15 must-read chick lit books like A Better Next by Maren Cooper

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A Better Next

By: Maren Cooper

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jess Lawson, a forty-five-year-old healthcare consultant, wife, and mother of two, has spent most o…

If you liked the chick lit plot in A Better Next by Maren Cooper , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. The Bookshop at Water's End

By: None

4.88

Format: 242 pages, Paperback

The women who spent their childhood summers in a small southern town discover it harbors secrets as… read more

Similar categories in None's The Bookshop at Water's End book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A View to Die For (To Die For series, #1) by Richard  Houston

2. A View to Die For (To Die For series, #1)

By: Richard Houston

3.32

Format: 256 pages, ebook

The story is not your typical murder mystery. The sleuth is not a detective, private eye, or lawyer… read more

Similar categories in Richard Houston's A View to Die For (To Die For series, #1) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • fiction
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3. Desperate Measures

By: Fern Michaels

3.82

Format: None pages,

This is a large print romance novel. Pete Sorenson is an orphan who spends his childhood shuttling … read more

Similar categories in Fern Michaels's Desperate Measures book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary

4. Me and My Sisters: An emotional and uplifting novel about the bond between sisters (A Devlin Sisters Novel Book 1)

By: Sinéad Moriarty

4.11

Format: 288 pages,

'Witty, touching, easy to read...I really and truly loved it.' The Book Bag A sister always knows y… read more

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5. Every Last Drop

By: Sarah Robinson

4.33

Format: 240 pages,

An upcoming contemporary fiction novel by S.C. Robinson (also writes as Sarah Robinson) sure to bre… read more

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6. A Sister's Promise

By: Caroline Finnerty

4.51

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Sisters Laura and Penny were once close, bonded together after the early death of their mother. Lau… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Finnerty's A Sister's Promise book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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7. The Resort

By: M.J. Hardy

4.01

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

When three women win a holiday in a Facebook competition, they think it’s by chance. It’s not. … read more

Similar categories in M.J. Hardy's The Resort book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Beach Babes (Seashell Cottage)

By: Judith Keim

4.36

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

Old friends are the best… Catherine “Cate” Tibbs, Brooke Ridley, and Amber Anderson, friends since… read more

Similar categories in Judith Keim's The Beach Babes (Seashell Cottage) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
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9. Breakfast at the Beach House Hotel (Beach House Hotel, #1)

By: Judith Keim

4.14

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Two dumped women, a seaside estate, a chance to start over. .. When Ann Rutherford’s husband dumps… read more

Similar categories in Judith Keim's Breakfast at the Beach House Hotel (Beach House Hotel, #1) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Always, With You (Endless Harbor #1)

By: Fiona Grace

3.57

Format: 145 pages, Kindle Edition

In a new romantic comedy series by #1 Bestseller Fiona Grace, Ariel Hawthorne’s perfect life is upe… read more

Similar categories in Fiona Grace's Always, With You (Endless Harbor #1) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Coming Home to Hideaway Bay (Hideaway Bay #1)

By: Michele Brouder

4.50

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

When Lily Ford returns to her lakeside hometown of Hideaway Bay for her grandmother’s funeral, the … read more

Similar categories in Michele Brouder's Coming Home to Hideaway Bay (Hideaway Bay #1) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Meet Me At Sunrise (Hideaway Bay #2)

By: Michele Brouder

4.64

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

Read the generational saga about three sisters and their grandmother and her friends in the beachsi… read more

Similar categories in Michele Brouder's Meet Me At Sunrise (Hideaway Bay #2) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Summer Sand Pact (Five Island Cove, #2) by Jessie Newton

13. The Summer Sand Pact (Five Island Cove, #2)

By: Jessie Newton

4.21

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

These five best friends made a Summer Sand Pact as teens and have only kept it once or twice—until … read more

Similar categories in Jessie Newton's The Summer Sand Pact (Five Island Cove, #2) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Now she just had to figure out how to find the good in life again. How to laugh at herself again. How to find humor and happiness in a difficult situation or a difficult time."

-Jessie Newton, The Summer Sand Pact (Five Island Cove, #2)

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14. The Lighthouse (Five Island Cove, #1)

By: Jessie Newton

4.08

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

After the death of a childhood loved one, 5 best friends reunite in the small coastal town of Five … read more

Similar categories in Jessie Newton's The Lighthouse (Five Island Cove, #1) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Wild Side

By: Fern Michaels

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A seemingly ordinary guidance counselor goes undercover as a high-class escort to bring down a dang… read more

Similar categories in Fern Michaels's The Wild Side book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The Girl Who Dared to Dream

By: Diney Costeloe

4.33

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

In London in 1912, Mabel Oakley and her family are typical of their time. Her father Andrew is a so… read more

Similar categories in Diney Costeloe's The Girl Who Dared to Dream book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • fiction
Cover of It's Better This Way by Debbie Macomber

17. It's Better This Way

By: Debbie Macomber

4.10

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

After divorce shatters her family, one woman's struggle to pick up the pieces finally leads to a ne… read more

Similar categories in Debbie Macomber's It's Better This Way book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Lighthouse on Moonglow Bay (Moonglow Cove, #3) by Lori Wilde

