20 must-read adult books like Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

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Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

By: Clare Pooley

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Co…

"Ljubav je najveći rizik od svih, no život bez nje je besmislen."

-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

"Ljubav je najveći rizik od svih, no život bez nje je besmislen."

-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

"Ljubav je najveći rizik od svih, no život bez nje je besmislen."

-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

"Postoje neki problemi koje zaista ne možeš riješiti. Samo moraš naći način da s njima živiš."

-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

If you liked the adult plot in Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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

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2. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • adult
  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett

3. 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 Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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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4. 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 Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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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5. 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 Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Ticket by Freya Sampson

6. The Lost Ticket

By: Freya Sampson

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Strangers aboard a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the h… read more

Similar categories in Freya Sampson's The Lost Ticket book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Hector looked unconvinced. “Does your job make you rich?"

-Freya Sampson, The Lost Ticket

Cover of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

7. 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 Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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 Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

8. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

4.04

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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10. The Lost Bookshop

By: Evie Woods

4.09

Format: 448 pages, ebook

The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of myster… read more

Similar categories in Evie Woods's The Lost Bookshop book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. 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 Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley

12. The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

By: Colleen Oakley

4.05

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitt… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Oakley's The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He stilled midair, and then a slow grin spread across his lips. “Do you even know how to work that thing?"

-Colleen Oakley, The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

Cover of Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

13. Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

By: Clare Pooley

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Co… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Ljubav je najveći rizik od svih, no život bez nje je besmislen."

-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

"Postoje neki problemi koje zaista ne možeš riješiti. Samo moraš naći način da s njima živiš."

-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

"Katkad ti sudbina jednostavno pokaže kojim putem da ideš i nemaš drugu opciju nego poći. A ako je ovo tvoja sudbina, dogodit će se. Samo čekaj. Ni u kom slučaju nije gotovo dok nije gotovo."

-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

"But sometimes when you put two very different people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, w…"

-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

Cover of The Collected Regrets of Clover by Mikki Brammer

14. The Collected Regrets of Clover

By: Mikki Brammer

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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

Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

15. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Museum of Ordinary People by Mike Gayle

16. The Museum of Ordinary People

By: Mike Gayle

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever… read more

Similar categories in Mike Gayle's The Museum of Ordinary People book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Sylvia's Second Act by Hillary Yablon

17. Sylvia's Second Act

By: Hillary Yablon

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore… read more

Similar categories in Hillary Yablon's Sylvia's Second Act book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

18. Nora Goes Off Script

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nora's life is about to get a rewrite... Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than an… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Nora Goes Off Script book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To write is to re-create something as you'd like it to be."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

" Maybe he really likes me , I think in my tiniest thinking voice."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"What if this is my new normal—showing people my heart and having them applaud it?"

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"There's nothing more shameful than this retrospective knowing, because it reminds you how blind you can be to things that don't jibe with the reality you're trying to believe in."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

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19. 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 Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

20. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wedding People by Alison Espach

21. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Clare Pooley's Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting

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

21 Best fiction books like Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting by Clare Pooley

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

The Frozen River

Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

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3.97

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By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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Katherine Center

4.15

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