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Jo Piazza

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Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Thriller

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I write books about strong women defying the odds. I love an adventure and a book that both sweeps you away and starts a conversation with your friends.

Book club visits are one of my favorite things to do and I zoomed into hundreds of them for my Good Morning America Book Club pick You Were Always Mine. I'm a former travel editor who has gotten to visit 47 countries and I met my husband Nick in the Galapagos islands on a reporting trip. After living in NYC and San Francisco I have settled into Philadelphia (the greatest city on Earth) to raise my three feral children.)
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Average rating: 3.9 · 168,832 ratings · 17,302 reviews · 13 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sicilian Inheritance 3.98 avg rating — 52,652 ratings — published 2024 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride, Jo Piazza (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 51,038 ratings — published 2021 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everyone Is Lying to You 3.77 avg rating — 26,890 ratings — published 2025 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Knockoff by Lucy Sykes, Jo Piazza (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 16,533 ratings — published 2015 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win 3.69 avg rating — 5,546 ratings — published 2018 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage 3.81 avg rating — 2,483 ratings — published 2017 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission 4.03 avg rating — 918 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love Rehab: A Novel in Twelve Steps 3.24 avg rating — 663 ratings — published 2013 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Celebrity, Inc.: How Famous People Make Money 3.50 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 2011 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Parisian Heist it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Embarrassing Personal Post: What Not to Wear to a Breakup

My main character Sophie creates Love Rehab, which is like Alcoholics Anonymous but for people who are neurotic about relationships, when she gets dumped really bad.

I think I wrote it because I was a neurotic dater in my twenties and so were most of my friends–all of our stories combined were too hilarious not to fictionalize. So about 50% of the book was influenced by things that really happened Read more of this blog post »

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“When you wake up next to someone every day, pick their hair out of the drain, clean up their dirty dishes, socks, and underwear, listen to them bitch about their job and tell the same stories and jokes over and over again, it's nice to be reminded of what it's like when they're not around - and to realize things are better when they are.”
― Jo Piazza, How to Be Married: What I Learned from Real Women on Five Continents About Surviving My First (Really Hard) Year of Marriage

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“A woman cannot have real autonomy unless she has reproductive autonomy. My hope is that one day both Church and society will embrace this justice issue. —Donna Quinn”
― Jo Piazza, If Nuns Ruled the World: Ten Sisters on a Mission

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“Oh… and we’re out of toilet paper.”

Then why don’t you replace it? It’s under the sink, in the same place I always put it after I buy it.”
― Jo Piazza, Charlotte Walsh Likes To Win

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