31 Top fiction books like Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli

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Someday, Maybe

By: Onyi Nwabineli

3.90

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A stunning and witty debut novel about a young woman’s emotional journey through unimaginable loss,…

"Nobody tells you that irrational hope is a side effect of grief. And they should because it is dangerous."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

"Nobody tells you that irrational hope is a side effect of grief. And they should because it is dangerous."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

"when someone you love dies, there's this period of disbelief-a time of dug-in heels, the refusal to process your new reality."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

"when someone you love dies, there's this period of disbelief-a time of dug-in heels, the refusal to process your new reality."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

If you liked the fiction plot in Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli , here is a list of 31 books like this:

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1. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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2. Tomorrow I Become a Woman

By: Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

What can I do?’ she asked. You can fight, I thought, you can fight for your daughters. But then aga… read more

Similar categories in Aiwanose Odafen's Tomorrow I Become a Woman book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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3. Rootless

By: Krystle Zara Appiah

3.83

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

A provocative debut novel about a marriage in crisis that asks the question: Can you ever be rooted… read more

Similar categories in Krystle Zara Appiah's Rootless book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beth Keane's The Half Moon book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. A Broken People's Playlist

By: Chimeka Garricks

4.33

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A Broken People’s Playlist is a collection of short stories with underlying themes so beautifully w… read more

Similar categories in Chimeka Garricks's A Broken People's Playlist book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"They will ask me when I first knew I was in love with you. I will sign and say I don't know. It happened in fragments, piece by piece, separate moments over the years. Moments - that's how I remember…"

-Chimeka Garricks, A Broken People's Playlist

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6. This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2)

By: Kennedy Ryan

4.42

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Soledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. Sh… read more

Similar categories in Kennedy Ryan's This Could Be Us (Skyland, #2) book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Signal Fires

By: Dani Shapiro

3.91

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BEST SELLER • From the beloved author of INHERITANCE: “a haunting, moving, and propulsive … read more

Similar categories in Dani Shapiro's Signal Fires book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"How long will molecular traces of the Wilfs remain inside 18 Division Street?"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

"It wasn't scary. I mean, it was scary being in the dark and cold and everything, but when the lady, Mrs. Wilf, died, it was like everything had no beginning, and no end. Like we were lightyears away …"

-Dani Shapiro, Signal Fires

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8. Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

By: Kennedy Ryan

4.36

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

Their love was supposed to last forever. But when life delivered blow after devastating blow, Yasme… read more

Similar categories in Kennedy Ryan's Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1) book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Fuck them ribs."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

"We said till death do us part."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

"No one in my whole life has ever hurt me like you did."

-Kennedy Ryan, Before I Let Go (Skyland, #1)

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9. A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

By: Tia Williams

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic love story one hundred years in the making… Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. An… read more

Similar categories in Tia Williams's A Love Song for Ricki Wilde book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And know this: the villain depends on who's telling the story."

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"Breeze was a share cropper. His whole family was. He was born in Fallon, South Carolina a dusty wretched town to a long line of men named Ezra Walker. His first son would be named Ezra, too. No clue …"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

"To me, love is like listening to an album. Some people skip to their favorite songs and ignore the rest. Other people listen to the entire album over and over until it's familiar and cherished and th…"

-Tia Williams, A Love Song for Ricki Wilde

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10. Evil Eye

By: Etaf Rum

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more

Similar categories in Etaf Rum's Evil Eye book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

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11. River Sing Me Home

By: Eleanor Shearer

4.01

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Shearer's River Sing Me Home book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Every freedom had its price."

-Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

"Freedom mean something different to me. The search, that is freedom."

-Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

"This is why me don't like to do it... Think about the past. The memories too painful. The hope hurt. All I want to do is live the life in front of me, because it's a miracle me make it here."

-Eleanor Shearer, River Sing Me Home

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12. Maame

By: Jessica George

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the TikTok Book Awards in the Book of the Year, 2023 and the Goodreads Debut and Fi… read more

Similar categories in Jessica George's Maame book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."

-Jessica George, Maame

"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."

-Jessica George, Maame

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."

-Jessica George, Maame

"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."

