21 Top fiction books like The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu

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The Faculty Lounge

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato…

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Cover of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

1. 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 Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • 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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2. By Any Other Name

By: Jodi Picoult

4.19

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling co-author of Mad Honey comes an “inspiring” (Elle) novel about … read more

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's By Any Other Name book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Here One Moment

By: Liane Moriarty

4.15

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Aside from a delay, there will be no probl… read more

Similar categories in Liane Moriarty's Here One Moment book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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4. 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 Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • 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

Cover of I Hope This Finds You Well by Natalie Sue

5. I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

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6. Slow Dance

By: Rainbow Rowell

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK! Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up to… read more

Similar categories in Rainbow Rowell's Slow Dance book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I want to remember this day, she whispered. But I also want to have so many good days that this one gets lost in the plethora."

-Rainbow Rowell, Slow Dance

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7. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books

By: Kirsten Miller

4.19

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more

Similar categories in Kirsten Miller's Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. How to Age Disgracefully

By: Clare Pooley

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more

Similar categories in Clare Pooley's How to Age Disgracefully book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."

-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully

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9. The Night We Lost Him

By: Laura Dave

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Estranged siblings discover their father has been keeping a secret for over fifty years, one that m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Dave's The Night We Lost Him book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • 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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11. 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 Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • literary fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Jackpot Summer

By: Elyssa Friedland

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more

Similar categories in Elyssa Friedland's Jackpot Summer book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Pink Glass Houses

By: Asha Elias

3.57

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A seductive social satire about the wealthy PTA moms of an elite elementary school in Miami Beach, … read more

Similar categories in Asha Elias's Pink Glass Houses book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Dad Camp

By: Evan S. Porter

3.79

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A heartwarming novel about a loving dad who drags his eleven-year-old daughter to “father-daughter … read more

Similar categories in Evan S. Porter's Dad Camp book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's The Same Bright Stars book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu

16. The Faculty Lounge

By: Jennifer Mathieu

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of Moxie, a funny, bighearted adult debut that is at once an ode to educato… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • education
  • audiobook
Cover of Like Mother, Like Daughter by Kimberly McCreight

17. Like Mother, Like Daughter

By: Kimberly McCreight

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A daughter races to uncover her mother's secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this thril… read more

Similar categories in Kimberly McCreight's Like Mother, Like Daughter book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife by Anna  Johnston

18. The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife

By: Anna Johnston

4.41

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Remarkably Bright Creatures and The Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, a warm, life-affirming… read more

Similar categories in Anna Johnston's The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. It's Elementary

By: Elise Bryant

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A fast-paced, completely delightful new mystery about what happens when parents get a little too in… read more

Similar categories in Elise Bryant's It's Elementary book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The guy next to him has dark brown hair down to his chin and striking blue eyes, like a real-life Shawn Hunter."

-Elise Bryant, It's Elementary

Cover of Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend by M.J. Wassmer

20. Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend

By: M.J. Wassmer

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

White Lotus meets Kevin Wilson in this whip-smart social satire about a man who finds himself trapp… read more

Similar categories in M.J. Wassmer's Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. You Will Never Be Me

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

When cracks start forming in an influencer’s curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as v… read more

Similar categories in Jesse Q. Sutanto's You Will Never Be Me book and Jennifer Mathieu's The Faculty Lounge

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

20 Best contemporary books like The Faculty Lounge by Jennifer Mathieu

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Here One Moment

Liane Moriarty

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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21 Best fiction books like Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller

Transform Your Habits

Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

Transform Your Habits

By Any Other Name

Jodi Picoult

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The Rom-Commers

Katherine Center

4.15

Transform Your Habits

Sandwich

Catherine Newman

3.75

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