12 must-read humor books like Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews

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Someone Else's Bucket List

By: Amy T. Matthews

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

After the untimely death of her outgoing, hugely successful influencer sister, an introverted woman…

If you liked the humor plot in Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Travels with Charley: In Search of America

By: John Steinbeck

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

An intimate journey across and in search of America, as told by one of its most beloved writers, in… read more

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  • travel
Cover of Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All by Jonas Jonasson, Rachel Willson-Broyles

2. Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

By: Jonas Jonasson , Rachel Willson-Broyles

2.00

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

A madcap new novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climb… read more

Similar categories in Jonas Jonasson's Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • comedy
  • audiobook

3. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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4. 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 Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • romance
  • fiction
  • 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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5. Saint Richard Parker

By: Merlin Franco

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...… read more

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  • travel
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • comedy
  • drama
"See you later, tailgater."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Dark is beautiful, brother."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Tell me, son, what do you seek?"

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"A saint has control over his anger and itches."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

Cover of The Prophet and the Idiot by Jonas Jonasson

6. The Prophet and the Idiot

By: Jonas Jonasson

3.65

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

The brand-new, hilarious, feel-good adventure from the internationally bestselling author of The Hu… read more

Similar categories in Jonas Jonasson's The Prophet and the Idiot book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • comedy
  • drama
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7. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

By: Jonas Jonasson

3.82

Format: 396 pages, Kindle Edition

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his la… read more

Similar categories in Jonas Jonasson's The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1) book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"There are undoubtedly advantages to being dead, said Julius."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"When life has gone into overtime it's easy to take liberties,"

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

"Les choses sont ce qu'elles sont et elles seront ce qu'elles seront."

-Jonas Jonasson, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)

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8. James

By: Percival Everett

4.54

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more

Similar categories in Percival Everett's James book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

By: Shehan Karunatilaka

3.92

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Even suicide requires perseverance."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."

-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

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10. 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 Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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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11. 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 Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

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

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12. 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 Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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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13. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • comedy
  • drama
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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14. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Other Bridget book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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15. 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

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

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16. The Lonely Hearts Book Club

By: Lucy Gilmore

3.89

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Gilmore's The Lonely Hearts Book Club book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"Everywhere I looked was honesty and love. Love most of all."

-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

"They became a love letter of words and sentiment--and one that was addressed entirely to me."

-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

"We could only choose which path to take to our destination. What happened along the way was entirely up to chance."

-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

"More than anything, kuds need to know they have a soft spot to land. Your Bella? She knows. She'll know it until the day she dies."

-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

Cover of Someone Else's Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews

17. Someone Else's Bucket List

By: Amy T. Matthews

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

After the untimely death of her outgoing, hugely successful influencer sister, an introverted woman… read more

Similar categories in Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • travel
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • comedy
  • drama
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18. The Last Love Note

By: Emma Grey

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more

Similar categories in Emma Grey's The Last Love Note book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

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19. The Curious Secrets of Yesterday

By: Namrata Patel

4.02

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

A woman’s ambitions clash with familial expectations in a captivating novel about generational secr… read more

Similar categories in Namrata Patel's The Curious Secrets of Yesterday book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • comedy
  • drama
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20. Last Tang Standing

By: Lauren Ho

3.52

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

Crazy Rich Asians meets Bridget Jones’s Diary in this funny and irresistible debut novel about the … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Ho's Last Tang Standing book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"That's what I like about Linda: she might look like Harrods on the outside but on the inside Linda's straight-up TJ MAXX-hobo without the chic."

-Lauren Ho, Last Tang Standing

Cover of The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2) by Jonas Jonasson

21. The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)

By: Jonas Jonasson

3.73

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of… read more

Similar categories in Jonas Jonasson's The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2) book and Amy T. Matthews's Someone Else's Bucket List

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • comedy
  • drama
"Οι ερευνητές είχαν διαπιστώσει μόλις ότι το μέσο επίπεδο νοημοσύνης είχε καθοδική πορεία. Ο Άλαν διάβασε πως αυτοί που ξόδευαν πολύ χρόνο στη μαύρη πλακέτα τους έχαναν την ικανότητα του διαλόγου. Η π…"

-Jonas Jonasson, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)

"Η ανθρώπινη λογική λειτουργούσε ως εξής: πάρα πολλοί θεωρούσαν εαυτούς εξτρεμιστές. Οσο οι Σουηδοί Δημοκράτες ήταν ό,τι πιο εξτρεμιστικό είχε να προσφέρει η Σουηδία, θα υπήρχαν πάντα αρκετοί που δε θ…"

-Jonas Jonasson, The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man (The Hundred-Year-Old Man, #2)

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2.00

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Merlin Franco

4.34

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3.65

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Jack Kerouac

3.61

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4.37

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Ernest Hemingway

5.00

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