12 Top contemporary books like The Opposite Of Fate by Alison McGhee

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The Opposite Of Fate

By: Alison McGhee

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Who gets to choose? When a young woman emerges from a lengthy coma-like state she must face the dec…

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1. Die for You

By: Lisa Unger

3.61

Format: 480 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Top Book Pick by the Today Show, Good Morning America, Parade and Good Housekeeping. Isabel Rain… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Love accepts. Forgiveness comes in time."

-Lisa Unger, Die for You

"You didn't wind up on a pole without a lot of help from your family."

-Lisa Unger, Die for You

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2. Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

By: Jefferson Bethke

4.20

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Abandon dead, dry, rule-keeping and embrace the promise of being truly known and deeply loved.  … read more

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"Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy."

-Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

"Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him."

-Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

"The more I read, the more I felt the Bible looked a lot more like the movie 300 than the movie Pleasantville."

-Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

"My "Christianity" was once again just the American religion of work hard, do good, feel good, and maybe God will say, "We good."

-Jefferson Bethke, Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough

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3. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life

By: Amy Tan

4.04

Format: None pages,

Born into a family who believed in fate, Amy Tan has always looked for alternative ways to make sen… read more

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4. Where There's Smoke

By: Jodi Picoult

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Jodi Picoult is a masterful storyteller, who "writes with a fine touch, a sharp … read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

5. We Are All Made of Molecules

By: Susin Nielsen

4.12

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

Thirteen-year-old Stewart is academically brilliant but socially clueless. Fourteen-year-old Ashley… read more

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6. Orphan Number Eight

By: Kim van Alkemade

3.25

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

In this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinati… read more

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7. Point of Origin (Legacy, #0.5)

By: Rebecca Yarros

3.33

Format: 300 pages,

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8. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

By: Keri Blakinger

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more

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  • audiobook
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9. All Adults Here

By: Emma Straub

3.58

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repres… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There was no excuse, except for the excuse that perfection was impossible, and failure inevitable."

-Emma Straub, All Adults Here

"People said that everyone was born alone and everyone would die alone, but they were wrong. When someone was born, they brought so many people with them, generations of people zipped into the marrow …"

-Emma Straub, All Adults Here

"People without children thought that having a newborn was the hardest part of parenthood, that upside down, the day is night twilight zone feedings and toothless wails. But parents knew better. Paren…"

-Emma Straub, All Adults Here

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10. The Beauty of Your Face

By: Sahar Mustafah

4.19

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face wit… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You do not laugh at someone who is trying; only at fools who do not give themselves a chance."

-Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face

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11. The Operator

By: Gretchen Berg

3.30

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a small town, everyone knows everyone else’s business . . .Nobody knows the people of Wooster, O… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"In every person's life there comes a moment; an opportunity for redemption, a chance at genuine personal growth, to become a better human being. Sometimes this moment is preceded by a jolt of clarity…"

-Gretchen Berg, The Operator

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12. This Is Why We Lied (Will Trent, #12)

By: Karin Slaughter

4.42

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The next thrilling suspense featuring Will Trent and Sara Linton from Karin Slaughter, New York Tim… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. A Good Neighborhood

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.81

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

In Oak Knoll, a verdant, tight-knit North Carolina neighborhood, professor of forestry and ecology … read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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14. Imagine Me Gone

By: Adam Haslett

3.69

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family fa… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"How narrowly we all avoid having never been."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

"The present had somehow ceased to be an emergency."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

"Imagine me gone, imagine it’s just the two of you. What do you do?"

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

"It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear."

-Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone

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15. I've Got My Eyes on You

By: Mary Higgins Clark

3.76

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at … read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Girls Like Us

By: Randi Pink

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Set in the summer of 1972, this moving YA historical novel is narrated by teen girls from different… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • contemporary
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17. The War Outside

By: Monica Hesse

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal.It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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18. 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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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. The Red Lotus

By: Chris Bohjalian

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant comes a twisting… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The First Thing About You

By: Chaz Hayden

3.85

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A high school student with spinal muscular atrophy is determined to reinvent himself. When fifte… read more

Similar categories in Chaz Hayden's The First Thing About You book and Alison McGhee's The Opposite Of Fate

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Why are you so excited to have me as a student?"

-Chaz Hayden, The First Thing About You

"I guess we’re two lonely nerds sharing our sad stories over lunch."

-Chaz Hayden, The First Thing About You

"Normal is a difficult word for me. I would never be normal in the eyes of society. It’s all I’ve wanted, but somehow it chooses everyone else instead of me."

-Chaz Hayden, The First Thing About You

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21. The Opposite Of Fate

By: Alison McGhee

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Who gets to choose? When a young woman emerges from a lengthy coma-like state she must face the dec… read more

Similar categories in Alison McGhee's The Opposite Of Fate book and Alison McGhee's The Opposite Of Fate

  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook

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Die for You

Lisa Unger

3.61

Where There's Smoke

Jodi Picoult

3.53

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All Adults Here

Emma Straub

3.58

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The Beauty of Your Face

Sahar Mustafah

4.19

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Katherine Hall Page

3.56

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Let Me Whisper In Your Ear (KEY News #3)

Mary Jane Clark

3.95

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Treacherous Estate (Jack Ludefance, #1)

Behcet Kaya

4.25

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She's Not Sorry

Mary Kubica

3.81

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