24 Best fiction books like Family and Other Catastrophes by Alexandra Borowitz

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Family and Other Catastrophes

By: Alexandra Borowitz

2.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A delightfully quirky debut about family bonds and the chaos that ensues when nature and lack of nu…

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1. Fall on Your Knees

By: Ann-Marie MacDonald

3.97

Format: 672 pages, Mass Market Paperback

They are the Pipers of Cape Breton Island — a family steeped in lies and unspoken truths that reach… read more

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  • fiction
"She is why purgatory was invented."

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

"To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain."

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

"Sat - sex is good for the voice. Why don't they teach you that in school?"

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

"My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all."

-Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

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2. The Wednesday Letters

By: Jason F. Wright

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The surprise New York Timesbestseller, from an author who delivers "American storytelling at its be… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
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3. Dog on It (A Chet and Bernie Mystery #1)

By: Spencer Quinn

3.95

Format: None pages,

As sidekicks, Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 have nothing on Chet and Bernie. This charming detective d… read more

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  • humor
  • fiction
  • audiobook

4. The Peach Keeper

By: Sarah Addison Allen

3.91

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The New York Timesbestselling author of The Girl Who Chased the Moon welcomes you to her newest loc… read more

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  • fiction

5. The Sugar Queen

By: Sarah Addison Allen

3.50

Format: 24 pages,

Twenty-seven-year-old Josey Cirrini is sure of three things: winter in her North Carolina hometown … read more

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6. Three Wishes

By: Liane Moriarty

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

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7. Piece of Mind

By: Michelle Adelman

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

At twenty-seven, Lucy knows everything about coffee, comic books, and Gus (the polar bear at the Ce… read more

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8. Goodbye, Vitamin

By: Rachel Khong

4.29

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Goodbye, Vitamin is the wry, beautifully observed story of a woman at a crossroads, as Ruth and her… read more

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9. The One & Only

By: Emily Giffin

3.20

Format: 432 pages, ebook

In her eagerly awaited new novel, beloved New York Times bestselling author Emily Giffin returns wi… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Why is a Christmas tree better than a man? Because it stays up, has cute balls, and looks good with the lights on!"

-Emily Giffin, The One & Only

"So much of how we see the world is the matter of interpretation. A matter of wishing and hoping rather than really deep-down believing."

-Emily Giffin, The One & Only

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10. Clean Getaway

By: Nic Stone

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Nic Stone comes a middle grade road-trip story through Ameri… read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

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  • family
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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12. The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

By: Eva Jurczyk

3.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What holds more secrets in the library: the ancient books shelved in the stacks or the people who p… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. Akin

By: Emma Donoghue

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the … read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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14. The Girl in the Castle

By: James Patterson

3.87

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Beloved #1 bestselling authors James Patterson and Emily Raymond deliver a thrilling novel about a … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • mental health
"Have you ever felt a beloved hand grow cold in yours? If not, then I don’t expect you to understand."

-James Patterson, The Girl in the Castle

"And the deepest, most terrible. truth is this: the number of things we understand will always be dwarfed by the quantity of things that we don't."

-James Patterson, The Girl in the Castle

"Dreams don’t have anything to do with wish fulfillment. They’re more like—well, like your mind takes a giant dump every night, and the result is a bunch of weird, nonsensical stories that happen to y…"

-James Patterson, The Girl in the Castle

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15. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

By: Sam Kean

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

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16. After the Fire

By: Will Hill

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The things I've seen are burned into me, like scars that refuse to fade. Before, she lived insid… read more

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  • fiction
  • mental health
"I think you can probably be a good vet without owning any animals."

-Will Hill, After the Fire

"places are only places... people make them into more than they are."

-Will Hill, After the Fire

"Love changes how you see everything. It blinds you, but in a good way."

-Will Hill, After the Fire

"[...] nothing is ever only good and nothing is ever only bad. Everything is somewhere in the middle."

-Will Hill, After the Fire

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17. Let's Not Do That Again

By: Grant Ginder

3.59

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The People We Hate at the Wedding comes a poignant, funny, and slyly beguiling n… read more

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  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What the fuck am I supposed to do with this thing?" "You're supposed to eat it," Cate says. "With what? A forklift?"

-Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

"Inevitably there would be a complaint about dark faces, moving around neighborhoods where they didn't belong, and then another about gay teachers, making queers of their students. A world turned on i…"

-Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

"It's got to be disappointing, being called all those things." Nancy thinks: How long has she been doing this? Nearly twenty years--she can pin it to the month. The answer to that question can never u…"

-Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

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18. What Comes After

By: JoAnne Tompkins

3.78

Format: 420 pages, Hardcover

After the shocking death of two teenage boys tears apart a community in the Pacific Northwest, a my… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"It didn't take long to understand that there was no recipe or equation. Parenting was a river of moment-by-moment decisions, intuitions, a balancing of one's own needs, which did factor in somehow, w…"

-JoAnne Tompkins, What Comes After

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19. The Silence Between Us

By: Alison Gervais

3.86

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

Deaf teen Maya moves across the country and must attend a hearing school for the first time. As if … read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. Save What's Left

By: Elizabeth Castellano

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An outrageously funny debut novel about a woman who moves to a small beach town looking for peace, … read more

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  • womens fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of License to Bite (New Orleans Nocturnes, #1) by Carrie Pulkinen

21. License to Bite (New Orleans Nocturnes, #1)

By: Carrie Pulkinen

3.94

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

It's all fun and games...until someone wakes up dead.Governor's daughter Jane Anderson is used to g… read more

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  • humor
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22. The Vanishing Type (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #5)

By: Ellery Adams

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Entertainment Weekly hails the Secret, Book, and Scone Society series by the beloved New York Times… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

23. Dial A for Aunties (Aunties, #1)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.71

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a … read more

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  • humor
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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24. The Lost Letters of Evelyn Wright

By: Clare Swatman

3.89

Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition

Starting over can be hard to do… So when mum of two Beth moves out of her beloved marital home and … read more

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  • womens fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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25. Ms. Demeanor

By: Elinor Lipman

3.46

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From one of America's most beloved contemporary novelists, a delicious and witty story about love u… read more

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  • humor
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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26. No Judgments (Little Bridge Island, #1)

By: Meg Cabot

3.36

Format: 384 pages, ebook

The storm of the century is about to hit Little Bridge Island, Florida—and it’s sending waves crash… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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27. The Maid and the Socialite: The Brave Women Behind Green Bay's Scandalous Minahan Trials

By: Lynda Drews

4.17

Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition

In the shadows of progress, two women's stories were erased. Until now. What if a respected surg… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Well-Behaved Indian Women

By: Saumya Dave

3.78

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generation… read more

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  • family
  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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29. Family and Other Catastrophes

By: Alexandra Borowitz

2.93

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A delightfully quirky debut about family bonds and the chaos that ensues when nature and lack of nu… read more

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  • womens fiction
  • feminism
  • humor
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • family
  • adult
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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30. Honestly, We Meant Well

By: Grant Ginder

3.30

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

"“This rollicking book has it all: sex, lies, and scenery. Grant Ginder weaves a wonderful, engross… read more

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  • humor
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Digging Up Love (Taste of Love, #1) by Chandra Blumberg

31. Digging Up Love (Taste of Love, #1)

By: Chandra Blumberg

3.54

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

From debut author Chandra Blumberg comes a playful, heartfelt romance about chasing your dreams and… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We usually camp out on digs. Smoked briskets and pulled chicken is a big step up from hot dogs and walking tacos."

-Chandra Blumberg, Digging Up Love (Taste of Love, #1)

"Wish I was closer so I could take the reins myself." "Take the reins of my life?" "Since you've had your foot on the brakes for... I dunno, ten years ? Yeah."

-Chandra Blumberg, Digging Up Love (Taste of Love, #1)

"Curlicues of yellow lemon peel floated down into the sugar. Aromatherapy. Some people might turn to the homey flavors of vanilla and cinnamon to chase away nerves, but citrus calmed Alisha's soul."

-Chandra Blumberg, Digging Up Love (Taste of Love, #1)

"You guard your heart so hard I'm surprised it hasn't turned to coal. But instead it sounds like you found a guy who sees you for the diamond you are. And whether you realize it or not, you're worth i…"

-Chandra Blumberg, Digging Up Love (Taste of Love, #1)

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