22 Top fiction books like The Best Kind of Beautiful by Frances Whiting

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The Best Kind of Beautiful

By: Frances Whiting

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Florence Saint Claire, former child star, generally prefers plants to people. She's a reluctant mem…

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1. Swallow the Air

By: Tara June Winch

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

When May's mother dies suddenly, she and her brother Billy are taken in by Aunty. However, their lo… read more

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2. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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3. The Bookbinder

By: Pip Williams

4.07

Format: 437 pages, Hardcover

A young British woman working in a book bindery gets a chance to pursue knowledge and love when Wor… read more

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  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Your stitching is what will hold the story together."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"Love Eternal, in Baskerville typeface. He'd chosen it for its clarity and beauty."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

"The myriad ways our words had failed to be bound, and here they were, finally, and there was only one bloody copy."

-Pip Williams, The Bookbinder

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4. Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

By: Heather Rose

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from t… read more

Similar categories in Heather Rose's Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • audiobook
  • book club
  • australia
  • contemporary
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5. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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6. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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  • audiobook
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson

By: Leah Purcell

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Deep in the heart of Australia’s high country, along an ancient, hidden track, lives Molly Johnson … read more

Similar categories in Leah Purcell's The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • australia
  • book club
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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8. Love Stories

By: Trent Dalton

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Trent Dalton, Australia's best-loved writer, goes out into the world and asks a simple, direct ques… read more

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  • romance
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"True love is exposing all the pieces."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"Love is knowing when you've come home."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"You ever felt that kinda low? The kind you want to stay in?"

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

"She realises now that grief is the price she will willingly pay to have loved someone so deeply."

-Trent Dalton, Love Stories

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9. The Things That Matter Most

By: Gabbie Stroud

4.44

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

A powerful and moving debut novel about a school community in crisis from the bestselling author of… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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10. After Story

By: Larissa Behrendt

4.07

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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11. The Space Between the Stars

By: Indira Naidoo

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

"A tender, touching and at times bloody funny meditation on life. And death. And how to live."  - D… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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12. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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13. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

By: Holly Ringland

4.04

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

From international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Holly Ringland, comes a ha… read more

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  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"There's a certain kind of beauty that can only exist because of darkness."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"You can see it, but it's not really there. Just like the end of a rainbow, the horizon is an illusion."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Catch the gold in your eyelashes so we have light for later, Starry, so it won't be dark in our dreams."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

"Everything I've wanted most in life has been on the other side of finding the courage to ask for the help I need."

-Holly Ringland, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

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14. The Love Contract

By: Steph Vizard

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Can she (pretend to) love her neighbour? An award-winning modern rom-com for all fans of fake d… read more

Similar categories in Steph Vizard's The Love Contract book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • romance
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You make me feel like the most me version of myself and I want to help you be the you-est version of you."

-Steph Vizard, The Love Contract

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15. Clarke

By: Holly Throsby

3.88

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A compelling new novel from the bestselling author of Goodwood and Cedar Valley. 'Clarke is illu… read more

Similar categories in Holly Throsby's Clarke book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"He was so stocky. He was like a wheelie bin."

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

"Leelee?’ ‘Yes, Joe?’ ‘Would you still love me if I was a donkey?’ Leonie said, ‘Sweetheart, I’d love you no matter what you were. If you turned into a donkey, I’d just find us a house with a big barn…"

-Holly Throsby, Clarke

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16. You Need to Know

By: Nicola Moriarty

4.11

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Ex and Those Other Women comes a thrilling family drama about th… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Moriarty's You Need to Know book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. Dinner with the Schnabels

By: Toni Jordan

3.68

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and … read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Glass House

By: Anne Buist

3.89

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome to The Menzies. Trainee psychiatrist Doctor Hannah Wright, a country girl with a chaotic hi… read more

Similar categories in Anne Buist's The Glass House book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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19. Five Bush Weddings

By: Clare Fletcher

3.98

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

As a photographer, Stevie’s been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When’s it going to be … read more

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  • romance
  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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20. The Opposite of Success

By: Eleanor Elliott Thomas

3.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

All Lorrie wants is to get promoted, accept her body and end global warming. By Friday. Is that rea… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Elliott Thomas's The Opposite of Success book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Days Toppled Over

By: Vidya Madabushi

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Malli has an anxiety disorder that renders her unable to speak outside her own home. The highlight … read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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22. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Stephens's Something Bad is Going to Happen book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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23. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's The Work book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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24. The Couple Upstairs

By: Holly Wainwright

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Five months after Mel told her husband to leave, a ghost moved in upstairs.A young man who reminds … read more

Similar categories in Holly Wainwright's The Couple Upstairs book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
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25. I’ll Leave You With This

By: Kylie Ladd

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

I’ll Leave You With This is a heartbreaking, funny, thought-provoking and honest novel about a brot… read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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26. Speaking in Tongues

By: Tom Tilley

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

When you no longer believe in eternity, every moment counts -- A memoir of breaking free and reinve… read more

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  • australia
  • audiobook
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27. The Revenge Club

By: Kathy Lette

3.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

When the odds are against you, it's time to get even.Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at… read more

Similar categories in Kathy Lette's The Revenge Club book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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28. Your Own Kind of Girl

By: Clare Bowditch

4.12

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

"This is the story I promised myself, aged twenty-one, that I would one day be brave enough - and w… read more

Similar categories in Clare Bowditch's Your Own Kind of Girl book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • music
  • book club
  • australia
  • audiobook
"Songs were homes for things that needed containing."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

"When I am with him, my sensitivity does not feel like a liability - it just feels like the truth, sometimes inconvenient, but a truth that I'm allowed to speak without worrying that it will break us."

-Clare Bowditch, Your Own Kind of Girl

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29. The Best Kind of Beautiful

By: Frances Whiting

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Florence Saint Claire, former child star, generally prefers plants to people. She's a reluctant mem… read more

Similar categories in Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • romance
  • music
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • australia
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Happy (and other ridiculous aspirations) by Turia Pitt

30. Happy (and other ridiculous aspirations)

By: Turia Pitt

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Trade Paperback

Happiness. Everyone wants more of it. But can you actually get happier? Inspirational Australian Tu… read more

Similar categories in Turia Pitt's Happy (and other ridiculous aspirations) book and Frances Whiting's The Best Kind of Beautiful

  • audiobook
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31. Tilda Is Visible

By: Jane Tara

4.02

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A woman starts to disappear—literally—in midlife, and only then begins to discover herself in this … read more

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  • australia
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Support groups are like bras – some aren’t that supportive."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"Once we’ve grown used to the weight of loss and the impermanence of everything, something shifts."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

"How the world sees us, how other people see us is meaningless. What’s important is how we see ourselves. We must be visible to ourselves."

-Jane Tara, Tilda Is Visible

23 must-read contemporary books like The Best Kind of Beautiful by Frances Whiting

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here

Heather Rose

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Prima Facie

Suzie Miller

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Edenglassie

Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

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19 Best fiction books like Prima Facie by Suzie Miller

Transform Your Habits

The List of Suspicious Things

Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Water

John Boyne

4.33

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