19 must-read fiction books like Better by Far by Hazel Hayes

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Better by Far

By: Hazel Hayes

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life…

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1. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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2. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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3. 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 Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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4. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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6. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

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7. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • audiobook
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8. Talking at Night

By: Claire Daverley

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more

Similar categories in Claire Daverley's Talking at Night book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. I Hope This Finds You Well

By: Natalie Sue

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this wildly funny and heartwarming office comedy, an admin worker accidentally gains access to h… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Sue's I Hope This Finds You Well book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All the shit inside me hardens."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"Shit. This is already a toothpaste-out-of-the-tube situation."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"You can't legally brag about your son since you named him "Carl"."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

"He nods and names everyone he passes like the damn president of Clown Town."

-Natalie Sue, I Hope This Finds You Well

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10. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

Similar categories in Sally Rooney's Intermezzo book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
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11. First Love: Essays on Friendship

By: Lilly Dancyger

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A bold, poignant essay collection that treats women’s friendships as the love stories they truly ar… read more

Similar categories in Lilly Dancyger's First Love: Essays on Friendship book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • audiobook
Cover of Experienced by Kate  Young

12. Experienced

By: Kate Young

4.03

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

“A fizzing, lip-chewing, collar-bone biting, palm-sweating roller-coaster of a rom-com that is both… read more

Similar categories in Kate Young's Experienced book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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14. A Novel Love Story

By: Ashley Poston

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction… literally. Eileen Merri… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's A Novel Love Story book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was hungover and halfway dead, and still my heart had the audacity to be horny."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"I could treat you to dinner as a thank-you..." Don't you mean I could treat you?" "You're already a treat, sweetie."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"It's when Darcy tells Elizabeth he loves her most ardently, when Mark brings Bridget her new dairy, when Harry tells Sally he loves her, when Will buys Junie the inn."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"He was close enough that I caught a note of his cologne--- cedar and black tea and, faintly, the subtle scent of a well-loved paperback. Familiar and yearning. It was mystifying."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

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15. The Pairing

By: Casey McQuiston

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston's latest romantic comedy, two bisexual exes… read more

Similar categories in Casey McQuiston's The Pairing book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some people dye their hair when they go through a breakup. I got a bus."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"This is what I get for assuming all women in safari hats can be trusted."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"He was the first great thing I ever let myself want. This time, I’m keeping him."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

"A love that’s ended is the only kind I can have, because I can’t possibly lose it."

-Casey McQuiston, The Pairing

Cover of Better by Far by Hazel Hayes

16. Better by Far

By: Hazel Hayes

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A genre-bending story about love and loss, hope and heartbreak, and the healing to be found in life… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Hayes's Better by Far book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • ireland
  • audiobook
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17. Where Are You, Echo Blue?

By: Hayley Krischer

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A smart, juicy, and page-turning novel about celebrity, fandom, and the price of ambition following… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Krischer's Where Are You, Echo Blue? book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Gender Theory

By: Madeline Docherty

4.27

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

You lose your virginity to a boy from your gender theory seminar, and the first person you tell is … read more

Similar categories in Madeline Docherty's Gender Theory book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. The Most

By: Jessica Anthony

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

From “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightl… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Anthony's The Most book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice by Dan Slepian

20. The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

By: Dan Slepian

4.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of two decades navigating a broken criminal justice sy… read more

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21. Plaything

By: Bea Setton

3.67

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

A tense and compulsive novel of unnatural fixation Anna is smart. Smarter than you, probably. Bu… read more

Similar categories in Bea Setton's Plaything book and Hazel Hayes's Better by Far

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

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You Are Here

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3.97

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