13 Best chick lit books like How to Be Second Best by Jessica Dettmann

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How to Be Second Best

By: Jessica Dettmann

3.89

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A hilarious and heart-warming debut that captures the dramas, delights and delirium of modern paren…

"I should have a slogan: Emma Baker - she's what happens when you're busy making other plans."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

"I should have a slogan: Emma Baker - she's what happens when you're busy making other plans."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

"I should have a slogan: Emma Baker - she's what happens when you're busy making other plans."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

"I should have a slogan: Emma Baker - she's what happens when you you're busy making other plans."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

If you liked the chick lit plot in How to Be Second Best by Jessica Dettmann , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of The Shadow Year by Hannah Richell

1. The Shadow Year

By: Hannah Richell

3.89

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

On a sultry summer's day in 1980, five friends stumble upon an abandoned lakeside cottage hidden de… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Richell's The Shadow Year book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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3. The Angry Women's Choir

By: Meg Bignell

4.07

Format: 403 pages, Paperback

By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about… read more

Similar categories in Meg Bignell's The Angry Women's Choir book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • book club
  • audiobook
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4. The Work Wives

By: Rachael Johns

3.91

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

How well do you really know the people you work with? For work wives Debra and Quinn, it's a case… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Work Wives book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The Accident

By: Fiona Lowe

3.86

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

A terrible crash... but the facts don't add up. Worlds converge and two women's lives are torn … read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Accident book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Love, Just In

By: Natalie Murray

3.82

Format: 462 pages, Kindle Edition

In the vein of Emily Henry's You and Me On Vacation , Love, Just In is a friends-to-lovers romance … read more

Similar categories in Natalie Murray's Love, Just In book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. The Other Bridget

By: Rachael Johns

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

A feelgood romantic comedy by Australia's bestselling romance writer, ideal for fans of Emily Henry… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's The Other Bridget book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1)

By: Amanda Hampson

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Trade Paperback

They keep everyone's secrets, until there's a murder... Sydney, 1965: After a chance encounter w… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Hampson's The Tea Ladies (The Tea Ladies, #1) book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7) by Marian Keyes

9. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

By: Marian Keyes

4.02

Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more

Similar categories in Marian Keyes's My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7) book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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10. The School Run

By: Ali Lowe

3.86

Format: 349 pages, Kindle Edition

How far would you go to protect your children? For parents living in the beautiful coastal town … read more

Similar categories in Ali Lowe's The School Run book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Talk to the Heart (Rose Hill, #3)

By: Rachael Johns

4.37

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

How hard can it be to resist temptation? Adeline Walsh never thought she would give up her worldly… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's Talk to the Heart (Rose Hill, #3) book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

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12. The Money Club

By: Fiona Lowe

3.94

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

A gripping exploration of modern greed as bestselling Australian author Fiona Lowe unpicks the mora… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Lowe's The Money Club book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Joy Moody is Out of Time

By: Kerryn Mayne

3.96

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

On her twin daughters’ twenty-first birthday, Joy Moody – proprietor of Bayside’s premier laundroma… read more

Similar categories in Kerryn Mayne's Joy Moody is Out of Time book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Dinner with the Schnabels

By: Toni Jordan

3.68

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

You can marry into them, but can you ever really be one of them? A novel about marriage, love and … read more

Similar categories in Toni Jordan's Dinner with the Schnabels book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • fiction
  • humor
  • family
  • contemporary
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15. Paper Chains

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Fifth Letter and Those Other Women comes this touching story of se… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Moriarty's Paper Chains book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • womens fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Something Bad is Going to Happen by Jessie Stephens

16. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Stephens's Something Bad is Going to Happen book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of The Work by Bri Lee

17. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's The Work book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of Emergency Exit Only by Michelle  Upton

18. Emergency Exit Only

By: Michelle Upton

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

No evacuation plan, no safety net. Amelia's quitting the daily grind to find her fantasy job. But a… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Upton's Emergency Exit Only book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The One and Only Dolly Jamieson

