24 best-selling adult fiction books like Maame by Jessica George

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Jessica George's Maame

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Lisa See's Lady Tan’s Circle of Women book and Jessica George's Maame

• literary fiction
• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• 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

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Jessica George's Maame

• literary fiction
• coming of age
• 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

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jessica George's Maame book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• africa
• coming of age
• mental health
• fiction
• contemporary
• family
• adult
• audiobook

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."

-Jessica George, Maame

"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."

-Jessica George, Maame

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."

-Jessica George, Maame

"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."

-Jessica George, Maame

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's The House of Eve book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Thao Thai's Banyan Moon book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Through her, I understood that another mother's horror could touch us in the darkest of places, even a world away."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"Grief is a lake of perilously thin ice. You never know when you'll fall through it, or when you will fight your way back to the surface."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"My morning swims have centered me and calmed the storm inside my mind. In the water, my memories lose their sharp edges, like river stones forced smooth."

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

"I wonder if you can inherit evil.' 'Maybe. Or maybe it's not something you inherit, but something that runs through you, another person's trauma, their violence. It sits below the skin until you name…"

-Thao Thai, Banyan Moon

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Similar categories in Jojo Moyes's Someone Else's Shoes book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Crystal Smith Paul's Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"We always have a choice; we only say we don't to soothe our conscience from what we're capable of."

-Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

Similar categories in Emily Habeck's Shark Heart book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"What if magic is just mislabeled peace?"

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a privilege it was to mark time with the sun."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"Lewis, you've told me so much about Wren, sometimes I think I miss her, too."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

"What a tragedy it is, being a woman. I would rather be a million other things."

-Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Jessica George's Maame

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People