20 best-selling audiobook books like How to Fall Out of Love Madly by Jana Casale

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How to Fall Out of Love Madly

By: Jana Casale

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three women confront the compromises they've made to appease the men they love. Joy and Annie ar…

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

-Jana Casale, How to Fall Out of Love Madly

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

-Jana Casale, How to Fall Out of Love Madly

"Men have probably kept us from coming up with a word that would describe that feeling you feel when a man does something like that to you."

-Jana Casale, How to Fall Out of Love Madly

"Men have probably kept us from coming up with a word that would describe that feeling you feel when a man does something like that to you."

-Jana Casale, How to Fall Out of Love Madly

If you liked the audiobook plot in How to Fall Out of Love Madly by Jana Casale , here is a list of 20 books like this:

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1. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

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2. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Jana Casale's How to Fall Out of Love Madly

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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3. 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 Jana Casale's How to Fall Out of Love Madly

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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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4. The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

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5. Thirst for Salt

By: Madelaine Lucas

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

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6. They're Going to Love You

By: Meg Howrey

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A magnetic tale of betrayal, art, and ambition, set in the world of professional ballet, New York C… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Marriage is always kind of a net loss, for girls."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"I've had a life of interrupted things, you see. Perhaps I can't bear to have one more part of myself go unfinished."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"All this wasted time. For nothing. For ego. Because nobody could get exactly what they wanted. Because nobody knew how to stop themselves from being themselves."

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

"What is the thing that happens in a friendship that isn't an absence of sex? The thing added, that's maybe only between women. Not a matter of our organs or whether we were born with them or what we …"

-Meg Howrey, They're Going to Love You

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7. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Jana Casale's How to Fall Out of Love Madly

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

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8. Piglet

By: Lottie Hazell

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more

Similar categories in Lottie Hazell's Piglet book and Jana Casale's How to Fall Out of Love Madly

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"

-Lottie Hazell, Piglet

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9. My Last Innocent Year

By: Daisy Alpert Florin

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Alpert Florin's My Last Innocent Year book and Jana Casale's How to Fall Out of Love Madly

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Talking at Night

By: Claire Daverley

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more

Similar categories in Claire Daverley's Talking at Night book and Jana Casale's How to Fall Out of Love Madly

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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12. Good Material

By: Dolly Alderton

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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13. Cleopatra and Frankenstein

By: Coco Mellors

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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14. Everything I Know About Love

By: Dolly Alderton

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, g… read more

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  • romance
  • feminism
  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

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15. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Jana Casale's How to Fall Out of Love Madly

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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16. Ghosts

By: Dolly Alderton

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and fam… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I think maybe every job is a waste of an English degree."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"I think the memory of your childhood home is impossible to destroy."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"Jethro's flat was in a warehouse that, even from the outside, looked very pleased with its own conversion."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

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17. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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18. Sirens & Muses

By: Antonia Angress

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets o… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"It was finally April, and the dogwoods were in bloom, flowerbeds everywhere lurid with color."

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"They sat there in silence, each avoiding the other's gaze, and Karina felt the moment slipping away from her. "I think--" she began. "I think that the people we become infatuated with are the ones wh…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

"I think it's easy, when...when you're neglecting your own happiness, to inadvertently neglect the happiness of the people you love. It's sort of like you think you're being selfless or self-sacrifici…"

-Antonia Angress, Sirens & Muses

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19. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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20. A Very Nice Girl

By: Imogen Crimp

3.37

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about ambition, sex, power, and love, Imogen Crimp's A Very N… read more

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  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. How to Fall Out of Love Madly

By: Jana Casale

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three women confront the compromises they've made to appease the men they love. Joy and Annie ar… read more

Similar categories in Jana Casale's How to Fall Out of Love Madly book and Jana Casale's How to Fall Out of Love Madly

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • womens
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The unexamined life is not worth living"

-Jana Casale, How to Fall Out of Love Madly

"Men have probably kept us from coming up with a word that would describe that feeling you feel when a man does something like that to you."

-Jana Casale, How to Fall Out of Love Madly

"I think, basic is something that only ever gets saidto women as a way to make them feel bad about themselves. And really men are the most basic people of all."

-Jana Casale, How to Fall Out of Love Madly

"People could tell you whatever politically correct garbage they wanted to, but youth meant something in this world and it especially meant something for a woman."

-Jana Casale, How to Fall Out of Love Madly

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Emma Cline

3.29

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4.21

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4.27

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