17 must-read fiction books like How Could She by Lauren Mechling

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How Could She

By: Lauren Mechling

2.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

<Named a most anticipated novel of the summer by Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Bustle, Vulture…

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Cover of What Comes Next and How to Like It by Abigail Thomas

1. What Comes Next and How to Like It

By: Abigail Thomas

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, which "shines with honest intelligence" (Elizabeth… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Friendship by Emily Gould

2. Friendship

By: Emily Gould

3.50

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A novel about two friends learning the difference between getting older and growing up Bev Tunney a… read more

Similar categories in Emily Gould's Friendship book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • adult

3. The Last Time I Saw Paris

By: Lynn Sheene

4.34

Format: 592 pages,

A stunning debut novel of a young American woman who becomes a spy in Paris during World War II. M… read more

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4. Followers

By: Megan Angelo

3.62

Format: 380 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying story of two ambitious friends, the dark choices they make and the stunning moment … read more

Similar categories in Megan Angelo's Followers book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Her aloneness was so random, so total and unprovoked . . ."

-Megan Angelo, Followers

"She wanted him not to hold her; he couldn't let go just yet."

-Megan Angelo, Followers

"She loved her father with ease and loved her mother with effort."

-Megan Angelo, Followers

". . . though she couldn't admit it directly, not even to herself."

-Megan Angelo, Followers

Cover of Exhibit by R.O. Kwon

5. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Kissing Kosher

By: Jean Meltzer

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Step 1: Get the secret recipe. Step 2: Don’t fall in love… Avital Cohen isn’t wearing underpants… read more

Similar categories in Jean Meltzer's Kissing Kosher book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. We Came Here to Forget

By: Andrea Dunlop

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of She Regrets Nothing comes a vivid novel about a young Olympic skier who loses ev… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Dunlop's We Came Here to Forget book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • audiobook
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9. Gravity Is the Thing

By: Jaclyn Moriarty

3.60

Format: 416 pages, ebook

The adult debut from bestselling, award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty—a frequently hil… read more

Similar categories in Jaclyn Moriarty's Gravity Is the Thing book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Last Confession of Autumn Casterly

By: Meredith Tate

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When band-geek Ivy and her friends get together, things start with a rousing board game and end wit… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History by Alan Sepinwall

11. Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History

By: Alan Sepinwall

4.18

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Welcome to the O.C., b* it's the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show… read more

Similar categories in Alan Sepinwall's Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • audiobook
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12. Musical Chairs

By: Amy Poeppel

3.81

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The “quick-witted and razor-sharp” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy… read more

Similar categories in Amy Poeppel's Musical Chairs book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Excavations

By: Kate Myers

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

On a remote archeological site in Greece, the mythic home of the first Olympics, four women discove… read more

Similar categories in Kate Myers's Excavations book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • literary fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Her fearlessness in the face of authority was the trait she was most proud of. It had gotten her nowhere in life, but she liked it about herself too much to let it go despite mounting evidence that s…"

-Kate Myers, Excavations

Cover of Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes by Kathleen    West

14. Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes

By: Kathleen West

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Perfect for fans of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Small Admissions, a wry and cleverly observed de… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen West's Minor Dramas & Other Catastrophes book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The High Season by Judy Blundell

15. The High Season

By: Judy Blundell

3.42

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“A mesmerizing, head-spinning—and sometimes madcap-hilarious—take of have and have-nots.”— People  … read more

Similar categories in Judy Blundell's The High Season book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Ah, now she knew what divorce really was. Sharing decisions with a person you would run down on the street."

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

"All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than al the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's wr…"

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

"All along you could have done one thing. One thing simpler than all the rest. You could have told the truth about how you felt. Publicly. You could have stood up and said This is happening and it's w…"

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

"Maybe all relationships, friendship, partner, parent and child, were held together by the things you did not say as much as the things you did. The unsaid was the keystone in the arch. Once you kicke…"

-Judy Blundell, The High Season

Cover of No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol

16. No One Tells You This

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.91

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol… read more

Similar categories in Glynnis MacNicol's No One Tells You This book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"We're always drawn to the clearest articulation of what we think we lack."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"We're the first generation that can make enough of our own money to live the way we want. I feel like we have a responsibility to figure out what this means."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

"This is why people have babies...because it's exhausting not to know what you're supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades."

-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This

Cover of That's What Frenemies Are For by Sophie Littlefield

17. That's What Frenemies Are For

By: Sophie Littlefield

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Manhattan socialite turns her spin instructor into a fitness superstar to impress her friends. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Littlefield's That's What Frenemies Are For book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Other's Gold by Elizabeth  Ames

18. The Other's Gold

By: Elizabeth Ames

3.20

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

Assigned to the same suite during their freshman year at Quincy-Hawthorne College, Lainey, Ji Sun, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Ames's The Other's Gold book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What she couldn't understand was people who didn't imagine everything."

-Elizabeth Ames, The Other's Gold

Cover of Love at First Like by Hannah Orenstein

19. Love at First Like

By: Hannah Orenstein

2.98

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Eliza Roth and her sister Sophie co-own a jewelry shop in Brooklyn. One night, after learning of an… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Orenstein's Love at First Like book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of How Could She by Lauren  Mechling

20. How Could She

By: Lauren Mechling

2.84

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

<Named a most anticipated novel of the summer by Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, Bustle, Vulture… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Mechling's How Could She book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • literary fiction
  • modern
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Memo by Rachel Dodes

21. The Memo

By: Rachel Dodes

3.45

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

If you could rewrite your life story, would you dare? That’s the question at the heart of this char… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Dodes's The Memo book and Lauren Mechling's How Could She

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

18 must-read contemporary books like How Could She by Lauren Mechling

Transform Your Habits

Friendship

Emily Gould

3.50

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Followers

Megan Angelo

3.62

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Exhibit

R.O. Kwon

3.24

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Worry

Alexandra Tanner

3.36

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Maine

J. Courtney Sullivan

3.40

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She Regrets Nothing

Andrea Dunlop

3.54

This Is Where We Live

Janelle Brown

4.04

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Love Me Back

Merritt Tierce

4.06

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