11 best-selling literary fiction books like Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• 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 Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• 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 Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• 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 Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• 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 Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• adult
• fiction
• audiobook

"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

Similar categories in Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,"

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"You can't have too much dog in a book."

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"In the end, what matters is this: I survived."

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder."

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• 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 Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon."

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for t…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself b…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• 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 Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"Friendship,"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"How I will miss the horses."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"You try again. You fail better."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"There are no ghosts, but up here"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Happy Place book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"You, you, you."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"How many universes do you think we’re together in?"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"Love means constantly saying you're sorry, and then doing better."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"I mean that you have the weirdest laugh of anyone I’ve ever met, Harriet,"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

Similar categories in Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• audiobook
• adult
• contemporary

"what procellous awesomeness does not in you abound"

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"It felt wrong to talk to anyone, to smile or laugh or eat again knowing that she was dead."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"I could almost feel in the embrace that my concerns had been her concerns, my pain had been her pain."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

"Maybe I was just terrified that I might be the closest thing she had to leaving a piece of herself behind."

-Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

Similar categories in Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"You didn't just find a self out there waiting. You had to make one. You had to create who you wanted to be."

-Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• race
• realistic fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• novels
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"Family means no favorites."

-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

"I don't mess with the internet, so give it."

-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

"New York was like an ex who had worked out all summer."

-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

"I've been to middle school so you can't really hurt me."

-Kiley Reid, Such a Fun Age

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"They can't make us go away just because they are done with us."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"My dad and I. Always together. Our little team of two. Proud coach and star student."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you …"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"It was okay to win as long as I acted surprised when I did and attributed it to luck. I should never let on how much I wanted to win or, worse, that I believed I deserved to win. And I should never, …"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's Malibu Rising book and Kiley Reid's Such a Fun Age

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

"And I’ve been really sad,"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

"She was pretty sure she did not want to kiss any guy at all"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

"Letting people love you and care for you is part of how you love and care for them."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising

"There’s no room for you in my life anymore. And I don’t owe it to you to make any space."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising