18 Top fiction books like Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld

Sisterland

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Timesbestselling author of American Wife andPrep, returns with a mesmer…

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Cover of By Blood by Ellen Ullman

1. By Blood

By: Ellen Ullman

3.57

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning writer returns with a major, absorbing, atmospheric novel that takes on the most … read more

Similar categories in Ellen Ullman's By Blood book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary

2. Sisterland

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Timesbestselling author of American Wife andPrep, returns with a mesmer… read more

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook

3. The Wishing Hill

By: Holly Robinson

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

What if everything you knew about your life was wrong? Years ago, Juliet Clark gave up her life in … read more

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4. Fortune's Daughter

By: Alice Hoffman

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

This fierce and beautiful story charts the histories of two women: Rae, young and unmarried and far… read more

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5. Wonderland

By: Stacey D'Erasmo

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Anna Brundage is a rock star. She is tall and sexy, with a powerhouse voice and an unforgettable ma… read more

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6. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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7. Amazing Grace Adams

By: Fran Littlewood

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more

Similar categories in Fran Littlewood's Amazing Grace Adams book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. The Guest

By: Emma Cline

3.29

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestsel… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Younger men had to make everything mean something, had to turn every choice and preference into a referendum on their personality."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"He assumed her attention when he spoke. He had his insecurities, his anxieties. But underlying it all was the certainty that the world would be generous in its orientation toward him."

-Emma Cline, The Guest

"All the women in the show hated each other, hated each other so much, just so they could avoid hating their husbands. Only their little dogs, blinking from their laps, seemed real: they were the wome…"

-Emma Cline, The Guest

Cover of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano

9. Hello Beautiful

By: Ann Napolitano

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

An emotionally layered and engrossing story of a family that asks: Can love make a broken person wh… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The child inside Julia lay wide-eyed in the dark, knowing that she was Jo, but only because Sylvie was Beth."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You and your sisters have so many reference points, such a dense history," William said. "I never get used to it."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"She was Julia's wild hair, she was the lake her husband had once been carried out of, and no matter what happened next, she was love."

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

"You’re depressed, not crazy. It’s not insane to be depressed in this world. It’s more sane than being happy. I never trust those upbeat individuals who grin no matter what’s going on. Those are the o…"

-Ann Napolitano, Hello Beautiful

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10. 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 Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • literary 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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11. 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 Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • literary 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

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12. 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 Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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

Cover of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

13. 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 Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • literary 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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14. The Breakaway

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Breakaway book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. I Have Some Questions for You

By: Rebecca Makkai

3.61

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family trag… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Sandwich by Catherine Newman

16. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

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17. Cassandra in Reverse

By: Holly Smale

3.56

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A Time-Twisting Delight” —Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club June ’23 … read more

Similar categories in Holly Smale's Cassandra in Reverse book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Not everyone is like me: that much is painfully clear."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"Maybe love prefers to be eaten warm, like biscuits out of the oven."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"I can't help wondering: Am I a monster? And--if so--was I born or was I made?"

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

"I get caught up with trying to read all the music around me, instead of one note inside myself."

-Holly Smale, Cassandra in Reverse

Cover of The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E. by Claire Parkin

18. The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E.

By: Claire Parkin

3.65

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

Muriel, a former bestselling romantic novelist, and Ruth, a journalist, are best friends. Inseparab… read more

Similar categories in Claire Parkin's The Final Hours of Muriel Hinchcliffe M.B.E. book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Maybe Next Time

By: Cesca Major

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780063239920. One Day meets Groundhog Day, in this heartwarming… read more

Similar categories in Cesca Major's Maybe Next Time book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. Wait

By: Gabriella Burnham

3.36

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after th… read more

Similar categories in Gabriella Burnham's Wait book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of How the Light Gets In by Joyce Maynard

21. How the Light Gets In

By: Joyce Maynard

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard comes the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her… read more

Similar categories in Joyce Maynard's How the Light Gets In book and Curtis Sittenfeld's Sisterland

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook

17 Top contemporary books like Sisterland by Curtis Sittenfeld

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Ellen Ullman

3.57

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Curtis Sittenfeld

3.81

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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Amazing Grace Adams

Fran Littlewood

3.35

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The Five-Star Weekend

Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

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Bad Summer People

Emma Rosenblum

3.43

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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