17 best-selling adult fiction books like Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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Carrie Soto Is Back

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the…

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

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"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

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

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

If you liked the adult fiction plot in Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid , here is a list of 17 books like this:

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1. The Five-Star Weekend

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend … read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's The Five-Star Weekend book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow."

-Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

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2. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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3. None of This Is True

By: Lisa Jewell

4.12

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • 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

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4. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

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5. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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6. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

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

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7. Lessons in Chemistry

By: Bonnie Garmus

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to poi… read more

Similar categories in Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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8. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.15

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative p… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • 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

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9. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

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

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10. Happy Place

By: Emily Henry

3.99

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt a… read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Happy Place book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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

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11. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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

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12. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • 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

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

13. Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he d… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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)

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14. The Paradise Problem

By: Christina Lauren

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery ch… read more

Similar categories in Christina Lauren's The Paradise Problem book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters"

-Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem

Cover of This Summer Will Be Different by Carley Fortune

15. This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's This Summer Will Be Different book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

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16. Meet Me at the Lake

By: Carley Fortune

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Fern Brookbanks has wasted far too much of her adult life thinking about Will Baxter. She spent jus… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's Meet Me at the Lake book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One day you'll find your heart's too big for just you"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

"Let me tell you something about me: I am extremely picky about people. Most of them, I don't particularly like. I have very high standards for the ones I let into my life these days. And you, Will Ba…"

-Carley Fortune, Meet Me at the Lake

Cover of Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) by Abby Jimenez

17. Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.32

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A novel of terrible first impressions, hilarious second chances, and the joy in finding your perfec… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2) book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You and me? We're different. We agree to be harmless to each other."

-Abby Jimenez, Yours Truly (Part of Your World, #2)

Cover of The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

18. The Seven Year Slip

By: Ashley Poston

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love wit… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new br…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

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19. Mad Honey

By: Jodi Picoult

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past, and what we choose to leave behin… read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's Mad Honey book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Being gay or straight,"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"People always talk about their love for you is unconditional. Then you reveal your most private self to them, and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love."

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"Dark honey from the second harvest. It's made late in the season after the nectar drought at the end of July when the bees turn to goldenrod and sunflowers instead. It's deeper and richer, it tastes …"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don’t bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It’s a feudal relationship: protection…"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

Cover of Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1) by Abby Jimenez

20. Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.29

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

After a wild bet, gourmet grilled-cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, Alexis Montgomery h… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1) book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The world is ending, Alexis. That’s what this feels like. So come with me now."

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

"I know it hurts, but just think, now you know what it feels like for a man with a cold"

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

"I know it hurts, but just think, now you’ll know what it feels like for a man with a cold."

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

"You know, reading makes your penis look bigger - don't quote me on it, the science is really new."

-Abby Jimenez, Part of Your World (Part of Your World, #1)

Cover of Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

21. Carrie Soto Is Back

By: Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. By the… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back book and Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • sports
  • 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

21 Best fiction books like Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Transform Your Habits

The Five-Star Weekend

Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

Transform Your Habits

None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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31 must-read fiction books like Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune

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Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

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None of This Is True

Lisa Jewell

4.12

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First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

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