16 must-read fiction books like When We Were Young by Richard Roper

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When We Were Young

By: Richard Roper

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Something to Live For , a nostalgic, heart-warming story of two long-lost friend…

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1. Etta and Otto and Russell and James

By: Emma Hooper

4.67

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

I've gone. I've never seen the water, so I've gone there. I will try to remember to come back. Etta… read more

Similar categories in Emma Hooper's Etta and Otto and Russell and James book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Our Little Racket

By: Angelica Baker

4.00

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A captivating debut about wealth, envy, and secrets: the story of five women whose lives are dramat… read more

Similar categories in Angelica Baker's Our Little Racket book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook

3. Startup

By: Doree Shafrir

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

From veteran online journalist and BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir comes a hilarious debut novel that… read more

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4. Käraste Lena

By: Ninni Schulman

3.80

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Hösten 1983 hittas 31-åriga Lena död i sitt hem på släktgården på Sollerön utanför Mora, hängd i en… read more

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5. The Spoiled Heart

By: Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more

Similar categories in Sunjeev Sahota's The Spoiled Heart book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. When We Were Young

By: Richard Roper

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Something to Live For , a nostalgic, heart-warming story of two long-lost friend… read more

Similar categories in Richard Roper's When We Were Young book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

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8. När allt är över

By: Charlotte Al-Khalili

3.70

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer har flytt från sin våldsamma exman och lever gömd med dottern Alice. En morgon hittas Alic… read more

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9. I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning

By: Keiran Goddard

4.04

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Told through the alternating perspectives of five childhood friends from the same housing estate in… read more

Similar categories in Keiran Goddard's I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. The Glitch

By: Elisabeth Cohen

2.74

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Shelley Stone might be a little overwhelmed. She runs the company Conch, the manufacturer of a smal… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"I take a daily men’s multivitamin. Why would I take vitamins for women? Because I want less of what’s important, fewer nutrients and minerals? I refuse to conspire in my own oppression."

-Elisabeth Cohen, The Glitch

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11. Perfect Tunes

By: Emily Gould

3.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what your mother was like before she became your mother, and what she gave u… read more

Similar categories in Emily Gould's Perfect Tunes book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Legacy

By: Caroline Bond

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

A death in the family rarely brings out the best in people - even the deceased. Jonathan Coulter… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Bond's The Legacy book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Throughout his illness she had put his needs first, subsumed her own. Her sole objective had been to make his life as good as possible. She had changed shapre aound him. Reinvented herself to become …"

-Caroline Bond, The Legacy

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13. Lucky Day

By: Beth Morrey

3.82

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of SAVING MISSY, comes a fierce, joyful and uplifting nove… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. High Time

By: Hannah Rothschild

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A modern English comedy of morals and manners, about a highborn family of outrageous characters, in… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Every Shade of Happy

By: Phyllida Shrimpton

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

'He suddenly wished more than anything that he'd lived for today, and for all the thousands of toda… read more

Similar categories in Phyllida Shrimpton's Every Shade of Happy book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. Bookshop Dogs

By: Ruth Shaw

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Heartwarming and charming stories of dogs and books from the bestselling author of The Bookseller a… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Shaw's Bookshop Dogs book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • adult
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17. Welcome to Glorious Tuga

By: Francesca Segal

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet C… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Segal's Welcome to Glorious Tuga book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Sommardagar i kollektivet (Kollektivet, #1)

By: Callum Bloodworth

4.04

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Ärligt talat är det nästan lättare att missa Kollektivet än att hitta det. Vilket så klart är synd,… read more

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19. From the Shadows (Monica Kennedy #1)

By: G.R. Halliday

3.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, atmospheric police procedural set against the grit of Inverness and the raw beauty of t… read more

Similar categories in G.R. Halliday's From the Shadows (Monica Kennedy #1) book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Square One

By: Nell Frizzell

3.26

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at… read more

Similar categories in Nell Frizzell's Square One book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Grown Women

By: Sarai Johnson

4.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning debut novel, four generations of complex Black women contend with motherhood and d… read more

Similar categories in Sarai Johnson's Grown Women book and Richard Roper's When We Were Young

  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I don’t think you’re ever really grown."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

"We can learn from trauma. We can become better, more efficient, if we do the work."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

"Similarly, I owe a great deal to my female ancestors and the women who mothered me."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

"Sometimes the best thing you can do for someone you love is stay the hell away from them."

-Sarai Johnson, Grown Women

16 Best contemporary books like When We Were Young by Richard Roper

Transform Your Habits

Etta and Otto and Russell and James

Emma Hooper

4.67

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Our Little Racket

Angelica Baker

4.00

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The Spoiled Heart

Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

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Richard Roper

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Swift River

Essie J. Chambers

3.54

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Skin & Bones

Renée Watson

4.39

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Long After We Are Gone

Terah Shelton Harris

3.88

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Ishi Robinson

4.29

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