21 Top fiction books like Limelight by Daisy Buchanan

Cover of Limelight by Daisy Buchanan

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 …

If you liked the fiction plot in Limelight by Daisy Buchanan , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of This Could Be Everything by Eva Rice

1. This Could Be Everything

By: Eva Rice

3.83

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the author of ‘modern vintage classic’ The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nosta… read more

Similar categories in Eva Rice's This Could Be Everything book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Penance by Eliza  Clark

2. 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 Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • 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

Cover of Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors

3. 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 Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

Cover of The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donoghue

4. The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

Cover of Ordinary Human Failings by Megan Nolan

5. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

Cover of Piglet by Lottie Hazell

6. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

Cover of Rosewater by Liv Little

7. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

Similar categories in Liv Little's Rosewater book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Good Material by Dolly Alderton

8. 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 Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

Cover of Wet Paint by Chloë Ashby

9. Wet Paint

By: Chloë Ashby

3.79

Format: 316 pages, Hardcover

Since the death of her best friend Grace, twenty-six-year-old Eve has learned to keep everything an… read more

Similar categories in Chloë Ashby's Wet Paint book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Green Dot by Madeleine Gray

10. 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 Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The List by Yomi Adegoke

11. 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 Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

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

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

Cover of Bellies by Nicola Dinan

12. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Dinan's Bellies book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Mess We’re In by Annie Macmanus

13. The Mess We’re In

By: Annie Macmanus

3.40

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more

Similar categories in Annie Macmanus's The Mess We’re In book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Second Chance Store by Lauren Bravo

14. The Second Chance Store

By: Lauren Bravo

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Bravo's The Second Chance Store book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Spilt Milk by Amy Beashel

15. Spilt Milk

By: Amy Beashel

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What if you said the worst thing a mother could say? What if your husband found out about it in th… read more

Similar categories in Amy Beashel's Spilt Milk book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Weirdo by Sara  Pascoe

16. 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 Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Happy Couple by Naoise Dolan

17. 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 Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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 Limelight by Daisy Buchanan

18. 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 Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • drama
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of This Could Be Us by Claire McGowan

19. This Could Be Us

By: Claire McGowan

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Kate has done the unthinkable. She'd worked hard to build a perfect life for herself, while ignorin… read more

Similar categories in Claire McGowan's This Could Be Us book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Second Self by Chloë Ashby

20. Second Self

By: Chloë Ashby

3.81

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

When Cathy and Noah first got together neither saw children in their future. Eight years later, the… read more

Similar categories in Chloë Ashby's Second Self book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Girls by Kirsty Capes

21. Girls

By: Kirsty Capes

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Capes's Girls book and Daisy Buchanan's Limelight

  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 must-read contemporary books like Limelight by Daisy Buchanan

Transform Your Habits

This Could Be Everything

Eva Rice

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

View all the books

20 Best fiction books like Second Self by Chloë Ashby

Transform Your Habits

Jaded

Ela Lee

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Okay Days

Jenny Mustard

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Ordinary Human Failings

Megan Nolan

3.78

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.