6 best-selling romance books like The Bachelor by Andrew Palmer

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The Bachelor

By: Andrew Palmer

2.78

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, witty, and tender debut novel about love and commitment, celebrity and obsession, poet…

If you liked the romance plot in The Bachelor by Andrew Palmer , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Black Swan Green

By: David Mitchell

3.97

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Trees're always a relief, after people."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"His skin was blotched as a dying banana."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

"The song instantly insisted it'd never existed."

-David Mitchell, Black Swan Green

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2. Nightblind (Dark Iceland #2)

By: Ragnar Jónasson

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Siglufjordur: an idyllically quiet fishing village on the northernmost tip of Iceland, accessible o… read more

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  • fiction

3. Story of My Life

By: Jay McInerney

3.70

Format: 368 pages,

In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights,… read more

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4. Big Fish

By: Daniel Wallace

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

He could outrun anybody, and he never missed a day of school. He saved lives, tamed giants. Animals… read more

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5. Wednesday's Child: Stories

By: Yiyun Li

3.75

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A new collection—about loss, alienation, aging, and the strangeness of contemporary life—by the awa… read more

Similar categories in Yiyun Li's Wednesday's Child: Stories book and Andrew Palmer's The Bachelor

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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7. The Extinction of Irena Rey

By: Jennifer Croft

3.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the International Booker Prize–winning translator and Women's Prize finalist, a propulsive, be… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"The sun was higher, a white light between the birches that arched and bared their lenticels, shimmering their leaves."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"Glittering crystalline rainbows extended in every direction, while gentle gold beams swept between the softened trees that sparkled and beckoned and forbade."

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on the convex walls into quicksilver that momentarily held the frenzied shadow…"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

"It was barely spring in the southern hemisphere, and Buenos Aires was not yet soft, or sumptuous, or purple.* *I wasn't sure what this meant at first, but when I asked this author to explain it, she …"

-Jennifer Croft, The Extinction of Irena Rey

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8. 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

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. Family Meal

By: Bryan Washington

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel abo… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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11. The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

By: Kyleigh Leddy

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

All Kait Leddy had ever wanted was a little sister. When Kyleigh was born, they were inseparable; K… read more

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"Only after we relinquish what is lost are we truly healed."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"For better and for worse, hope proves itself to be surprisingly resilient."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"No one tells you what a precious, fragile gift your mind is in the first place. No one tells you it can be lost."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

"You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says 'I once meant something to somebody."

-Kyleigh Leddy, The Perfect Other: A Memoir of My Sister

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12. A Magical New York Christmas

By: Anita Hughes

3.56

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

"There’s plenty to love in this sparkling Christmas rom-com." ― Publishers Weekly A magical holida… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
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13. A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself

By: Katherine Howe

3.73

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one youn… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Howe's A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself book and Andrew Palmer's The Bachelor

  • adult
  • fiction
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14. Acts of Service

By: Lillian Fishman

3.08

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A provocative debut of sex and sexuality as a twentysomething New Yorker pursues a sexual freedom t… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
"We love what disturbs us if it chooses us and tell us how we matter."

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"How can a body be safe when it's only a body? How can we expect that no stranger will be tempted to torch an empty house?"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

"Somehow, [...] I grew up talking about sex as this thing women should have however they wanted. Sexual freedom as this great sort of penacle beyond morality, or anything provincial. So I am supposed …"

-Lillian Fishman, Acts of Service

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15. Fair Rosaline

By: Natasha Solomons

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Was the greatest ever love story a lie? The first time Romeo Montague sees young Rosaline Capule… read more

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  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. The Lifeguards

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

3.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The bonds between three picture-perfect--but viciously protective--mothers and their close-knit son… read more

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  • chick lit
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Victim

By: Andrew Boryga

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

There’s a fine line between bending the truth and telling bald-faced lies, and Javier Perez is will… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Fake Accounts

By: Lauren Oyler

2.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman in a post-election tailspin discovers that her boyfriend is an anonymous online conspiracy … read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I resented my mother and online feminism for making me paranoid."

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"People often say my generation values authenticity. Reluctantly I will admit to being a member of my generation. If we value authenticity it’s because we’ve been bombarded since our impressionable pr…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"For a few months, the political catastrophe seemed so dire that one's music and movie preferences were no longer considered the ultimate markers of one's moral fitness to fight fascism. Which became,…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

"Consensus was the world was ending, or would begin to end soon, if not by exponential environmental catastrophe then by some combination of nuclear war, the American two-party system, patriarchy, whi…"

-Lauren Oyler, Fake Accounts

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19. Kill Show

By: Daniel Sweren-Becker

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole…"

-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show

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20. Old Enough

By: Haley Jakobson

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A debut novel about a young bisexual woman who is pulled between a new sense of community and loyal… read more

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  • romance
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. Post-Traumatic

By: Chantal V. Johnson

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer… read more

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  • novels
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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22. Pieces of Blue

By: Holly Goldberg Sloan

3.68

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"Bursting with humor, chaos, and raw tenderness." ―Oprah Daily " Pieces of Blue is a brilliant a… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
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23. You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories

By: Maggie Shipstead

3.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times best-selling author Maggie Shipstead, an irresistible collection of short stori… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Shipstead's You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories book and Andrew Palmer's The Bachelor

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television

By: Thea Glassman

3.84

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Lif… read more

Similar categories in Thea Glassman's Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television book and Andrew Palmer's The Bachelor

  • adult
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25. Oye

By: Melissa Mogollon

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age comedy. A telenovela-worthy drama. A moving family saga. All in a phone call you wo… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Mogollon's Oye book and Andrew Palmer's The Bachelor

  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Housemates

By: Emma Copley Eisenberg

3.66

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sp… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Teaching? When it’s good? A marvel. A fucking miracle. They live, and then they turn to you to tell you about it."

-Emma Copley Eisenberg, Housemates

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27. Red River Road

By: Anna Downes

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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28. High-Risk Homosexual

By: Edgar Gomez

4.08

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This witty memoir traces a touching and often hilarious spiralic path to embracing a gay, Latinx id… read more

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29. The Most Precious Substance on Earth

By: Shashi Bhat

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Journey Prize winner Shashi Bhat’s "powerful, surprising and terrifying" (Rufi Thorpe) story about … read more

Similar categories in Shashi Bhat's The Most Precious Substance on Earth book and Andrew Palmer's The Bachelor

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. Loneliness & Company

By: Charlee Dyroff

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A timely, beautifully observed debut novel set in near future New York about a young woman who find… read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"We open our mouths and let the world fall out."

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

"We cannot see the world without seeing pieces of ourselves"

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

"A person to think with is the most intimate thing someone can have. And she has it, this connection that outlasts the body’s demise, the heart’s tantrums."

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

"I guess I feel anxious in a good way, too. It's a weird cycle: Do I do things all the time because they are important? Or because they make me feel important?"

-Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

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31. The Bachelor

By: Andrew Palmer

2.78

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, witty, and tender debut novel about love and commitment, celebrity and obsession, poet… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Palmer's The Bachelor book and Andrew Palmer's The Bachelor

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • novels
  • adult

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Black Swan Green

David Mitchell

3.97

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Nightblind (Dark Iceland #2)

Ragnar Jónasson

4.18

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Wednesday's Child: Stories

Yiyun Li

3.75

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The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft

3.26

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Anna Dorn

4.06

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Miranda July

3.81

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R.O. Kwon

3.24

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