21 Top contemporary books like None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa

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None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

By: Carolyn Prusa

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this smart and witty debut novel follows Ramo…

"After I gave him so much-parts of myself I didn't even know were there. After I snuffed out my wildness. After I glued myself with rubber cement to this life because of my love for him and the people we made."

-Carolyn Prusa, None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

"After I gave him so much-parts of myself I didn't even know were there. After I snuffed out my wildness. After I glued myself with rubber cement to this life because of my love for him and the people we made."

-Carolyn Prusa, None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

If you liked the contemporary plot in None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

1. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

Cover of Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal

2. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

By: J. Ryan Stradal

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more

Similar categories in J. Ryan Stradal's Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

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3. 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 Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • 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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4. 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 Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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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5. The Celebrants

By: Steven Rowley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

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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 Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • 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. The Breakaway

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Breakaway book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4) by Elle Cosimano

8. 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 Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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9. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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10. The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

By: Colleen Oakley

4.05

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitt… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Oakley's The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He stilled midair, and then a slow grin spread across his lips. “Do you even know how to work that thing?"

-Colleen Oakley, The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

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11. The Sweet Spot

By: Amy Poeppel

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. … read more

Similar categories in Amy Poeppel's The Sweet Spot book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The mistake people make when life hits them with some unexpected, and often unprepared-for, catastrophe is that they think they can just return to life the way it was before. They try to rebuild exac…"

-Amy Poeppel, The Sweet Spot

Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

12. 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 Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    Wilson

13. Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

3.69

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

Cover of Twice in a Lifetime by Melissa  Baron

14. Twice in a Lifetime

By: Melissa Baron

3.84

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

The Time Traveler's Wife meets Oona Out of Order in this imaginative and moving debut novel of a lo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Baron's Twice in a Lifetime book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Limelight by Amy Poeppel

15. Limelight

By: Amy Poeppel

3.82

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

In a smart and funny new novel by the author of Small Admissions, a family’s move to New York City … read more

Similar categories in Amy Poeppel's Limelight book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez by Claire Jiménez

16. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jiménez

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more

Similar categories in Claire Jiménez's What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."

-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

Cover of Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3) by Elle Cosimano

17. 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 Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa

18. None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

By: Carolyn Prusa

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this smart and witty debut novel follows Ramo… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"After I gave him so much-parts of myself I didn't even know were there. After I snuffed out my wildness. After I glued myself with rubber cement to this life because of my love for him and the people…"

-Carolyn Prusa, None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

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19. Ms. Demeanor

By: Elinor Lipman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From one of America's most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love u… read more

Similar categories in Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

20. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Jackpot Summer by Elyssa Friedland

21. Jackpot Summer

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's Jackpot Summer book and Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook

21 Top fiction books like None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

J. Ryan Stradal

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Pineapple Street

Jenny Jackson

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

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21 must-read fiction books like Limelight by Amy Poeppel

Transform Your Habits

High Maintenance

Jennifer Belle

3.20

Transform Your Habits

Pineapple Street

Jenny Jackson

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Family Family

Laurie Frankel

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Expiration Dates

Rebecca Serle

3.65

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