16 must-read literary fiction books like Love and Other Puzzles by Kimberley Allsopp

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Love and Other Puzzles

By: Kimberley Allsopp

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Following the clues doesn't always lead you where you might expect ... A witty, warm-hearted an…

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1. One Hundred Days

By: Alice Pung

3.97

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

One day, a boy in a nice silver car gives sixteen-year-old Karuna a ride. So Karuna returns the fav… read more

Similar categories in Alice Pung's One Hundred Days book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"They couldn't see that the bigger I got, the smaller I became, and they didn't understand that once the baby came, I would be gone."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

"I'm keeping this record to let you know that it wasn't always that way. That you were once mine, and when I looked in your dark eyes, you made me very happy."

-Alice Pung, One Hundred Days

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2. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • australia
  • contemporary
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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3. Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid

3.42

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more

Similar categories in Diana Reid's Seeing Other People book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. The Work Wives

By: Rachael Johns

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

How well do you really know the people you work with? For work wives Debra and Quinn, it's a case… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Work Wives book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Without Further ADO

By: Jessica Dettmann

3.72

Format: 368 pages, ebook

Can a modern woman take lessons in love from Shakespeare? Beth O'Leary meets 10 Things I Hate About… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Dettmann's Without Further ADO book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
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6. No Hard Feelings

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Novak's No Hard Feelings book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • australia
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Gray's Green Dot book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. Five Bush Weddings

By: Clare Fletcher

3.98

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

As a photographer, Stevie’s been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When’s it going to be … read more

Similar categories in Clare Fletcher's Five Bush Weddings book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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9. Everyone and Everything

By: Nadine J. Cohen

4.29

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A dazzling literary debut, Everyone and Everything will make you laugh, cry and call your sister. … read more

Similar categories in Nadine J. Cohen's Everyone and Everything book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Stephens's Something Bad is Going to Happen book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's The Work book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 4am: Answers to the conundrums that keep you up at night • Advice from Ask Shameless

By: Zara McDonald

3.95

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

Since 2021, tens of thousands of readers have devoured the Ask Shameless weekly columns on dating, … read more

Similar categories in Zara McDonald's 4am: Answers to the conundrums that keep you up at night • Advice from Ask Shameless book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • australia
  • audiobook
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13. The Couple Upstairs

By: Holly Wainwright

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Five months after Mel told her husband to leave, a ghost moved in upstairs.A young man who reminds … read more

Similar categories in Holly Wainwright's The Couple Upstairs book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Emergency Exit Only

By: Michelle Upton

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

No evacuation plan, no safety net. Amelia's quitting the daily grind to find her fantasy job. But a… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Upton's Emergency Exit Only book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast

By: Karina May

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Trade Paperback

What if the person getting you through the hardest time in your life is someone you've never met? … read more

Similar categories in Karina May's Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Love and Other Puzzles

By: Kimberley Allsopp

3.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Following the clues doesn't always lead you where you might expect ... A witty, warm-hearted an… read more

Similar categories in Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • research
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • australia
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Between You and Me

By: Joanna Horton

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between lo… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Horton's Between You and Me book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. 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 Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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19. Search History

By: Amy Taylor

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more

Similar categories in Amy Taylor's Search History book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Novak's Crushing book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Prettier If She Smiled More

By: Toni Jordan

3.63

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

'A contemporary comic masterpiece. Practically every page boasts lines redolent of humour, wit and … read more

Similar categories in Toni Jordan's Prettier If She Smiled More book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
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22. Marshmallow

By: Victoria Hannan

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Hannan's Marshmallow book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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23. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Moriarty's Every Last Suspect book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not

By: Imbi Neeme

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A charming, nostalgic, quirky, uplifting novel of people young and old finding their tribe, gaining… read more

Similar categories in Imbi Neeme's Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, But Probably Not book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • fiction
  • australia
  • audiobook
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25. Sunbathing

By: Isobel Beech

4.05

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more

Similar categories in Isobel Beech's Sunbathing book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. A Recipe for Family

By: Tori Haschka

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Things are getting slippery for Stella. With her husband away she’s juggling a full-time job, a tri… read more

Similar categories in Tori Haschka's A Recipe for Family book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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27. Burnt Out

By: Victoria ✌️

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

'Burnt Out is the book we all need to read right now.' Mamamia How do you start again when your … read more

Similar categories in Victoria ✌️'s Burnt Out book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • novels
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28. Fancy Meeting You Here

By: Ali Berg

3.35

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

Evie Berry is a thirty-year-old wannabe screenwriter who spends her days managing a London cinema b… read more

Similar categories in Ali Berg's Fancy Meeting You Here book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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29. All the Beautiful Things You Love

By: Jonathan Seidler

3.63

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

Elly and Enzo love each other.Elly and Enzo are breaking up.Now, everything must go.When Enzo sudde… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Seidler's All the Beautiful Things You Love book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • fiction
Cover of The Truth about Faking It by Cassie Hamer

30. The Truth about Faking It

By: Cassie Hamer

3.60

Format: 560 pages, ebook

Lie to your friends. Lie to your family. Just don't lie to yourself... Funny, smart, heartfelt fict… read more

Similar categories in Cassie Hamer's The Truth about Faking It book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman starts to disappear—literally—in midlife, and only then begins to discover herself in this … read more

Similar categories in Jane Tara's Tilda Is Visible book and Kimberley Allsopp's Love and Other Puzzles

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

28 Top fiction books like Love and Other Puzzles by Kimberley Allsopp

Transform Your Habits

One Hundred Days

Alice Pung

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Seeing Other People

Diana Reid

3.42

Transform Your Habits

The Work Wives

Rachael Johns

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Without Further ADO

Jessica Dettmann

3.72

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20 must-read fiction books like Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast by Karina May

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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Without Further ADO

Jessica Dettmann

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Other Bridget

Rachael Johns

4.16

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No Hard Feelings

Genevieve Novak

3.80

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