19 must-read adult fiction books like The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary

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The Road Trip

By: Beth O'Leary

3.58

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in the north of…

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1. The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

By: Lynn Painter

3.88

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

Hallie Piper is turning over a new leaf. After belly-crawling out of a hotel room (hello, rock bott… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Painter's The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2) book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She had piercings everywhere, but cried like a baby if she needed to get a shot."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Rejection feels like shit, even when it comes from someone who might not matter that much."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

"Everything with him was great, but it was great in the way a Hallmark Christmas movie was great. Everything looked perfect—the clothing, the setting, the words—but none of it felt . . . real."

-Lynn Painter, The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

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2. Happy Place

By: Emily Henry

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt a… read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Happy Place book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You, you, you."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"How many universes do you think we’re together in?"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"Love means constantly saying you're sorry, and then doing better."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"I mean that you have the weirdest laugh of anyone I’ve ever met, Harriet,"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

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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 Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • 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. 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 Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • 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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5. 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 Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • 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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6. Seven Summers

By: Paige Toon

4.19

Format: 441 pages, Paperback

Six summers to fall in love. One summer to change everything. Liv and Finn meet six summers ag… read more

Similar categories in Paige Toon's Seven Summers book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If you were a book I’d highlight half your lines."

-Paige Toon, Seven Summers

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7. Mad About You

By: Mhairi McFarlane

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a sharp, emotional new novel about a woman who c… read more

Similar categories in Mhairi McFarlane's Mad About You book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The only advice people ever take is the advice they want to hear."

-Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

"I wondered if we might be in one of those situations where I'm madly in love with you and you're at least slightly in love with me, and neither of us are saying so, in case the other isn't."

-Mhairi McFarlane, Mad About You

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8. Not in Love

By: Ali Hazelwood

3.68

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A forbidden, secret affair proves that all’s fair in love and science. Rue Siebert might not ha… read more

Similar categories in Ali Hazelwood's Not in Love book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'd been an odd child, then an odd teenager. Then I'd become, maybe as a result, maybe unavoidably, an odd adult."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'd never felt more beautiful than when he looked at me. Like I was the final prototype of someone's entire fantasy life."

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"Eli was entranced. Her servant. Spellbound. He considered begging her to let him touch her. To let him go down on her in the hallway. He would go grocery shopping and make her dinner off a YouTube re…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

"I'm going to want to see you every day. I'm going to learn more dishes and pack your lunch and write cute little notes on it. I'm going to ask you if you want to sleep at your place or mine and alway…"

-Ali Hazelwood, Not in Love

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9. 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 Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • 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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10. Between Us

By: Mhairi McFarlane

3.74

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a witty, clever, emotional new novel about a wom… read more

Similar categories in Mhairi McFarlane's Between Us book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • 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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12. The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2)

By: Sarah Adams

3.92

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

College exes break all the rules when they reunite years later in this enemies-to-lovers, second-ch… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's The Rule Book (The Cheat Sheet, #2) book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Ex Talk

By: Rachel Lynn Solomon

3.69

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

Shay Goldstein has been a producer at her Seattle public radio station for nearly a decade, and she… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Lynn Solomon's The Ex Talk book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm a solid second, but I'm no one's first."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"I am a solid second, but I'm no one's first."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"So often, I'm trapped between the pain of remembering and the fear of forgetting."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

"Not everything that comes out of crisis is bad. Sometimes your traumas are the reason you know how to help."

-Rachel Lynn Solomon, The Ex Talk

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14. The Long Game (The Long Game, #1)

By: Elena Armas

3.59

Format: 373 pages, Paperback

A disgraced soccer exec reluctantly enlists the help of a retired soccer star in coaching a childre… read more

Similar categories in Elena Armas's The Long Game (The Long Game, #1) book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The True Love Experiment

By: Christina Lauren

4.11

Format: 409 pages, Hardcover

Sparks fly when a romance novelist and a documentary filmmaker join forces to craft the perfect Hol… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The True Love Experiment book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He is the stillness to my storm, the shadow to my bright sunlight, the Styles to my Harry."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"...tight, hyperaware realization that I want him close to me every second of every day from here on out."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"I'm consumed by a distracting ache, a sharp want, a desperation for this thing I already have in my arms."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

"Romance isn't gratuitous bodice ripping. It can be, there's nothing wrong with that, but in the end, romance isn't about the fantasy of being wealthy or beautiful or even being tied to the bed."

