7 must-read chick lit books like Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

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Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.71

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a …

If you liked the chick lit plot in Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1) by Jesse Q. Sutanto , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) by Kristen Perrin

1. How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

By: Kristen Perrin

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Hardcover

Frances Adams always said she'd be murdered. She was right. It’s 1965 and teenage Frances Adams … read more

Similar categories in Kristen Perrin's How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My favourite chess saying is very simple: You can play without a plan, but you’ll probably lose.’ - Rutherford Gravesdown"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You stupid b*tch, you think you're so worthy? You deserve nothing but a hole in the ground. You're a wh*re and a liar, and I swear if you don't stop this I'll snap your scrawny neck like a twig."

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"Don’t worry, Annie, I’m not going to murder you.’ ‘I appreciate that, Saxon,’ I reply. ‘I’m not going to murder you either.’ And then we both smile, because this is such a strange thing to say ten mi…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

"You little b*tch, you think you can stand in my way? You're so used to getting what you want, with your perfect pretty face. If you don't stop I swear I'll ruin that face. I'll put your bones in a bo…"

-Kristen Perrin, How to Solve Your Own Murder (Castle Knoll Files, #1)

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2. 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 Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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

Cover of The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2) by Nita Prose

3. The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

By: Nita Prose

3.83

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

When an acclaimed author dies at the Regency Grand Hotel, it's up to a fastidious maid to uncover t… read more

Similar categories in Nita Prose's The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We all make mistakes. It’s what we do after that matters."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"Mr. Grimthorpe and I have always maintained that books can rehabilitate anyone."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"You can fight monsters you can see, or you can run away from them. But the invisible ones are inescapable."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

"It's a matter of polish," I say. "With most things, especially masterpieces, it's about removing the tarnish to reveal the shine."

-Nita Prose, The Mystery Guest (Molly the Maid, #2)

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4. Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)

By: Catherine Mack

3.53

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Mack's Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) by Abby Jimenez

5. 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 Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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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6. 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 Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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

Cover of Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) by Elle Cosimano

7. 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 Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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8. 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 Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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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9. Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)

By: Mia P. Manansala

3.67

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

Things are heating up for Lila Macapagal. Not in her love life, which she insists on keeping nonexi… read more

Similar categories in Mia P. Manansala's Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"People said that dogs tended to resemble their owners, and considering that my little wiener dog was a super cute brown girl with stubby legs, great fashion sense, and a tendency toward plumpness, I …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)

"I decided to let Longganisa ride with us, both to cheer us up and to make up for having her shut in my room all night. We completed the short drive in silence, Joy stroking Longganisa's short fur and…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)

"I set out a loaf of zucchini-pandan bread, the green coloring from the extract adding an interesting tinge to the crumb. The grassy, floral taste complemented the neutral flavor of the zucchini well,…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)

"So you're the former beauty queen Rob mentioned. Not quite what I was expecting, honey." The spell she'd cast over me lifted a bit at that remark---I didn't need her reminding me I wasn't beauty quee…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Homicide and Halo-Halo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #2)

Cover of Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1) by Mia P. Manansala

10. Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)

By: Mia P. Manansala

3.54

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a new culinary cozy series full of sharp humor and delectable dishes—one that mig… read more

Similar categories in Mia P. Manansala's Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"So that's why you're here. You're trying to help out Tita Rosie." I looked her in the eye. "Just because I left doesn't mean I was never there for my family. We all help in whatever way we can. Not a…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)

"I handed her one of the little chiffon cakes, the top slathered in butter and sugar, and helped myself to one of the cheese-topped mamón. I tore it in half and a faint curl of steam rose up, as well …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)

"I piled the cookies, their lovely violet color peeping through a light coating of powdered sugar, on a plate. I studied the offering, then added a small bowl of vanilla ice cream as well as a serving…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)

"I hustled back to the kitchen to prepare some salabat. The hot ginger tea would cure anything that ailed you, and I'd made a few modifications to boost the flavor and health profile. I set the electr…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Arsenic and Adobo (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #1)

Cover of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) by Benjamin   Stevenson

11. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

By: Benjamin Stevenson

3.79

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than onc… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Stevenson's Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I promised to be reliable, not competent"

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for."

