I Was Told It Would Get Easier
By: Abbi Waxman
3.70
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Squashed among a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their…
Want to Read $ 4.99"Sometimes limits are their own form of freedom."-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier
"Sometimes limits are their own form of freedom."-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier
"Sometimes limits are their own form of freedom."-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier
"Beauty always fades, but it lasts so much longer if you lay a thick layer of intelligence and integrity underneath it."-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier
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1. The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks
By: Shauna Robinson
3.75
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
I, Maggie Banks, solemnly swear to uphold the rules of Cobblestone Books. If only, I, Maggie Ban… read more
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2. A Little Ray of Sunshine
By: Kristan Higgins
4.14
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
A kid walks into your bookstore and... guess what? He's your son. The one you put up for adoption e… read more
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"I had thought, once, that I couldn't ever be a mother because I'd passed at the chance to raise my own son. But this summer had shown me--Matthew and Monica had shown me--that being a mother wasn't o…"-Kristan Higgins, A Little Ray of Sunshine
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3. Amazing Grace Adams
By: Fran Littlewood
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times Bestseller A TODAY Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick Bernadette , Eleanor Oliph… read more
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4. 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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"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
5. The Husbands
By: Holly Gramazio
3.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An exuberant debut, The Husbands delights in how do we navigate life, love, and choice in a world … read more
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6. Family Family
By: Laurie Frankel
4.00
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more
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"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"-Laurie Frankel, Family Family
7. Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies (The Vacation Mysteries, #1)
By: Catherine Mack
3.53
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for. All … read more
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8. The Paradise Problem
By: Christina Lauren
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Christina Lauren, returns with a delicious new romance between the buttoned-up heir of a grocery ch… read more
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"When we care about someone, they deserve the benefit of the doubt. We have to consider not only what they did, but also why they did it. Intent matters"-Christina Lauren, The Paradise Problem
9. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)
By: Elin Hilderbrand
4.14
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more
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10. Expiration Dates
By: Rebecca Serle
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper yo… read more
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"We have to be cracked open sometimes. We have to be cracked open sometimes to let anything good in. What I see now, emerging in the mirror, is this one, simple truth: learning to be broken is learnin…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
"There is nothing more terrifying than lying in a hospital bed and knowing your mom can't fix it. That she can't make it better. That no amount of bargaining with any doctor will carry you -- the both…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
"Joel and I don’t work because he’s my person, we work because I feel like I can be every bad and impossible version of myself with him. I can change. And it’s not even that I know he’ll still love me…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
"I often wonder what our responsibility is to other people, how much we owe them. Whose job is it to look out for our own happiness, Us, or the people who love us? It's both, of course. We owe ourselv…"-Rebecca Serle, Expiration Dates
11. Summer Romance
By: Annabel Monaghan
4.10
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Benefits of a summer romance: it’s always fun, always brief, and no one gets their heart broken. … read more
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"I am the architect of my own experience."-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance
"It's a lot easier to work through other people's problems. I think I must be very attached to my own."-Annabel Monaghan, Summer Romance
12. The Breakaway
By: Jennifer Weiner
3.77
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more
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13. Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)
By: Elle Cosimano
3.92
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Finlay Donovan and her nanny/partner-in-crime Vero are in sore need of a girls’ weekend away. They … read more
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"We can't go in there, Vero! Do you know what happens to women who go into creepy basements? Murder! Murder happens to women to go into creepy basements."-Elle Cosimano, Finlay Donovan Rolls the Dice (Finlay Donovan, #4)
14. What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)
By: Elin Hilderbrand
4.03
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradis… read more
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"Lust is great in the bedroom, but like is better at breakfast, lunch and dinner."-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)
"She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person."-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)
"Ava adores carols that evoke London streets during a new snowfall, the Yule log, brightly lit windows on a square of stately brick homes."-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)
15. The Rom-Commers
By: Katherine Center
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to … read more
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"We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers
"If my life were a screenplay, I'd end the story right there and roll credits - and then maybe rewind and watch it again."-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers
"But, it was okay. We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers
"Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell - but it's not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them."-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers
16. Flying Solo
By: Linda Holmes
3.58
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Smarting from her recently cancelled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to he… read more
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"You don't have to be single to be independent. And you don't have to be married to be loved."-Linda Holmes, Flying Solo
17. Sandwich
By: Catherine Newman
3.75
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more
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"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"-Catherine Newman, Sandwich
18. The Burnout
By: Sophie Kinsella
3.69
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, “urgent” (but obviously not… read more
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"The ride is it!"-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout
"If you’re not kind, never mind."-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout
"You do not need an unkind man in your life right now. Or ever."-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout
"Maybe I can’t commune with nature, but I sure as hell can commune with carbs."-Sophie Kinsella, The Burnout
19. I Was Told It Would Get Easier
By: Abbi Waxman
3.70
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Squashed among a bus full of strangers, mother-daughter duo Jessica and Emily Burnstein watch their… read more
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"Sometimes limits are their own form of freedom."-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier
"Beauty always fades, but it lasts so much longer if you lay a thick layer of intelligence and integrity underneath it."-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier
"Regret is one of those emotions that outpunches reality: Even if you 100 percent could not have done things differently, it still pops up and takes a jab."-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier
"Looking across the table at Alice, I realized a lack of eye contact was a constant for teenagers. It's not that they won't look at you, it's that they have many other things to look at and, to be hon…"-Abbi Waxman, I Was Told It Would Get Easier
20. The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
By: Colleen Oakley
4.05
Format: 337 pages, Hardcover
Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitt… read more
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"He stilled midair, and then a slow grin spread across his lips. “Do you even know how to work that thing?"-Colleen Oakley, The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise
21. Hello Stranger
By: Katherine Center
3.94
Format: 323 pages, Hardcover
Love isn’t blind, it’s just a little blurry. Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Li… read more
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22. The Lonely Hearts Book Club
By: Lucy Gilmore
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never … read more
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"Everywhere I looked was honesty and love. Love most of all."-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club
"They became a love letter of words and sentiment--and one that was addressed entirely to me."-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club
"We could only choose which path to take to our destination. What happened along the way was entirely up to chance."-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club
"More than anything, kids need to know they have a soft spot to land. Your Bella? She knows. She'll know it until the day she dies."-Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club
23. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)
By: Steven Rowley
3.98
Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition
Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more
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24. The Summer Pact
By: Emily Giffin
3.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more
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25. The Library of Borrowed Hearts
By: Lucy Gilmore
3.87
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A.J. Fikry meets The Bookish Life of Nina Hill in this charming, hilarious, and moving novel about … read more
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26. Finlay Donovan Jumps the Gun (Finlay Donovan, #3)
By: Elle Cosimano
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Author and single mom Finlay Donovan has been in messes before―after all, she's a pro at removing b… read more
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27. Nosy Neighbors
By: Freya Sampson
3.80
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Two neighbors-at-war band together to stop a dangerous criminal in their midst in this enthralling … read more
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28. Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books
By: Kirsten Miller
4.19
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking!… read more
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29. How to Age Disgracefully
By: Clare Pooley
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A senior citizens’ center and a daycare collide with hilarious results in the new ensemble comedy f… read more
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"Mature? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully
"Mature'? Good grief! I'm not a cheese. Or a herbaceous border."-Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully
30. Jackpot Summer
By: Elyssa Friedland
3.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
After the Jacobson siblings win a life-changing fortune in the lottery, they assume their messy liv… read more
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31. Charlotte Illes Is Not a Teacher (Not a Detective Mysteries, #2)
By: Katie Siegel
3.88
Format: 310 pages, Paperback
The déjà vu is strong for 25-year-old former kid detective Charlotte Illes when she lands back in F… read more
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