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Lily Chu

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Lily Chu loves ordering the second-cheapest wine, wearing perfume all the time, and staying up far too late with a good book.

The Stand-In, The Comeback, and The Takedown are released in audio as Audible Originals, and are performed by Phillipa Soo. Lily’s critically acclaimed books have spent multiple weeks at number one in Audible Top Plus Listens in the All and the Romance categories, and have been named in Audible’s Best of the year lists.

In print, The Stand-In was named Target’s Book Club Pick for May as well as an Amazon Book of the Month and Apple Best Books of May.

Translation rights have been sold for seven languages.

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	The Stand-In by Lily Chu (Goodreads Author), Phillipa Soo (Narrator) 3.83 avg rating — 35,986 ratings — published 2021 — 21 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 Comeback by Lily Chu (Goodreads Author), Phillipa Soo (Narrator) 3.74 avg rating — 15,859 ratings — published 2022 — 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
	Drop Dead by Lily Chu (Goodreads Author), Phillipa Soo (Narrator), John Cho (Narrator) 3.48 avg rating — 10,387 ratings — 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
	The Takedown 3.61 avg rating — 6,802 ratings — published 2023 — 6 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
	Rich Girl Summer by Lily Chu (Goodreads Author), Phillipa Soo (Narrator), Steven Pasquale (Narrator) 3.21 avg rating — 4,639 ratings	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 Strangers: Nine Stories by Nine Immigrant Writers Brought Together by One Concept by Anna Wang Yuan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Xiaowen Zeng, Ying Cao 3.78 avg rating — 9 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
	The Vacation Shift it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 5 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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My first YA romance, The Vacation Shift, is now available for pre-order !

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“You are braver than you want to believe. You like to pretend you're not bold because it's an excuse to not stretch yourself.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

tags: courage, inspirational

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“No one else can be you. No one else can tell your story like you. You are unique. So write the movie you want to see.”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

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“Why is it so hard to say no to everyone except myself?”
― Lily Chu, The Stand-In

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