14 best-selling family books like The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy

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The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

By: Jeannie Zusy

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Early Morning Riser with a dash of Where’d You Go, Bernad…

If you liked the family plot in The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Amazing Grace Adams by Fran Littlewood

2. Amazing Grace Adams

By: Fran Littlewood

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more

Similar categories in Fran Littlewood's Amazing Grace Adams book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Community Board

By: Tara Conklin

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics delivers a wise, timely, big-hearted no… read more

Similar categories in Tara Conklin's Community Board book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • 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 Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary 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. Flight

By: Lynn Steger Strong

3.43

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"Arresting and powerful,  Flight  examines the possibility and pain of fierce love and hope in our … read more

Similar categories in Lynn Steger Strong's Flight book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You must be active in your own life. You must engage. Interact in order to create."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"[T]hey'll all celebrate and toast each other, toast the small ways they can still care for and love one another, no matter how awful at it all of them are."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"When we're young we think we'll just choose the lives we'll have, the people we're becoming, but so much of it just happens. You can live a whole life without choosing anything at all."

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

"...she's the only person in the world who ever saw me the way she saw me, who loved me like that, who remembered me as all the things I'd ever been and also thought of me as all the things she still …"

-Lynn Steger Strong, Flight

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6. Meredith, Alone

By: Claire Alexander

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Meredith Maggs has everything a person needs.A best friend in Sadie.A beloved cat in Fred.Jigsaws t… read more

Similar categories in Claire Alexander's Meredith, Alone book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Signal Fires

By: Dani Shapiro

3.91

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more

Similar categories in Dani Shapiro's Signal Fires book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

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8. 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 Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • 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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9. The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

By: Colleen Oakley

4.05

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitt… read more

Similar categories in Colleen Oakley's The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He stilled midair, and then a slow grin spread across his lips. “Do you even know how to work that thing?"

-Colleen Oakley, The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

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10. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

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11. Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

By: Olivia Ford

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A huge-hearted, redemptive coming-of-old-age tale, a love story, and an ode to good food Nothing… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Ford's Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To want something, she realized, was to make yourself vulnerable to losing it."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"It's sometimes easy to feel left behind at my age, as if the world has a future and you have no place in it...but I hope to discover that there is meaning and adventure still to be found."

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

"...the strongest couples I know have grown together, supporting their partner's changes rather than harnessing or fearing them. It's a bit like growing roses - you don't get to choose exactly which w…"

-Olivia Ford, Mrs. Quinn's Rise to Fame

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12. The Sweet Spot

By: Amy Poeppel

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. … read more

Similar categories in Amy Poeppel's The Sweet Spot book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The mistake people make when life hits them with some unexpected, and often unprepared-for, catastrophe is that they think they can just return to life the way it was before. They try to rebuild exac…"

-Amy Poeppel, The Sweet Spot

Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

13. 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 Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Now Is Not the Time to Panic

By: Kevin Wilson

3.69

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted no… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Wilson's Now Is Not the Time to Panic book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I wondered if this was a sign that, whatever happened this summer, I'd be the one with a scar."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"To be a teenager, it takes very little to think that someone else might actually know who you are, even as you spend all your time thinking that no one understands you. It's such a lovely feeling."

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful thin…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

"You want to put up posters in Graceland?" I asked. I thought that if there was one place in the entire world where devotees would kill you for desecrating the sanctity of a holy space, it would be th…"

-Kevin Wilson, Now Is Not the Time to Panic

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15. Small World

By: Laura Zigman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more

Similar categories in Laura Zigman's Small World book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • disability
  • audiobook
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"

-Laura Zigman, Small World

Cover of We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman

16. We All Want Impossible Things

By: Catherine Newman

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Who knows you better than your best friend? Who knows your secrets, your fears, your desires, your … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's We All Want Impossible Things book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"In the end there’s more beauty in the imperfection."

-Catherine Newman, We All Want Impossible Things

Cover of None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive by Carolyn Prusa

17. None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

By: Carolyn Prusa

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Maria Semple and Jennifer Weiner, this smart and witty debut novel follows Ramo… read more

Similar categories in Carolyn Prusa's None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"After I gave him so much-parts of myself I didn't even know were there. After I snuffed out my wildness. After I glued myself with rubber cement to this life because of my love for him and the people…"

-Carolyn Prusa, None of This Would Have Happened If Prince Were Alive

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18. Ms. Demeanor

By: Elinor Lipman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From one of America's most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love u… read more

Similar categories in Elinor Lipman's Ms. Demeanor book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream by Jeannie Zusy

19. The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

By: Jeannie Zusy

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine meets Early Morning Riser with a dash of Where’d You Go, Bernad… read more

Similar categories in Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • disability
  • audiobook
Cover of Unlock Your Menopause Type: Personalized Treatments, the Last Word on Hormones, and Remedies that Work by Heather Hirsch

20. Unlock Your Menopause Type: Personalized Treatments, the Last Word on Hormones, and Remedies that Work

By: Heather Hirsch

4.00

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Given that millions of women have entered menopause each year since the dawn of time, it’s crazy th… read more

Similar categories in Heather Hirsch's Unlock Your Menopause Type: Personalized Treatments, the Last Word on Hormones, and Remedies that Work book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

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21. There's Nothing Wrong with Her

By: Kate Weinberg

3.42

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A crackling, tender, and perfectly off-kilter novel about love, madness, illness, and recovery.Vita… read more

Similar categories in Kate Weinberg's There's Nothing Wrong with Her book and Jeannie Zusy's The Frederick Sisters Are Living the Dream

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Fran Littlewood

3.35

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3.34

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Laurie Frankel

4.00

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

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Lucy by the Sea

Elizabeth Strout

3.91

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