16 best-selling romance books like The Cult of Romance by Sarah Ayoub

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The Cult of Romance

By: Sarah Ayoub

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When your bestie is marrying a guy she barely knows, can you save her from the cult before it's too…

"Who needs electricity? The room is enveloped in darkness, but inside it, I'm seeing light."

-Sarah Ayoub, The Cult of Romance

If you liked the romance plot in The Cult of Romance by Sarah Ayoub , here is a list of 16 books like this:

1. Does My Head Look Big In This?

By: Randa Abdel-Fattah

3.68

Format: 528 pages,

When sixteen-year-old Amal decides to wear the hijab full-time, her entire world changes, all becau… read more

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2. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

Similar categories in Shankari Chandran's Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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3. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Other Bridget book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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4. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

By: Grace Tame

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more

Similar categories in Grace Tame's The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • audiobook
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

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5. Runt

By: Craig Silvey

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-warming, funny, beautifully told story for readers of all ages from the bestselling author … read more

Similar categories in Craig Silvey's Runt book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • audiobook
  • family
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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6. Audrey's Gone AWOL

By: Annie de Monchaux

4.05

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

It’s never too late to reinvent your life Audrey Lamont has happily devoted herself to family li… read more

Similar categories in Annie de Monchaux's Audrey's Gone AWOL book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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7. Girls in Boys' Cars

By: Felicity Castagna

3.42

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A complicated friendship. A roadtrip in a stolen car. The stories that define us. And two … read more

Similar categories in Felicity Castagna's Girls in Boys' Cars book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I was still thinking we'd gone halfway to another world but here we were again under the same McDonald's sky."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

"Most stories don't really go ahead in straight lines. They get jumbled up and you have to untangle them again (just like life, I suppose)."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

"A woman I met told me something that made me think of you, she said when you tell a story you are trying to walk with someone else to understand who they are while listening to your own heartbeat."

-Felicity Castagna, Girls in Boys' Cars

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8. One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

By: A.J. Betts

4.00

Format: None pages, Audio CD

'In a few months, the four of us will be elsewhere, doing other things, and this chance we have wil… read more

Similar categories in A.J. Betts's One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • young adult
  • contemporary
"No one dismantles this band but me."

-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

"Because I've been writing this song my whole life. It's the soundtrack of me."

-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

"I'd lost myself in that haze, too, now that I think about it. I'd forgotten all else, when we jammed. It was sublime in there. I felt timeless. Thoughtless. Borderless. Made of nothing but air and mu…"

-A.J. Betts, One Song: Sometimes a Song Presses Pause on the World

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9. Scar Town

By: Tristan Bancks

4.04

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

Twelve-year-old Will Haddon and his twin friends, Dar and Juno, find a safe full of money and human… read more

Similar categories in Tristan Bancks's Scar Town book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • audiobook
  • family
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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10. Ghosted

By: Emily Barr

3.85

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Ariel's accidental meeting with a handsome stranger called Joe is completely perfect; they have a c… read more

Similar categories in Emily Barr's Ghosted book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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11. Completely Normal (and other lies)

By: Biffy James

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all. Stella Wilde is secre… read more

Similar categories in Biffy James's Completely Normal (and other lies) book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"This isn't all on you. But god forbid we blame the dude. Fucking patriarchy."

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"I considered letting my own meltdown come to the surface, but I had no way of knowing how long it would last once I let it, so I didn't. I put it in the black well instead, backing away so I wouldn't…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

"Maybe it was better to accept that when someone died there were some things that were never going to happen, and this was just another one of them. Because death left things unfinished. Unsaid. Unsew…"

-Biffy James, Completely Normal (and other lies)

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12. Let’s Never Speak of This Again

By: Megan Williams

3.80

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Award Winner, Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, 2022 Ella and I have been best … read more

Similar categories in Megan Williams's Let’s Never Speak of This Again book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • family
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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13. We Are Wolves

By: Katrina Nannestad

4.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes it's good to be wild. Sometimes you have to be wild. When the Russian Army marches … read more

Similar categories in Katrina Nannestad's We Are Wolves book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • family
  • young adult
"Books are treasure."

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

"How do you thank someone for saving your sister?"

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

"I don't want to stop because when the songs and rhymes and stories and all the German words are gone, I will be gone. Liesl Anna Wolf will be no more."

-Katrina Nannestad, We Are Wolves

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14. It Sounded Better in My Head

By: Nina Kenwood

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From debut author Nina Kenwood comes a tender, funny, and compulsively readable novel about first l… read more

Similar categories in Nina Kenwood's It Sounded Better in My Head book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I am an adult now (sort of, kind of, not really)."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

"I do like to be out doing things and talking to people.' 'I like to be home, not doing things, talking to no one."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

"Maybe I've never smiled or laughed at an appropriate time in my entire life and I just didn't realise until this moment."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

"People aren’t all good or all bad. You can learn from mistakes. Or you can keep making them. You can always become a better person."

