Really Good, Actually
By: Monica Heisey
3.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning …
Want to Read $ 12.99"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
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1. You Are Here
By: David Nicholls
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"-David Nicholls, You Are Here
2. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
3. 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
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
4. 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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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
5. Pineapple Street
By: Jenny Jackson
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Darley, the eldest daughter in the well-connected, old money Stockton family, followed her heart, t… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"But you know foundations shouldn't have to be the answer. The real problems are tax laws, anti-labor policies, and the slow expansion of the welfare state," Chip said. Everyone turned and looked at h…"-Jenny Jackson, Pineapple Street
6. 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
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"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
7. Romantic Comedy
By: Curtis Sittenfeld
3.64
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
A comedy writer thinks she’s sworn off love, until a dreamily handsome pop star flips the script on… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"Just to be clear,"-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy
"Aren't we all performing the role of ourselves?"-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy
"I don't write from a point of clarity. I write out of confusion."-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy
"Isn't the goal to live with out demons, not to expect them to go away?"-Curtis Sittenfeld, Romantic Comedy
8. 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
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
9. Come and Get It
By: Kiley Reid
3.38
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It
10. Piglet
By: Lottie Hazell
3.47
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An elegant, razor-sharp debut about women's ambitions and appetites—and the truth about having it a… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She picked up salted butter, thick Greek yoghurt, and cream. The menu was not modest. Her basket was already heavy with Charlotte potatoes, fresh herbs, and a Duchy chicken. It was too hot for a roas…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"She opened the capers, green and freckled as amphibians, and with a teaspoon eased them from their brine. The olives were next, and she pushed pits from the aubergine-dark fruits, dropping their fles…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
"On the platter before her there was a bowl of beef bourguignon, the sauce dark with merlot; the corner of dauphinoise potatoes, gruyère-crusted top browned, bubbled with heat; there was a small plate…"-Lottie Hazell, Piglet
11. The Wake-Up Call
By: Beth O'Leary
3.57
Format: 356 pages, Paperback
Two hotel receptionists--and arch-rivals--find a collection of old wedding rings and compete to ret… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
12. 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
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
13. 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
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"¿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
14. Good Material
By: Dolly Alderton
3.91
Format: 345 pages, Paperback
From the bestselling author of Ghosts and Everything I Know About Love: a story of heartbreak and f… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"Thirty-five is the youth of middle age."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Remember, a broken heart is a jester's greatest prop."-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"You know how to be along without being lonely. Do you know how rare that is?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
"Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?"-Dolly Alderton, Good Material
15. 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
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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
16. Green Dot
By: Madeleine Gray
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises n… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
17. Really Good, Actually
By: Monica Heisey
3.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
A hilarious and painfully relatable debut novel about one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning … read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- canada
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"You’ll like dating, everyone eats ass now."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"The truth is, if you start your eating disorder even slightly overweight, no one will notice until things are very much at the ‘what if two meals a day were soup’ stage."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
"It seemed impossible that I was supposed to keep loving - even revering - my body as it decomposed in slow motion. Why not give in and have low self-esteem? Maybe I could slay in that way instead."-Monica Heisey, Really Good, Actually
18. The List
By: Yomi Adegoke
3.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more
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- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
19. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict
By: Elizabeth Day
3.79
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more
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- audiobook
- contemporary
20. Weirdo
By: Sara Pascoe
3.28
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
21. The Happy Couple
By: Naoise Dolan
3.38
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more
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- romance
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple
