20 Best fiction books like Second Self by Chloë Ashby

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Second Self

By: Chloë Ashby

3.81

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

When Cathy and Noah first got together neither saw children in their future. Eight years later, the…

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1. Jaded

By: Ela Lee

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previo… read more

Similar categories in Ela Lee's Jaded book and Chloë Ashby's Second Self

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'd tell her that recovery would be like the temple: built between an enormous boulder and a cliff's edge. The construction would be perilous, with the laying of every stone risking a drop into the a…"

-Ela Lee, Jaded

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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 Chloë Ashby's Second Self

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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. Okay Days

By: Jenny Mustard

3.76

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

‘A perfect Millennial love story ... with its acidic dialogue and languid sex scenes. A charming an… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Mustard's Okay Days book and Chloë Ashby's Second Self

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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…"

-Jenny Mustard, Okay Days

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4. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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5. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Chloë Ashby's Second Self

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Rosewater

By: Liv Little

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Queenie and Such a Fun Age comes a deliciously gritty and strikingly bold debut novel a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. Milk Teeth

By: Jessica Andrews

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across Engla… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. As Young as This

By: Roxy Dunn

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Elliot. Joe. Tommy. Nathanael. Wren. Oliver. Malik. Zach. Frank. Patrick. Noah. These are the men M… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. The Mess We’re In

By: Annie Macmanus

3.40

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

I’m a Londoner now. I’m a voice in the noise. I’m ready. It’s the turn of the millennium and, la… read more

Similar categories in Annie Macmanus's The Mess We’re In book and Chloë Ashby's Second Self

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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12. 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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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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13. Saltwater

By: Jessica Andrews

3.79

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

Lucy is lost. Growing up in the north east she wanted more. When others were thinking about the Nis… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I want it and I do not want it. I want to be visible and I want to be invisible, or perhaps I want to be visible to some people and not to others. It seems unfair that I can't choose."

-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

"I would like to have something to believe in, but it is difficult. Everything my generation was promised got blown away like clouds of smoke curling from the ends of cigarettes in the mouths of polit…"

-Jessica Andrews, Saltwater

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14. Oh, Sister

By: Jodie Chapman

4.18

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Meet Isobel, Jen and Zelda.Three women whose bodies and minds are not their own.They belong to the … read more

Similar categories in Jodie Chapman's Oh, Sister book and Chloë Ashby's Second Self

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Limelight

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.11

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Frankie has a love-hate relationship with the spotlight. She secretly craves attention, but she is … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Limelight book and Chloë Ashby's Second Self

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Just for Today

By: Nell Hudson

3.83

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

'A yearning, tenderly bruising beauty of a book and a brilliant portrayal of friendship in the roar… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Seventeen

By: Joe Gibson

4.13

Format: 352 pages, ebook

'Engaging and engrossing, frank and frankly troubling, Seventeen is a book not easily forgotten' - … read more

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18. Second Self

By: Chloë Ashby

3.81

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

When Cathy and Noah first got together neither saw children in their future. Eight years later, the… read more

Similar categories in Chloë Ashby's Second Self book and Chloë Ashby's Second Self

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. This Is Fine

By: Poorna Bell

4.26

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relation… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Girls

By: Kirsty Capes

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

GIRLS follows the story of two sisters - Mattie and Nora - and the thorny relationship with their f… read more

Similar categories in Kirsty Capes's Girls book and Chloë Ashby's Second Self

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Plaything

By: Bea Setton

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A tense and compulsive novel of unnatural fixation Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. Bu… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

19 Best contemporary books like Second Self by Chloë Ashby

Transform Your Habits

Jaded

Ela Lee

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Okay Days

Jenny Mustard

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Ordinary Human Failings

Megan Nolan

3.78

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21 Best fiction books like Rosewater by Liv Little

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Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Evenings and Weekends

Oisín McKenna

3.96

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Rosewater

Liv Little

3.67

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