19 Best literary fiction books like Seeing Other People by Diana Reid

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Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid

3.42

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat …

If you liked the literary fiction plot in Seeing Other People by Diana Reid , here is a list of 19 books like this:

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1. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

Similar categories in Trent Dalton's Lola in the Mirror book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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2. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

Similar categories in Tracey Lien's All That's Left Unsaid book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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3. Bodies of Light

By: Jennifer Down

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Down's Bodies of Light book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • australia
  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
"The Sydney of this time was a different place to the honeymoon city I'd visited with Damien. That one was the crescent of the bridge, the rolling waves beneath the ferry, the shaded streets in The Ro…"

-Jennifer Down, Bodies of Light

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4. 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 Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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5. A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

By: Jessie Tu

3.19

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Tu's A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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6. Seeing Other People

By: Diana Reid

3.42

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Which comes first—those you love, or those you want? Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat … read more

Similar categories in Diana Reid's Seeing Other People book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • lesbian
  • literary fiction
  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • book club
  • queer
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7. No Hard Feelings

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Hungover, underpaid and overwhelmed, this isn't where Penny expected to be as she reached her late … read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Novak's No Hard Feelings book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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8. 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 Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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

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9. Green Dot

By: Madeleine Gray

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more

Similar categories in Madeleine Gray's Green Dot book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • australia
  • queer
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10. Kokomo

By: Victoria Hannan

3.55

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

'genuinely funny and heartbreaking' - VPLA judgesWhen Mina receives an urgent call from her best fr… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Hannan's Kokomo book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Mina let Valerie envelop her in silk and perfume. The smell was so pungent Mina could see it: a sunset of whipped egg-white clouds, a field of foxgloves, pink on pink on pink on pink."

-Victoria Hannan, Kokomo

Cover of Something Bad is Going to Happen by Jessie Stephens

11. Something Bad is Going to Happen

By: Jessie Stephens

3.86

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

Adella is facing the dawn of a new year and the end of her twenties - and she's in a psychiatric un… read more

Similar categories in Jessie Stephens's Something Bad is Going to Happen book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
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12. The Work

By: Bri Lee

3.43

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

Lally has invested everything into her gallery in Manhattan and the sacrifices are finally paying o… read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's The Work book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of 4am: Answers to the conundrums that keep you up at night • Advice from Ask Shameless by Zara McDonald

13. 4am: Answers to the conundrums that keep you up at night • Advice from Ask Shameless

By: Zara McDonald

3.95

Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition

Since 2021, tens of thousands of readers have devoured the Ask Shameless weekly columns on dating, … read more

Similar categories in Zara McDonald's 4am: Answers to the conundrums that keep you up at night • Advice from Ask Shameless book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • australia
  • audiobook
Cover of Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast by Karina  May

14. Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast

By: Karina May

3.84

Format: 352 pages, Trade Paperback

What if the person getting you through the hardest time in your life is someone you've never met? … read more

Similar categories in Karina May's Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. Between You and Me

By: Joanna Horton

3.72

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

Between You and Me is a riveting portrayal of female friendship, and the frayed boundary between lo… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Horton's Between You and Me book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. Search History

By: Amy Taylor

3.50

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A woman's obsession with her new boyfriend's dead ex-girlfriend fuels this sharp and honest debut n… read more

Similar categories in Amy Taylor's Search History book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Crushing

By: Genevieve Novak

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more

Similar categories in Genevieve Novak's Crushing book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. Small Joys of Real Life

By: Allee Richards

3.65

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The night Eva shared a smile with Pat, something started. Two weeks later, lying together in her be… read more

Similar categories in Allee Richards's Small Joys of Real Life book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Marshmallow

By: Victoria Hannan

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Some moments change everything. For five friends, what should have been a birthday to remember will… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Hannan's Marshmallow book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Wildflowers

By: Peggy Frew

3.29

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A compassionate and surprisingly funny novel that is impossible to put down and even harder to forg… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Frew's Wildflowers book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

  • literary fiction
  • australia
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"There were open paddocks winking with sugar cane, and distant silos and then a billboard that they all yelped at because it showed a huge picture of a foetus alongside a picture of a young woman with…"

-Peggy Frew, Wildflowers

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21. Sunbathing

By: Isobel Beech

4.05

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

Summertime in Italy, fresh vegetables from the garden, taking turns washing dishes, reading to each… read more

Similar categories in Isobel Beech's Sunbathing book and Diana Reid's Seeing Other People

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

20 Best fiction books like Seeing Other People by Diana Reid

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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All That's Left Unsaid

Tracey Lien

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Bodies of Light

Jennifer Down

4.29

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The Rachel Incident

Caroline O'Donoghue

4.09

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20 must-read fiction books like Duck à l'Orange for Breakfast by Karina May

Transform Your Habits

Lola in the Mirror

Trent Dalton

4.41

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Without Further ADO

Jessica Dettmann

3.72

Transform Your Habits

The Other Bridget

Rachael Johns

4.16

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No Hard Feelings

Genevieve Novak

3.80

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