AmongReaders.com
📚 AmongReaders — track what you read, talk chapter by chapter without spoilers, and read with friends. Free.Join AmongReadersSign in

🧲 Books like this

Starting Now

Debbie Macomber · back to the book

What’s in it

Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.

24 books with the same feel

Include books by the same author
❤️

Sushi for Beginners

Marian Keyes · 545 pages

Three women in Dublin are going through a period of change in their lives. Bitchy, ambitious and beautiful, Lisa has been sent to Dublin to launch a brand new Irish Women's Magazine, however as she thought her next move was to New York she feels like she is in exile and is none to happy with the alternative. On arrival she decides that her new boss, the attractive if not somewhat scruffy Jack Devi

Career ChangeStarting OverFemale FriendshipWomen's Fiction
❤️

Summer Rental

Mary Kay Andrews · 402 pages

Ellis questions everything she believed after losing an all-consuming job, while Julia struggles with insecurities that threaten a loving relationship and Dorie confronts a maelstrom of problems after a shocking betrayal.

Career ChangeStarting OverFemale FriendshipWomen's Fiction
❤️

Gone to Green

Judy Christie

Career ChangeStarting OverWomen's FictionFemale Lead
❤️

Legends & Lattes

Travis Baldree · 296 pages

Career ChangeStarting OverFemale FriendshipFemale Lead
❤️
Career ChangeStarting OverWomen's FictionFemale Lead
❤️

Baby Proof

Emily Giffin · 352 pages

Is there ever a deal-breaker when it comes to true love? What happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things? First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes--a baby carriage. Isn't that what all women want? Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fa

Career ChangeWomen's FictionStarting OverInfertility
🙂

Forget me not

Isabel Wolff · 352 pages

After the sudden death of her mother, 36-year-old Anna Temple is forced to re-evaluate her life. She swaps hedge funds in the City for herbaceous borders and takes up garden designing. At the same time, she must cope with another dramatic change - the arrival of her daughter, Milly, the result of an uncharacteristic one-night stand. As Anna struggles with magnolias, not to mention motherhood and m

Career ChangeStarting OverWomen's FictionFemale Lead
🙂

The Undomestic Goddess

Sophie Kinsella · 416 pages

Career ChangeStarting OverWomen's FictionFemale Lead
🙂

The Life List

Lori Nelson Spielman · 353 pages

Brett Bohlinger seems to have it all: a plum job, a spacious loft, an irresistibly handsome boyfriend. All in all, a charmed life. That is, until her beloved mother passes away, leaving behind a will with one big stipulation: In order to receive her inheritance, Brett must first complete the life list of goals she'd written when she was a naïve girl of fourteen. Grief-stricken, Brett can barely ma

Career ChangeStarting OverWomen's FictionFemale Lead
🙂

Three Sisters

Susan Mallery · 390 pages

After Andi Gordon is jilted at the altar, she makes an impetuous decision—buying one of the famed Three Sisters on Blackberry Island. Now the proudish owner of the ugly duckling of the trio of Queen Anne houses, her life is just as badly in need of a major renovation as her new home. When Deanna Phillips confronts her husband about a suspected affair, she opens up a Pandora's Box of unhappines

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionStarting OverFemale Lead
🙂

Doesn't She Look Natural

Angela Elwell Hunt · 333 pages

How do you cope when God asks you to bury a dream? In this new series by best-selling author Angela Hunt, readers will meet Jennifer Graham, the no-nonsense chief of staff for a Virginia senator who quits her job after a divorce and finds herself an unemployed single mom. Forced to live with her mother until she can find work on Capitol Hill that does not involve her gregarious ex-husband, her eff

Career ChangeStarting OverWomen's FictionSeries
🙂

A Single Thread

Marie Bostwick · 344 pages

Marie Bostwick weaves the unforgettable story of four very different women whose paths cross, changing their lives forever…It’s a long way from Fort Worth, Texas, to New Bern, Connecticut, yet it only takes a day in the charming Yankee town to make Evelyn Dixon realize she’s found her new home. The abrupt end of her marriage was Evelyn’s wake-up call to get busy chasing her dream of opening a quil

Starting OverWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipFemale Lead
🙂

The Ship of Brides

Jojo Moyes · 496 pages

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Aust

Starting OverFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionFemale Lead
🙂

Black Rose

Nora Roberts · 370 pages

Three women meet at a crossroads in their lives, each searching for new ways to grow-and find in each other the courage to take chances and embrace the future. Roz is a woman of independent means who thought love was behind her, but when romance takes her by surprise, she won't allow anything to keep her from her second chance at happiness. A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the ce

Starting OverFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionFemale Lead
🙂

Shoe Addicts Anonymous

Beth Harbison · 327 pages

Four different women, one common shoe size, and a shared lust for fabulous footwear. The wife of a controlling politician, a debt-ridden eBay addict, an agoraphobic phone-sex operator, and a nanny for the family from hell (who barely knows a sole from a heel but who will do anything to get out of the house) meet Tuesday nights to trade shoes, and, in the process, form friendships that will help th

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionStarting OverFemale Lead
🙂

Scarlet Feather

Maeve Binchy · 528 pages

A fascinating look at large, diverse Irish families with sub plots and characters from the hard working just getting started to those in the upper echelons with challenges of their own. A delightful book.

Career ChangeWomen's FictionStarting OverFemale Friendship
🙂

Three Wishes

Liane Moriarty · 370 pages

Australian triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle are about to turn thirty-three and one is pregnant, one has just had her life turned upside down, and one is only just keeping hers from skidding off the fast lane. Meanwhile, their divorced parents have been behaving very oddly indeed.In this family comedy by Liane Moriarty, we follow the three Kettle sisters through their tumultuous thirty-third ye

Female FriendshipWomen's FictionStarting OverInfertility
🙂

Driving Lessons

Zoe Fishman · 324 pages

Starting OverWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipInfertility
🙂

The Life She Wants

Robyn Carr · 384 pages

In the aftermath of her financier husband's suicide, Emma Shay Compton's dream life is shattered. Richard Compton stole his clients' life savings to fund a lavish life in NYC and, although she was never involved in the business, Emma bears the burden of her husband's crimes. She is left with nothing. So she goes home to Sonoma County. But starting over isn't easy, and Sonoma is full of unhappy mem

Starting OverFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionFemale Lead
🙂

City of Friends

Joanna Trollope · 336 pages

The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, wait

Career ChangeWomen's FictionFemale FriendshipFemale Lead
🙂

Bet Me

Jennifer Crusie · 363 pages

From the back cover: Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a fairy tale, especially with a man who asked her to dinner to win a bet. Even if he is gorgeous and successful Calvin Morrisey. Cal knows commitment is impossible, especially with a woman as cranky as Min Dobbs. Even if she does wear great shoes and keeps him on his toes. When they say good-bye at the end of their evening, they

Career ChangeFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionStarting Over
🙂

The Summerhouse

Jude Deveraux · 362 pages

Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating at a summerhouse in Maine, Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of their lives and loves, their wishes and choices. But none of them expect the gift that awaits them at the summerhouse: the chance for each of them to turn their “what-might-have-beens” into reality…

Starting OverFemale FriendshipWomen's FictionFemale Lead
🙂

Left Neglected

Lisa Genova · 416 pages

Career ChangeStarting OverWomen's FictionFemale Lead
🙂

P.S. I Love You

Cecelia Ahern · 512 pages

Starting OverCareer ChangeWomen's FictionFemale Lead
📖 New 2026 Kindles just released. See them on Amazon ↗