18 must-read chick lit books like The Fun Widow's Book Tour by Zoe Fishman

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The Fun Widow's Book Tour

By: Zoe Fishman

3.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the author of Inheriting Edith comes a brave new novel about the intersection of art and grief…

If you liked the chick lit plot in The Fun Widow's Book Tour by Zoe Fishman , here is a list of 18 books like this:

1. Miss Julia's Gift: A Penguin Special from Viking (Miss Julia #14.5)

By: Ann B. Ross

4.50

Format: 232 pages, ebook

From "New York Times" bestselling author Ann B. Ross, a delightful story in which Miss Julia discov… read more

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2. Summers at the Saint

By: Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kay Andrews's Summers at the Saint book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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3. Künstlers in Paradise

By: Cathleen Schine

3.53

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The beloved bestselling author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport—once dubbed “the modern-day Jewi… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"If not a lost art, then an art that often rushes away from contemporary writers with all the excited energy of a disobedient dog. At least, that dog runs off from me. The best I have been able to do …"

-Cathleen Schine, Künstlers in Paradise

Cover of Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club by J. Ryan Stradal

4. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

By: J. Ryan Stradal

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"

-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

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5. The Celebrants

By: Steven Rowley

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"

-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants

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6. Silver Alert

By: Lee Smith

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off o… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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7. The Little Italian Hotel

By: Phaedra Patrick

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When a relationship expert’s own marriage falls apart, she invites four strangers to Italy for a va… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"She now knew that heartache could be loud or quiet. Sometimes it needed to make itself known to the world, and other varieties needed space and time to settle down on their own."

-Phaedra Patrick, The Little Italian Hotel

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8. Bookworm

By: Robin Yeatman

2.96

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

A wickedly funny debut novel--a black comedy with a generous heart that explores the power of imagi… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • books about books
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley

9. The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

By: Colleen Oakley

4.05

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitt… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"He stilled midair, and then a slow grin spread across his lips. “Do you even know how to work that thing?"

-Colleen Oakley, The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

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10. Hello Stranger

By: Katherine Center

3.94

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Love isn’t blind, it’s just a little blurry. Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Li… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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11. The Sweet Spot

By: Amy Poeppel

3.92

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A wise and joyful novel that celebrates love, hate, and all of the glorious absurdity in between. … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"The mistake people make when life hits them with some unexpected, and often unprepared-for, catastrophe is that they think they can just return to life the way it was before. They try to rebuild exac…"

-Amy Poeppel, The Sweet Spot

Cover of Save What's Left by Elizabeth Castellano

12. 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

Similar categories in Elizabeth Castellano's Save What's Left book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

13. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. The Year of Second Chances

By: Lara Avery

3.57

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling debut, Lara Avery crafts a story about one woman's uplifting journey of possibilit… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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15. Small World

By: Laura Zigman

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“[A] brave and heartfelt book of truths.”—New York Times Book Review (A Group Text Pick and Editors… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Yet no one is really alone; those who live no more echo still within our thoughts and words, and what they did is part of what we have become — Blessing of Memory, Mediations Before Kaddish"

-Laura Zigman, Small World

Cover of The Half of It by Juliette Fay

16. The Half of It

By: Juliette Fay

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

One perfect night. Forty years of buried hurt. One chance to make it right. Can the past ever be fi… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
Cover of You Are Here by Karin Lin-Greenberg

17. You Are Here

By: Karin Lin-Greenberg

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal the local … read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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18. The Society of Shame

By: Jane Roper

3.31

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A viral photo of a politician's wife's “feminine hygiene malfunction” catapults her to unwanted fam… read more

Similar categories in Jane Roper's The Society of Shame book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Picture Perfect Autumn

By: Shelley Noble

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A Manhattan photographer finds inspiration and new possibilities in a Gothic Rhode Island beach hou… read more

Similar categories in Shelley Noble's Picture Perfect Autumn book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The 10-Year Reunion (Heart of the West/Bachelor Auction, #1) by Susan Wiggs

20. The 10-Year Reunion (Heart of the West/Bachelor Auction, #1)

By: Susan Wiggs

3.94

Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition

Enjoy this fan-favorite story of blind dates, high school reunions and unexpected romance from #1 N… read more

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  • chick lit
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Twelve Months and a Day by Louisa Young

21. Twelve Months and a Day

By: Louisa Young

3.80

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A poignant, modern love story about a young widow and widower and the two ghosts that bring them to… read more

Similar categories in Louisa Young's Twelve Months and a Day book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"She'd said, "Put me on the compost heap" but she hadn't meant it. She'd meant just "don't make a fuss." But funerals are for the living, and the living wanted a fuss."

