21 Best fiction books like Are You Happy Now by Hanna Jameson

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Are You Happy Now

By: Hanna Jameson

3.47

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

At a New York City wedding, on a sweltering summer night, four people are trying to be happy.Yun ha…

"He wondered if a love not properly expressed mutated into something jagged and unwieldy like metal, something that could kill you."

-Hanna Jameson, Are You Happy Now

"Oh shit, because it was never a good time to realize you really liked someone. Realizing you really liked someone meant knowing on some level it was going to hurt."

-Hanna Jameson, Are You Happy Now

"Deep down, people know just how unlikely their unhappiness is. The only thing we can at least be honest about is we want things to work out, and that's what these stories are really about. It's not about the elie, it's about the fact there is value in wanting to be happy."

-Hanna Jameson, Are You Happy Now

"Yun wanted to collapse under the weight, the unbearable weight of knowing he had to carry on moving, continue to try, to wake up day after day and do this, do everything. He didn’t want to die, he just wanted to stop, to cease, sit down. Maybe just sleep, for a year or maybe forever."

-Hanna Jameson, Are You Happy Now

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1. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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2. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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3. Death of a Bookseller

By: Alice Slater

3.48

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. R… read more

Similar categories in Alice Slater's Death of a Bookseller book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. Cursed Bread

By: Sophie Mackintosh

3.28

Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of o… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Mackintosh's Cursed Bread book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Pain becomes an animal, walking at your side. Pain becomes a home you can carry with you."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"The world is only ever one breach away from being unpeeled entirely, one tragedy, one glimpse behind the curtain."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I've been looked at in pity and in fear and I've learned that the only way to really be seen is through desire. To be looked at and found whole. Found alive."

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

"I don't want a book, I don't want the trouble of it, he said. I don't want to get involved, I just want to watch what's going on. I know what's going to happen and then it happens, and I can go outsi…"

-Sophie Mackintosh, Cursed Bread

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5. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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6. Good Material

By: Dolly Alderton

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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7. As Young as This

By: Roxy Dunn

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men M… read more

Similar categories in Roxy Dunn's As Young as This book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

Similar categories in Yomi Adegoke's The List book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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9. The Silence Project

By: Carole Hailey

3.76

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

On Emilia Morris's thirteenth birthday, her mother Rachel moves into a tent at the bottom of their … read more

Similar categories in Carole Hailey's The Silence Project book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • literary fiction
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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10. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Weirdo book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

Cover of The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent

12. The Things We Do to Our Friends

By: Heather Darwent

3.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history—the… read more

Similar categories in Heather Darwent's The Things We Do to Our Friends book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Home by Cailean Steed

13. Home

By: Cailean Steed

3.71

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

Someone has broken into Zoe's flat. A man she thought she'd never have to see again. They call him… read more

Similar categories in Cailean Steed's Home book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • contemporary
  • adult
  • fiction
  • lgbt
Cover of Are You Happy Now by Hanna Jameson

14. Are You Happy Now

By: Hanna Jameson

3.47

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

At a New York City wedding, on a sweltering summer night, four people are trying to be happy.Yun ha… read more

Similar categories in Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
"He wondered if a love not properly expressed mutated into something jagged and unwieldy like metal, something that could kill you."

-Hanna Jameson, Are You Happy Now

"Oh shit, because it was never a good time to realize you really liked someone. Realizing you really liked someone meant knowing on some level it was going to hurt."

-Hanna Jameson, Are You Happy Now

"Deep down, people know just how unlikely their unhappiness is. The only thing we can at least be honest about is we want things to work out, and that's what these stories are really about. It's not a…"

-Hanna Jameson, Are You Happy Now

"Yun wanted to collapse under the weight, the unbearable weight of knowing he had to carry on moving, continue to try, to wake up day after day and do this, do everything. He didn’t want to die, he ju…"

-Hanna Jameson, Are You Happy Now

Cover of Limelight by Daisy Buchanan

15. Limelight

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Limelight book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Becky by Sarah May

16. Becky

By: Sarah May

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Becky Sharp is determined. Determined to get away from the dead-end town where she grew up, determi… read more

Similar categories in Sarah May's Becky book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The truth changes everything. There's such an awful intimacy to it, a banality even. Perhaps this is why the one time I actually, publically, tell the truth, and not just to this room of forty or so …"

-Sarah May, Becky

Cover of What July Knew by Emily Koch

17. What July Knew

By: Emily Koch

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Summer, 1995. July Hooper knows eighteen things about her mother. Like number thirteen: she … read more

Similar categories in Emily Koch's What July Knew book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Ugly Truth by L.C. North

18. The Ugly Truth

By: L.C. North

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Melanie Lange has disappeared. Her father, Sir Peter Lange, says she is a danger to herself and … read more

Similar categories in L.C. North's The Ugly Truth book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Beautiful Shining People

By: Michael Grothaus

4.10

Format: 431 pages, Kindle Edition

A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic j… read more

Similar categories in Michael Grothaus's Beautiful Shining People book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • romance
  • dystopia
  • fiction
  • science fiction
  • fantasy
"Mob mentality rules when people are anxious and scared, and looking for someone to blame for their unhappiness and hurts and fears."

-Michael Grothaus, Beautiful Shining People

"The splotches of sun breaking through the gaps in the maples sway across her face. It’s as if luminous beings live just beneath her skin."

-Michael Grothaus, Beautiful Shining People

"Being out here, me and Neotnia, under those stars, I realize that even though we’re so small, our differences are as vast as the spaces between them."

-Michael Grothaus, Beautiful Shining People

"Let people misjudge you – condemn you, even,’ she says for Goeido as he speaks again. ‘Smile at them, then carry on with your life. Their faults weaken only them."

-Michael Grothaus, Beautiful Shining People

Cover of Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't by Josie Long

20. Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

By: Josie Long

3.50

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From a comic mastermind comes this brilliant collection of stories. Three teenagers believe they… read more

Similar categories in Josie Long's Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Actor

By: Chris MacDonald

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

TO ACHIEVE GREATNESS, HE MUST SACRIFICE EVERYTHING... Discover 2024's most original new thriller… read more

Similar categories in Chris MacDonald's The Actor book and Hanna Jameson's Are You Happy Now

  • fiction

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