22 must-read contemporary books like Almost Adults by Ali Pantony

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Almost Adults

By: Ali Pantony

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The struggle is real… Ever managed to kill a succulent after just a few days?Got seven reminder …

"I find my room claustrophobic. It is small, but that's not what I mean. It's claustrophobic because I feel like I've been trapped here for so long, this floor forming the centre stage from where my life story is playing out."

-Ali Pantony, Almost Adults

"If there's anything romcoms have taught us about spontaneous gifting, it's that the big expensive presents are often a sign of guilt. But not the small, sort of rubbish presents. It seems to me that a cheap bag of crisps says a whole lot more than a gold necklace. It says 'You occupy such a vast space in my mind, I think of you so constantly, that my day-to-day life throws up constant reminders of you.' That person is, subconsciously or not, considered in everything you do and everywhere you go. Even in somewhere as mundane as the supermarket snack aisle."

-Ali Pantony, Almost Adults

If you liked the contemporary plot in Almost Adults by Ali Pantony , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Star Witch (The Lazy Girl's Guide To Magic #2)

By: Helen Harper

4.53

Format: 122 pages,

Lights. Camera. Inaction. Ivy Wilde, the laziest witch in the West, is still entangled with the Ha… read more

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  • romance

2. Accidentally Married (Married #1)

By: Victorine E. Lieske

3.50

Format: None pages,

read more

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3. The Troubles with Us

By: Alix O’Neill

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

The troubles with us is a hilarious and moving memoir of the madness and mundanities of life in Nor… read more

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  • audiobook
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4. Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out

By: Ryan Love

3.78

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

When 79-year-old Arthur Edwards gathers his family together to share some important news, no one is… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Love's Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. The Baby Group

By: Caroline Corcoran

3.71

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

Her life was perfect. Until the video. Scarlett’s golden life suddenly unravels when someone sen… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Corcoran's The Baby Group book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. La Dernière allumette

By: Marie Vareille

4.66

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

Depuis plus de vingt ans, Abigaëlle vit recluse dans un couvent en Bourgogne. Sa vie d’avant ? Elle… read more

Similar categories in Marie Vareille's La Dernière allumette book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. No One Saw a Thing

By: Andrea Mara

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two children get on the train. Only one gets off...No one saw it happen.You stand on a crowded tube… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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8. The Spare Room

By: Laura Starkey

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition

Two unexpected flatmates. One shared space. Will they cross the line into love? Rosie had the pe… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Wake-Up Call

By: Beth O'Leary

3.57

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

Two hotel receptionists--and arch-rivals--find a collection of old wedding rings and compete to ret… read more

Similar categories in Beth O'Leary's The Wake-Up Call book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Just Got Real

By: Jane Fallon

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

THE HILARIOUS AND RAZOR-SHARP NEW NOVEL FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING QUEEN OF REVENGE COMEDY'G… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Between Us

By: Mhairi McFarlane

3.74

Format: 436 pages, Kindle Edition

International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a witty, clever, emotional new novel about a wom… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Murder After the Night Before

By: Katy Brent

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Something bad happened last night. My best friend Posey is dead. The police think it was a tragic a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Brent's The Murder After the Night Before book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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14. The Burnout

By: Sophie Kinsella

3.69

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, “urgent” (but obviously not… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Kinsella's The Burnout book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The ride is it!"

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"If you’re not kind, never mind."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"You do not need an unkind man in your life right now. Or ever."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

"Maybe I can’t commune with nature, but I sure as hell can commune with carbs."

-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout

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15. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

Similar categories in Katriona O'Sullivan's Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • audiobook
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16. Cinq coeurs en sursis

By: Laure Manel

4.18

Format: 514 pages, Paperback

Catherine est l'épouse comblée de Marc. La mère épanouie d'Anaïs et Florian. La fille aimante de … read more

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17. At the Table

By: Claire Powell

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more

Similar categories in Claire Powell's At the Table book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Dear Dolly

By: Dolly Alderton

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more

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  • romance
  • audiobook
  • adult
  • contemporary
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

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19. A Midlife Holiday (The Midlife Trilogy #1)

By: Cary J. Hansson

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

She wanted a change. But will a girls' trip to the Mediterranean recapture her joy? Helen Winter… read more

Similar categories in Cary J. Hansson's A Midlife Holiday (The Midlife Trilogy #1) book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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20. Worst Idea Ever

By: Jane Fallon

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Best friends tell each other everything. Or do they? Georgia and Lydia are so close, they're practi… read more

Similar categories in Jane Fallon's Worst Idea Ever book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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21. The Start of Something

By: Miranda Dickinson

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Two lonely people. One note in the window. And what happens when they reach out… Lachlan Walla… read more

Similar categories in Miranda Dickinson's The Start of Something book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. The Love Square

By: Laura Jane Williams

3.39

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Joyful and romantic!’ COSMOPOLITAN ‘Full of delicious food, real kindness and sexy men… what’s no… read more

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  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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23. Come Again

By: Robert Webb

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Can you fall in love for the first time twice? A recently widowed women is about to find out when s… read more

Similar categories in Robert Webb's Come Again book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. Our Stop

By: Laura Jane Williams

3.64

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Nadia gets the 7.30 train every morning without fail. Well, except if she oversleeps or wakes up at… read more

Similar categories in Laura Jane Williams's Our Stop book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Babe - healing isn’t linear. And look how far you’ve come."

-Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop

"He was always going to find you again.' Nadia smiled. 'I think we were always going to find each other', she said, before thanking him and turning the corner to the bar."

-Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop

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25. All The Rage (DI Adam Fawley, #4)

By: Cara Hunter

4.18

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

From Cara Hunter, the New York Times bestselling author of Murder in the Family, comes the fourth n… read more

Similar categories in Cara Hunter's All The Rage (DI Adam Fawley, #4) book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • british literature
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26. How to Fail

By: Elizabeth Day

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more

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  • audiobook
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

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27. Dog Days

By: Ericka Waller

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Ericka Waller's Dog Days is a debut novel about the way dogs can bring out the best in us in the fa… read more

Similar categories in Ericka Waller's Dog Days book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. The Break-Up Clause

By: Niamh Hargan

3.53

Format: 435 pages, Kindle Edition

What do you do if your new intern at work turns out to be your secret – and hated – accidental husb… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Hargan's The Break-Up Clause book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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29. Think Again

By: Jacqueline Wilson

3.90

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

⭐ Whatever happened to beloved Girls series characters Ellie, Magda and Nadine? ⭐They're all grown … read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Wilson's Think Again book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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30. What a Way to Go

By: Bella Mackie

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

One wealth-obsessed man – who is also dead. One status-obsessed woman – who is the perfect acces… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's What a Way to Go book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Almost Adults

By: Ali Pantony

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The struggle is real… Ever managed to kill a succulent after just a few days?Got seven reminder … read more

Similar categories in Ali Pantony's Almost Adults book and Ali Pantony's Almost Adults

  • romance
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I find my room claustrophobic. It is small, but that's not what I mean. It's claustrophobic because I feel like I've been trapped here for so long, this floor forming the centre stage from where my l…"

-Ali Pantony, Almost Adults

"If there's anything romcoms have taught us about spontaneous gifting, it's that the big expensive presents are often a sign of guilt. But not the small, sort of rubbish presents. It seems to me that …"

-Ali Pantony, Almost Adults

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David Nicholls

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Bob Mortimer

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