21 best-selling fiction books like None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka

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None of This Is Serious

By: Catherine Prasifka

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and S…

"I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

If you liked the fiction plot in None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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2. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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3. 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 Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • 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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4. Watching Women & Girls

By: Danielle Pender

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"

-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls

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5. Okay Days

By: Jenny Mustard

3.76

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

‘A perfect Millennial love story ... with its acidic dialogue and languid sex scenes. A charming an… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Mustard's Okay Days book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. all she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days

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6. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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7. Sunburn

By: Chloe Michelle Howarth

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected as an Evening Standard 'one to watch in 2023' It's the early 1990s, and in the Irish vi… read more

Similar categories in Chloe Michelle Howarth's Sunburn book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's a shame that you can't even come out to me."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"People say 'lesbian' sometimes, they say 'dyke' more."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"I hope your bed is warm and you sleep well. See you tomorrow, Lucy x"

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

"All I'm doing is trying to love people. All I need is the right kind of love back."

-Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

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8. Send Nudes

By: Saba Sams

3.53

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more

Similar categories in Saba Sams's Send Nudes book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."

-Saba Sams, Send Nudes

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9. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Milk Teeth book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. Good Material

By: Dolly Alderton

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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11. Cleopatra and Frankenstein

By: Coco Mellors

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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12. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

Cover of None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka

13. None of This Is Serious

By: Catherine Prasifka

3.10

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Dublin student life is ending for Sophie and her friends. They've got everything figured out, and S… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"I'm tired of crying over stupid boys who aren't worth it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I'm trapped by the concept of the present, by the idea that time is moving forward and I'm witnessing it."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"I need him, like this, right now. The problem is I can't need him any more. I don't want to stop being with him, but I can't be with him."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

"Isn't it weird to think that everything is so unstable? Like, we all believe in the magic of technology; it feels so permanent but, just like that, it's gone."

-Catherine Prasifka, None of This Is Serious

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14. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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15. Snowflake

By: Louise Nealon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting… read more

Similar categories in Louise Nealon's Snowflake book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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16. Exciting Times

By: Naoise Dolan

3.23

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's Exciting Times book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

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17. Common Decency

By: Susannah Dickey

3.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and lo… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Dickey's Common Decency book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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18. Ruth & Pen

By: Emilie Pine

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dublin, 7th October 2019. One day, one city, two women - Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, … read more

Similar categories in Emilie Pine's Ruth & Pen book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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19. Bodies

By: Christine Anne Foley

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more

Similar categories in Christine Anne Foley's Bodies book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth by Niamh Mulvey

20. Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we surviv… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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21. Girl Friends

By: Holly Bourne

4.10

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

"Men see women in two separate categories. There are the women they sleep with, and the women they … read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's Girl Friends book and Catherine Prasifka's None of This Is Serious

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

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Coco Mellors

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Caroline O'Donoghue

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4.00

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