18 Top contemporary books like The Floating Feldmans by Elyssa Friedland

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The Floating Feldmans

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.52

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Sink or swim</I<. Or at least that’s what Annette Feldman tells herself when she books a cruise for…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Floating Feldmans by Elyssa Friedland , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. The Distant Marvels

By: Chantel Acevedo

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Maria Sirena tells stories. She does it for money--she was a favorite in the cigar factory where sh… read more

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2. Summers at the Saint

By: Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kay Andrews's Summers at the Saint book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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3. The Husbands

By: Holly Gramazio

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more

Similar categories in Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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5. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • 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. Summer Romance

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. … read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Summer Romance book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am the architect of my own experience."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

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8. Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

3.94

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Travel to the bright Caribbean one last time in the satisfying conclusion to the nationally bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3) book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When you're in love, every day is like a present you get to open."

-Elin Hilderbrand, Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)

"Anyone can fall in love, but not just anyone can achieve forgiveness and acceptance and real, deep respect for his or her former partner the way these two have."

-Elin Hilderbrand, Troubles in Paradise (Paradise, #3)

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9. The Rom-Commers

By: Katherine Center

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Rom-Commers book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"If my life were a screenplay, I'd end the story right there and roll credits - and then maybe rewind and watch it again."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"But, it was okay. We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell - but it's not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

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10. 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 Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • 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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11. Lies and Weddings

By: Kevin Kwan

3.82

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A forbidden affair erupts dramatically amid a decadent Hawaiian wedding in this hilarious, sophisti… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Kwan's Lies and Weddings book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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 Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • travel
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Summer Pact by Emily Giffin

13. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Giffin's The Summer Pact book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Goyhood

By: Reuven Fenton

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Funny, poignant, and revelatory while plumbing the emotional depths of the relationship between est… read more

Similar categories in Reuven Fenton's Goyhood book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • fiction
  • family
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15. Very Bad Company

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.30

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Every year executives at the trendy tech startup Aurora gather the company’s top employees for an e… read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Very Bad Company book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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17. The Floating Feldmans

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.52

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Sink or swim</I<. Or at least that’s what Annette Feldman tells herself when she books a cruise for… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • travel
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. A Happier Life

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.32

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Present Day: Keaton Smith is desperate for a fresh start. So when her mother needs someone to put h… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Woodson Harvey's A Happier Life book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • audiobook
"Trends come and go; the simplicity of timeless meals with the ones you love is forever."

-Kristy Woodson Harvey, A Happier Life

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19. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

Cover of The Plus One by S.C. Lalli

20. The Plus One

By: S.C. Lalli

3.58

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

White Lotus meets The Guest List in international bestselling author S. C. Lalli’s next thrilling n… read more

Similar categories in S.C. Lalli's The Plus One book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. Tired Ladies Take a Stand

By: Gretchen Anthony

3.38

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

You've heard of Year of Yes. Introducing... Year of No. During one unforgettable year in their t… read more

Similar categories in Gretchen Anthony's Tired Ladies Take a Stand book and Elyssa Friedland's The Floating Feldmans

  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 Top fiction books like The Floating Feldmans by Elyssa Friedland

Transform Your Habits

Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

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The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Family Family

Laurie Frankel

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

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Transform Your Habits

Bad Tourists

Caro Carver

3.69

Transform Your Habits

One Big Happy Family

Jamie Day

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Chamber

Will Dean

3.69

Transform Your Habits

The Astrology House

Carinn Jade

3.57

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