15 must-read literary fiction books like Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• historical 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

Similar categories in Lisa Jewell's None of This Is True book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• 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

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• 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

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• 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

Similar categories in Jessica Knoll's Bright Young Women book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction

"The truth is something people will go to great lengths to keep for themselves. It shouldn't feel like a gift when you get it, but it is."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Time does not heal all wounds. Grief is just like a sink full of dirty dishes or a pile of soiled laundry. Grief is a chore you have to do, and it's a messy one, at that."

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"There were men who cracked their knuckles while divulging to me what they would do to the defendant if they got the chance, thinking this was somehow reassuring for me to hear. But all it did was mak…"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

"Her lips are moving silently around words I recognize. 'I carry you like my own personal Time Machine, as I put on my lipstick, smile, and head out to the party.' It's a line by one of her favourite …"

-Jessica Knoll, Bright Young Women

Similar categories in James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• historical fiction
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• 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

Similar categories in Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• historical 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

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• 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

Similar categories in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• coming of age
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• 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

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• 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

Similar categories in Jenny Jackson's Pineapple Street book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• 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

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Happy Place book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"You, you, you."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"How many universes do you think we’re together in?"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"Love means constantly saying you're sorry, and then doing better."

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

"I mean that you have the weirdest laugh of anyone I’ve ever met, Harriet,"

-Emily Henry, Happy Place

Similar categories in Emily Henry's Funny Story book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• 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

Similar categories in Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Just to be clear,"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"

-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy

Similar categories in Paul Murray's The Bee Sting book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• book club
• audiobook

"It is for love. You are doing this for love."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"We all have problems. But often instead of accepting the truth about ourselves, we cover it up. We try to make ourselves the way we think we’re expected to be."

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe every era has an atrocity woven into its fabric. Maybe every society is complicit in terrible things and only afterwards gets around to pretending they didn’t know. When the kids ask, tell them…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

"Maybe that’s how it will go – instead of one definitive cataclysm, a series of ‘anomalies’, each time lasting longer, with the stretches of what you call normal life becoming further and further apar…"

-Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

Similar categories in Caroline O'Donoghue's The Rachel Incident book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• literary fiction
• coming of age
• 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

Similar categories in Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• coming of age
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."

-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

Similar categories in Emilia Hart's Weyward book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction

" Altha . A strange name. Soft and yet powerful. Like an incantation."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"It took skill, Violet thought, to make even your handwriting look angry"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"She named me Altha, after all. Not Alice, meaning noble woman, nor Agnes, lamb of God. Altha. Healer."

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

"I thought he loved me for myself. But you were right. To him I am but an animal, like those he hunts and puts on display"

-Emilia Hart, Weyward

Similar categories in Abby Jimenez's Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3) book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• 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)

Similar categories in R.F. Kuang's Babel book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• audiobook
• adult
• fiction
• historical fiction

"It is astounding, in truth, how much of academia’s perceived resource scarcity is artificially constructed."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"Grief suffocated. Grief paralysed. Grief was a cruel, heavy boot pressed so hard against his chest that he could not breathe."

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"languages aren't just made of words. they're modes of looking at the world. They're the keys to civiliation. And that's knowledge worth killing for"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

"It revealed the sheer dependence of the British, who, astonishingly, could not manage to do basic things like bake bread or get safely from one place to another without words stolen from other countr…"

-R.F. Kuang, Babel

Similar categories in Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• audiobook
• adult
• contemporary

"I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"My grandma frequently refers to me as "bitch". She always throws a little extra salt on the word too, for effect."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and explo…"

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Good Material book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Cleopatra and Frankenstein book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• 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

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Seven Year Slip book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming."

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new br…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

"Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.…"

-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

Similar categories in Monica Heisey's Really Good, Actually book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary 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

Similar categories in Nikki Erlick's The Measure book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jodi Picoult's Mad Honey book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• book club
• audiobook

"Being gay or straight,"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"People always talk about their love for you is unconditional. Then you reveal your most private self to them, and you find out how many conditions there are in unconditional love."

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"Dark honey from the second harvest. It's made late in the season after the nectar drought at the end of July when the bees turn to goldenrod and sunflowers instead. It's deeper and richer, it tastes …"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

"My father taught me that beekeeping is both a burden and a privilege. You don’t bother the bees unless they need your help, and you help them when they need it. It’s a feudal relationship: protection…"

-Jodi Picoult, Mad Honey

Similar categories in Meg Shaffer's The Wishing Game book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"Hate is a knife without a handle. You can't cut something with it without cutting yourself."

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Another thing I learned in therapy?" Angie said. "The kids in dysfunctional families who act out and rebel are the ones who are the healthiest mentally. They're the ones who see that something's wron…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

"Once, he'd loved the ocean. Loved seeing it every morning, every night. Seeing all its facets, all its faces. Not many people knew what the sea looked like in all seasons, under all phases of the moo…"

-Meg Shaffer, The Wishing Game

Similar categories in Taylor Jenkins Reid's Carrie Soto Is Back book and Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

• romance
• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• historical fiction
• adult
• audiobook

"They can't make us go away just because they are done with us."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"My dad and I. Always together. Our little team of two. Proud coach and star student."

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"Grief is like a deep, dark hole. It calls like a siren: Come to me, lose yourself here. And you fight it and you fight it and you fight it, but when you finally do succumb and jump down into it, you …"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back

"It was okay to win as long as I acted surprised when I did and attributed it to luck. I should never let on how much I wanted to win or, worse, that I believed I deserved to win. And I should never, …"

-Taylor Jenkins Reid, Carrie Soto Is Back