By: Lisa Ireland

4.22

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The One and Only Dolly Jamieson is a compelling feel-good novel featuring a proud and gutsy heroine… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Ireland's The One and Only Dolly Jamieson book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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20. The Model Wife

By: Tricia Stringer

3.92

Format: 512 pages, ebook

Even a good woman can be pushed too far...From bestselling author Tricia Stringer, this beautifully… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Stringer's The Model Wife book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green

21. Thursdays at Orange Blossom House

By: Sophie Green

3.83

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

From the author of beloved Top Ten bestsellers The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Cl… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Green's Thursdays at Orange Blossom House book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A wistfulness settles on Patricia's face and Grace Maud recognises it; the mixture of regret and relief that arises when you know you've become the person you want to be only because some of the thin…"

-Sophie Green, Thursdays at Orange Blossom House

Cover of One Day We're All Going to Die by Elise Esther Hearst

22. One Day We're All Going to Die

By: Elise Esther Hearst

3.51

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Sorrow and Bliss meets Normal People in this utterly compelling, darkly humorous millennial coming… read more

Similar categories in Elise Esther Hearst's One Day We're All Going to Die book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Lost Without You by Rachael Johns

23. Lost Without You

By: Rachael Johns

3.92

Format: 440 pages, ebook

Four women, one dress, and the secret that binds them all... On a special night that is suppose… read more

Similar categories in Rachael Johns's Lost Without You book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • audiobook
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24. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Novak's Crushing book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Prettier If She Smiled More by Toni Jordan

25. Prettier If She Smiled More

By: Toni Jordan

3.63

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

'A contemporary comic masterpiece. Practically every page boasts lines redolent of humour, wit and … read more

Similar categories in Toni Jordan's Prettier If She Smiled More book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • chick lit
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Every Last Suspect by Nicola Moriarty

26. Every Last Suspect

By: Nicola Moriarty

3.95

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

Who killed Harriet? Complicated, driven, loving; manipulative, irresistible, monstrous – whether… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Moriarty's Every Last Suspect book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Summer Place

By: Janette Paul

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

As three women return to the summer place of their youth for a beach wedding, each is grappling wit… read more

Similar categories in Janette Paul's The Summer Place book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Hidden Book by Kirsty Manning

28. The Hidden Book

By: Kirsty Manning

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of The Jade Lily comes a compelling novel based on a true story of a WW… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Manning's The Hidden Book book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of How to Be Second Best by Jessica Dettmann

29. How to Be Second Best

By: Jessica Dettmann

3.89

Format: 416 pages, ebook

A hilarious and heart-warming debut that captures the dramas, delights and delirium of modern paren… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"I should have a slogan: Emma Baker - she's what happens when you're busy making other plans."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

"I should have a slogan: Emma Baker - she's what happens when you you're busy making other plans."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

"You won't get rid of him that easily. Troy will live a long and annoying life. People like him always do."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

"Lola is a sociopath in a children's book and TV series, sister of Charlie, one of the great long-suffering brothers of literature."

-Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

Cover of The Deed by Susannah Begbie

30. The Deed

By: Susannah Begbie

4.12

Format: 415 pages, Kindle Edition

'Now that's the way to bury your old man ... he sank into his Jason recliner, wincing. A a body wr… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Begbie's The Deed book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Textbook Romance by Kristen Bailey

31. Textbook Romance

By: Kristen Bailey

4.00

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

When maths teacher Zoe Swift meets the irresistibly funny and charming Jack Damon at her friends’ w… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Bailey's Textbook Romance book and Jessica Dettmann's How to Be Second Best

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • contemporary

29 Best fiction books like How to Be Second Best by Jessica Dettmann

Transform Your Habits

The Shadow Year

Hannah Richell

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Angry Women's Choir

Meg Bignell

4.07

Transform Your Habits

The Work Wives

Rachael Johns

3.91

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13 Top fiction books like The Other Bridget by Rachael Johns

Transform Your Habits

Back on Track

Tricia Stringer

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Tilda Is Visible

Jane Tara

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Accident

Fiona Lowe

3.86

Transform Your Habits

The Chocolate Factory

Mary-Lou Stephens

3.96

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