13 Best novels books like The Lemon by S.E. Boyd

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The Lemon

By: S.E. Boyd

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Set in the intersecting worlds of fine dining, Hollywood, and the media, a darkly hilarious and ult…

If you liked the novels plot in The Lemon by S.E. Boyd , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of You Only Call When You're in Trouble by Stephen McCauley

1. You Only Call When You're in Trouble

By: Stephen McCauley

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Is it ever okay to stop caring for others and start living for yourself? After a lifetime of tak… read more

Similar categories in Stephen McCauley's You Only Call When You're in Trouble book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. Dinosaurs

By: Lydia Millet

3.88

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A man named Gil walks from New York to Arizona to recover from a failed love. After he arrives, new… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Millet's Dinosaurs book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"They say those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, but don’t we all?"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"You gotta be a generalist, in the new climate. But that’s not enough either. If there’s too much poison around. We’re talking pesticides, mostly. Agrochemicals everywhere. Take the sparrows. So anywa…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn’t have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligen…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

"And freedom, that sacred cow that was always invoked as an excuse for bad behavior, all manner of atrocity—what was it, even? They told you to love it, in the schools and the songs, but never said wh…"

-Lydia Millet, Dinosaurs

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3. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

Similar categories in Emma Cline's The Guest book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

Cover of Pineapple Street by Jenny   Jackson

4. Pineapple Street

By: Jenny Jackson

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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5. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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6. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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7. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

Similar categories in Adelle Waldman's Help Wanted book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of They're Going to Love You by Meg Howrey

8. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

Similar categories in Meg Howrey's They're Going to Love You book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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9. Wellness

By: Nathan Hill

4.00

Format: 611 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times best-selling author of The Nix is back with a poignant and witty novel about mar… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Hill's Wellness book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"It's an altogether manic and ceaseless conversation, a conversation that feels sometimes like falling down stairs, barely keeping upright, taken by gravity, skipping, grasping, and then somehow landi…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

"Behind curtains, this, he thinks, is what lovers do—they are alchemists and architects; pioneers and fabulists; they make one thing another; they invent the world around them. So he says, ‘Yes I beli…"

-Nathan Hill, Wellness

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10. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

Similar categories in Jen Beagin's Big Swiss book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

Cover of I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai

11. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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12. Land of Milk and Honey

By: C Pam Zhang

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory… read more

Similar categories in C Pam Zhang's Land of Milk and Honey book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • food
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
" Real food is whatever cooks are proud to make. "

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"We all die. We have only the choice, if we are privileged, of whether death comes with a whimper or a bang; of what worlds we taste before we go."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"My employer was attuned to patterns of human behavior in which he could not take part; because he failed to be swept up in their currents, he could, from his remove, map the tides."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

"What sustains in the end are doomed romances, and nicotine, and crappy peanut butter, damn the additives and cholesterol because life is finite and not all nourishment can be measured."

-C Pam Zhang, Land of Milk and Honey

Cover of No One Left to Come Looking for You by Sam Lipsyte

13. No One Left to Come Looking for You

By: Sam Lipsyte

3.23

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A darkly comic mystery by the author of Hark and The Ask set in the vibrant music scene of early 19… read more

Similar categories in Sam Lipsyte's No One Left to Come Looking for You book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • humor
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin    Wilson

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 S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • 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

Cover of Ms. Demeanor by Elinor Lipman

15. 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 S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Lemon by S.E. Boyd

16. The Lemon

By: S.E. Boyd

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Set in the intersecting worlds of fine dining, Hollywood, and the media, a darkly hilarious and ult… read more

Similar categories in S.E. Boyd's The Lemon book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • foodie
  • food
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • novels
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

17. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

Similar categories in Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found by Sylvia Brownrigg

18. The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found

By: Sylvia Brownrigg

3.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Critically acclaimed author Sylvia Brownrigg's memoir reconstructs a poignant story of fathers lost… read more

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19. The Material

By: Camille Bordas

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more

Similar categories in Camille Bordas's The Material book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Coin by Yasmin Zaher

20. The Coin

By: Yasmin Zaher

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling, far from home, as she gets… read more

Similar categories in Yasmin Zaher's The Coin book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And the poet, he asked, who was it again? Aisha didn't know him, neither did Matthew. But, of course, Gregory did. He asked if he was the 9/11 denier. No, definitely not a denier, but very vocal when…"

-Yasmin Zaher, The Coin

Cover of May the Wolf Die by Elizabeth Heider

21. May the Wolf Die

By: Elizabeth Heider

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

For readers of Jane Harper, a gripping mystery set in Italy, following a female detective haunted b… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Heider's May the Wolf Die book and S.E. Boyd's The Lemon

  • mystery
  • fiction

20 Best fiction books like The Lemon by S.E. Boyd

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You Only Call When You're in Trouble

Stephen McCauley

3.45

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Dinosaurs

Lydia Millet

3.88

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The Guest

Emma Cline

3.29

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Jenny Jackson

3.57

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Janet Malcolm , Ian Jack

3.84

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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

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Will Cockrell

4.00

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