29 best-selling fiction books like Asking for a Friend by Kerry Clare

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Asking for a Friend

By: Kerry Clare

3.57

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

For readers of J. Courtney Sullivan and Emma Straub, and for fans of Firefly Lane , comes a poignan…

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1. The Adversary

By: Michael Crummey

3.85

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning, critically acclaimed author of The Innocents (“Extraordinary”— Wall Street … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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2. Learned by Heart

By: Emma Donoghue

3.51

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains d… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Shut Up You're Pretty

By: Téa Mutonji

3.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"

-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty

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4. The Good Women of Safe Harbour

By: Bobbi French

4.39

Format: 304 pages, ebook

An unforgettable, life-affirming novel about a woman living on her own terms at last and reclaiming… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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5. River Mumma

By: Zalika Reid-Benta

3.77

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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6. Adrift

By: Lisa Brideau

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For fans of The Last Thing He Told Me comes a page-turning thriller about hidden identities and the… read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Twenty-Seven Minutes

By: Ashley Tate

3.22

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

"The rare gift that delivers it all: elevated prose, characters with depth, unpredictable twists, a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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9. The Secret Keeper

By: Genevieve Graham

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

From USA TODAY and internationally bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a gripping World War I… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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10. What Wild Women Do

By: Karma Brown

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two women's lives unexpectedly intertwine in this intriguing dual timeline novel from the #1 intern… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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11. Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1)

By: Kate Hilton

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a communit… read more

Similar categories in Kate Hilton's Bury the Lead (Quill & Packet Mystery, #1) book and Kerry Clare's Asking for a Friend

  • fiction
  • canada
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12. A New Season

By: Terry Fallis

3.65

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From beloved and bestselling author Terry Fallis comes a novel unlike any of his others. A thoughtf… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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13. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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14. The Celestial Wife

By: Leslie Howard

3.72

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A young fundamentalist Mormon girl facing a forced marriage escapes her strict, polygamist communit… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
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15. Three Holidays and a Wedding

By: Uzma Jalaluddin

3.59

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Three times the holiday magic. Three times the chaos.     As strangers and seatmates Maryam Azi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Cold

By: Drew Hayden Taylor

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for the… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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17. The Opportunist

By: Elyse Friedman

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

A deliciously sly, compulsively readable tale about greed, power and the world’s most devious famil… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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18. The Observer: A Novel

By: Marina Endicott

3.81

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

A spare and powerful new novel from the award-winning author of Good to a Fault and The Little Shad… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • canada
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19. The Damages

By: Genevieve Scott

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Sharp and propulsive, The Damages is an engrossing novel set in motion by the disappearance of a st… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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20. A Great Country

By: Shilpi Somaya Gowda

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author, a novel in the tradition of Celeste Ng's Little Fires E… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The Secret History of Audrey James

By: Heather Marshall

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The #1 bestselling author of Looking for Jane returns with a poignant, gripping novel about a piani… read more

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  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
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22. Never Been Better

By: Leanne Toshiko Simpson

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A hilariously offbeat and tender comedy about one bipolar woman’s messy search for love at a seasid… read more

Similar categories in Leanne Toshiko Simpson's Never Been Better book and Kerry Clare's Asking for a Friend

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. Moon Road

By: Sarah Leipciger

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It’s irksome to her, how well she knows this man, how much he has changed and how exactly the same … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Leipciger's Moon Road book and Kerry Clare's Asking for a Friend

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. It Happened One Christmas

By: Chantel Guertin

3.51

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"A delightful read that's guaranteed to add sparkle and joy to your holiday season!" —Marissa Stapl… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
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25. Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue

By: Christine Higdon

4.09

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

Four working-class Vancouver sisters, still reeling from the impact of World War I and the pandemic… read more

Similar categories in Christine Higdon's Gin, Turpentine, Pennyroyal, Rue book and Kerry Clare's Asking for a Friend

  • fiction
  • canada
  • audiobook
Cover of Only One Survives by Hannah Mary McKinnon

26. Only One Survives

By: Hannah Mary McKinnon

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Becoming the star is easier when the rest of your band is dead… All drummer Vienna Taylor ever w… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of A Man Downstairs by Nicole Lundrigan

27. A Man Downstairs

By: Nicole Lundrigan

3.65

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

What if the childhood you remember isn’t really what happened at all? From the acclaimed author … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • canada
  • contemporary
Cover of Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much by Natalie MacLean

28. Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much

By: Natalie MacLean

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A powerful memoir of how one woman resurrects her life and career in the gla… read more

Similar categories in Natalie MacLean's Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much book and Kerry Clare's Asking for a Friend

  • canada
"I'm prone to tangential digressions, but I've never regretted being remarkably inconsistent:it's led me to fascinating people and interesting stories."

-Natalie MacLean, Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much

"The marketing message is that women need to have a reason to drink, whether it’s girls’ night, a fancy occasion, or just getting through another day of exhaustion. It’s implied that we need permissio…"

-Natalie MacLean, Wine Witch on Fire: Rising from the Ashes of Divorce, Defamation, and Drinking Too Much

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29. A Novel Summer

By: Jamie Brenner

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A bestselling author finds love and second chances in the stacks of a quaint beach town bookshop … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Brenner's A Novel Summer book and Kerry Clare's Asking for a Friend

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Asking for a Friend by Kerry Clare

30. Asking for a Friend

By: Kerry Clare

3.57

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

For readers of J. Courtney Sullivan and Emma Straub, and for fans of Firefly Lane , comes a poignan… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Clare's Asking for a Friend book and Kerry Clare's Asking for a Friend

  • literary fiction
  • canada
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards by Jessica Waite

31. The Widow's Guide to Dead Bastards

By: Jessica Waite

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A widow’s life is turned upside when she uncovers the truth about her late husband in this lyrical,… read more

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  • audiobook
  • canada
  • contemporary

20 best-selling contemporary books like Asking for a Friend by Kerry Clare

Transform Your Habits

Shut Up You're Pretty

Téa Mutonji

3.57

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The Good Women of Safe Harbour

Bobbi French

4.39

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River Mumma

Zalika Reid-Benta

3.77

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Twenty-Seven Minutes

Ashley Tate

3.22

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21 must-read fiction books like The Adversary by Michael Crummey

Transform Your Habits

The Adversary

Michael Crummey

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)

Waubgeshig Rice

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Librarianist

Patrick deWitt

3.41

Transform Your Habits

Rage the Night

Donna Morrissey

3.97

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