25 best-selling fiction books like The Brittanys by Brittany Ackerman

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The Brittanys

By: Brittany Ackerman

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

They're not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows the…

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1. The Animators

By: Kayla Rae Whitaker

4.10

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In the male-dominated field of animation, Mel Vaught and Sharon Kisses are a dynamic duo, the frict… read more

Similar categories in Kayla Rae Whitaker's The Animators book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

By: Kate Flannery

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more

Similar categories in Kate Flannery's Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • coming of age
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

3. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

Cover of This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz

4. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

By: Lyz Lenz

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more

Similar categories in Lyz Lenz's This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."

-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

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5. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother by Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

6. Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

By: Peggy O'Donnell Heffington

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A historian explores the complicated relationship between womanhood and motherhood  in this “timely… read more

Similar categories in Peggy O'Donnell Heffington's Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
"Even after becoming a mother, fulfilling the role society demands of you, you still can't win."

-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

"Parenthood is demanded of us, but we are asked to parent in isolated bubbles, supported--to put it crudely--by our bank accounts and little else."

-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

"COVID-19 exposed what women with children and without both already knew: that despite the expectation we all become mothers, we receive little support once we do."

-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

"In light of our failure to account for the pressures, anxieties, and dangers of modern life, it's possible to argue that the decision to opt out of parenthood is perfectly rational. The decision to h…"

-Peggy O'Donnell Heffington, Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother

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7. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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8. 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 Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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9. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

Cover of One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In by Kate Kennedy

10. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

By: Kate Kennedy

3.78

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more

Similar categories in Kate Kennedy's One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"

-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In

Cover of Sandwich by Catherine Newman

11. 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 Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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12. The Brittanys

By: Brittany Ackerman

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

They're not the most popular freshmen at their Florida prep school, but at least everyone knows the… read more

Similar categories in Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • realistic fiction
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • new adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Sugar, Baby by Celine Saintclare

13. Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more

Similar categories in Celine Saintclare's Sugar, Baby book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

Cover of The Winner by Teddy Wayne

14. The Winner

By: Teddy Wayne

3.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Be prepared to fully lose yourself in The Winner—a book I started and then simply couldn’t stop re… read more

Similar categories in Teddy Wayne's The Winner book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

Similar categories in Sierra Greer's Annie Bot book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Such a Bad Influence

By: Olivia Muenter

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Muenter's Such a Bad Influence book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Very Bad Company

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Every year executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company’s top employees for an e… read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Very Bad Company book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Bye, Baby

By: Carola Lovering

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A missing baby. A fraught friendship. A secret that can never be told. On a brisk fall night in … read more

Similar categories in Carola Lovering's Bye, Baby book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Instantly calming as she suckles by breast. It's a relief for both of us..."

-Carola Lovering, Bye, Baby

"Ella is on my nipple like a magnet... my breasts engorged and tingling from the let-down."

-Carola Lovering, Bye, Baby

"Ella begins to fuss in her stroller... I feel a wave of love for her as my nipples tingle on instinct - my milk coming down."

-Carola Lovering, Bye, Baby

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19. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

Similar categories in Jill Ciment's Consent: A Memoir book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
Cover of Perfect Little Lives by Amber   Brown

20. Perfect Little Lives

By: Amber Brown

3.09

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

"A dark and riveting page-turner with an intelligent twist." —Nadine Matheson, author of The Jigsaw… read more

Similar categories in Amber Brown's Perfect Little Lives book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. One Last Summer

By: Kate Spencer

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the cohost of the award-winning Forever35 podcast comes a dreamy, laugh-out-loud summer romanc… read more

Similar categories in Kate Spencer's One Last Summer book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Good Ones by Polly Stewart

22. The Good Ones

By: Polly Stewart

3.19

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing work of literary suspense that illuminates the push and pull of female friendship and… read more

Similar categories in Polly Stewart's The Good Ones book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wedding People by Alison Espach

23. 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 Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

Cover of The Majority by Elizabeth L. Silver

24. The Majority

By: Elizabeth L. Silver

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by history, a riveting novel of love and friendship, motherhood and ambition, and one woma… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth L. Silver's The Majority book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Blurry Years by Eleanor Kriseman

25. The Blurry Years

By: Eleanor Kriseman

4.00

Format: 171 pages, Paperback

The Blurry Years is a powerful and unorthodox coming-of-age story from an assured new literary voic… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Kriseman's The Blurry Years book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • coming of age
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Don't Turn Around by Jessica Barry

26. Don't Turn Around

By: Jessica Barry

3.52

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The riveting follow up to Jessica Barry’s debut Freefall—a controversial, of-the-moment thriller ab… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Barry's Don't Turn Around book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. The Art of Small Talk

By: Casey Wilson

3.80

Format: 5 pages, Audiobook

Hilarious and practical advice for how to up your small talk game from comedians, actors and self-a… read more

Similar categories in Casey Wilson's The Art of Small Talk book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
Cover of Tehrangeles by Porochista Khakpour

28. Tehrangeles

By: Porochista Khakpour

3.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Milanis: fast-food heiresses, L.A. royalty, and your newest reality TV obsession. Irani… read more

Similar categories in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Catalina by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

29. Catalina

By: Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

3.65

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A year in the life of the unforgettable Catalina Ituralde, a wickedly wry and heartbreakingly vulne… read more

Similar categories in Karla Cornejo Villavicencio's Catalina book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

30. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. Madwoman

By: Chelsea Bieker

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A gripping story of motherhood and motherloss and the brutal, mighty things women do to keep themse… read more

Similar categories in Chelsea Bieker's Madwoman book and Brittany Ackerman's The Brittanys

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

24 must-read contemporary books like The Brittanys by Brittany Ackerman

Transform Your Habits

The Animators

Kayla Rae Whitaker

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Transform Your Habits

Come and Get It

Kiley Reid

3.38

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Before She Finds Me

Heather Chavez

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The New Couple in 5B

Lisa Unger

3.63

Transform Your Habits

What the Neighbors Saw

Melissa Adelman

3.35

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Beware the Woman

Megan Abbott

3.29

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