19 best-selling contemporary books like True Biz by Sara Nović

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Similar categories in Kristin Hannah's The Women book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• adult fiction
• adult
• fiction
• 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 Amanda Peters's The Berry Pickers book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

Similar categories in Ann Patchett's Tom Lake book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• 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 James McBride's The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

Similar categories in Shelby Van Pelt's Remarkably Bright Creatures book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• 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 Ann Napolitano's Hello Beautiful book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• 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 R.F. Kuang's Yellowface book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• 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 Curtis Sittenfeld's Romantic Comedy book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• 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 Holly Gramazio's The Husbands book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• adult fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• 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

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

Similar categories in Sara Nović's True Biz book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• lgbt
• coming of age
• young adult
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• disability
• audiobook

"No one is comforted by salad."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"maybe standing for something wasn't always a choice"

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"Reason is for people who still have something to fear."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

"fewer things were more motivating than a fear of one's own extinction."

-Sara Nović, True Biz

Similar categories in Rebecca Makkai's I Have Some Questions for You book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

Similar categories in Jessica George's Maame book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• adult fiction
• literary fiction
• coming of age
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist."

-Jessica George, Maame

"I can't comprehend living to work, but then I'm afraid of working just to live."

-Jessica George, Maame

"A white person can date a Black person and still be racist. Because there’s levels to that sh*t. Like a lasagna."

-Jessica George, Maame

"It's about what love is. Which is trust, commitment, empathy, and respect. It means really giving a shit about the other person."

-Jessica George, Maame

Similar categories in Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake book and Sara Nović's True Biz

• literary fiction
• fiction
• contemporary
• adult
• audiobook

"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

Similar categories in Celeste Ng's Our Missing Hearts book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

"Succulents would grow anew from a broken-off leaf, pushing roots out into the air, then down into the soil: a piece of its own body, transformed into its child."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Evidence of his mother, out there, elsewhere, so worried about somebody else's children though she'd left her own behind. The irony of it leached into his veins."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"Why did I tell you so many stories? Because I wanted the world to make sense to you. I wanted to make sense of the world, for you. I wanted the world to make sense."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

"And we need their generosity to keep this place open. Or, just as likely, someone got nervous and got rid of it preemptively. Us public libraries--a lot of us just can't take the risk."

-Celeste Ng, Our Missing Hearts

Similar categories in Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"

-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover

Similar categories in Xóchitl González's Anita de Monte Laughs Last book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

"we're all just here trying to get you to see your own light because it's strong enough to guide you."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

"You fall for someone, you get so into them your whole world shrinks, and suddenly barely have a life besides them."

-Xóchitl González, Anita de Monte Laughs Last

Similar categories in Hanna Halperin's I Could Live Here Forever book and Sara Nović's True Biz

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

"Losing her has never stopped. While her disappearance happened fast, overnight - it's been a slow, endless transformation of our lives."

-Hanna Halperin, I Could Live Here Forever

"There are certain memories I'd never write down or tell anyone. I know what happens when you write things down. They change shape. Some of the feeling goes away. Things on the page are never as rich …"

-Hanna Halperin, I Could Live Here Forever

"Charlie had explained to me once what heroin felt like. He said, "Imagine you're in pain - the most excruciating pain of your life. Your skin is on fire and your thoughts are agonizing you and any in…"

-Hanna Halperin, I Could Live Here Forever