (Greer Family, #2) 4.01 avg rating — 67,119 ratings
17.
The Sound of Us
The Sound of Us 3.82 avg rating — 334 ratings
17.
The Mere Wife
The Mere Wife 3.87 avg rating — 5,394 ratings
21.
Gods of Howl Mountain
Gods of Howl Mountain 3.89 avg rating — 2,951 ratings
21.
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1)
Necessary Lies (Necessary Lies, #1) 4.30 avg rating — 82,041 ratings
21.
Local Custom (Liaden Universe, #5)
Local Custom (Liaden Universe, #5) 4.27 avg rating — 2,701 ratings
24.
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1)
Yellow Crocus (Freedman/Johnson, #1) 4.34 avg rating — 83,778 ratings
24.
The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs
The Exact Nature of Our Wrongs 3.32 avg rating — 522 ratings
24.
Finding Me
Finding Me 4.08 avg rating — 1,019 ratings
24.
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly 3.98 avg rating — 21,045 ratings
28.
Himself
Himself
by: Jess Kidd
3.92 avg rating — 14,638 ratings
28.
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1) 4.32 avg rating — 1,079,876 ratings
28.
The Girl Who Drank the Moon
The Girl Who Drank the Moon 4.12 avg rating — 111,141 ratings
31.
The Flowering Thorn
The Flowering Thorn 4.09 avg rating — 453 ratings
31.
Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing 4.37 avg rating — 3,479,245 ratings
31.
The Wives of Henry Oades
The Wives of Henry Oades 3.62 avg rating — 2,927 ratings
34.
Gods in Alabama
Gods in Alabama 3.86 avg rating — 23,926 ratings
35.
The Weight of This World
The Weight of This World
by: David Joy
3.99 avg rating — 2,744 ratings
35.
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
The Memory Keeper's Daughter 3.70 avg rating — 609,242 ratings
37.
Then She Was Gone
Then She Was Gone 4.04 avg rating — 913,607 ratings
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The Flood Girls: A Book Club Recommendation!
The Flood Girls: A Book Club Recommendation! 3.62 avg rating — 5,651 ratings
37.
Magic Hour
Magic Hour 4.17 avg rating — 201,668 ratings
40.
The Sunlit Night
The Sunlit Night 3.28 avg rating — 2,640 ratings
40.
My Sister’s Keeper
My Sister’s Keeper 4.11 avg rating — 1,263,831 ratings
42.
The Almost Sisters
The Almost Sisters 3.95 avg rating — 28,960 ratings
43.
The Caregiver
The Caregiver 3.75 avg rating — 1,629 ratings
44.
Number One Chinese Restaurant
Number One Chinese Restaurant liked it 3.00 avg rating — 7,052 ratings
45.
Two If By Sea
Two If By Sea 3.37 avg rating — 4,009 ratings
46.
The Wartime Sisters
The Wartime Sisters 3.83 avg rating — 7,827 ratings
47.
All We Had
All We Had 3.75 avg rating — 2,192 ratings
48.
Lucky Us
Lucky Us
by: Amy Bloom
3.22 avg rating — 17,902 ratings
49.
How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky
How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky 3.28 avg rating — 2,750 ratings
50.
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots 4.10 avg rating — 699 ratings
51.
Between, Georgia
Between, Georgia 3.88 avg rating — 16,125 ratings
52.
Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever 3.73 avg rating — 56,784 ratings
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The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted
The Bookshop of the Broken Hearted 3.57 avg rating — 8,112 ratings
54.
The Dreamers
The Dreamers 3.63 avg rating — 42,686 ratings
55.
The Liar's Child
The Liar's Child 3.47 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
56.
Forget You Know Me
Forget You Know Me 3.05 avg rating — 4,941 ratings
57.
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls 3.63 avg rating — 21,132 ratings
58.
The Girl They Left Behind
The Girl They Left Behind 4.08 avg rating — 17,889 ratings
59.
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe 4.28 avg rating — 321,376 ratings