-Jessica George, Maame

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13. The House of Eve

By: Sadeqa Johnson

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelph… read more

Similar categories in Sadeqa Johnson's The House of Eve book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Middle Daughter

By: Chika Unigwe

3.83

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A lush, powerful tale of family and sisterhood from award-winning author Chika Unigwe, perfect for … read more

Similar categories in Chika Unigwe's The Middle Daughter book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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15. Nightbloom

By: Peace Adzo Medie

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Peace Adzo Medie's Nightbloom book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Paper Names

By: Susie Luo

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

An unexpected act of violence brings together a Chinese-American family and a wealthy white lawyer … read more

Similar categories in Susie Luo's Paper Names book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Repetition. That was my father’s philosophy on learning. It applied not only to the piano, but my studies too. Before every test, he made me write out every single word from the textbook chapter, twi…"

-Susie Luo, Paper Names

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17. The Collected Regrets of Clover

By: Mikki Brammer

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

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18. A Quiet Life

By: Ethan Joella

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, charact… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's A Quiet Life book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a pain…"

-Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

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19. The Nigerwife

By: Vanessa Walters

3.55

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This twisty and electrifying debut novel about a young woman who goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria, an… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Walters's The Nigerwife book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You have to go on with things, or things will get on without you."

-Vanessa Walters, The Nigerwife

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20. Black Candle Women

By: Diane Marie Brown

3.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Seen on the Today Show “If you like Practical Magic… you wi… read more

Similar categories in Diane Marie Brown's Black Candle Women book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some folks struggled disproportionately, carrying things that others couldn't even lift."

-Diane Marie Brown, Black Candle Women

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21. 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 Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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22. We Are the Light

By: Matthew Quick

3.79

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

LIFE IS FULL OF GUARDIAN ANGELS. Lucas Goodgame lives in Majestic, Pennsylvania, a quaint suburb… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Quick's We Are the Light book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The best part of my soul loves the best part of your soul."

-Matthew Quick, We Are the Light

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23. The Light Pirate

By: Lily Brooks-Dalton

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in the near future, this hopeful story of survival and resilience follows Wanda—a luminous chil… read more

Similar categories in Lily Brooks-Dalton's The Light Pirate book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Someone will be left behind; this is what love costs."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"These women haven't shared their genes, but they have given freely of their memories. Their ideas. Their skills. There is more than one kind of legacy."

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

"After all this time, the aches have grown softer but also deeper. They both know the looping shape of pain--it changes and quiets but never ends. There is a strange comfort in its constancy. Memories…"

-Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate

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24. The Connellys of County Down

By: Tracey Lange

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she know… read more

Similar categories in Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. Black Girls Must Have It All (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, #3)

By: Jayne Allen

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In this final installment in the acclaimed Black Girls Must Die Exhausted trilogy, Tabitha is jugg… read more

Similar categories in Jayne Allen's Black Girls Must Have It All (Black Girls Must Die Exhausted, #3) book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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26. We Were Girls Once

By: Aiwanose Odafen

3.82

Format: None pages, Audiobook

'We were three: complete, as we were meant to be…’ Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to … read more

Similar categories in Aiwanose Odafen's We Were Girls Once book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. Daughter in Exile

By: Bisi Adjapon

3.86

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed author of  The Teller of Secrets  returns with a gut-wrenching, yet heartwarming, sto… read more

Similar categories in Bisi Adjapon's Daughter in Exile book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. The Attic Child

By: Lola Jaye

4.37

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A hauntingly powerful and emotionally charged novel about family secrets, love and loss, identity a… read more

Similar categories in Lola Jaye's The Attic Child book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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29. Adelaide

By: Genevieve Wheeler

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Wheeler's Adelaide book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But it feels so cold here without her."

-Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

"It made her feel a bit nauseous, but also deeply, deeply in love."

-Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

"So many things that never should have belonged to him had become his."

-Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

"It's so cruel... that grief comes part and parcel with love. It's just so unfair."

-Genevieve Wheeler, Adelaide

Cover of Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli

30. Someday, Maybe

By: Onyi Nwabineli

3.90

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

A stunning and witty debut novel about a young woman’s emotional journey through unimaginable loss,… read more

Similar categories in Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • cultural
  • death
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Nobody tells you that irrational hope is a side effect of grief. And they should because it is dangerous."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

"when someone you love dies, there's this period of disbelief-a time of dug-in heels, the refusal to process your new reality."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

"...there is no easy way to articulate what it means for your loved ones to worry that your person's ability to love you is limited by their inability to comprehend many of your lived experiences."

-Onyi Nwabineli, Someday, Maybe

Cover of Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow by Damilare Kuku

31. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow

By: Damilare Kuku

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more

Similar categories in Damilare Kuku's Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow book and Onyi Nwabineli's Someday, Maybe

  • adult fiction
  • africa
  • adult
  • fiction

29 Top contemporary books like Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Tomorrow I Become a Woman

Aiwanose Odafen

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Rootless

Krystle Zara Appiah

3.83

Transform Your Habits

The Half Moon

Mary Beth Keane

3.40

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16 Best contemporary books like We Are the Light by Matthew Quick

Transform Your Habits

Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Half Moon

Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Transform Your Habits

Signal Fires

Dani Shapiro

3.91

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