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If you loved Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult, these books share similar qualities — same genre, comparable themes, and the kind of reader ratings that signal something special. Whether you read on Kindle, in print, or on audio, these recommendations deliver the same kind of experience.

10 books for fans of Plain Truth

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    The Storyteller

    by Jodi Picoult

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    A grief-stricken baker befriends an elderly man who reveals himself as a former Nazi guard seeking redemption through death. Picoult weaves together multiple generations affected by Holocaust trauma, examining forgiveness, justice, and the weight of inherited guilt.

    4.30 Goodreads (278.1K ratings)
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    Small Great Things

    Ruth Jefferson • Book 1

    by Jodi Picoult

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    After twenty years as a labor nurse, Ruth Jefferson faces her most impossible case: a newborn whose parents refuse her care because she's Black.

    4.36 Goodreads (444.3K ratings)
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    My Sister's Keeper

    by Jodi Picoult

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    Anna was born to be a genetic match for her cancer-stricken sister, but at 13, she sues her parents for the right to her own body.

    4.11 Goodreads (1.3M ratings)
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    Handle with Care

    by Jodi Picoult

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    Picoult explores every parent's nightmare: Charlotte sues her doctor for not detecting her daughter's brittle bone disease, claiming she would have terminated the pregnancy—a case that destroys her marriage and friendship.

    4.01 Goodreads (140.1K ratings)
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    Leaving Time

    Leaving Time • Book 1

    by Jodi Picoult

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    Jenna teams up with a washed-up detective and a psychic to find her mother, an elephant researcher who vanished after a sanctuary tragedy years earlier.

    4.00 Goodreads (204.9K ratings)
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    Perfect Match

    by Jodi Picoult

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    Picoult explores how far maternal love extends when prosecutor Nina Frost discovers her young son has been molested. The legal thriller examines justice versus revenge through a mother's devastating moral crisis.

    3.98 Goodreads (85.4K ratings)
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    Salem Falls

    by Jodi Picoult

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    Jack St. Bride reinvents himself in small-town New England until teenage accusations shatter his carefully constructed new life, forcing a woman to choose between love and doubt.

    3.84 Goodreads (91.5K ratings)
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    Sing You Home

    by Jodi Picoult

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    When Zoe remarries a woman after her divorce, her ex-husband fights for their frozen embryos in this contemporary custody battle.

    3.82 Goodreads (100.7K ratings)
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    Keeping Faith

    by Jodi Picoult

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    When seven-year-old Faith starts experiencing religious visions during her parents' bitter divorce, a custody battle becomes a test of belief itself.

    3.82 Goodreads (90.4K ratings)
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    The Book of Two Ways

    by Jodi Picoult

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    Picoult weaves together Egyptology and modern marriage as Dawn's near-death experience forces her to choose between the life she built and the path she abandoned decades ago.

    3.66 Goodreads (114.9K ratings)