11 best-selling mystery books like The Comeback by Ella Berman

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The Comeback

By: Ella Berman

3.74

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a cha…

"I know that somebody hurt you. Now it's time for you to fuck shit up, baby lion."

-Ella Berman, The Comeback

"It all seemed so fragile to me, the trust we put in others without thinking about it."

-Ella Berman, The Comeback

"Surely there must be some limit to how many times you're allowed to hurt another human."

-Ella Berman, The Comeback

"But what if every time something bad happens, it just makes your world a little smaller."

-Ella Berman, The Comeback

If you liked the mystery plot in The Comeback by Ella Berman , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 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 Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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2. Bright Young Women

By: Jessica Knoll

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary novel inspired by the real-life sorority targeted by America's first celebrity ser… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

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3. Margo's Got Money Troubles

By: Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate ad… read more

Similar categories in Rufi Thorpe's Margo's Got Money Troubles book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m just saying,"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"I fell into a state that, if not sleep, was sleep adjacent."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"It really makes you wonder, what kind of truth would require this many lies to tell?"

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

"Who cared about sex, really? When what you needed was someone to talk to in the dark."

-Rufi Thorpe, Margo's Got Money Troubles

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4. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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5. The Heiress

By: Rachel Hawkins

3.87

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she’s not only North Carolina’s richest w… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Hawkins's The Heiress book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"One rarely finds salvation in Florida."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

"Sometimes it's fun to give people enough rope with which to hang themselves."

-Rachel Hawkins, The Heiress

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6. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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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 Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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. How to End a Love Story

By: Yulin Kuang

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063310681. Two writers with a complicated history end up wor… read more

Similar categories in Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Next Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #2)

By: Liv Constantine

3.89

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Daphne and Amber Parrish are thrust back into each other’s lives upon the resurgence of a long-forg… read more

Similar categories in Liv Constantine's The Next Mrs. Parrish (Mrs. Parrish, #2) book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

Similar categories in Sierra Greer's Annie Bot book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Anita de Monte Laughs Last

By: Xóchitl González

3.82

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Xochitl Gonzalez delivers a mesmerizing novel about a first-gener… read more

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

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12. Such a Bad Influence

By: Olivia Muenter

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Muenter's Such a Bad Influence book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Most Fun We Ever Had

By: Claire Lombardo

3.93

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

A multigenerational novel in which the four adult daughters of a Chicago couple--still madly in lov… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's The Most Fun We Ever Had book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You're ethereal. My intangible everything."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

"Sometimes it was enough just to listen to voices that weren't your own."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

"The best thing about the cold was the comfort that came from escaping it."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

"Life’s insistence on juxtaposing darkness and light would never cease to amaze him."

-Claire Lombardo, The Most Fun We Ever Had

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14. The Unwedding

By: Ally Condie

3.27

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The White Lotus meets Agatha Christie in this bold novel from a #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

Similar categories in Ally Condie's The Unwedding book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Interesting, her mind noted, that she would accept an increase in the risk of death over looking rude."

-Ally Condie, The Unwedding

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15. Husbands & Lovers

By: Beatriz Williams

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women—separated by decades and continents, and united by a mysterious family heirloom—discover … read more

Similar categories in Beatriz Williams's Husbands & Lovers book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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17. 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

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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18. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Comeback

By: Ella Berman

3.74

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

A deep dive into the psyche of a young actress raised in the spotlight under the influence of a cha… read more

Similar categories in Ella Berman's The Comeback book and Ella Berman's The Comeback

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I know that somebody hurt you. Now it's time for you to fuck shit up, baby lion."

-Ella Berman, The Comeback

"It all seemed so fragile to me, the trust we put in others without thinking about it."

-Ella Berman, The Comeback

"Surely there must be some limit to how many times you're allowed to hurt another human."

-Ella Berman, The Comeback

"But what if every time something bad happens, it just makes your world a little smaller."

-Ella Berman, The Comeback

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20. Als wir Schwäne waren

By: Behzad Karim Khani

4.42

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

Ein Junge, der sich eine Gewalt herbeisehnt, die eine Kuhle hinterlässt mit den Umrissen Deutschlan… read more

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21. Hot Mess: Roman | "Eine tragisch-komische, ungeschönte Geschichte über Freundschaft, Verletzlichkeit und Ehrlichkeit.“ IRISH TIMES (German Edition)

By: Sophie White

4.13

Format: 577 pages, Kindle Edition

Für Lexi könnte es nicht besser laufen. Der Podcast, den sie zusammen mit ihrer besten Freundin mod… read more

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19 best-selling fiction books like The Comeback by Ella Berman

Transform Your Habits

First Lie Wins

Ashley Elston

4.05

Transform Your Habits

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

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21 best-selling fiction books like Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Real Americans

Rachel Khong

4.04

Transform Your Habits

The Paradise Problem

Christina Lauren

4.14

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