8 Best novels books like The Startup Wife by Tahmima Anam

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The Startup Wife

By: Tahmima Anam

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Newlyweds Asha and Cyrus build an app that replaces religious rituals and soon find themselves runn…

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1. Spirit Rising: My Life, My Music

By: Angelique Kidjo

3.64

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

Grammy Award-winning singer Angelique Kidjo is known for her electrifying voice and fearless advoca… read more

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2. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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3. Pineapple Street

By: Jenny Jackson

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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4. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

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5. 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 Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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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6. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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7. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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8. People Person

By: Candice Carty-Williams

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more

Similar categories in Candice Carty-Williams's People Person book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Love Marriage

By: Monica Ali

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-bo… read more

Similar categories in Monica Ali's Love Marriage book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. The Ministry of Time

By: Kaliane Bradley

3.62

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the natu… read more

Similar categories in Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"And then when she was given a second chance, she caught the sword and came up singing."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"You'll have lived through heat waves by now, and you'll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"What was it like, to be the only one who came back? The only one who still had a body to touch, to hurt, to yearn with? The last one still able to die?"

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

"He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life."

-Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time

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11. NSFW

By: Isabel Kaplan

3.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Blisteringly sharp, hypersmart, and compulsively readable―meet Isabel Kaplan’s searing debut novel … read more

Similar categories in Isabel Kaplan's NSFW book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The School for Good Mothers

By: Jessamine Chan

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781982156121 can be found here. In this taut and explosive d… read more

Similar categories in Jessamine Chan's The School for Good Mothers book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Lots of people are all cold and heartless. Who do you think works in a prison? Who do you think works on death row? It's a job."

-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

"A mother is always patient. A mother is always kind. A mother is always giving. A mother never falls apart. A mother is the buffer between her child and the cruel world."

-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

"Loneliness is a form of narcissism. A mother who is in harmony with her child, who understands her place in her child's life and her role in society, is never lonely. Through caring for her child, al…"

-Jessamine Chan, The School for Good Mothers

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13. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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14. The Startup Wife

By: Tahmima Anam

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Newlyweds Asha and Cyrus build an app that replaces religious rituals and soon find themselves runn… read more

Similar categories in Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • technology
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15. I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

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16. Best of Friends

By: Kamila Shamsie

3.46

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more

Similar categories in Kamila Shamsie's Best of Friends book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"

-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends

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17. Counterfeit

By: Kirstin Chen

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Reese's Book Club hardcover edition can be found here. For fans of Hustlers and How to Get F… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'd nodded dumbly, unable to conceive how it was that I still had my grandmother while by baby no longer had his."

-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

"What had once been their greatest strength--their perceived docility and obedience, their relative invisibility--had become their weakness. The narrative flipped. Now their Asian features read as sch…"

-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

"She'd gone to the right schools, chosen the right career, married the right partner, formed the right family - and made enormous sacrifices in the process, and yet here she was, thoroughly miserable,…"

-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

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18. You Exist Too Much

By: Zaina Arafat

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

On a hot day in Bethlehem, a 12-year-old Palestinian-American girl is yelled at by a group of men o… read more

Similar categories in Zaina Arafat's You Exist Too Much book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When you don’t want to lose someone, it’s so tempting to deceive them."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

"Appetite is embarrassing enough; visibly trying to satiate it, utterly mortifying."

-Zaina Arafat, You Exist Too Much

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19. The Lodgers

By: Holly Pester

3.31

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

'What it said to me was that I was here again, I was back, back from the great nowhere of somewhere… read more

Similar categories in Holly Pester's The Lodgers book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • novels
  • fiction
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20. You People

By: Nikita Lalwani

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differenc… read more

Similar categories in Nikita Lalwani's You People book and Tahmima Anam's The Startup Wife

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. A Shift In The Light

By: Patricia Glinton-Meicholas

3.89

Format: 347 pages, None

A Shift in the Light is an expression of cultural nationalism, offering a chronology of a Bahamian … read more

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3.36

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