8 Top contemporary romance books like Out of Love by Hazel Hayes

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Out of Love

By: Hazel Hayes

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A novel for anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale. As a young woman boxes up…

"We accept the love we're used to"

-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

"We accept the love we're used to"

-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

"A breakup is like a death without a funeral."

-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

"A breakup is like a death without a funeral."

-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

If you liked the contemporary romance plot in Out of Love by Hazel Hayes , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. One Day

By: David Nicholls

5.00

Format: 362 pages,

It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met on the night of their graduation. To… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's One Day book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
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2. 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 Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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3. Penance

By: Eliza Clark

3.90

Format: 336 pages, ebook

Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more

Similar categories in Eliza Clark's Penance book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"

-Eliza Clark, Penance

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4. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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5. Out of Love

By: Hazel Hayes

3.83

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A novel for anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale. As a young woman boxes up… read more

Similar categories in Hazel Hayes's Out of Love book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • love
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We accept the love we're used to"

-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

"A breakup is like a death without a funeral."

-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

"Crazy is the space between what they tell you and what you know is true."

-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

"The things we think we’re hiding from people, we’re only really hiding from ourselves."

-Hazel Hayes, Out of Love

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6. Funny Story

By: Emily Henry

4.27

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No, no, no,"

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."

-Emily Henry, Funny Story

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7. 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 Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • 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

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8. Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

By: Abby Jimenez

4.40

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he d… read more

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."

-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)

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9. This Summer Will Be Different

By: Carley Fortune

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more

Similar categories in Carley Fortune's This Summer Will Be Different book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."

-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different

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10. Talking at Night

By: Claire Daverley

3.96

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more

Similar categories in Claire Daverley's Talking at Night book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

By: Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more

Similar categories in Eleni Kyriacou's The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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13. Cleopatra and Frankenstein

By: Coco Mellors

3.74

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"And you’re in love?"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"People are like this too, you know,"

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."

-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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14. Everything I Know About Love

By: Dolly Alderton

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, g… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • love
  • contemporary
"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."

-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love

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15. 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 Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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16. Ghosts

By: Dolly Alderton

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and fam… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Ghosts book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I think maybe every job is a waste of an English degree."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"I think the memory of your childhood home is impossible to destroy."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"Jethro's flat was in a warehouse that, even from the outside, looked very pleased with its own conversion."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

"The contents of supermarket baskets are surely evidence that none of us are coping with adulthood all that well."

-Dolly Alderton, Ghosts

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17. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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18. The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1)

By: Jill Johnson

3.62

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

I've always been better with plants than people . . . Eustacia Rose is a Professor of Botanical … read more

Similar categories in Jill Johnson's The Woman in the Garden (Eustacia Rose #1) book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Alone With You in the Ether

By: Olivie Blake

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

CHICAGO, SOMETIME— Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he … read more

Similar categories in Olivie Blake's Alone With You in the Ether book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It isn't constancy that keeps us alive, it's the progression we use to move us."

-Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

"She'd have to be measured infinitely in order to be calculated, which no one could ever do."

-Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

"It was at moments like this, high enough to inhale the promise of risk, that the whittled lines of city streets brought out his lingering melancholy; that l'appel du vide, the call of the void."

-Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

"The dark tips of her nails traveled the shape of his upper lip, curving with it, and in another version of this precise moment, he said, Regan, come closer, let's see what happens, let's see how the …"

-Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

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20. Notes on Heartbreak

By: Annie Lord

4.16

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more

Similar categories in Annie Lord's Notes on Heartbreak book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • love
  • mental health
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."

-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

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21. A Novel Love Story

By: Ashley Poston

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A professor of literature finds herself caught up in a work of fiction… literally. Eileen Merri… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's A Novel Love Story book and Hazel Hayes's Out of Love

  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • contemporary romance
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was hungover and halfway dead, and still my heart had the audacity to be horny."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"I could treat you to dinner as a thank-you..." Don't you mean I could treat you?" "You're already a treat, sweetie."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"It's when Darcy tells Elizabeth he loves her most ardently, when Mark brings Bridget her new dairy, when Harry tells Sally he loves her, when Will buys Junie the inn."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

"He was close enough that I caught a note of his cologne--- cedar and black tea and, faintly, the subtle scent of a well-loved paperback. Familiar and yearning. It was mystifying."

-Ashley Poston, A Novel Love Story

19 Top fiction books like Out of Love by Hazel Hayes

Transform Your Habits

One Day

David Nicholls

5.00

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Penance

Eliza Clark

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Blue Sisters

Coco Mellors

4.21

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David Nicholls

5.00

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You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

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In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

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