21 Top fiction books like The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

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The Ex Talk

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.69

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she…

"I'm a solid second, but I'm no one's first."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"I am a solid second, but I'm no one's first."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"So often, I'm trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

If you liked the fiction plot in The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2) by Lynn Painter

1. The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

By: Lynn Painter

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bott… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2) book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"She had piercings everywhere, but cried like a baby if she needed to get a shot."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Rejection feels like shit, even when it comes from someone who might not matter that much."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Everything with him was great, but it was great in the way a Hallmark Christmas movie was great. Everything looked perfect—the clothing, the setting, the words—but none of it felt . . . real."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

Cover of You Deserve Each Other by Sarah Hogle

2. You Deserve Each Other

By: Sarah Hogle

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

When your nemesis also happens to be your fiancé, happily ever after becomes a lot more complicated… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Hogle's You Deserve Each Other book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"You are perfect"

-Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

"Of course I love you, Naomi. I never stopped."

-Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

"She's worth the pain of trying. Worth the risk of failing"

-Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

"You’re implying that I’m not presentable in public unless I have a full face of makeup on."

-Sarah Hogle, You Deserve Each Other

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3. 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 Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • 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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4. Check & Mate

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays. After the sport led to the destru… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Check & Mate book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"— Потому что, когда я с тобой, Мэллори, все по-другому. Когда я с тобой, я больше хочу играть, чем выигрывать."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Because when I´m with you, Mallory, everything is different. When I´m with you, I want to play more than I want to win."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"Nolan?' 'Hmm?' 'Why did you come to Vegas?' His fingers tighten around mine. my heart cartwheels. 'Mallory. I came because you did."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

"I think about a deserted chessboard. Only the white king on it, standing on the home square. Alone, untethered, safe from threats. Free to roam."

-Ali Hazelwood, Check & Mate

Cover of Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

5. Love, Theoretically

By: Ali Hazelwood

4.11

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Love, Theoretically book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
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6. Not in Love

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science. Rue Siebert might not ha… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Not in Love book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I'd been an odd child, then an odd teenager. Then I'd become, maybe as a result, maybe unavoidably, an odd adult."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'd never felt more beautiful than when he looked at me. Like I was the final prototype of someone's entire fantasy life."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"Eli was entranced. Her servant. Spellbound. He considered begging her to let him touch her. To let him go down on her in the hallway. He would go grocery shopping and make her dinner off a YouTube re…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'm going to want to see you every day. I'm going to learn more dishes and pack your lunch and write cute little notes on it. I'm going to ask you if you want to sleep at your place or mine and alway…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

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7. The Roughest Draft

By: Emily Wibberley

3.58

Format: 317 pages, Paperback

They were cowriting literary darlings until they hit a plot hole that turned their lives upside dow… read more

Similar categories in Emily Wibberley's The Roughest Draft book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Happily Never After by Lynn Painter

8. 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 Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new 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 The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) by Sarah       Adams

9. 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 Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

10. The Ex Talk

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.69

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I'm a solid second, but I'm no one's first."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"I am a solid second, but I'm no one's first."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"So often, I'm trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

Cover of The Cheat Sheet (The Cheat Sheet, #1) by Sarah       Adams

11. The Cheat Sheet (The Cheat Sheet, #1)

By: Sarah Adams

3.72

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Is it ever too late to leave the friend-zone? Hi, my name is Bree Camden, and I’m hopelessly in … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's The Cheat Sheet (The Cheat Sheet, #1) book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Still with me, Bree Cheese?"

-Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet (The Cheat Sheet, #1)

"Your soul is my favorite in this entire world"

-Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet (The Cheat Sheet, #1)

"I shoot up out of my chair. “It’s Bree. Hide the board!"

-Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet (The Cheat Sheet, #1)

"Bree, hope is healthy. Even if you prepare yourself for the worst in life, it will never make the fall hurt less."

-Sarah Adams, The Cheat Sheet (The Cheat Sheet, #1)

Cover of Set on You (The Influencer, #1) by Amy  Lea

12. Set on You (The Influencer, #1)

By: Amy Lea

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A gym nemesis pushes a fitness influencer to the max in Amy Lea’s steamy debut romantic comedy. Cu… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lea's Set on You (The Influencer, #1) book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2) by Amy  Lea

13. Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2)

By: Amy Lea

3.73

Format: 361 pages, Paperback

A romance novel–obsessed social media influencer revisits her exes on her hunt for true love in thi… read more

Similar categories in Amy Lea's Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2) book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"I'm sorry you feel so threatened by depictions of fictional men doing more than the bare minimum."

