25 must-read literary fiction books like Young Women by Jessica Moor

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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…

If you liked the literary fiction plot in Young Women by Jessica Moor , here is a list of 25 books like this:

Cover of Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O'Donoghue

1. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"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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3. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • 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

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4. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of I’m Sorry You Feel That Way by Rebecca Wait

5. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. When We Were Friends

By: Holly Bourne

3.90

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From the day they first meet as teenagers, Fern and Jessica are best friends. Despite their differe… read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's When We Were Friends book and Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
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8. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • womens
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

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

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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12. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
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13. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • 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

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14. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of The Things We Do to Our Friends by Heather Darwent

15. The Things We Do to Our Friends

By: Heather Darwent

3.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Edinburgh, Scotland: a moody city of labyrinthine alleyways, oppressive fog, and buried history—the… read more

Similar categories in Heather Darwent's The Things We Do to Our Friends book and Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • womens
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Tennis Lessons by Susannah  Dickey

18. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Limelight by Daisy Buchanan

19. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Sister of Mine by Laurie Petrou

20. Sister of Mine

By: Laurie Petrou

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

*Globe & Mail Globe 100 Book. A debut novel of domestic suspense in the vein of Liane Moriarty, Sh… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Petrou's Sister of Mine book and Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Just for Today by Nell Hudson

21. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • 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

Cover of Young Women by Jessica Moor

23. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • realistic fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • womens
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Odd Hours by Ania Bas

24. Odd Hours

By: Ania Bas

3.39

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Odd Hours is a whip-smart social comedy for those of us who feel that life is a game where someone … read more

Similar categories in Ania Bas's Odd Hours book and Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Bodies by Christine Anne Foley

25. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Bad Choices by Lucy Vine

27. Bad Choices

By: Lucy Vine

3.60

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The new laugh-out-loud, deliciously relatable story of female friendship from the bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Vine's Bad Choices book and Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • contemporary
Cover of Girls by Kirsty Capes

28. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

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

29. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Gold Rush by Olivia Petter

30. 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 Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Disturbance by Jenna Clake

31. Disturbance

By: Jenna Clake

3.15

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A spellbinding, genre-bending debut that follows a woman’s attempt to heal from an abusive relation… read more

Similar categories in Jenna Clake's Disturbance book and Jessica Moor's Young Women

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook

30 must-read fiction books like Young Women by Jessica Moor

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Caroline O'Donoghue

3.64

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Jaded

Ela Lee

4.21

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

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Rosewater

Liv Little

3.67

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Jaded

Ela Lee

4.21

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Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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Jenny Mustard

3.76

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Megan Nolan

3.78

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