5 best-selling realistic fiction books like Smells Like Tween Spirit by Laurie Gelman

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Smells Like Tween Spirit

By: Laurie Gelman

4.08

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Even with the cutthroat days of being Class Mom behind her, as a freshly minted mat mom of the Pion…

If you liked the realistic fiction plot in Smells Like Tween Spirit by Laurie Gelman , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Confessions of a Domestic Failure by Bunmi Laditan

1. Confessions of a Domestic Failure

By: Bunmi Laditan

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everyw… read more

Similar categories in Bunmi Laditan's Confessions of a Domestic Failure book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • parenting
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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2. The Five-Star Weekend

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend … read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's The Five-Star Weekend book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow."

-Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

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3. 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 Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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4. The Celebrants

By: Steven Rowley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

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5. 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 Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • 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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7. 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 Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • 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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8. The Breakaway

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Breakaway book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
Cover of Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) by Elle Cosimano

9. Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)

By: Elle Cosimano

3.92

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls’ weekend away. They … read more

Similar categories in Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We can't go in there, Vero! Do you know what happens to women who go into creepy basements? Murder! Murder happens to women to go into creepy basements."

-Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)

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10. What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradis… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2) book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • audiobook
"Lust is great in the bedroom, but like is better at breakfast, lunch and dinner."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

"She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

"Ava adores carols that evoke London streets during a new snowfall, the Yule log, brightly lit windows on a square of stately brick homes."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

Cover of Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3) by Elin Hilderbrand

11. Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Travel to the bright Caribbean one last time in the satisfying conclusion to the nationally bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3) book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • audiobook
"When you're in love, every day is like a present you get to open."

-Elin Hilderbrand, Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)

"Anyone can fall in love, but not just anyone can achieve forgiveness and acceptance and real, deep respect for his or her former partner the way these two have."

-Elin Hilderbrand, Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)

Cover of The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center

12. 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 Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • 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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13. The Most Likely Club

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.34

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

At their milestone high school reunion, a group of friends make a pact to finally achieve their hig… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's The Most Likely Club book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

14. Bright Lights, Big Christmas

By: Mary Kay Andrews

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From Mary Kay Andrews, New York Times bestselling author of The Homewreckers and The Santa Suit, co… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kay Andrews's Bright Lights, Big Christmas book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. The Burnout

By: Sophie Kinsella

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, “urgent” (but obviously not… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"The ride is it!"

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"If you’re not kind, never mind."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"You do not need an unkind man in your life right now. Or ever."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"Maybe I can’t commune with nature, but I sure as hell can commune with carbs."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

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16. Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories

By: Kelly Ripa

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An instant  New York Times  bestseller from Kelly Ripa—a sharp, funny, and honest collection of rea… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Ripa's Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • humor
  • audiobook
Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

17. 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 Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin

18. 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 Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
Cover of Smells Like Tween Spirit by Laurie Gelman

19. Smells Like Tween Spirit

By: Laurie Gelman

4.08

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

Even with the cutthroat days of being Class Mom behind her, as a freshly minted mat mom of the Pion… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • parenting
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • audiobook
Cover of Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

20. Nora Goes Off Script

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nora's life is about to get a rewrite... Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than an… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Nora Goes Off Script book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"To write is to re-create something as you'd like it to be."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

" Maybe he really likes me , I think in my tiniest thinking voice."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"What if this is my new normal—showing people my heart and having them applaud it?"

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"There's nothing more shameful than this retrospective knowing, because it reminds you how blind you can be to things that don't jibe with the reality you're trying to believe in."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

Cover of Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3) by Elle Cosimano

21. Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3)

By: Elle Cosimano

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Author and single mom Finlay Donovan has been in messes before―after all, she's a pro at removing b… read more

Similar categories in Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3) book and Laurie Gelman's Smells Like Tween Spirit

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 best-selling fiction books like Smells Like Tween Spirit by Laurie Gelman

Transform Your Habits

Confessions of a Domestic Failure

Bunmi Laditan

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Five-Star Weekend

Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Celebrants

Steven Rowley

3.64

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21 best-selling fiction books like Bright Lights, Big Christmas by Mary Kay Andrews

Transform Your Habits

The Summer Book Club

Susan Mallery

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Friendship Club

Robyn Carr

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Midnight at the Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #2)

Jenny Colgan

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Wishing Bridge

Viola Shipman

4.02

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