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amother

Fri, May 21 2021, 6:13 pm

I used to read Danielle Steele in high school. Since then I've moved to the right & try to avoid any fiction that contains explicit material.

I don't remember if she does or not... can someone help me out? (Just read the blurb for Leap of Faith, sounds interesting ... I know, I'm a couple decades late... )

How about Jody Piccoult? Debbie Macomber? Nora Roberts?

amother

Emerald

Sat, May 22 2021, 6:06 pm

Danielle Steel I think does have scenes of an explicit nature. I know Nora Roberts is def quite detailed. Debbie Macomber is clean romance, can't remember about Jodi Piccoult, don't think there was too much but I haven't read her in a while.
Another author-Sherryl Woods I think has minor scenes but is mostly clean romance, but I could be wrong.

amother

Tue, May 25 2021, 9:27 pm

How about Belva Plain?

amother

Emerald

Wed, May 26 2021, 9:24 am

amother [ OP ] wrote:

How about Belva Plain?

I don't remember anything explicit but admittedly it's been a while since I read anything of hers. I think I enjoyed her books as being calming sort of reads. Think she's similar to Luanne Rice.

There's definitely some clean romance books, but I can't remember authors.

amother

Cobalt

Wed, May 26 2021, 9:30 am

I’m not a fiction reader but over Pesach I read “What Alice Forgot” by Liane Moriarty. I loved it. It is a secular book but it could almost be a frum one in a way. I don’t remember it being dirty but I wouldn’t let my kids read it because it wasn’t on a frum level. I wish I could find more books like this one, with life lessons.

amother

Emerald

Wed, May 26 2021, 3:19 pm

amother [ Cobalt ] wrote:

Liane Moriarty is excellent. If you liked her, Heather Gudenkauf is also good, and Diane Chamberlain.

Aylat

Wed, May 26 2021, 3:22 pm

I thought Jodi Picault was clean, but I was disappointed when I read one of hers recently (can't remember title) and it had a few explicit scenes. (I skipped and kept reading the book, but there were more.)

ssspectacular

Wed, May 26 2021, 3:53 pm

If you like Luanne Rice, you will probably like Kristen Hannah. I also like Rosie Thomas, Jane Kirpatrick , Eva Woods and Robin Carr.

amother

Emerald

Wed, May 26 2021, 4:15 pm

ssspectacular wrote:

If you like Luanne Rice, you will probably like Kristen Hannah. I also like Rosie Thomas, Jane Kirpatrick , Eva Woods and Robin Carr.

I haven't read all of the authors mentioned, but I do remember some of Robyn Carr's books were better than others. Not sure they were all clean.

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