20 Top contemporary books like Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2) by Marian Keyes

Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

By: Marian Keyes

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that he…

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1. Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

By: Marian Keyes

4.47

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Meet Rachel Walsh. She has a pair of size 8 feet and such a fondness for recreational drugs that he… read more

Similar categories in Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2) book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook

2. Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling!: Just a Small-Town Girl Living in a Notions World

By: Emer McLysaght , None

3.75

Format: 288 pages,

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3. 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 Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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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4. Magpie

By: Elizabeth Day

3.63

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She has almost everything. The rest she’ll take. Single White Female meets The Perfect Nanny in … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Magpie book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"She watches him walk around the room, naked apart from those silly flip-flops he's put on because his feet feel the cold. She marvels at his lack of self-consciousness. He has a good body: tall and b…"

-Elizabeth Day, Magpie

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5. The No-Show

By: Beth O'Leary

3.80

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

Siobhan is a quick-tempered life coach with way too much on her plate. Miranda is a tree surgeon us… read more

Similar categories in Beth O'Leary's The No-Show book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"Most people are shit, it reads. What are you going to do about it?"

-Beth O'Leary, The No-Show

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6. The Rachel Incident

By: Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."

-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident

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7. Idol

By: Louise O'Neill

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

'Follow your heart and speak your truth.'For Samantha Miller's young fans - her 'girls' - she's eve… read more

Similar categories in Louise O'Neill's Idol book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • audiobook
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But she'd clawed her way out of addiction because she believed that she was destined for greater things than an undignified death slumped over a toilet cistern"

-Louise O'Neill, Idol

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8. How to Kill Your Family

By: Bella Mackie

3.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

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9. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

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10. Strange Sally Diamond

By: Liz Nugent

4.20

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father… read more

Similar categories in Liz Nugent's Strange Sally Diamond book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • audiobook
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. 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

Similar categories in Andrea Mara's No One Saw a Thing book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

Similar categories in Dawn O'Porter's Cat Lady book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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13. 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 Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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14. 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

Similar categories in Jane Fallon's Just Got Real book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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15. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

By: Richard Osman

4.38

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"But you can’t be ruled by hindsight, can you?"

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Love? Try Googling it. There aren't any answers."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"When you look backwards, everything is inevitable."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Ron's mouth opens, but, unusually for him, no words come out."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

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16. Good Material

By: Dolly Alderton

3.91

Format: 345 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"

-Dolly Alderton, Good Material

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17. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Gray's Green Dot book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Really Good, Actually

By: Monica Heisey

3.16

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."

-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually

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19. Love Untold

By: Ruth Jones

4.33

Format: 407 pages, Hardcover

***THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***'Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of wo… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Jones's Love Untold book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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20. Aisling Ever After

By: Emer McLysaght

4.32

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Living in the Big Apple feels like a movie, especially when Aisling finds her ex-boyfriend John on … read more

Similar categories in Emer McLysaght's Aisling Ever After book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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21. Aisling and the City

By: Emer McLysaght

4.08

Format: 402 pages, None

Aisling is 31, and she’s still a complete Aisling. With BallyGoBrunch flying and the door firmly cl… read more

Similar categories in Emer McLysaght's Aisling and the City book and Marian Keyes's Rachel's Holiday (Walsh Family, #2)

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook

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