16 Best family books like It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler

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It All Comes Down to This

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic mo…

If you liked the family plot in It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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2. The Latecomer

By: Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Plot, Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Latecomer is a la… read more

Similar categories in Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Latecomer book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • 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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4. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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5. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

By: Alison Espach

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's fu… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I didn't remind you of this, because that was the fun of being sisters. Sometimes, you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older."

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

"We laughed a lot, but I don't remember about what. I just remember laughing. And wasn't that the most important thing? Wasn't that all a person wanted to remember?"

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

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6. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Within Arm's Reach book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. It All Comes Down to This

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic mo… read more

Similar categories in Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • relationships
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beth Keane's The Half Moon book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. Little Monsters

By: Adrienne Brodeur

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Brodeur's Little Monsters book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

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12. Vacationland

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Louisa has come to her parents' house in Maine this summer with all three of her kids, a barely wri… read more

Similar categories in Meg Mitchell Moore's Vacationland book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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13. Flying Solo

By: Linda Holmes

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to he… read more

Similar categories in Linda Holmes's Flying Solo book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved."

-Linda Holmes, Flying Solo

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14. 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 Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • 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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15. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

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16. This Time Tomorrow

By: Emma Straub

3.80

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, belo… read more

Similar categories in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This time tomorrow, where will we be?"

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Forward, that was the idea. Until the future, whatever it was going to be."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"It's not about the time. It's about how you spend it. Where you put your energy."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

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17. The Summer Place

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.56

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdowna… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Summer Place book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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19. The Shore

By: Katie Runde

3.51

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight… read more

Similar categories in Katie Runde's The Shore book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Catch

By: Alison Fairbrother

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A young woman searches for the truth about her father and the secrets of her family in this electri… read more

Similar categories in Alison Fairbrother's The Catch book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

  • relationships
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This

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

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Anna Quindlen

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Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.01

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Jenny Jackson

3.57

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Laurie Frankel

4.00

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4.03

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Angie Kim

3.75

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Ann Patchett

3.99

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