17 Top contemporary books like Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West

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Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

By: Kathleen West

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Small Admissions, a wry and cleverly observed de…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. Small Admissions

By: Amy Poeppel

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

People's Book of the Week "The Devil Wears Pradameets Primates of Park Avenue." --The New York Time… read more

Similar categories in Amy Poeppel's Small Admissions book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
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2. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

By: Celia Rivenbark

4.01

Format: 175 pages,

Why couldn't the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can't shoot a guy full of holes af… read more

Similar categories in Celia Rivenbark's We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • chick lit
  • humor

3. A Window Opens

By: Elisabeth Egan

3.00

Format: 18 pages, Hardcover

In A Window Opens, beloved books editor at Glamourmagazine, Elisabeth Egan, brings us Alice Pearse,… read more

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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 Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Who We Are Now

By: Lauryn Chamberlain

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Four friends. Fifteen years. Who We Are Now is a story of Sliding Doors moments, those seemingly sm… read more

Similar categories in Lauryn Chamberlain's Who We Are Now book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Take Two, Birdie Maxwell

By: Allison Winn Scotch

3.36

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Hollywood’s biggest rom-com star tries to recover from her damaged reputation by staging her own ro… read more

Similar categories in Allison Winn Scotch's Take Two, Birdie Maxwell book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. All the Summers in Between

By: Brooke Lea Foster

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When wealthy, impulsive summer girl Margot meets hardworking and steady local girl Thea in the summ… read more

Similar categories in Brooke Lea Foster's All the Summers in Between book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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9. Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

By: Kathleen West

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Small Admissions, a wry and cleverly observed de… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Admission

By: Julie Buxbaum

3.54

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

It's good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer. She's headed off to the college of her dreams. She's going to… read more

Similar categories in Julie Buxbaum's Admission book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • audiobook
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Money makes you weak because it tricks you into thinking you’re strong."

-Julie Buxbaum, Admission

"I think about all the things money can and cannot buy. A spot at SCC, but not a moral compass. Health care and rehab, but not immunity from our worst impulses. Fluency in Mandarin, but not the abilit…"

-Julie Buxbaum, Admission

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11. The High Season

By: Judy Blundell

3.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”— People  … read more

Similar categories in Judy Blundell's The High Season book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ah, now she knew what divorce really was. Sharing decisions with a person you would run down on the street."

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

"All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than al the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's wr…"

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

"All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than all the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's w…"

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

"Maybe all relationships, friendship, partner, parent and child, were held together by the things you did not say as much as the things you did. The unsaid was the keystone in the arch. Once you kicke…"

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

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12. 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 Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.76

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A Good Morning America Buzz PickA Can't-Miss Beach Read For Summer 2021 from The SkimmA Best Beach … read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's Last Summer at the Golden Hotel book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You think you don't have room for another bite, but you still can't resist."

-Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

"There is literally no way to prepare for parenthood. You can read all the books and make a schedule and love that little person more than you ever thought possible, but being a parent will still gut …"

-Elyssa Friedland, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel

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14. The Floating Feldmans

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.52

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Sink or swim</I<. Or at least that’s what Annette Feldman tells herself when she books a cruise for… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Other's Gold

By: Elizabeth Ames

3.20

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Ames's The Other's Gold book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What she couldn't understand was people who didn't imagine everything."

-Elizabeth Ames, The Other's Gold

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16. The Fourth Child

By: Jessica Winter

3.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The author of Break in Case of Emergency follows up her debut with a moving novel about motherhood … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Winter's The Fourth Child book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Super Host

By: Kate Russo

3.33

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deeply funny and shrewdly observed debut novel about being lost in the very place you know by hea… read more

Similar categories in Kate Russo's Super Host book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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18. How Could She

By: Lauren Mechling

2.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

<Named a most anticipated novel of the summer by Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Bustle, Vulture… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Mechling's How Could She book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Most by Jessica  Anthony

19. 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 Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Five-Star Stranger

By: Kat Tang

3.36

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In Kat Tang’s exciting and resonant debut, a “Rental Stranger”—a companion hired under various guis… read more

Similar categories in Kat Tang's Five-Star Stranger book and Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Work Life Well-Lived: The Motives Met Pathway to No-B.S. Well-Being at Work by Kelly Mackin

21. Work Life Well-Lived: The Motives Met Pathway to No-B.S. Well-Being at Work

By: Kelly Mackin

3.65

Format: 330 pages, Kindle Edition

This book will disrupt how you think about creating your best work life and workplace and give you … read more

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18 must-read fiction books like Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen West

Transform Your Habits

Small Admissions

Amy Poeppel

4.83

Transform Your Habits

The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Who We Are Now

Lauryn Chamberlain

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Take Two, Birdie Maxwell

Allison Winn Scotch

3.36

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31 Top fiction books like Who We Are Now by Lauryn Chamberlain

Transform Your Habits

Bad Summer People

Emma Rosenblum

3.43

Transform Your Habits

Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

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The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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