Everything I Know About Love
By: Dolly Alderton
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, g…
Want to Read $ 14.49"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
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1. One Day
By: David Nicholls
5.00
Format: 362 pages,
It's 1988 and Dexter Mayhew and Emma Morley have only just met on the night of their graduation. To… read more
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- romance
- contemporary
2. Conversations with Friends
By: Sally Rooney
3.56
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A sharply intelligent novel about two college students and the strange, unexpected connection they … read more
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3. The Bell Jar
By: Sylvia Plath
4.06
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented… read more
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- feminism
"I woke to the sound of rain."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
"I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow."-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
4. The Secret History
By: Donna Tartt
4.17
Format: 559 pages, Paperback
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits a… read more
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- contemporary
"It's a terrible thing, what we did,"-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
"How quickly he fell; how soon it was over."-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
"Forgive me, for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not."-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
"I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all."-Donna Tartt, The Secret History
5. A Little Life
By: Hanya Yanagihara
4.58
Format: None pages, Hardcover
When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're… read more
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6. I Who Have Never Known Men
By: Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman
4.22
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underg… read more
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- feminism
"Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"I thought it was unfair, and then I understood that, alone and terrified, anger was my only weapon against the horror"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Look at them. They’re pretending, they behave as though they still have some control over their lives and make momentous decisions about which vegetable to cook first."-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
"Only now, I tell myself that what I'd felt for her, the trust that slowly built up, the constant preference for her company and the joy each time I was reunited with her after an expedition were prob…"-Ros Schwartz, I Who Have Never Known Men
7. Just Kids
By: Patti Smith
4.21
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- audiobook
"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."-Patti Smith, Just Kids
8. Bunny
By: Mona Awad
3.50
Format: 305 pages, Paperback
We were just these innocent girls in the night trying to make something beautiful. We nearly died. … read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"The pink pony inside me weeps softly."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Oh, Bunny, I love you. I love you, Bunny."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"We think of it as art meets life, Bunny. We’re putting art into the world."-Mona Awad, Bunny
"Because life is shorter than we are, she says, so why beat around the bush?"-Mona Awad, Bunny
9. Blue Sisters
By: Coco Mellors
4.21
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters
10. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
By: Gabrielle Zevin
4.15
Format: 401 pages, Hardcover
In this exhilarating novel, two friends—often in love, but never lovers—come together as creative p… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"Friendship,"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"How I will miss the horses."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"You try again. You fail better."-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
"There are no ghosts, but up here"-Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
11. Yellowface
By: R.F. Kuang
3.77
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
White lies. Dark humor. Deadly consequences… Bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not who she says… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"The truth is fluid, there is always another way to spin the story."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"They tell authors never to look at Goodreads, but nobody follows that advice—none of us can resist the urge to know how our work is being received."-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
"Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic. Writing is creating something out of nothing, is opening doors to other lands. Writing gives you power to shape your own world when the real one hu…"-R.F. Kuang, Yellowface
12. Happy Place
By: Emily Henry
3.99
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt a… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"You, you, you."-Emily Henry, Happy Place
"How many universes do you think we’re together in?"-Emily Henry, Happy Place
"Love means constantly saying you're sorry, and then doing better."-Emily Henry, Happy Place
"I mean that you have the weirdest laugh of anyone I’ve ever met, Harriet,"-Emily Henry, Happy Place
13. Funny Story
By: Emily Henry
4.27
Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition
A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"No, no, no,"-Emily Henry, Funny Story
"For a few seconds, I'm nothing but a body seeking more of his."-Emily Henry, Funny Story
"He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him."-Emily Henry, Funny Story
"To him, he's the brother who ran away. To her, he's the one who stays, even when he shouldn't."-Emily Henry, Funny Story
14. The Rachel Incident
By: Caroline O'Donoghue
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately tr… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"I was twenty and I needed two things: to be in love and to be taken seriously."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"He was a doctor and I was supposed to take what he said seriously; but he was a dentist and my dad so I didn’t."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"It's not that we weren't capable of warmth as a family. But we were regularly seduced by the concept of being wronged."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
"I thought of my parents as heads on Easter Island, and it took moving two miles away to realise they had been people all along."-Caroline O'Donoghue, The Rachel Incident
15. Conversations on Love
By: Natasha Lunn
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- love
- memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- self help
"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love
16. Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
By: Abby Jimenez
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Justin has a curse, and thanks to a Reddit thread, it's now all over the internet. Every woman he d… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"I'm going to let that tall drink of water slam me like a door."-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
"I swear to God this guy is the epitome of If He Wanted To He Would."-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
"The best kind of love doesn't happen on moonlit walks and romantic vacations. It happens in between the folds of everyday life."-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
"I’ve been waiting my whole life to feel like this and I thought it was a curse that nobody else ever worked out. But it wasn’t. It’s just that they weren’t you."-Abby Jimenez, Just for the Summer (Part of Your World, #3)
17. My Body
By: Emily Ratajkowski
4.01
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity. Emily Ratajkowski… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I will remain as the real Emily; the Emily who owns the high-art Emily, and the one who wrote this essay, too. She will continue to carve out control where she can find it. (Buying Myself Back)"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"I will proclaim all of my mistakes and contradictions, for all the women who cannot do so, for all the women we've called muses without learning their names, whose silence we mistook for consent. (Me…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"I was also ashamed. I hated myself for trying to impress you. It didn’t feel as if I’d hustled you to get on in life. Instead, it felt as if I’d betrayed and fetishized myself to be appealing to you.…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
