21 Top audiobook books like Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

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Cassandra in Reverse

By: Holly Smale

3.56

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A Time-Twisting Delight” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club June ’23 …

"Not everyone is like me: that much is painfully clear."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"Not everyone is like me: that much is painfully clear."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"Not everyone is like me: that much is painfully clear."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"Maybe love prefers to be eaten warm, like biscuits out of the oven."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

If you liked the audiobook plot in Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • 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

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2. 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

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • 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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3. Amazing Grace Adams

By: Fran Littlewood

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more

Similar categories in Fran Littlewood's Amazing Grace Adams book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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5. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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

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6. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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7. The Celebrants

By: Steven Rowley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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8. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

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9. The Breakaway

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Breakaway book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Starling House

By: Alix E. Harrow

3.83

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that ca… read more

Similar categories in Alix E. Harrow's Starling House book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"You’re a pretty good liar"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Survival is a hard habit to break."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"Maybe the truth is always messy that way."

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

"the Bible only got it half right: there were demons aplenty, but no fire at all"

-Alix E. Harrow, Starling House

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11. Before We Were Innocent

By: Ella Berman

3.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this… read more

Similar categories in Ella Berman's Before We Were Innocent book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. How to End a Love Story

By: Yulin Kuang

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063310681. Two writers with a complicated history end up wor… read more

Similar categories in Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Wishing Game

By: Meg Shaffer

4.07

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Make a wish. . . . Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it’s like to grow up without parents … read more

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • 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

Cover of Cassandra in Reverse by Holly Smale

14. Cassandra in Reverse

By: Holly Smale

3.56

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A Time-Twisting Delight” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club June ’23 … read more

Similar categories in Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • time travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
  • adult
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"Not everyone is like me: that much is painfully clear."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"Maybe love prefers to be eaten warm, like biscuits out of the oven."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"I can't help wondering: Am I a monster? And--if so--was I born or was I made?"

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"I get caught up with trying to read all the music around me, instead of one note inside myself."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

Cover of The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella

15. The Burnout

By: Sophie Kinsella

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, “urgent” (but obviously not… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The ride is it!"

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"If you’re not kind, never mind."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"You do not need an unkind man in your life right now. Or ever."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"Maybe I can’t commune with nature, but I sure as hell can commune with carbs."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

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16. Mother-Daughter Murder Night

By: Nina Simon

3.58

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. A lighthearted whodunnit about a gran… read more

Similar categories in Nina Simon's Mother-Daughter Murder Night book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

By: Crystal Smith Paul

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of mode… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Smith Paul's Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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?

Cover of Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xóchitl González

18. 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

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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19. Maybe Next Time

By: Cesca Major

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063239920. One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming… read more

Similar categories in Cesca Major's Maybe Next Time book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • romance
  • magical realism
  • time travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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20. The Unwedding

By: Ally Condie

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Ally Condie's The Unwedding book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."

-Ally Condie, The Unwedding

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21. Redwood Court

By: DeLana R.A. Dameron

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking debut about one unforgettable Southern Black family, seen through the eyes of its yo… read more

Similar categories in DeLana R.A. Dameron's Redwood Court book and Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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