If you like Jodi Picoult, you might want to try these titles:

The Art of Mending: A Novel by Elizabeth Berg FIC BER
A seemingly perfect trio of siblings must come to terms with unpalatable truths about their mother's treatment of one of her daughters. Also recommended: Open House

Before You Know Kindness by Christopher Bohjalian FIC BOH
A nightmarish accident puts to test the values that unite three generations of one family and the convictions that just may pull it apart. Also recommended: Midwives: a novel

Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman FIC HOF
For over a decade, devoted father and husband Ethan Ford has been running from his past. But one day the police show up at his door-and his life as an irreproachable family man and heroic volunteer fireman begins to come apart. Also recommended: Local Girls

The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard FIC MIT
The story of a happily married woman whose life is torn asunder when her three-year-old son disappears, only to be rediscovered nine years later living with a neighborhood family. Also recommended: The Breakdown Lane, A Theory of Relativity

The Good Mother by Sue Miller FIC MIL
Recently divorced, Anna Dunlap is passionate about her daughter and her lover, Leo. Swept away by happiness and passion, Anna feels she has everything she's ever wanted. Then come the shocking charges that would threaten her new love, her new "family". Also recommended: Family Pictures, Lost in the Forest, The World Below

Home Fires by Luanne Rice FIC RIC
After her marriage crumbles in the wake of a tragic accident, Anne Davis returns to the house where she grew up. Also recommended: Firefly, Beach

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood FIC HOO
After the loss of her child, Mary Baxter joins a knitting circle as a way to fill the void. The women welcome her revealing their own personal stories of loss, love, and hope. Also recommended: The Properties of Water

Light on Snow by Anita Shreve FIC SHR
In the woods surrounding their home, Robert and his 12-year-old daughter discover a baby abandoned and left to die in the snow. The infant survives, but the incident leaves its mark. Also recommended: Sea Glass: a novel

A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton FIC HAM
The peaceful life of a married couple is shattered one day when a neighbor's two-year-old daughter drowns in their farm pond.

One True Thing by Anna Quindlen FIC QUI
A mother, a daughter and one shattering choice. A story of life, love and everyday acts of mercy.

The Rest of Her Life by Laura Moriarty FIC MOR
A mother struggles to relate to her family and reconcile her own past after a terrible car accident.

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell FIC OFA
After her great-aunt Esme is released from the mental institution where she has been confined for over 60 years, Iris learns that Esme is the key to long-hidden family secrets.

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver FIC SHR
Eva never really wanted to be a mother, and certainly not the mother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow high school students and two adults only days before his sixteenth birthday. Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms with marriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampage.