15 Best contemporary books like Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary by Nina Stibbe

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Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary by Nina Stibbe , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. Caledonian Road

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families a… read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Caledonian Road book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
  • unfinished
  • contemporary
Cover of The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey

2. The List of Suspicious Things

By: Jennie Godfrey

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

'What if we decided to try and find him?' 'What on earth are you on about?' she said. 'How are w… read more

Similar categories in Jennie Godfrey's The List of Suspicious Things book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
Cover of You Are Here by David Nicholls

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 Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
  • 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. The Wren, the Wren

By: Anne Enright

3.55

Format: 278 pages, Hardcover

An incandescent novel about the inheritance of trauma, wonder, and love across three generations of… read more

Similar categories in Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"It's not that I think about him constantly, he is my way of thinking. His mind is my compass, his eyes my only mirror."

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don’t walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

"We don't walk down the same street as the person walking beside us. All we can do is tell the other person what we see. We can point at things and try to name them. If we do this well, our friend can…"

-Anne Enright, The Wren, the Wren

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5. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • biography
  • memoir
  • unfinished
  • diary
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. The Household

By: Stacey Halls

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, hi… read more

Similar categories in Stacey Halls's The Household book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
Cover of Absolutely and Forever by Rose Tremain

7. Absolutely and Forever

By: Rose Tremain

3.90

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers… read more

Similar categories in Rose Tremain's Absolutely and Forever book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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8. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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9. Restless Dolly Maunder

By: Kate Grenville

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more

Similar categories in Kate Grenville's Restless Dolly Maunder book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
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10. Family Politics

By: John O'Farrell

3.72

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

All across Britain, a generation of grown-up children are graduating from university, moving back i… read more

Similar categories in John O'Farrell's Family Politics book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • contemporary
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11. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Coyne's Frank and Red book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • contemporary
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12. This Family

By: Kate Sawyer

3.83

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This house. This family. Mary has raised a family in this house. Watched her children play and l… read more

Similar categories in Kate Sawyer's This Family book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • contemporary
Cover of The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne by Freya North

13. The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne

By: Freya North

4.25

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

When your present meets your past, what do you take with you – and what do you leave behind? Ea… read more

Similar categories in Freya North's The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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14. Fifteen Wild Decembers

By: Karen Powell

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A creative re-imagining of the short life of Emily Brontë, one of England’s greatest writers Pra… read more

Similar categories in Karen Powell's Fifteen Wild Decembers book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
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15. Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly

By: Joanna Glen

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Costa-shortlisted author of THE OTHER HALF OF AUGUSTA HOPE and ALL MY MOTHERS The story… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Glen's Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

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16. The Three Graces

By: Amanda Craig

3.75

Format: 405 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruth, Diana and Marta are three very different friends having a last 'adventure before dementia' af… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Craig's The Three Graces book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • contemporary
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17. The Silence In Between

By: Josie Ferguson

4.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine waking up and a wall has divided your city in two. Imagine that on the other side is your n… read more

Similar categories in Josie Ferguson's The Silence In Between book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

"Evil demanded little of me – it merely asked me to stay silent, to do nothing. And I complied."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"Mozart said that music is not in the notes but in the silence in between. I think that's where our souls are – hidden in that silence."

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

"These are stories from the past, but they are still echoing now, in the present. As I write this, Russian forces are using rape as a weapon of war against Ukrainian women; deported mothers are being …"

-Josie Ferguson, The Silence In Between

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18. This Motherless Land

By: Nikki May

4.42

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Wahala, a “vibrant” (Charmaine Wilkerson) retelling of Mansfield Park,… read more

Similar categories in Nikki May's This Motherless Land book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • contemporary
Cover of Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller

19. Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

By: Ericka Waller

4.29

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

Great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave and impossible to forget...Birdie, Ada and Jane … read more

Similar categories in Ericka Waller's Goodbye Birdie Greenwing book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • contemporary
Cover of Welcome to Glorious Tuga by Francesca Segal

20. Welcome to Glorious Tuga

By: Francesca Segal

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Passionate about conservation and fleeing an argument with her mother, newly qualified London vet C… read more

Similar categories in Francesca Segal's Welcome to Glorious Tuga book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
  • contemporary
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21. The Amendments

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.84

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel abou… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's The Amendments book and Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

  • audiobook
  • contemporary

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