13 best-selling contemporary books like Keya Das's Second Act by Sopan Deb

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Keya Das's Second Act

By: Sopan Deb

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic …

If you liked the contemporary plot in Keya Das's Second Act by Sopan Deb , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Balm

By: Dolen Perkins-Valdez

3.41

Format: 94 pages, Hardcover

The Civil War has ended, and Madge, Sadie, and Hemp have each come to Chicago in search of a new li… read more

Similar categories in Dolen Perkins-Valdez's Balm book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction

2. Lazaretto

By: Diane McKinney-Whetstone

3.92

Format: 381 pages, Hardcover

Diane McKinney-Whetstone's nationally bestselling novel, Tumbling, immersed us into Philadelphia's … read more

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3. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

3.90

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more

Similar categories in Angie Cruz's How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

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4. Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

By: Bushra Rehman

3.98

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

For readers of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and My Brilliant Friend, Bushra Rehman's Roses, in … read more

Similar categories in Bushra Rehman's Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • queer
"I saw my mother shrink in her eyes. I wanted to tell the cashier there were no roaches in Pakistan, but something stopped me."

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"I had a sudden irrational desire to hug her, but there was so much distance between us. My birth had been only the beginning of our separation, the first time I was cut loose. From that moment until …"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

"She stepped inside, and I followed her and my mother up the stairs. My mother had carried me up those stairs as a child. She'd taught me how to walk on them when I'd been a child. I'd swept those sta…"

-Bushra Rehman, Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion

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5. The Refugee Ocean

By: Pauls Toutonghi

3.96

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Two refugees find that their lives are inextricably linked—over time and distance—by the perils of … read more

Similar categories in Pauls Toutonghi's The Refugee Ocean book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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6. The Caregiver

By: Samuel Park

3.76

Format: 288 pages, ebook

From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes gorgeous, emotionally wise tale a… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Park's The Caregiver book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I began to wonder if love was just a refined form of compassion, the heart's choice, for whatever reason, to devote itself to another being."

-Samuel Park, The Caregiver

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7. Late Bloomers

By: Deepa Varadarajan

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An Indian American family is turned upside down when the parents split up thirty-six years into the… read more

Similar categories in Deepa Varadarajan's Late Bloomers book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers

By: Abraham Chang

3.41

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Young Wang has received plenty of wisdom from his beloved uncle: don’t take life too seriously, get… read more

Similar categories in Abraham Chang's 888 Love and the Divine Burden of Numbers book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. With My Back to the World: Poems

By: Victoria Chang

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

*A Today Show Pick *Roxane Gay Audacious Book Club Selection *Publisher's Weekly Starred Review a… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Chang's With My Back to the World: Poems book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • contemporary
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10. Cinema Love

By: Jiaming Tang

3.86

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A staggering, tender epic about gay men in rural China and the women who marry them. For over th… read more

Similar categories in Jiaming Tang's Cinema Love book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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11. The Material

By: Camille Bordas

3.42

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A single momentous day transforms the lives of students and professors at a school for stand-up com… read more

Similar categories in Camille Bordas's The Material book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Keya Das's Second Act

By: Sopan Deb

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic … read more

Similar categories in Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • queer
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13. The Company Daughters

By: Samantha Rajaram

4.03

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Blew my mind… so magically written and most of all that it is based on true events… a hard-hitting… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Rajaram's The Company Daughters book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • india
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos

By: Melissa de la Cruz

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Evan Saatchi can’t keep his eyes off his new co-worker, Dalisay Ramos. Newly arrived from Manila to… read more

Similar categories in Melissa de la Cruz's The Five Stages of Courting Dalisay Ramos book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Puck and Prejudice

By: Lia Riley

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

From the author of Mister Hockey comes a sizzling marriage of convenience romance between a pro hoc… read more

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16. The Lucky Ones

By: Zara Chowdhary

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A moving memoir by a survivor of anti-Muslim violence in contemporary India that delicately weaves … read more

Similar categories in Zara Chowdhary's The Lucky Ones book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • india
  • audiobook
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17. And So I Roar

By: Abi Daré

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A stunning, heartwrenching new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl w… read more

Similar categories in Abi Daré's And So I Roar book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. This Book Will Bury Me

By: Ashley Winstead

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour comes a… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Winstead's This Book Will Bury Me book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • adult
  • fiction
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19. Sunshine and Spice

By: Aurora Palit

3.97

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

When two complete opposites agree to fake date in order to solve their cultural dilemmas, they find… read more

Similar categories in Aurora Palit's Sunshine and Spice book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • audiobook
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Sing Her Name

By: Rosalyn Story

3.98

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Sing Her Name follows two musically gifted women whose lives overlap across the boundaries of time.… read more

Similar categories in Rosalyn Story's Sing Her Name book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • fiction
Cover of The Magnificent Ruins by Nayantara Roy

21. The Magnificent Ruins

By: Nayantara Roy

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Vikram Seth and Thrity Umrigar meet Rebecca in this sweeping multi-generational debut novel by acco… read more

Similar categories in Nayantara Roy's The Magnificent Ruins book and Sopan Deb's Keya Das's Second Act

  • literary fiction
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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