-Christina Lauren, The True Love Experiment

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16. If I Never Met You

By: Mhairi McFarlane

3.81

Format: 409 pages, Paperback

If faking love is this easy... how do you know when it’s real? When her partner of over a decad… read more

Similar categories in Mhairi McFarlane's If I Never Met You book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The world could do with more Erics and fewer of other people."

-Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You

"If you're a mistake you're the greatest one ever made. I'm really proud to know you."

-Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You

"She thought there was a lot of truth in the closest friendships being unconsummated romances."

-Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You

"Those who said family mattered above all else were wrong. People you love, who love you back, matter above all. Crap people you happen to be related to: you need to stop thinking you owe them a limit…"

-Mhairi McFarlane, If I Never Met You

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17. Just Haven't Met You Yet

By: Sophie Cousens

3.76

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of This Time Next Year comes a heartwarming and hilariou… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Cousens's Just Haven't Met You Yet book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Just Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane

18. Just Last Night

By: Mhairi McFarlane

4.01

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

Eve, Justin, Susie, and Ed have been friends since they were teenagers. Now in their thirties, the … read more

Similar categories in Mhairi McFarlane's Just Last Night book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The strangest thing, Eve, is you don't know how to talk about what to have for tea."

-Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night

"How can all these people be living, how can everything be carrying on as usual, if Susie is dead?"

-Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night

"Thinking about how Finlay never abandoned me, whether it was on bike rides as children, or in hotel rooms as grown-ups."

-Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night

"Her body is a vacated premises. It's like turning up to a house you know well, and finding it emptied and stripped to the fittings."

-Mhairi McFarlane, Just Last Night

Cover of The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary

19. The Road Trip

By: Beth O'Leary

3.58

Format: 414 pages, Hardcover

Addie and her sister are about to embark on an epic road trip to a friend's wedding in the north of… read more

Similar categories in Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • travel
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • road trip
  • audiobook
Cover of When in Rome (When in Rome, #1) by Sarah       Adams

20. When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

By: Sarah Adams

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Opposites certainly attract for the stranded pop star and small-town baker in this charming slice o… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Adams's When in Rome (When in Rome, #1) book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No one loves anything they're miserably chained to."

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

"I tell you what makes me madder than a hornet. When people tell other people how they should feel."

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

"Care is reckless because it doesn’t come with the seat belt that selfishness offers. Care has so much to lose, and almost always ends in heartbreak."

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

"Dry your tears and kick this gloomy attitude in the pants, Amelia!" I say out loud to myself because who else does a girl talk to when she's alone in the car in the middle of a mental breakdown?"

-Sarah Adams, When in Rome (When in Rome, #1)

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21. Second First Impressions

By: Sally Thorne

3.54

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

Distraction (n): an extreme agitation of the mind or emotions. Ruthie Midona has worked the fron… read more

Similar categories in Sally Thorne's Second First Impressions book and Beth O'Leary's The Road Trip

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Neat and tidy is my absolute favourite kind of girl."

-Sally Thorne, Second First Impressions

21 Best fiction books like The Road Trip by Beth O'Leary

Transform Your Habits

The Love Wager (Mr. Wrong Number, #2)

Lynn Painter

3.88

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Happy Place

Emily Henry

3.99

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Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

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Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

Abby Jimenez

4.40

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20 must-read fiction books like The Long Game (The Long Game, #1) by Elena Armas

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Bride

Ali Hazelwood

4.04

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Funny Story

Emily Henry

4.27

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The Au Pair Affair (Big Shots, #2)

Tessa Bailey

3.71

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Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

Abby Jimenez

4.40

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