19 must-read chick lit books like The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella

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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…

"The ride is it!"

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"The ride is it!"

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"If you’re not kind, never mind."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"If you’re not kind, never mind."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

If you liked the chick lit plot in The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Summers at the Saint by Mary Kay Andrews

1. Summers at the Saint

By: Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kay Andrews's Summers at the Saint book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • audiobook
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2. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • 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

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3. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

Cover of Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) by Abby Jimenez

4. Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he d… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

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5. The Paradise Problem

By: Christina Lauren

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery ch… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The Paradise Problem book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters"

-Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

Cover of This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

6. This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's This Summer Will Be Different book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

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7. 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 Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • 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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8. Summer Romance

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. … read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Summer Romance book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am the architect of my own experience."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

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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 Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) by Elle Cosimano

10. Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)

By: Elle Cosimano

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls’ weekend away. They … read more

Similar categories in Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We can't go in there, Vero! Do you know what happens to women who go into creepy basements? Murder! Murder happens to women to go into creepy basements."

-Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)

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11. The Wake-Up Call

By: Beth O'Leary

3.57

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Two hotel receptionists--and arch-rivals--find a collection of old wedding rings and compete to ret… read more

Similar categories in Beth O'Leary's The Wake-Up Call book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

12. The Rom-Commers

By: Katherine Center

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Rom-Commers book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"If my life were a screenplay, I'd end the story right there and roll credits - and then maybe rewind and watch it again."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"But, it was okay. We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell - but it's not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

Cover of Happily Never After by Lynn Painter

13. Happily Never After

By: Lynn Painter

3.72

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

Two love sceptics agree to work together as professional wedding disruptors. But fate has more roma… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Happily Never After book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You have to get hurt to get the good stuff, don't you see?...When you're a baby, you don't stop taking steps just because you've fallen once, or you'd never walk. The falls help you learn how to walk…"

-Lynn Painter, Happily Never After

Cover of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

14. 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 Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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 Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • british literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • 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

Cover of The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) by Sarah       Adams

16. The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2)

By: Sarah Adams

3.92

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies-to-lovers, second-ch… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Hello Stranger by Katherine Center

17. Hello Stranger

By: Katherine Center

3.94

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Love isn’t blind, it’s just a little blurry. Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Li… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's Hello Stranger book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin

18. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Giffin's The Summer Pact book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

19. A Winter in New York

By: Josie Silver

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she’s been… read more

Similar categories in Josie Silver's A Winter in New York book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's the swoon-worthy climax of our showreel moment, this beautiful, achingly sexy kiss, slow and electric, full of pure, vulnerable kiss-me-forever magic."

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"You guys have enough baggage to fill a gosh dang carousel at JFK, but isn't that kind of the point of love, that you help each other carry the bags? Fresh starts are for Hallmark movies, not real lif…"

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

"By my reckoning, everyone gets a handful of movie-worthy moments in their lives. Some people would probably pick out their wedding day or the birth of their child for their showreel, but for most of …"

-Josie Silver, A Winter in New York

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20. The Good Part

By: Sophie Cousens

4.03

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's The Good Part book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Maybe Once, Maybe Twice by Alison Rose Greenberg

21. Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

By: Alison Rose Greenberg

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Filled with the romance and angst that defines the years you come to know yourself, with a shifting… read more

Similar categories in Alison Rose Greenberg's Maybe Once, Maybe Twice book and Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 best-selling fiction books like The Burnout by Sophie Kinsella

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Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

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Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

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The Heiress

Rachel Hawkins

3.87

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Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

Abby Jimenez

4.40

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21 Top fiction books like A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

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Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

Abby Jimenez

4.40

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Christina Lauren

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Carley Fortune

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