"In my early twenties, it had never occurred to me that the women who gained their power from beauty were indebted to the men whose desire granted them that power in the first place. Those men were th…"-Emily Ratajkowski, My Body
18. My Year of Rest and Relaxation
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.63
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
From one of our boldest, most celebrated new literary voices, a novel about a young woman’s efforts… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"What next? I couldn't imagine."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"I wasn't an insomniac, but I was miserable."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"Life was repetitive, resonated at a low hum."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
"I just wanted to sleep all the time. I had a plan."-Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation
19. This Summer Will Be Different
By: Carley Fortune
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
This summer they’ll keep their promise. This summer they won’t give into temptation. This summer wi… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers,"-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different
"I've waited so long for this. You feel so fucking right."-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different
"I've been burned in the past, which you know. I rebuilt my life once. I can't rebuild it again. I make sure I get things right at the first time. Going slow is good for me, too."-Carley Fortune, This Summer Will Be Different
20. Normal People
By: Sally Rooney
3.81
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"People are a lot more knowable than they think they are."-Sally Rooney, Normal People
"I'm not a religious person but I do sometimes think God made you for me."-Sally Rooney, Normal People
"No. I was frustrated sometimes but not lonely. I never feel lonely when I'm with you."-Sally Rooney, Normal People
"Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone."-Sally Rooney, Normal People
21. I'm Glad My Mom Died
By: Jennette McCurdy
4.46
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her strugg… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't."-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
"My grandma frequently refers to me as "bitch". She always throws a little extra salt on the word too, for effect."-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
"Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something."-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
"She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and explo…"-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died
22. Down the Drain
By: Julia Fox
4.40
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
Julia Fox is famous for many her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut G… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"I want to love him but I often find myself wishing he could just be an asshole all the time. This way I wouldn't have all these inner battles with myself. I learn to navigate my way through shattered…"-Julia Fox, Down the Drain
23. Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
By: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
3.69
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
What would you change if you could go back in time? In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a c… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
"Thank you, for the honor of having you."-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
"Negativity is food for malady, one might say."-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
"She wanted to do things without having to worry what others thought. She simply lived for her freedom."-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
"With the coffee in front of her, she closed her eyes, and inhaled deeply. It was her moment of happiness."-Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
24. Talking at Night
By: Claire Daverley
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Will and Rosie meet as teenagers. They’re opposites in every way. She overthinks everything; he … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
25. Big Swiss
By: Jen Beagin
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"¿Habla más de un idioma?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"You bullied other bullies,"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss
26. Cleopatra and Frankenstein
By: Coco Mellors
3.74
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant d… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"And you’re in love?"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"People are like this too, you know,"-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"When the darkest part of you meets the darkest part of me, it creates light."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
"Cleo and Frank could not make each other happy, no matter how hard they’d tried."-Coco Mellors, Cleopatra and Frankenstein
27. Everything I Know About Love
By: Dolly Alderton
4.00
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The wildly funny, occasionally heartbreaking internationally bestselling memoir about growing up, g… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- biography
- love
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- self help
"Nearly everything I know about love, I've learnt from my long-term friendships with women."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"No matter how uncertain and unpredictable life gets, some people really do walk next to you for ever."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"She knows where to find everything in me and I know where all her stuff is too. She is, in short, my best friend."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
"I don't need any words or looks or comments from a man to believe I'm visible; to believe I'm here. don't need to run away from discomfort and into a male eyeliner. That's not where I come alive."-Dolly Alderton, Everything I Know About Love
28. The Seven Year Slip
By: Ashley Poston
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love wit… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"I kept him at arm's length because at least there he wouldn't be able to see how broken I was. I could keep lying."-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip
"But mostly because he was very handsome, and I was very much attracted to him, and that was the kind of surprise that I did not see coming."-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip
"That was love, wasn't it? It wasn't just a quick drop -- it was falling, over and over again, for your person. It was falling as they became new people. It was learning how to exist with every new br…"-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip
"Romance wasn't in chocolate, it was in the gasp of breath as we came up for air. It was in the way he cradled my face, the way I traced my finger over the crescent-shaped birthmark on his collarbone.…"-Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip
29. Magnolia Parks (Magnolia Parks Universe, #1)
By: Jessa Hastings
3.74
Format: 423 pages, Kindle Edition
She is a beautiful, affluent, self-involved and mildly neurotic London socialite. He is Britain's m… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"He's the moon, and I'm the tides."-Jessa Hastings, Magnolia Parks (Magnolia Parks Universe, #1)
30. I Didn't Know I Needed This The New Rules for Flirting, Feeling, and Finding Y
By: Eli Rallo
3.33
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From TikTok star Eli Rallo, an irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and searingly honest take on moder… read more
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- romance
- self help
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
31. Beautiful World, Where Are You
By: Sally Rooney
3.53
Format: 337 pages, Paperback
*The Sunday Times and Global number one bestseller* *Winner of Novel of the Year at the An Post Ir… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- contemporary
"They looked at one another for a long moment, without speaking, and in the soil of that look many years were buried."-Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
"Maybe certain kinds of pain, at certain formative stages in life, just impress themselves into a person's sense of self permanently."-Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
"Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing."-Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
"I’m sorry to say that I think it is too late to change the way we have turned out. The turning-out process has come to an end, and we are to a very great extent what we are."-Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You
