24 must-read fiction books like Are We Having Fun Yet? by Lucy Mangan

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Are We Having Fun Yet?

By: Lucy Mangan

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet Liz: all she wants is some peace and quiet so she can read a book with her cat Henry, love of …

"I want cheese,’ says Kate, reaching for the board and knife. ‘Hardworking vaginas need dairy."

-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

"I want cheese,’ says Kate, reaching for the board and knife. ‘Hardworking vaginas need dairy."

-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

"I swear quietly and violently. Leaving my waffle feels like parting from a lover too soon. Our relationship has barely begun."

-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

"I swear quietly and violently. Leaving my waffle feels like parting from a lover too soon. Our relationship has barely begun."

-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

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1. Paradise City

By: Elizabeth Day

3.73

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

A novel that seeks to answer big questions--of love and death, ambition and failure, responsibility… read more

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2. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

Similar categories in David Nicholls's You Are Here book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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3. Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

By: Nina Stibbe

3.66

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

How do I get rid of the mosquitoes infesting the garden? Should my kids be drinking so much? And wh… read more

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • contemporary
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4. This Could Be Everything

By: Eva Rice

3.83

Format: None pages, Audiobook

From the author of ‘modern vintage classic’ The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets comes a feel-good nosta… read more

Similar categories in Eva Rice's This Could Be Everything book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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5. Black Butterflies

By: Priscilla Morris

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

Sarajevo, spring 1992. Each night, nationalist gangs erect barricades, splitting the diverse city i… read more

Similar categories in Priscilla Morris's Black Butterflies book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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6. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • parenting
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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7. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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8. Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape

By: Henry Dimbleby

4.39

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

You may not be aware of this - not consciously, at least - but you do not control what you eat. Eve… read more

Similar categories in Henry Dimbleby's Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
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9. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

Similar categories in Dawn O'Porter's Cat Lady book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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10. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

By: Rebecca Wait

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Waterstones Book of the Month Our Fathers comes a compelling domestic comedy… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Wait's I’m Sorry You Feel That Way book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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11. Just Got Real

By: Jane Fallon

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

THE HILARIOUS AND RAZOR-SHARP NEW NOVEL FROM THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING QUEEN OF REVENGE COMEDY'G… read more

Similar categories in Jane Fallon's Just Got Real book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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12. My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7)

By: Marian Keyes

4.02

Format: 599 pages, Kindle Edition

The hilarious, heartwarming new novel from #1 internationally bestselling author Marian Keyes. A… read more

Similar categories in Marian Keyes's My Favourite Mistake (Walsh Family, #7) book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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13. Are We Having Fun Yet?

By: Lucy Mangan

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Meet Liz: all she wants is some peace and quiet so she can read a book with her cat Henry, love of … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet? book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • parenting
  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
"I want cheese,’ says Kate, reaching for the board and knife. ‘Hardworking vaginas need dairy."

-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

"I swear quietly and violently. Leaving my waffle feels like parting from a lover too soon. Our relationship has barely begun."

-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

"She was one we really did think would outlive us all, preserved for ever by gin and evil. ‘Like herpes,’ Fiona once said. ‘There’s no shifting her."

-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

"Au for an au pair!’ Richard – who dismisses Céline’s experiences as a run of simple bad luck – cries every time, labouring as he does under the profound misapprehension that the law of diminishing re…"

-Lucy Mangan, Are We Having Fun Yet?

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14. A Song of Me and You

By: Mike Gayle

3.95

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Helen and Ben parted as heartbroken 18-year-olds and went their very separate ways.Twenty years lat… read more

Similar categories in Mike Gayle's A Song of Me and You book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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15. The Second Chance Store

By: Lauren Bravo

3.61

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

If clothes can get a second chance, why can’t we? Brimming with life, love, and the stories bound u… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Bravo's The Second Chance Store book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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16. In Case of Emergency

By: Poorna Bell

3.80

Format: None pages, Hardcover

FRESH British South Asian voices are significantly underrepresented in this area of the market. Wi… read more

Similar categories in Poorna Bell's In Case of Emergency book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • audiobook
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17. At the Table

By: Claire Powell

3.74

Format: 314 pages, Kindle Edition

To Nicole and Jamie Maguire, their parents seem the ideal couple - a suburban double act, happily m… read more

Similar categories in Claire Powell's At the Table book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. Windmill Hill

By: Lucy Atkins

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1970s, a single night in a remote hunting lodge with a Hollywood director and his leading la… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Atkins's Windmill Hill book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • fiction
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19. One Day I Shall Astonish the World

