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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Rumor
Elin Hilderbrand · 374 pages
Madeline King and Grace Pancik are best friends and the envy of Nantucket for their perfect marriages, their beautiful kids, their Sunday night double dates with their devoted husbands. But this summer, something's changed, and if there's anything Nantucket likes better than cocktails on the beach at sunset, it's a good rumor. And rumor has it... that Madeline, a novelist, is battling writer's blo
Gossip Girl
Cecily von Ziegesar · 203 pages
Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sleep—sometimes with each other. S is back from boarding school, and if we aren’t careful, she’s going to win over our teachers, wear that dress we couldn’t fit into, steal our boyfriends’ hearts, and basically ruin our lives in a major way. I’ll be watching closely . . . You know you love me,
The Interestings
Meg Wolitzer · 560 pages
The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel someone through life at age thirty. Their friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their tal
Big Little Lies
Liane Moriarty · 482 pages
Pirriwee Public is a beautiful little beachside primary school where children are taught that ‘sharing is caring.’ So how has the annual School Trivia Night ended in full-blown riot? Sirens are wailing. People are screaming. The principal is mortified. And one parent is dead. Was it a murder, a tragic accident or just good parents gone bad? As the parents at Pirriwee Public are about to discover
Flawless
Sara Shepard · 330 pages
**Spencer stole her sister's boyfriend. *Aria is brokenhearted over her English teacher*.** ***Emily likes her new friend Maya...as much more than a friend.*** Hanna's obsession with looking flawless is making her sick. And their most horrible secret yet is so scandalous that the truth would ruin them forever. And why shouldn't I tell? They deserve to lose it all. With every crumpled note, wicked
Friends and Rivals
Tilly Bagshawe · 503 pages
Kat fears she is past her prime. Kendall is sure she has it all. But underneath her tough exterior she hides a vulnerability. But when Kendall's need for success consumes her, she won't let anyone stand in her way. Ava is an innocent, plucked from obscurity and thrown into the deep-end of the glamorous world of fame. When she is pitted against Kendall, the world watches closely, wondering who will
Blue Bloods
Melissa de la Cruz · 319 pages
De la Cruz has revamped traditional vampire lore in this story featuring a group of attractive, privileged Manhattan teens who attend a prestigious private school. Schuyler Van Alen, 15, the last of the line in a distinguished family, is being raised by her distant and forbidding grandmother. Schuyler, her friend Oliver, and their new friend Dylan are treated like outsiders by the clique of popula
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.
Changing Faces
Kimberla Lawson Roby · 304 pages
Happy Ever After
Nora Roberts · 355 pages
Parker Brown turned the quartet's childhood game of Wedding Day into their dream jobs. And now she's the face of Vows -- the one who meets every bride's demands; keeps every event on schedule; and brings Emma's romantic flowers, Laurel's delicious treats, and Mac's stunning photography together in one glorious package. She knows how to make dreams come true... Mechanic Malcolm Kavanaugh loves
China Dolls
Lisa See · 401 pages
"The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story of secrets and sacrifice, love and betrayal, prejudice and passion, China Dolls reveals a rich portrait of female friendship, as three young women navigate the "Chop Suey Circuit"--America's extravagan
The Best of Us
Sarah Pekkanen · 381 pages
An all-expense-paid week at a luxury villa in Jamaica-- it's the invitation of a lifetime for a group of old college friends. All four women are desperate not just for a reunion, but for an escape: Tina is drowning under the demands of mothering four young children. Allie is shattered by the news that a genetic illness runs in her family. Savannah is carrying the secret of her husband's infidelity
The Elegant Gathering of White Snows
Kris Radish · 363 pages
Eight Women on a Journey That Will Change Their Lives as Lovers, Wives, Mothers, Daughters, FriendsJust after midnight in a small town in Wisconsin, eight women begin walking together down a rural highway. Career women, housewives, mothers, divorcees, and one ex--prom queen, they are close friends who have been meeting every Thursday night for years, sharing food, wine, and their deepest secrets.
Everyone Brave is Forgiven
Chris Cleave · 464 pages
The Christmas Cookie Club
Ann Pearlman · 324 pages
This riveting debut novel follows the rich and complicated friendships among thirteen women who meet for a cookie exchange every year on the first Monday of December. Everyone has to bring a dish, a bottle of wine, and their stories. This year, the stories are especially important.
Summer Sisters
Judy Blume · 400 pages
A poor girl overcomes temptation and succeeds in life. It happens when she befriends a rich girl whose father offers to pay her college tuition. It is not easy, the rich one, now turned playgirl, tempting her away from studies with boys.
The School for Good and Evil
Soman Chainani · 496 pages
**A dark and enchanting fantasy adventure perfect for those who prefer their fairytales with a twist. The first in the bestselling School for Good and Evil series.** Every four years, two girls are kidnapped from the village of Gavaldon. Legend has it these lost children are sent to the School for Good and Evil, the fabled institution where they become fairytale heroes or villains. With her
With Friends Like These
Sally Koslow · 336 pages
Forging a deep friendship in spite of their differences, former roommates Quincy, Jules, Talia and Chloe struggle with respective challenges in the ensuing years, which are complicated by their illusion-based comparisons to one another's circumstances.
Cocktails for Three
Madeleine Wickham · 302 pages
Madeleine Wickham, who writes the internationally bestselling Shopaholic series as Sophie Kinsella, has penned an irresistibly dishy and entertaining novel about three savvy young women and the secrets they share over monthly drinks. Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover -- a married man Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with -
Sundowners
Lesley Lokko · 448 pages
"Rich, beautiful and bored, Rianne de Zoete is distinctly unimpressed by life at her new English boarding school. The three girls who have to share a room with her are just as dismayed: the haughty, arrogant newcomer clearly has no intention of fitting in with them. Riitho Modise, the popular head boy at the neighboring boys' school, has even more reason to dislike Rianne. His father is a politica
Firefly Lane
Kristin Hannah · 552 pages
From the New York Times bestselling author of On Mystic Lake comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the “coolest girl in the world” moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it a
The First Wives Club
Olivia Goldsmith · 480 pages
Elise, Brenda and Annie were all first wives inhabiting the headier spheres of New York society. Then in their forties, with their husbands at the pinnacle of success, they were abandoned for "trophy wives"--Younger, blonder and more decorative models. Now, they form "The First Wives Club" with the mission of getting even.