18 best-selling adult fiction books like The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand

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The Hotel Nantucket

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket …

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1. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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2. None of This Is True

By: Lisa Jewell

4.12

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

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3. 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 Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • 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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4. 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 Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • historical 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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5. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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6. 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 Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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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7. 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 Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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

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8. 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 Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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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9. 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 Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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

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10. This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's This Summer Will Be Different book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

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11. Same Time Next Summer

By: Annabel Monaghan

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Beach Rules: Do take long walks on the sand. Do put an umbrella in every cocktail. Do NOT run in… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Same Time Next Summer book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Summer Romance

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. … read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Summer Romance book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am the architect of my own experience."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

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13. Meet Me at the Lake

By: Carley Fortune

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent jus… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One day you'll find your heart's too big for just you"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

"Let me tell you something about me: I am extremely picky about people. Most of them, I don't particularly like. I have very high standards for the ones I let into my life these days. And you, Will Ba…"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

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14. Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfec… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You and me? We're different. We agree to be harmless to each other."

-Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

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15. Mad Honey

By: Jodi Picoult

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behin… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's Mad Honey book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Being gay or straight,"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"People always talk about their love for you is unconditional. Then you reveal your most private self to them, and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love."

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"Dark honey from the second harvest. It's made late in the season after the nectar drought at the end of July when the bees turn to goldenrod and sunflowers instead. It's deeper and richer, it tastes …"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don’t bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It’s a feudal relationship: protection…"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

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16. Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery h… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1) book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The world is ending, Alexis. That’s what this feels like. So come with me now."

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

"I know it hurts, but just think, now you know what it feels like for a man with a cold"

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

"I know it hurts, but just think, now you’ll know what it feels like for a man with a cold."

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

"You know, reading makes your penis look bigger - don't quote me on it, the science is really new."

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

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17. Nora Goes Off Script

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nora's life is about to get a rewrite... Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than an… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Nora Goes Off Script book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To write is to re-create something as you'd like it to be."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

" Maybe he really likes me , I think in my tiniest thinking voice."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"What if this is my new normal—showing people my heart and having them applaud it?"

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"There's nothing more shameful than this retrospective knowing, because it reminds you how blind you can be to things that don't jibe with the reality you're trying to believe in."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

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18. The Hotel Nantucket

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.06

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

After a tragic fire in 1922 that killed 19-year-old chambermaid, Grace Hadley, The Hotel Nantucket … read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • paranormal
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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19. Every Summer After

By: Carley Fortune

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's Every Summer After book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You and me are special,"

-Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

"Betrayals don’t cancel each other out. They just hurt more."

-Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

"I loved you so much that the word 'love' didn't seem big enough for how I felt."

-Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

"I liked how each book was both predictable and unique, comforting and unexpected. Safe but never boring."

-Carley Fortune, Every Summer After

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20. The Summer Place

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.56

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdowna… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Summer Place book and Elin Hilderbrand's The Hotel Nantucket

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Meant to Be

By: Emily Giffin

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The Kingsley family is practically American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political … read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 Top fiction books like The Hotel Nantucket by Elin Hilderbrand

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

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First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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31 must-read fiction books like Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

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The Five-Star Weekend

Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

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None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

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First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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Rebecca Yarros

4.30

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