-Nina Kenwood, It Sounded Better in My Head

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15. The Cult of Romance

By: Sarah Ayoub

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When your bestie is marrying a guy she barely knows, can you save her from the cult before it's too… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Who needs electricity? The room is enveloped in darkness, but inside it, I'm seeing light."

-Sarah Ayoub, The Cult of Romance

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16. A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

By: Lili Wilkinson

3.51

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Maude is the daughter of witches. She spent her childhood running wild with her best friend, Odette… read more

Similar categories in Lili Wilkinson's A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1) book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • young adult
"Except now there is a raven in the rowan tree."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"What good are stories when the monsters are real?"

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"A girl so full of wildness and passion and rage that maybe she couldn't contain the whole of herself."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

"If you stay home all the time, stories never happen. Sometimes you have to break something in order for the story to leak out through the cracks."

-Lili Wilkinson, A Hunger of Thorns (A Hunger of Thorns, #1)

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17. One Day We're All Going to Die

By: Elise Esther Hearst

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming… read more

Similar categories in Elise Esther Hearst's One Day We're All Going to Die book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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18. Salt River Road

By: Molly Schmidt

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fen… read more

Similar categories in Molly Schmidt's Salt River Road book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • audiobook
"Over there somewhere, down at the house, Dad and the boys are moving in silent circles round each other. Even though inside us, nothing is quiet at all."

-Molly Schmidt, Salt River Road

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19. Unnecessary Drama

By: Nina Kenwood

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enem… read more

Similar categories in Nina Kenwood's Unnecessary Drama book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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20. The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling

By: Wai Chim

4.01

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Anna Chiu has her hands pretty full looking after her brother and sister and helping out at her dad… read more

Similar categories in Wai Chim's The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. Never Ever Forever

By: Karina May

3.45

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Rosie Royce is trying to live her best life. Really, she is.But it seems like life hasn't gotten th… read more

Similar categories in Karina May's Never Ever Forever book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • contemporary
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22. Dancing Barefoot

By: Alice Boyle

4.19

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2021 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing Evie Vanhoutte is a teacher… read more

Similar categories in Alice Boyle's Dancing Barefoot book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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23. Stuck Up & Stupid

By: Angourie Rice

3.05

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern trans-Pacific twist on Pride and Prejudice, from an authentic team of debut authors who kn… read more

Similar categories in Angourie Rice's Stuck Up & Stupid book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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24. Here for the Right Reasons

By: Jodi McAlister

3.62

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A hilarious and heart-warming romantic comedy that examines how the unlikeliest of loves can bloom … read more

Similar categories in Jodi McAlister's Here for the Right Reasons book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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25. Something Blue

By: Alex Sarkis

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Nicole Najim is struggling to find herself after a painful break-up just when she thought she was g… read more

Similar categories in Alex Sarkis's Something Blue book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • audiobook
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26. The Museum of Broken Things

By: Lauren Draper

4.00

Format: 394 pages, Mass Market Paperback

I didn’t always live here. Not so long ago I was living in a thriving metropolis with more than one… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Draper's The Museum of Broken Things book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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27. Social Queue

By: Kay Kerr

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'I thought I was nobody’s teen crush, but turns out I was just missing the signs.' Zoe Kelly is … read more

Similar categories in Kay Kerr's Social Queue book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • contemporary
"It bothers me how people need the truth to be sugar-coated to be palatable. And that it's my job to remember the sugar."

-Kay Kerr, Social Queue

"I’ve been trying to motivate myself to have a shower for the last forty-five minutes, but so far all I’ve managed to do is get my underwear out of the drawer and lie back down on the bed. Having a sh…"

-Kay Kerr, Social Queue

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28. The Italian Marriage

By: Jenna Lo Bianco

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The heir to the D’Adamo Family Trust must be the youngest, legal-aged, married male. —15th century … read more

Similar categories in Jenna Lo Bianco's The Italian Marriage book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
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29. The Unexpected Mess of It All

By: Gabrielle Tozer

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

From the YA Queen of Rom-com comes a funny and fraught 'enemies-to-will-they-won't-they' romance be… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Tozer's The Unexpected Mess of It All book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

  • romance
  • young adult
  • family
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30. Growing up Wiradjuri

By: Anita Heiss

4.20

Format: 90 pages, Hardcover

Featuring stories by Aunty Isabel Reid, Uncle Stan Grant Snr, Aunty Lorraine Tye, Aunty Elaine Loma… read more

Similar categories in Anita Heiss's Growing up Wiradjuri book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

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31. How to Lose Friends and Influence White People

By: Antoinette Lattouf

4.38

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A guide through the balancing act of activist, advocate and ally, remembering that just because oth… read more

Similar categories in Antoinette Lattouf's How to Lose Friends and Influence White People book and Sarah Ayoub's The Cult of Romance

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Shankari Chandran

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Craig Silvey

4.46

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