21 best-selling adult books like This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• fiction
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

Similar categories in Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

Similar categories in Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult
• book club
• fiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• 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

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• 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

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's The House of Eve book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• fiction
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

Similar categories in Nikki Erlick's The Measure book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's Mad Honey book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"Being gay or straight,"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"People always talk about their love for you is unconditional. Then you reveal your most private self to them, and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love."

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"Dark honey from the second harvest. It's made late in the season after the nectar drought at the end of July when the bees turn to goldenrod and sunflowers instead. It's deeper and richer, it tastes …"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don’t bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It’s a feudal relationship: protection…"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• family
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult fiction
• lgbt
• family
• contemporary
• fiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• adult
• book club
• audiobook

Similar categories in Maria Hummel's Still Lives book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• contemporary

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is book and Laurie Frankel's This Is How It Always Is

• audiobook
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• fiction
• contemporary
• family
• adult
• book club
• queer

"Head colds should be tolerated. Children should be celebrated."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"This is how you cook a novel. Some made up, some real life, all true."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"Parenthood is like that...the harder the choice, the less likely any of the options are good ones"

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is

"She wasn't sure that parenting ever qualified as brave. Or maybe it always did. Because it's not like you got a choice."

-Laurie Frankel, This Is How It Always Is