18 must-read audiobook books like The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close

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The Hopefuls

By: Jennifer Close

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles…

If you liked the audiobook plot in The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. The New Neighbor

By: Leah Stewart

3.26

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, The New Neighbor is a d… read more

Similar categories in Leah Stewart's The New Neighbor book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. The Futures

By: Anna Pitoniak

3.60

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

In this dazzling debut novel about love and betrayal and redemption, a young couple moves to New Yo… read more

Similar categories in Anna Pitoniak's The Futures book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. American Wife

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end … read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's American Wife book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • chick lit
  • politics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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4. The Hopefuls

By: Jennifer Close

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • politics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook

5. Forgotten

By: Catherine McKenzie

3.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Emma Tupper is a dedicated lawyer with a bright future. But when she takes a month-long leave of ab… read more

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6. Bad Summer People

By: Emma Rosenblum

3.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A whip-smart, propulsive debut about infidelity, backstabbing, and murderous intrigue, set against … read more

Similar categories in Emma Rosenblum's Bad Summer People book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Pineapple Street

By: Jenny Jackson

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"

-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street

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8. Romantic Comedy

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.64

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

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9. 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

Similar categories in Steven Rowley's The Celebrants book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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

Cover of Meet the Benedettos by Katie Cotugno

10. Meet the Benedettos

By: Katie Cotugno

3.25

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The Kardashians meets Pride and Prejudice in this charming comical follow-up to Birds of California… read more

Similar categories in Katie Cotugno's Meet the Benedettos book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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12. 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

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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13. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Expiration Dates

By: Rebecca Serle

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Serle's Expiration Dates book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"

-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates

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15. Same Time Next Summer

By: Annabel Monaghan

3.76

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Beach Rules: Do take long walks on the sand. Do put an umbrella in every cocktail. Do NOT run in… read more

Similar categories in Annabel Monaghan's Same Time Next Summer book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Before We Were Innocent

By: Ella Berman

3.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A summer in Greece for three best friends ends in the unthinkable when only two return home in this… read more

Similar categories in Ella Berman's Before We Were Innocent book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. The Christmas Orphans Club

By: Becca Freeman

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From bookfluencer and host of the BAD ON PAPER podcast, a riotous holiday rom-com about four friend… read more

Similar categories in Becca Freeman's The Christmas Orphans Club book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Reign (American Royals, #4) by Katharine McGee

18. Reign (American Royals, #4)

By: Katharine McGee

3.91

Format: 415 pages, Paperback

A queen's life hangs in the balance, and her siblings’ decisions—about what to do, and most of all,… read more

Similar categories in Katharine McGee's Reign (American Royals, #4) book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Such a Bad Influence by Olivia Muenter

19. Such a Bad Influence

By: Olivia Muenter

3.52

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A razor-sharp debut about what happens when one of the first child stars of the social media age gr… read more

Similar categories in Olivia Muenter's Such a Bad Influence book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Daydreams by Laura Hankin

20. The Daydreams

By: Laura Hankin

3.59

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously entertaining novel about the stars of a popular teen show from the early 2000s—and th… read more

Similar categories in Laura Hankin's The Daydreams book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There are certain feelings you don’t believe are real until you feel them yourself. Take anger so strong that you could kill someone. You cannot wrap your head around how a person could get to that p…"

-Laura Hankin, The Daydreams

Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

21. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls

  • adult
  • audiobook

19 must-read fiction books like The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close

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The New Neighbor

Leah Stewart

3.26

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The Futures

Anna Pitoniak

3.60

American Wife

Curtis Sittenfeld

4.18

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The Hopefuls

Jennifer Close

3.91

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Bad Summer People

Emma Rosenblum

3.43

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Will They or Won't They

Ava Wilder

3.59

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Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

4.02

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Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe

3.97

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