19 must-read contemporary books like All Together Now by Matthew Norman

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All Together Now

By: Matthew Norman

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dying man brings his oldest friends together for one last beach blowout in this witty, heartfelt …

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1. Alice Bliss

By: Laura Harrington

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

When Alice Bliss learns that her father, Matt, is being deployed to Iraq, she's heartbroken. Alice … read more

Similar categories in Laura Harrington's Alice Bliss book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
"She smoothes the front of the dress, looking down at her hands, at her bitten fingernails, at her big feet in the pointy-toes shoes. This is a woman's dress, she thinks, a young woman's dress. It is …"

-Laura Harrington, Alice Bliss

"He begins to sing to her, very softly, almost not singing at all, just a whisper of a tune. He spins out the tune like it is a tale he is telling her, until he feels her body relax, until he feels he…"

-Laura Harrington, Alice Bliss

2. The Book of Joe

By: Jonathan Tropper

3.82

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. The… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Tropper's The Book of Joe book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

3. Plan B

By: Jonathan Tropper

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Turning thirty was never supposed to be like this. Ten years ago, Ben, Lindsey, Chuck, Alison, and … read more

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4. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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5. Summer Romance

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.10

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I am the architect of my own experience."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."

-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance

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6. Dixon, Descending

By: Karen Outen

4.06

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, heartrending debut novel about ambition, survival, and our responsibilities to one anot… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This was the feel at the top of the world. He waited. For something... But the mountain dismissed him like an unwanted suitor. There was nothing here that cared for him. He was king of small purchase…"

-Karen Outen, Dixon, Descending

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7. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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8. The Last Love Note

By: Emma Grey

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more

Similar categories in Emma Grey's The Last Love Note book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."

-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note

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9. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Boryga's Victim book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Sylvia's Second Act

By: Hillary Yablon

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Her husband’s cheating on her. She hates Boca. Sylvia is mad and she isn’t going to take it anymore… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Limelight

By: Amy Poeppel

3.82

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

In a smart and funny new novel by the author of Small Admissions, a family’s move to New York City … read more

Similar categories in Amy Poeppel's Limelight book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Colton Gentry's Third Act

By: Jeff Zentner

4.21

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

"A story of love, healing, and second chances ” (Emily Henry) following a down on his luck country … read more

Similar categories in Jeff Zentner's Colton Gentry's Third Act book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"His heart leapt like a murmuration of starlings taking flight. Every reach of him filled with light. He wondered how anyone survived this feeling he'd just named. This delirious sweetness. Maybe no o…"

-Jeff Zentner, Colton Gentry's Third Act

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13. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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14. One of Our Kind

By: Nicola Yoon

3.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Nicola Yoon’s daring new work of dystopian horror is a propuls… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Yoon's One of Our Kind book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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16. Darling at the Campsite

By: Andy Abramowitz

4.10

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

When you end up back home, there’s always baggage to unpack. Rowan Darling, an adrift thirty-three… read more

Similar categories in Andy Abramowitz's Darling at the Campsite book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. All Together Now

By: Matthew Norman

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A dying man brings his oldest friends together for one last beach blowout in this witty, heartfelt … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Norman's All Together Now book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Jackpot Summer

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's Jackpot Summer book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's The Same Bright Stars book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Maps for the Getaway

By: Annie England Noblin

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

If you love Susan Mallery, you won’t want to miss this novel of three high school friends who find … read more

Similar categories in Annie England Noblin's Maps for the Getaway book and Matthew Norman's All Together Now

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982

By: Chris Nashawaty

4.24

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more

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19 best-selling fiction books like All Together Now by Matthew Norman

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Alice Bliss

Laura Harrington

3.81

The Book of Joe

Jonathan Tropper

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Family Family

Laurie Frankel

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Summer Romance

Annabel Monaghan

4.10

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21 must-read fiction books like Limelight by Amy Poeppel

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High Maintenance

Jennifer Belle

3.20

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Pineapple Street

Jenny Jackson

3.57

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Family Family

Laurie Frankel

4.00

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Rebecca Serle

3.65

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