19 must-read literary fiction books like Just for Today by Nell Hudson

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Just for Today

By: Nell Hudson

3.83

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

'A yearning, tenderly bruising beauty of a book and a brilliant portrayal of friendship in the roar…

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1. Promising Young Women

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

3.74

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's Promising Young Women book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Scenes of a Graphic Nature

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

3.64

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'Do you know what céad mile fáilte means?' 'A hundred thousand welcomes.' 'Not a hundred thousand… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's Scenes of a Graphic Nature book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. Jaded

By: Ela Lee

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more

Similar categories in Ela Lee's Jaded book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"

-Ela Lee, Jaded

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4. 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 Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • 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

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5. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Milk Teeth book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. 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 Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. 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 Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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8. Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more

Similar categories in Celine Saintclare's Sugar, Baby book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

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9. Stargazer

By: Laurie Petrou

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

Summer 1995. Diana and Aurelle are inseparable, living together in Diana's parents' cottage on the … read more

Similar categories in Laurie Petrou's Stargazer book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Saltwater

By: Jessica Andrews

3.79

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Lucy is lost. Growing up in the north east she wanted more. When others were thinking about the Nis… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Andrews's Saltwater book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I want it and I do not want it. I want to be visible and I want to be invisible, or perhaps I want to be visible to some people and not to others. It seems unfair that I can't choose."

-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

"I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of polit…"

-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

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11. Tennis Lessons

By: Susannah Dickey

3.43

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

You know you're strange and wrong. You've known it from the beginning. This is the voice that r… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Dickey's Tennis Lessons book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Just for Today

By: Nell Hudson

3.83

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

'A yearning, tenderly bruising beauty of a book and a brilliant portrayal of friendship in the roar… read more

Similar categories in Nell Hudson's Just for Today book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. 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 Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • 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

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14. Young Women

By: Jessica Moor

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Everyone's got that history, I guess. Everyone's got a story. When Emily meets the enigmatic and da… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Moor's Young Women book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Bodies

By: Christine Anne Foley

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more

Similar categories in Christine Anne Foley's Bodies book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. 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 Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Teddy

By: Emily Dunlay

3.57

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Lessons in Chemistry  meets  Mad Men  in this wildly entertaining debut novel, set in glamorous Rom… read more

Similar categories in Emily Dunlay's Teddy book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Girl Friends

By: Holly Bourne

4.10

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

"Men see women in two separate categories. There are the women they sleep with, and the women they … read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's Girl Friends book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. 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 Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Everyone I Know is Dying by Emily Slapper

20. Everyone I Know is Dying

By: Emily Slapper

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A razor-sharp, bleakly funny exploration of mental health crises, the societal pressures on young w… read more

Similar categories in Emily Slapper's Everyone I Know is Dying book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Gold Rush

By: Olivia Petter

3.61

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

We give celebrities a power they don’t deserve. Power they haven’t earned. What happens when they e… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Petter's Gold Rush book and Nell Hudson's Just for Today

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

21 Top fiction books like Just for Today by Nell Hudson

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Promising Young Women

Caroline O'Donoghue

3.74

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Scenes of a Graphic Nature

Caroline O'Donoghue

3.64

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Jaded

Ela Lee

4.21

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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20 Best fiction books like Second Self by Chloë Ashby

Transform Your Habits

Jaded

Ela Lee

4.21

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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Okay Days

Jenny Mustard

3.76

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Ordinary Human Failings

Megan Nolan

3.78

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