15 Top chick lit books like The Arc by Tory Henwood Hoen

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The Arc

By: Tory Henwood Hoen

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sally Rooney, and Rebecca Serle, The Arc is a smart, high concept …

If you liked the chick lit plot in The Arc by Tory Henwood Hoen , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Our American Friend

By: Anna Pitoniak

3.78

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A globe-spanning thriller of love and betrayal about a mysterious first lady with an explosive secr… read more

Similar categories in Anna Pitoniak's Our American Friend book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Margo's Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

2. 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 Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • 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

Cover of Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

3. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Cover of Stone Cold Fox by Rachel Koller Croft

4. Stone Cold Fox

By: Rachel Koller Croft

3.67

Format: 353 pages, Hardcover

A compelling debut novel about an ambitious woman who, after a lifetime of conning alongside her mo… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Koller Croft's Stone Cold Fox book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle

5. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

Cover of A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch

6. A Novel Obsession

By: Caitlin Barasch

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A wry and bold debut novel, which is at once an irresistible catastrophe waiting to happen and an u… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Barasch's A Novel Obsession book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I tend to drink too fast—eager to become the playful, chatty woman everyone thinks I am."

-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession

"This is how I’ll always remember it, the feeling of finally being loved—only said to stop someone from leaving. Desperate, thoughtless, conditional."

-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession

"I told myself not to take it personally—if they truly didn’t know me, if I hadn’t let them in, then the person they were rejecting was definitely not-me."

-Caitlin Barasch, A Novel Obsession

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7. Cult Classic

By: Sloane Crosley

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Hilariously insightful and delightfully suspenseful, Cult Classic is an original: a masterfully cra… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Cult Classic book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You know who gets to drink coffee at fuck-you hours, I thought? The French."

-Sloane Crosley, Cult Classic

Cover of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang

8. How to End a Love Story

By: Yulin Kuang

3.71

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063310681. Two writers with a complicated history end up wor… read more

Similar categories in Yulin Kuang's How to End a Love Story book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Marrying the Ketchups

By: Jennifer Close

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the de… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Close's Marrying the Ketchups book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A reminder of how many people there were in the world. A reminder that sometimes the right person shows up just when you need him to."

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Mistakes were made all over the place, all around her, all the time, and she couldn't live her whole life with the sole purpose of not messing up. She didn't know if it would be a mistake or not, she…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Along with the regular brunch selections of eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles, they planned to serve individual portions of Poof in custard dishes. They also had a whole section for different kinds o…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

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10. The Christmas Orphans Club

By: Becca Freeman

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From bookfluencer and host of the BAD ON PAPER podcast, a riotous holiday rom-com about four friend… read more

Similar categories in Becca Freeman's The Christmas Orphans Club book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

11. Nora Goes Off Script

By: Annabel Monaghan

4.09

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Nora's life is about to get a rewrite... Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than an… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Nora Goes Off Script book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"To write is to re-create something as you'd like it to be."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

" Maybe he really likes me , I think in my tiniest thinking voice."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"What if this is my new normal—showing people my heart and having them applaud it?"

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

"There's nothing more shameful than this retrospective knowing, because it reminds you how blind you can be to things that don't jibe with the reality you're trying to believe in."

-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script

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12. Thank You for Listening

By: Julia Whelan

4.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of… read more

Similar categories in Julia Whelan's Thank You for Listening book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You have a gray hair!"

-Julia Whelan, Thank You for Listening

"Of course there should be an HEA. I’m so sick of this question. It’s a Romance! That’s the deal we make with our readers. It’s misogyny, plain and simple. You don’t see anyone telling Mystery readers…"

-Julia Whelan, Thank You for Listening

Cover of One-Star Romance by Laura Hankin

13. One-Star Romance

By: Laura Hankin

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A struggling writer is forced to walk down the aisle at her best friend’s wedding with the man who … read more

Similar categories in Laura Hankin's One-Star Romance book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I mean... There have been moments when I read something in a book that feels like it was written just for me. Like the author reached inside my brain, took all the thoughts I didn't know how to expre…"

-Laura Hankin, One-Star Romance

Cover of Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter

14. Such a Bad Influence

By: Olivia Muenter

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Muenter's Such a Bad Influence book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Cover Story by Susan Rigetti

15. Cover Story

By: Susan Rigetti

3.71

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Netflix's Inventing Anna and Hulu's The Dropout meets Catch Me If You Can, a captivating novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rigetti's Cover Story book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Daydreams by Laura Hankin

16. The Daydreams

By: Laura Hankin

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and th… read more

Similar categories in Laura Hankin's The Daydreams book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There are certain feelings you don’t believe are real until you feel them yourself. Take anger so strong that you could kill someone. You cannot wrap your head around how a person could get to that p…"

-Laura Hankin, The Daydreams

Cover of In a New York Minute by Kate   Spencer

17. In a New York Minute

By: Kate Spencer

3.66

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

A clever, tender, and romantic novel for readers of Christina Lauren, Jasmine Guillory, and Sophie … read more

Similar categories in Kate Spencer's In a New York Minute book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • new york
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Meant to Be Mine by Hannah Orenstein

18. Meant to Be Mine

By: Hannah Orenstein

3.43

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

From the author of Playing with Matches, a sweeping love story in the vein of Rebecca Serle and Chl… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Orenstein's Meant to Be Mine book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of You, Again by Kate Goldbeck

19. You, Again

By: Kate Goldbeck

3.60

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Can they stop hating each other long enough to fall in love? A commitment-phobe and a hopeless … read more

Similar categories in Kate Goldbeck's You, Again book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's impossible to catch feelings on a Bow Flex."

-Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

"I think I found the other half of my black and white cookie, and someone else might be eating it right now."

-Kate Goldbeck, You, Again

Cover of The Arc by Tory Henwood Hoen

20. The Arc

By: Tory Henwood Hoen

3.53

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Sally Rooney, and Rebecca Serle, The Arc is a smart, high concept … read more

Similar categories in Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • new york
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff

21. Big Fan

By: Alexandra Romanoff

4.09

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A political strategist, tainted by a scandalous ex, finds an unexpected career detour when her teen… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Romanoff's Big Fan book and Tory Henwood Hoen's The Arc

  • romance
  • contemporary romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook

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Anna Pitoniak

3.78

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

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Stone Cold Fox

Rachel Koller Croft

3.67

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Chris Bohjalian

3.53

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Anna Pitoniak

3.78

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The Peacock and the Sparrow

I.S. Berry

3.81

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Erica Katz

3.60

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