10 must-read family books like The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven Rowley

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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…

If you liked the family plot in The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven Rowley , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Summers at the Saint

By: Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kay Andrews's Summers at the Saint book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. 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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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

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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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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. 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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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6. One Perfect Couple

By: Ruth Ware

3.68

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

Runtime: 14 hours and 9 minutes Harkening to Agatha Christie’s classic And Then There Were None… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Ware's One Perfect Couple book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)

By: Catherine Mack

3.53

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Mack's Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1) book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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9. 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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • 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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10. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's This Summer Will Be Different book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

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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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • 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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13. Summer Romance

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. … read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Summer Romance book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am the architect of my own experience."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

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14. 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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • 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

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15. 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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • 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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16. How to End a Love Story

By: Yulin Kuang

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063310681. Two writers with a complicated history end up wor… read more

Similar categories in Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Lies and Weddings

By: Kevin Kwan

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Kwan's Lies and Weddings book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Midnight Feast

By: Lucy Foley

3.64

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

Secrets. Lies. Murder. Let the festivities begin... It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Foley's The Midnight Feast book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Next Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #2)

By: Liv Constantine

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon the resurgence of a long-forg… read more

Similar categories in Liv Constantine's The Next Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #2) book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. 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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • travel
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Giffin's The Summer Pact book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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23. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. A Happier Life

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put h… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Woodson Harvey's A Happier Life book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Trends come and go; the simplicity of timeless meals with the ones you love is forever."

-Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life

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25. 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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. All the Colors of the Dark

By: Chris Whitaker

4.44

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an e… read more

Similar categories in Chris Whitaker's All the Colors of the Dark book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pooley's How to Age Disgracefully book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

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28. 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 Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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

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29. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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30. Jackpot Summer

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's Jackpot Summer book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. The Briar Club

By: Kate Quinn

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, D.C. boardinghouse… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Briar Club book and Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"You can't call yourself a proper home without the regular smell of good food..."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"And guilt roiled in his stomach because he wanted to love his mother, and sometimes what pulsed through him came horribly close to hate."

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Be selfish, stick to the plan Claire had clung to since she was 16. Look out for herself and no one else, because love was for suckers and happiness meant a well-stocked bank account and a house you …"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

"Happiness is a choice as much as anything. Or you could choose to be angry, and if you stay angry long enough, it will become comfortable, like an old robe. But eventually you’ll realize that old rob…"

-Kate Quinn, The Briar Club

31 Top fiction books like The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven Rowley

Transform Your Habits

Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

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21 Best fiction books like Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

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The Rom-Commers

Katherine Center

4.15

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Sandwich

Catherine Newman

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