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"Call me a reliable narrator. Everything I tell you will be the truth, or, at least, the truth as I knew it to be at the time that I thought I knew it."

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

"...my editor had crossed out my first go at this sentence and written Hypo=cold, Hyper=hot in the margin, in that helpful yet smug voice editors are born with, wishing to both correct you and impart …"

-Benjamin Stevenson, Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone (Ernest Cunningham, #1)

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12. The Seven Year Slip

By: Ashley Poston

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new br…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

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13. Hello Stranger

By: Katherine Center

3.94

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Love isn’t blind, it’s just a little blurry. Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Li… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's Hello Stranger book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

14. 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 Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4) by Mia P. Manansala

15. Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)

By: Mia P. Manansala

3.70

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When murder mars the grand opening for Lila Macapagal’s aunties’ new laundromat, she will have to a… read more

Similar categories in Mia P. Manansala's Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This town could use a force for good." Jae smiled down at me. "At least it has us."

-Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)

"I took a huge bite of a silvana, savoring the contrasting crunchy, chewy, and creamy textures, letting the sweet richness of the buttercream melt in my mouth to give me courage."

-Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)

"Nabila hesitated, but then Longganisa sat on Nabila's foot and looked up at her as if to say, You sure you don't want to be our friend? Even if you weren't a dog person (do those exist?), there was n…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)

"An old client brought me a bottle of Vinho Verde, so I thought I'd try making a green sangria. Perfect for spring, isn't it?" The pitcher was full of honeydew, green apple, green grapes, lime, basil,…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Murder and Mamon (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #4)

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16. Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

By: Mia P. Manansala

3.73

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

When her long lost cousin comes back to town just in time for the holidays, Lila Macapagal knows th… read more

Similar categories in Mia P. Manansala's Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"If you've turned up after all these years just to break Tita Rosie's heart again, I'll kill you. I'm serious. And Ate Bernie will help me hide the body," I said, bringing up his ex-girlfriend and my …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

"My aunt said a quick grace, then everyone helped themselves to the myriad dishes on the table: chicken afritada, bangus a la pobre, adobong pusit, beef nilaga, lumpiang togue, kang-kong in oyster sau…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

"I slid the cookie platter in front of them, which contained the four holiday cookies I'd come up with as well as peach-mango crumble cookies, my special of the day. The buttery, sweet base was topped…"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

"I pulled one of my individual buko pandan trifles out of the refrigerated tote bag I was carrying. Considering how little time I had to come up with the recipe, I was proud of how they'd turned out: …"

-Mia P. Manansala, Blackmail and Bibingka (Tita Rosie's Kitchen Mystery, #3)

Cover of Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank (Finlay Donovan, #3.5) by Elle Cosimano

17. Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank (Finlay Donovan, #3.5)

By: Elle Cosimano

3.53

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

A hilarious short story diving into Finlay Donovan's partner-in-crime Vero's past. Anyone can s… read more

Similar categories in Elle Cosimano's Veronica Ruiz Breaks the Bank (Finlay Donovan, #3.5) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

18. Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.71

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a … read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
Cover of Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1) by Elle Cosimano

19. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1)

By: Elle Cosimano

4.01

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

"Getting the job done" for one single mom takes on a whole new meaning in Finlay Donovan is Killing… read more

Similar categories in Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Is Killing It (Finlay Donovan, #1) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3) by Elle Cosimano

20. 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 Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead (Finlay Donovan, #2) by Elle Cosimano

21. Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead (Finlay Donovan, #2)

By: Elle Cosimano

3.98

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Finlay Donovan is―once again―struggling to finish her next novel and keep her head above water as a… read more

Similar categories in Elle Cosimano's Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead (Finlay Donovan, #2) book and Jesse Q. Sutanto's Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

  • romance
  • mystery thriller
  • humor
  • cozy mystery
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook

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