-Louisa Young, Twelve Months and a Day

"One day when we're all dead the algorithms will still be spamming away, sending their junk out eternally across the universe, trying to flog each other control leggings and online guitar courses . . ."

-Louisa Young, Twelve Months and a Day

Cover of Accidentally in Love by Danielle  Jackson

22. Accidentally in Love

By: Danielle Jackson

3.26

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When Sam is stuck sharing the streets for Chicago’s summer festivals with a man she can’t stand, sh… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Jackson's Accidentally in Love book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Only Game in Town by Lacie Waldon

23. The Only Game in Town

By: Lacie Waldon

3.55

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

One small town, one big prize, one handsome stranger... Nothing ever changes in Redford, Georgia. … read more

Similar categories in Lacie Waldon's The Only Game in Town book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"She was built to be a part of a team. It was how she'd grown up, It had always been hr and her dad, unbreakable partners. Then she'd join forces with Liz, the two of them taking on adolescence togeth…"

-Lacie Waldon, The Only Game in Town

Cover of The Wedding at Moonglow Bay (Moonglow Cove, #4) by Lori Wilde

24. The Wedding at Moonglow Bay (Moonglow Cove, #4)

By: Lori Wilde

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A wedding brings a shocking surprise in New York Times bestselling author Lori Wilde’s newest Moong… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of This Disaster Loves You by Richard Roper

25. This Disaster Loves You

By: Richard Roper

3.81

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Something to Live For , a poignant and funny story about a man whose wife disapp… read more

Similar categories in Richard Roper's This Disaster Loves You book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
Cover of Murder Most Owl (Magical Menagerie Mystery, #1) by Sarah    Fox

26. Murder Most Owl (Magical Menagerie Mystery, #1)

By: Sarah Fox

4.22

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

It's been years since screenwriter Georgie Johansen last visited her aunt Olivia's farm in the coas… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Fox's Murder Most Owl (Magical Menagerie Mystery, #1) book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • fiction
Cover of The Fun Widow's Book Tour by Zoe Fishman

27. The Fun Widow's Book Tour

By: Zoe Fishman

3.16

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the author of Inheriting Edith comes a brave new novel about the intersection of art and grief… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • audiobook
  • adult fiction
  • death
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • writing
  • novels
  • books about books
  • drama
Cover of In a League of Her Own by Kaia Alderson

28. In a League of Her Own

By: Kaia Alderson

3.69

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the author of Sisters in Arms comes the incredible, untold story of Effa Manley, a black busin… read more

Similar categories in Kaia Alderson's In a League of Her Own book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Empress of Cooke County by Elizabeth Bass Parman

29. The Empress of Cooke County

By: Elizabeth Bass Parman

3.88

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The chatter at the Curly Q beauty shop is about who'll be first to get a new blue Foodarama refrige… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Bass Parman's The Empress of Cooke County book and Zoe Fishman's The Fun Widow's Book Tour

  • chick lit
  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of What She's Having (Big Love from Galway, #2) by Laura Moher

30. What She's Having (Big Love from Galway, #2)

By: Laura Moher

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Please check author website (LauraMoher dot com) for CW if you have triggers.  She may be strong… read more

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  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Christmas You Found Me (Heart of the Wilderness, #1) by Sarah Morgenthaler

31. The Christmas You Found Me (Heart of the Wilderness, #1)

By: Sarah Morgenthaler

4.42

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Sarah Morgenthaler is back with a heart-mending contemporary romance featuring a single dad you'll … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

29 must-read fiction books like The Fun Widow's Book Tour by Zoe Fishman

Transform Your Habits

Summers at the Saint

Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Künstlers in Paradise

Cathleen Schine

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

J. Ryan Stradal

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Celebrants

Steven Rowley

3.64

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The Five-Star Weekend

Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

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The Women

Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Famous in a Small Town

Viola Shipman

3.91

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The Paris Daughter

Kristin Harmel

4.25

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