By: Nina Stibbe

3.49

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of  Love, Nina , a frank, tender, and poignantly funny story about the ebb … read more

Similar categories in Nina Stibbe's One Day I Shall Astonish the World book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • literature
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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20. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Weirdo book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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21. The Bride of Almond Tree

By: Robert Hillman

3.49

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

World War II is over and Hiroshima lies in a heap of poisoned rubble when young Quaker Wesley Cunni… read more

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22. Everyone Is Still Alive

By: Cathy Rentzenbrink

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It is summer on Magnolia Road when Juliet moves into her late mother's house with her husband Liam … read more

Similar categories in Cathy Rentzenbrink's Everyone Is Still Alive book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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23. The Dead of Winter: Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights (Vintage Murders)

By: Various

3.34

Format: 161 pages, Kindle Edition

Not everything that goes bump in the night brings gifts ...As the nights draw in, the veil between … read more

Similar categories in Various's The Dead of Winter: Ten Classic Tales for Chilling Nights (Vintage Murders) book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • fiction
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24. The Lifeline

By: Libby Page

4.19

Format: 391 pages, ebook

Everybody needs saving sometimes… For Kate, having a newborn baby means she is almost never alon… read more

Similar categories in Libby Page's The Lifeline book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Other People's Husbands

By: Elizabeth Noble

3.94

Format: 487 pages, Kindle Edition

The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Love, Iris and The Family Holi… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Noble's Other People's Husbands book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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26. Careering

By: Daisy Buchanan

3.35

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Imogen has always dreamed of writing for a magazine. Infinite internships later, she dreams of any … read more

Similar categories in Daisy Buchanan's Careering book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • chick lit
  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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27. The Other Mother: A Wickedly Honest Parenting Tale for Every Kind of Family

By: Jen Brister

3.84

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

'Hysterical, important, moving, wonderful' Sara Pascoe I'm Jen Brister, stand-up comedian, middle-a… read more

Similar categories in Jen Brister's The Other Mother: A Wickedly Honest Parenting Tale for Every Kind of Family book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • humor
  • parenting
  • audiobook
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28. Our Holiday

By: Louise Candlish

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A gripping, twisty new thriller from the bestselling author of Our HouseTHERE’S TROUBLE IN PARADISE… read more

Similar categories in Louise Candlish's Our Holiday book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple by Ben Aitken

29. The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

By: Ben Aitken

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Charming, touching and very very funny" — Jenny Colgan, New York Times bestselling authorONE HOUSE… read more

Similar categories in Ben Aitken's The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • audiobook
  • humor
  • contemporary
"I ask what inscription she'd have on her headstone. She gives it some thought, then says, 'Was meant to be enjoying herself but polished the doorknob instead."

-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

"She says there's been a few drops of snow in Yorkshire so the BBC are calling it a White Christmas. I say that's like calling me a vegetarian because I eat peas twice a week."

-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

"Over dinner, we mostly talk about Henry being gone a year. I tell her what someone told me in Italy: that grief is fruitful because it gives perspective and a sense of scale. Winnie says that's bollo…"

-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

"She takes a cautious approach to toasting bread. She does it by degrees, nervous of burning it. But the trouble is, by popping it up and down five times to check on its progress, she provides herself…"

-Ben Aitken, The Marmalade Diaries: The True Story of an Odd Couple

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30. Can I Go and Play Now?: Rethinking the Early Years

By: Greg Bottrill

4.42

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

In this book, Greg Bottrill explores how he ensures that, in his Early Years setting, continuous pr… read more

Similar categories in Greg Bottrill's Can I Go and Play Now?: Rethinking the Early Years book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • parenting
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31. This Is Fine

By: Poorna Bell

4.26

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relation… read more

Similar categories in Poorna Bell's This Is Fine book and Lucy Mangan's Are We Having Fun Yet?

  • fiction
  • contemporary

24 Best contemporary books like Are We Having Fun Yet? by Lucy Mangan

Transform Your Habits

You Are Here

David Nicholls

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Went to London, Took the Dog: A Diary

Nina Stibbe

3.66

Transform Your Habits

This Could Be Everything

Eva Rice

3.83

Transform Your Habits

Black Butterflies

Priscilla Morris

4.25

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Transform Your Habits

The Dream Home

T.M. Logan

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Every Move You Make

C.L. Taylor

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?

Nicci French

3.96

Transform Your Habits

The Wrong Sister

Claire Douglas

4.09

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