18. The Lighthouse on Moonglow Bay (Moonglow Cove, #3)

By: Lori Wilde

4.07

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Lori Wilde returns to Moonglow Cove, Texas, with a heartwarming novel about two estranged sisters w… read more

Similar categories in Lori Wilde's The Lighthouse on Moonglow Bay (Moonglow Cove, #3) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. His Secret Daughter

By: Melissa Wiesner

4.22

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

Not Noah. Not my husband. But there he is, unconscious in the hospital bed. Our daughter sobs into … read more

Similar categories in Melissa Wiesner's His Secret Daughter book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Seaside Friends (Bay Harbor Beach #1) by Nellie Brooks

20. Seaside Friends (Bay Harbor Beach #1)

By: Nellie Brooks

4.19

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Thirty years after her mother's sudden disappearance, Pamela returns to her old beach house in the … read more

Similar categories in Nellie Brooks's Seaside Friends (Bay Harbor Beach #1) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Catch Us When We Fall

By: Juliette Fay

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

If you love the emotionally complex novels of JoJo Moyes and the dramatic books of Jodi Picoult, yo… read more

Similar categories in Juliette Fay's Catch Us When We Fall book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. One Perfect Summer

By: Brenda Novak

3.97

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From New York Times bestselling author Brenda Novak comes a novel about finding family in unexpecte… read more

Similar categories in Brenda Novak's One Perfect Summer book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Not every change comes about peaceably, even changes that are for the best."

-Brenda Novak, One Perfect Summer

"But I have plenty of experience with trying to meet everyone's expectations so they won't reject me. It's easy to become a slave to that - to lose yourself in it."

-Brenda Novak, One Perfect Summer

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23. This Is Us

By: Helen McGinn

4.10

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

A story about friends, sisters, motherhood and starting again – one day at a time... Stella fell… read more

Similar categories in Helen McGinn's This Is Us book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Woman of Fortune (Texas Gold  #1) by Kellie Coates Gilbert

24. A Woman of Fortune (Texas Gold #1)

By: Kellie Coates Gilbert

4.19

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

You never know what you’re really made of until you lose everything. Texas socialite Claire Massey… read more

Similar categories in Kellie Coates Gilbert's A Woman of Fortune (Texas Gold #1) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Lainie, of course, would never turn gray. No respectable woman from Texas ever would."

-Kellie Coates Gilbert, A Woman of Fortune (Texas Gold #1)

"Daddy, are we democraps or repelicans? Lainie daintily placed her fork down and gave her brother a stern look. “We’re Texans silly."

-Kellie Coates Gilbert, A Woman of Fortune (Texas Gold #1)

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25. Ransomed (A Casey Cort Legal Thriller Book 2)

By: Aime Austin

4.02

Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition

The Brody family destroyed her. Now they want her back. Losing the most high profile case of he… read more

Similar categories in Aime Austin's Ransomed (A Casey Cort Legal Thriller Book 2) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • fiction
Cover of One Last Thing Before I Go (Hideaway Bay #5) by Michele Brouder

26. One Last Thing Before I Go (Hideaway Bay #5)

By: Michele Brouder

4.67

Format: 321 pages, Kindle Edition

The retired librarian from Hideaway Bay, Carol Rimmer, has been handed a terminal diagnosis. As she… read more

Similar categories in Michele Brouder's One Last Thing Before I Go (Hideaway Bay #5) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • fiction
Cover of When We Were Young (Hideaway Bay #4) by Michele Brouder

27. When We Were Young (Hideaway Bay #4)

By: Michele Brouder

4.67

Format: 332 pages, Kindle Edition

The orderly, sterile life of Martha Hahn Cotter is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the teena… read more

Similar categories in Michele Brouder's When We Were Young (Hideaway Bay #4) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

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28. His Secret Wife

By: Lisa Timoney

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when his secret wife is the only one who can save your child? Elle has the perfect … read more

Similar categories in Lisa Timoney's His Secret Wife book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • contemporary
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29. A Better Next

By: Maren Cooper

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jess Lawson, a forty-five-year-old healthcare consultant, wife, and mother of two, has spent most o… read more

Similar categories in Maren Cooper's A Better Next book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Orphan’s Letters (The Red Cross Orphans, #2) by Glynis Peters

30. The Orphan’s Letters (The Red Cross Orphans, #2)

By: Glynis Peters

3.80

Format: 366 pages, Paperback

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but does nothing to heal the pain of spending every minute wai… read more

Similar categories in Glynis Peters's The Orphan’s Letters (The Red Cross Orphans, #2) book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • fiction
Cover of Joy by Danielle Steel

31. Joy

By: Danielle Steel

4.19

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

A compelling new novel from Danielle Steel, whose countless #1 New York Times bestselling novels ha… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Steel's Joy book and Maren Cooper's A Better Next

  • chick lit
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

27 Top fiction books like A Better Next by Maren Cooper

The Bookshop at Water's End

None

4.88

Transform Your Habits

A View to Die For (To Die For series, #1)

Richard Houston

3.32

Transform Your Habits

Desperate Measures

Fern Michaels

3.82

Transform Your Habits

A Sister's Promise

Caroline Finnerty

4.51

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Helen Rolfe

4.09

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Life's What You Make It

Siân O'Gorman

4.32

Transform Your Habits

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Beth Moran

4.18

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Beth Moran

4.23

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