23 best-selling fiction books like Margarettown by Gabrielle Zevin

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Margarettown

By: Gabrielle Zevin

3.48

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Margarettown... is a person, a place, a love story. It could be about anyone--you, your parents, yo…

"All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

"All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

"People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

"People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

If you liked the fiction plot in Margarettown by Gabrielle Zevin , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Etta and Otto and Russell and James

By: Emma Hooper

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back. Etta… read more

Similar categories in Emma Hooper's Etta and Otto and Russell and James book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult

2. Affliction

By: Russell Banks

3.99

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

Wade Whitehouse is an improbable protagonist for a tragedy. A well-digger and policeman in a bleak … read more

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3. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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5. Promising Young Women

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's Promising Young Women book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. The Bee Sting

By: Paul Murray

3.96

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Skippy Dies comes Paul Murray's The Bee Sting, an irresistibly funny, wise, and … read more

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  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

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7. The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

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8. Holding Pattern

By: Jenny Xie

3.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE Holding Pattern. Noun. 1. A state of suspende… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Xie's Holding Pattern book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

By: Hwang Bo-Reum

4.02

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

Yeongju is burned out. With her high-­flying career, demanding marriage, and busy life in Seoul, sh… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Bo-Reum's Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Why? Because we only get one shot in life, and we're living it now."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day'."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

"A life surrounded by good people is a successful life. It might not be a success as defined by society, but thanks to the people around you, each day is a successful day."

-Hwang Bo-Reum, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

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10. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

Similar categories in Leif Enger's I Cheerfully Refuse book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • adult
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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11. From From: Poems

By: Monica Youn

4.18

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

A major achievement by Monica Youn, “one of the most consistently innovative poets working today” (… read more

Similar categories in Monica Youn's From From: Poems book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • audiobook
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12. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Tilda Finch is diagnosed with invisibility, she's not overly surprised – she's felt invisible … read more

Similar categories in Jane Tara's Tilda Is Visible book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

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13. Margarettown

By: Gabrielle Zevin

3.48

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Margarettown... is a person, a place, a love story. It could be about anyone--you, your parents, yo… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"All women are many women! I'm afraid you've never known very much about women."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

"People are capable of great, great change during the span of one lifetime. And women even more than men."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

"The casualities seemed to go on and on. Just when I thought I was done losing her, I would find yet another way to love her all over again."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

"There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Margarettown

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14. A Better World

By: Sarah Langan

3.63

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The author of Good Neighbors, “one of the creepiest, most unnerving deconstructions of American sub… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Langan's A Better World book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. Lavash at First Sight

By: Taleen Voskuni

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sparks fly between two women pitted against each other in this delectable new romantic comedy by Ta… read more

Similar categories in Taleen Voskuni's Lavash at First Sight book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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17. Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too

By: Ijeoma Oluo

4.46

Format: 256 pages, ebook

From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of So You Want to Talk About Race and Mediocre, an ey… read more

Similar categories in Ijeoma Oluo's Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World--And How You Can, Too book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • audiobook
Cover of Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck by William Souder

18. Mad at the World: A Life of John Steinbeck

By: William Souder

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A resonant biography of America’s most celebrated novelist of the Great Depression. The first fu… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

19. Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xóchitl González

3.82

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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20. The Escape Room

By: L.D. Smithson

4.07

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Everything is a clue. Eight strangers arrive at a remote sea fort off the coast of England. They a… read more

Similar categories in L.D. Smithson's The Escape Room book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Famous Men Who Never Lived

By: K. Chess

3.54

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the t… read more

Similar categories in K. Chess's Famous Men Who Never Lived book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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22. Feast

By: Emily O'Grady

3.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling novel of three women and their dark secrets from the award-winning author of The Yello… read more

Similar categories in Emily O'Grady's Feast book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. Here for the Wrong Reasons

By: Annabel Paulsen

3.73

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In this swoon-filled lesbian romcom, two dating show contestants vying for the affection of the lea… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Paulsen's Here for the Wrong Reasons book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. Chrysalis

By: Anna Metcalfe

3.61

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail by Nick Wallis

25. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail

By: Nick Wallis

4.64

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more

Similar categories in Nick Wallis's The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • audiobook
Cover of Never the Wind by Francesco Dimitri

26. Never the Wind

By: Francesco Dimitri

4.00

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

A bittersweet gothic fantasy of family, friendship, memory, and the uncanny told from the perspecti… read more

Similar categories in Francesco Dimitri's Never the Wind book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • magical realism
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Praise God, never the wind- for the wind may answer"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

"There was only another time in my life when I felt like that: last year, the morning after Mum died, when I woke up with my heart in tatters to a world that had not taken notice. Sparrows were chirpi…"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

"It is a mystery how we never manage to pack as much living into winter as we do into summer, when apparently we idle around doing little else than play and rest. Days last for ever, but the end too s…"

-Francesco Dimitri, Never the Wind

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27. I Want You More

By: Swan Huntley

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When ghostwriter Zara falls for her celebrity chef client, Jane Bailey, she starts to see the side … read more

Similar categories in Swan Huntley's I Want You More book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future

By: Esme Louise James

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories,… read more

Similar categories in Esme Louise James's Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. Rakesfall

By: Vajra Chandrasekera

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rakesfall is a groundbreaking, standalone science fiction epic about two souls bound together from … read more

Similar categories in Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"She asks the moon, who loves her, but the moon does not know."

-Vajra Chandrasekera, Rakesfall

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30. Feh: A Memoir

By: Shalom Auslander

4.12

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Foreskin’s Lament , a memoir of the author’s attempt to escape the bib… read more

Similar categories in Shalom Auslander's Feh: A Memoir book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • audiobook
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31. Gold Rush

By: Olivia Petter

3.61

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they e… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Petter's Gold Rush book and Gabrielle Zevin's Margarettown

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

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3.74

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