-Amy Lea, Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2)

"My dear, you have a lot to learn about relationships if you think all problems can be solved by a single conversation."

-Amy Lea, Exes and O's (The Influencer, #2)

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14. The Long Game (The Long Game, #1)

By: Elena Armas

3.59

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a childre… read more

Similar categories in Elena Armas's The Long Game (The Long Game, #1) book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2) by Sarah       Adams

15. Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2)

By: Sarah Adams

4.02

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

A small-town sweetheart and an emotionally unavailable bad boy try to find some common ground in th… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's Practice Makes Perfect (When in Rome, #2) book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren

16. The True Love Experiment

By: Christina Lauren

4.11

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hol… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He is the stillness to my storm, the shadow to my bright sunlight, the Styles to my Harry."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"...tight, hyperaware realization that I want him close to me every second of every day from here on out."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"I'm consumed by a distracting ache, a sharp want, a desperation for this thing I already have in my arms."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"Romance isn't gratuitous bodice ripping. It can be, there's nothing wrong with that, but in the end, romance isn't about the fantasy of being wealthy or beautiful or even being tied to the bed."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

Cover of Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood

17. Love on the Brain

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in … read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Love on the Brain book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"»a murder of dragons."

-Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

"I call them the Quasimotoes."

-Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

"I will slay a murder of dragons for you."

-Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

"You were always in my head. And I could never get you out."

-Ali Hazelwood, Love on the Brain

Cover of The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2) by Elena  Armas

18. The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

By: Elena Armas

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

From the author of the Goodreads Choice Award winner The Spanish Love Deception, the eagerly antici… read more

Similar categories in Elena Armas's The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2) book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"Remember to pick the boy that will pant a garden for you instead of just getting you the flowers."

-Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

"This is not a one-way street, Rosie. You look after me and I look after you. We take care of each other. We're a team."

-Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

"Because I was Rosie. Keeping it together was my thing. I planned, rationalized, took a deep breath and adjusted without losing my shit. I was the reliable friend and daughter."

-Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

"She used to tell me how the moment I was born, she knew she had found her light in the dark. That one lighthouse that, no matter what, was always up. Lighting up the night and signaling her way home."

-Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2)

Cover of When in Rome (When in Rome, #1) by Sarah       Adams

19. When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

By: Sarah Adams

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Opposites certainly attract for the stranded pop star and small-town baker in this charming slice o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's When in Rome (When in Rome, #1) book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"No one loves anything they're miserably chained to."

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

"I tell you what makes me madder than a hornet. When people tell other people how they should feel."

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

"Care is reckless because it doesn’t come with the seat belt that selfishness offers. Care has so much to lose, and almost always ends in heartbreak."

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

"Dry your tears and kick this gloomy attitude in the pants, Amelia!" I say out loud to myself because who else does a girl talk to when she's alone in the car in the middle of a mental breakdown?"

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

Cover of Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1) by Lynn Painter

20. Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

By: Lynn Painter

3.68

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Things get textual when a steamy message from a random wrong number turns into an anonymous relatio… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1) book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
""

-Lynn Painter, Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

"It was like the line in You've Got Mail. "All this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings."

-Lynn Painter, Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

"When things don't go as planned, we can either pout and behave like a reticent child, or take some time to reconsider our choices. Ruminate over what we've done in our past, and how best to move forw…"

-Lynn Painter, Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

"Instead of handing it over, I tossed it onto the floor and said, "I keep telling Mr. Wrong Number I don't need him anymore but he just won't let me go." He tossed his phone beside mine and rolled on …"

-Lynn Painter, Mr. Wrong Number (Mr. Wrong Number, #1)

Cover of The Soulmate Equation by Christina Lauren

21. The Soulmate Equation

By: Christina Lauren

4.00

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Single mom Jess Davis is a data and statistics wizard, but no amount of number crunching can convin… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The Soulmate Equation book and Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
"My social boner is pretty limp right now."

-Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

"I find it soothing that numbers don’t lie."

-Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

"she was absolutely the happiest aspect of my childhood."

-Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

"Fondness warmed his gaze from the inside out, as if he was seeing exactly the person he wanted to see."

-Christina Lauren, The Soulmate Equation

21 must-read contemporary books like The Ex Talk by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Transform Your Habits

The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

Lynn Painter

3.88

Transform Your Habits

You Deserve Each Other

Sarah Hogle

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood

3.97

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20 best-selling fiction books like Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Transform Your Habits

Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, #1)

Rebecca Ross

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Ruthless Vows (Letters of Enchantment, #2)

Rebecca Ross

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

Transform Your Habits

A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

Stephanie Garber

4.13

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