10 Top chick lit books like Ms. Demeanor by Elinor Lipman

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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…

If you liked the chick lit plot in Ms. Demeanor by Elinor Lipman , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Bad Summer People

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against … read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People book and Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of After Annie by Anna Quindlen

2. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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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4. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • 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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5. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • new york
  • 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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6. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • 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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7. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • 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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8. Community Board

By: Tara Conklin

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted no… read more

Similar categories in Tara Conklin's Community Board book and Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • new york
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beth Keane's The Half Moon book and Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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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13. Someone Else's Shoes

By: Jojo Moyes

3.96

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 N… read more

Similar categories in Jojo Moyes's Someone Else's Shoes book and Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • 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

Cover of Prom Mom by Laura Lippman

15. Prom Mom

By: Laura Lippman

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestseller Laura Lippman tells the story of Amber Glass, desperately trying to get a… read more

Similar categories in Laura Lippman's Prom Mom book and Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How do you live with yourself? How does anyone live with themselves, in the end? The way I see it, you either admit to yourself exactly who you are - or you lie to yourself the way you lie to the res…"

-Laura Lippman, Prom Mom

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16. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • new york
  • 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

17. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

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

18. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • 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

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19. Small World

By: Laura Zigman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more

Similar categories in Laura Zigman's Small World book and Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"

-Laura Zigman, Small World

Cover of Georgie, All Along by Kate Clayborn

20. Georgie, All Along

By: Kate Clayborn

3.80

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A wise and witty new novel that echoes with timely questions about love, career, reconciling with t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Clayborn's Georgie, All Along book and Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Ms. Demeanor by Elinor Lipman

21. 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 Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • new york
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Emma Rosenblum

3.43

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Anna Quindlen

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Ann Patchett

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