11 Best romance books like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

By: Gail Honeyman

4.23

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She stru…

"It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,"

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,"

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"You can't have too much dog in a book."

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"You can't have too much dog in a book."

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

If you liked the romance plot in Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. A Man Called Ove

By: Fredrik Backman , Henning Koch

4.38

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young famil… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Han var en man av svart och vitt. Och hon var färg. All hans färg"

-Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

"I just wanted to know what it felt like to be someone you look at."

-Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

"You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color."

-Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

"He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced."

-Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

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2. Big Little Lies

By: Liane Moriarty

3.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

From the author ofTruly Madly Guiltyand The Husband s Secretcomes a novel about the dangerous littl… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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3. The Great Alone

By: Kristin Hannah

3.28

Format: 437 pages,

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Nightingale

By: Kristin Hannah

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Despite their differences, sisters Vianne and Isabelle have always been close. Younger, bolder Isab… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook

5. All the Light We Cannot See

By: Anthony Doerr

3.68

Format: 189 pages, Hardcover

A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths c… read more

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6. The Women

By: Kristin Hannah

4.64

Format: 471 pages, Hardcover

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."

-Kristin Hannah, The Women

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7. None of This Is True

By: Lisa Jewell

4.12

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

Lisa Jewell returns with a scintillating new psychological thriller about a woman who finds herself… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Acting as if there is something wrong with me, when there isn't. It's the world that's wrong, you and I both know that."

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

"Being with so many people felt right, and afterward at the wake thrown by Nathan's company at a huge bar in Paddington overlooking the canal, with seats outside and bottomless champagne and a playlis…"

-Lisa Jewell, None of This Is True

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8. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

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9. 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

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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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10. The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

By: Heather Morris

4.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In April 1942, Lale Sokolov, a Slovakian Jew, is forcibly transported to the concentration camps at… read more

Similar categories in Heather Morris's The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1) book and Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

  • romance
  • fiction
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"If you wake up in the morning, it is a good day."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"How can a race spread out across multiple countries be considered a threat?"

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"Good and evil coexist in the worst of times. It is then when hope shines through."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

"You see your world reflected in a mirror, but I have another mirror I look into mine, and I see a world that will bring yours down."

-Heather Morris, The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)

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11. Where the Crawdads Sing

By: Delia Owens

4.38

Format: 384 pages, ebook

For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet fishing village. Kya Clark is b… read more

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  • romance
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"We are married. Like the geese."

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

"Sand keeps secrets better than mud."

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

"Imagination grows in the lonliest of soils"

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

"How much do you trade to defeat lonesomeness?"

-Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing

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12. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

By: Gail Honeyman

4.23

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She stru… read more

Similar categories in Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine book and Gail Honeyman's Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"It’s SpongeBob, Eleanor,"

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"You can't have too much dog in a book."

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"In the end, what matters is this: I survived."

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

"In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder."

-Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

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13. Remarkably Bright Creatures

By: Shelby Van Pelt

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."

-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

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14. Lessons in Chemistry

By: Bonnie Garmus

4.29

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to poi… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Sometimes I think," she said slowly, "that if a man were to spend a day being a woman in America, he wouldn't make it past noon."

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"(On religion) "I think it lets us off the hook. I think it teaches us that nothing is really our fault; that something or someone else is pulling the strings; the ultimately, we're not to blame for t…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

"Whenever you feel afraid, just remember. Courage is the root of change - and change is what we're chemically designed to do. So when you wake up tomorrow, make this pledge. No more holding yourself b…"

-Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry

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15. 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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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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

Cover of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

16. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By: Gabrielle Zevin

4.15

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative p… read more

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Friendship,"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"How I will miss the horses."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"You try again. You fail better."

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

"There are no ghosts, but up here"

-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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17. Yellowface

By: R.F. Kuang

3.77

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"

-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

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18. 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

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  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • 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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19. Educated

By: Tara Westover

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mounta… read more

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  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"An education is not so much about making a living as making a person."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut."

-Tara Westover, Educated

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20. The Midnight Library

By: Matt Haig

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Between life and death there is a library. When Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library,… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Happy moments can turn into pain, given time."

-Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

"There is no rejection, there is only redirection."

-Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

"Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes."

-Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

"Never underestimate the big importance of small things"

-Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

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21. Anxious People

By: Fredrik Backman

4.18

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, charming novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappea… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Love is wanting you to exist."

-Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

"Parents are defined by their mistakes."

-Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

"My mom always says I should never apologize for myself. Never say sorry for being good at something."

-Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

"You can't live long with the ones who are only beautiful, Jules. But the funny ones, oh, they last a lifetime."

-Fredrik Backman, Anxious People

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4.38

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Liane Moriarty

3.10

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Kristin Hannah

3.28

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3.54

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4.02

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Kathryn Stockett

3.37

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