17 Best chick lit books like The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms

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The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

By: Kelly Harms

3.84

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. “A laugh-o…

"And yes, it makes me crazy to think that my kids can go days -- or maybe weeks-- without me. If I'm not needed, if I'm not busy, if I'm not an overstretched, overwhelmed, under-slept, underpaid single mother... What exactly am I?"

-Kelly Harms, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

"And yes, it makes me crazy to think that my kids can go days -- or maybe weeks-- without me. If I'm not needed, if I'm not busy, if I'm not an overstretched, overwhelmed, under-slept, underpaid single mother... What exactly am I?"

-Kelly Harms, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

If you liked the chick lit plot in The Overdue Life of Amy Byler by Kelly Harms , here is a list of 17 books like this:

1. The Survivor's Guide to Family Happiness

By: Maddie Dawson

4.10

Format: 322 pages,

Three women, three lives, and one chance to become a family...whether they want to or not. Newly or… read more

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2. 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 Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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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3. Blank

By: Zibby Owens

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a… read more

Similar categories in Zibby Owens's Blank book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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

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5. The Echo of Old Books

By: Barbara Davis

4.28

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

Rare-book dealer Ashlyn Greer’s affinity for books extends beyond the intoxicating scent of old pap… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Davis's The Echo of Old Books book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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6. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

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7. Don’t Forget to Write

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.50

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1960, a young woman discovers a freedom she never knew existed in this exhilarating, funny, and … read more

Similar categories in Sara Goodman Confino's Don’t Forget to Write book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • humor
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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8. For the Love of Friends

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.24

Format: 364 pages, Kindle Edition

A sharp and hilariously relatable novel about the business of weddings, the toll they can take, and… read more

Similar categories in Sara Goodman Confino's For the Love of Friends book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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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10. The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield

By: Kathy Cooperman

3.84

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

From Kathy Cooperman, the bestselling author of Crimes Against a Book Club, comes a comedy about a … read more

Similar categories in Kathy Cooperman's The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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11. This Won't End Well

By: Camille Pagán

3.85

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

An ingeniously witty novel about the risks—and rewards—of opening your life to new people by Amazon… read more

Similar categories in Camille Pagán's This Won't End Well book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She beamed at me. "You're such a smart girl, Annie." I thanked her, because even though I think intelligence is mostly a construct made of curiosity, opportunity, and plain old hard work, sometimes i…"

-Camille Pagán, This Won't End Well

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12. A Happy Catastrophe

By: Maddie Dawson

4.18

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners comes a novel about love, loss, and the be… read more

Similar categories in Maddie Dawson's A Happy Catastrophe book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of I'm Fine and Neither Are You by Camille Pagán

14. I'm Fine and Neither Are You

By: Camille Pagán

3.73

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

A Washington Post and Amazon Charts bestseller. Honesty is the best policy…except maybe when it co… read more

Similar categories in Camille Pagán's I'm Fine and Neither Are You book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. Trophy Life

By: Lea Geller

3.75

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

A refreshingly honest, laugh-out-loud novel about losing the life you always wanted…and finding the… read more

Similar categories in Lea Geller's Trophy Life book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties

By: Camille Pagán

3.80

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

From bestselling author Camille Pagán comes a hilarious and hopeful story about a woman on the verg… read more

Similar categories in Camille Pagán's Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"For now, I had the good fortune of more chances to fail and succeed, more love to give and receive - more life. And while I didn’t know what my future held, I would follow my mother’s lead. I would s…"

-Camille Pagán, Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties

"In third grade, Zoe announced that she thought it was "weird" that I didn't have a job like some of her friends' mothers. Little had changed over the years; she seemed unable to comprehend that willf…"

-Camille Pagán, Woman Last Seen in Her Thirties

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17. The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

By: Kelly Harms

3.84

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller, and a Goodreads Choice Award finalist. “A laugh-o… read more

Similar categories in Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • books about books
  • audiobook
"And yes, it makes me crazy to think that my kids can go days -- or maybe weeks-- without me. If I'm not needed, if I'm not busy, if I'm not an overstretched, overwhelmed, under-slept, underpaid singl…"

-Kelly Harms, The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

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18. The Truth and Other Hidden Things

By: Lea Geller

3.95

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

A freshly funny and heartfelt novel about one woman’s secret life, the stories she tells, and the t… read more

Similar categories in Lea Geller's The Truth and Other Hidden Things book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Matchmaking for Beginners

By: Maddie Dawson

3.99

Format: 378 pages, Kindle Edition

Marnie MacGraw wants an ordinary life—a husband, kids, and a minivan in the suburbs. Now that she’s… read more

Similar categories in Maddie Dawson's Matchmaking for Beginners book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Be open to what doesn't seem possible, and you will be amazed what can happen."

-Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

"You need to forget what society has told you about life and expectations, and don't let anybody make you pretend. You are enough, just the way you are - do you hear me? You have many gifts. Many, man…"

-Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

"I make a living being me. What I've learned is that the same intuition that lets me know which people need to be together also leads me to exactly what I need. Ever since I made up my mind to live th…"

-Maddie Dawson, Matchmaking for Beginners

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20. Behind Every Good Man

By: Sara Goodman Confino

4.41

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

A wronged wife goes toe to toe with her cheating husband at the polls in this hilarious and heart-l… read more

Similar categories in Sara Goodman Confino's Behind Every Good Man book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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21. Natural Selection

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.69

Format: 54 pages, Kindle Edition

When her boyfriend bails at the last minute, a New York woman embarks on their couples’ cruise alon… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Natural Selection book and Kelly Harms's The Overdue Life of Amy Byler

  • romance
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Zibby Owens

3.71

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