21 Best fiction books like Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen

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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…

"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

"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 scheming, perfidious, sly."

-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 scheming, perfidious, sly."

-Kirstin Chen, Counterfeit

If you liked the fiction plot in Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Bad Summer People

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against … read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • thriller
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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2. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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3. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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4. 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 Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • 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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5. 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 Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult 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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6. 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 Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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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7. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

Cover of Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

8. Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

4.04

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

Put the kettle on, there’s a mystery brewing… Tea-shop owner. Matchmaker. Detective? Sixty-year… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers (Vera Wong, #1) book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's The House of Eve book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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10. Our Missing Hearts

By: Celeste Ng

3.80

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gard… read more

Similar categories in Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Succulents would grow anew from a broken-off leaf, pushing roots out into the air, then down into the soil: a piece of its own body, transformed into its child."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

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11. Cassandra in Reverse

By: Holly Smale

3.56

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A Time-Twisting Delight” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club June ’23 … read more

Similar categories in Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Not everyone is like me: that much is painfully clear."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"Maybe love prefers to be eaten warm, like biscuits out of the oven."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"I can't help wondering: Am I a monster? And--if so--was I born or was I made?"

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"I get caught up with trying to read all the music around me, instead of one note inside myself."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

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12. Lies and Weddings

By: Kevin Kwan

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Kwan's Lies and Weddings book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Mother-Daughter Murder Night

By: Nina Simon

3.58

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Nothing brings a family together like a murder next door. A lighthearted whodunnit about a gran… read more

Similar categories in Nina Simon's Mother-Daughter Murder Night book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

By: Crystal Smith Paul

3.75

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational saga that traverses the glamour of old Hollywood and the seductive draw of mode… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Smith Paul's Did You Hear About Kitty Karr? book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We always have a choice; we only say we don't to soothe our conscience from what we're capable of."

-Crystal Smith Paul, Did You Hear About Kitty Karr?

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15. On the Rooftop

By: Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A stunning novel about a mother whose dream of musical stardom for her three daughters collides wit… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's On the Rooftop book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen

16. 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 Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • thriller
  • crime
  • mystery
  • 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

Cover of Maybe Next Time by Cesca   Major

17. Maybe Next Time

By: Cesca Major

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063239920. One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming… read more

Similar categories in Cesca Major's Maybe Next Time book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Villa

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.64

Format: 279 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins comes a deliciously wicked gothic suspense, s… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Villa book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People are never just gone, after all. There are always marks, always signs."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Villa

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19. Wrong Place Wrong Time

By: Gillian McAllister

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Can you stop a murder after it’s already happened? It is midnight on the morning of Halloween, a… read more

Similar categories in Gillian McAllister's Wrong Place Wrong Time book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. The House in the Pines

By: Ana Reyes

3.11

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend's sudden, mysterious death… read more

Similar categories in Ana Reyes's The House in the Pines book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Club

By: Ellery Lloyd

3.29

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062997425. From the author of People Like Her comes a smart … read more

Similar categories in Ellery Lloyd's The Club book and Kirstin Chen's Counterfeit

  • adult fiction
  • mystery thriller
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
  • audiobook
"That there was some sort of justice involved, in watching some of these people- these terrible fucking human beings, these terrible fucking men- beg, grovel, face for the first time ever the conseque…"

-Ellery Lloyd, The Club

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