Dear Dolly
By: Dolly Alderton
3.83
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t…
Want to Read $ 11.99"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search for love, and nothing is more romantic than longing. The second is that they spend a lot of time thinking about who their partner might be, so it's hard to find the 3D version that matches who they've invented in their mind. It's less about perfection, and more about prescriptivism. They write their own version of how they think love is going to pan out, then they find it perplexing that no one seems to know the specific plot and characters other than them."-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
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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
- adult
- contemporary
2. I Feel Bad about My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman
By: Nora Ephron
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Hardcover
With her disarming, intimate, completely accessible voice, and dry sense of humor, Nora Ephron shar… read more
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3. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
4. 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
- adult
- 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
5. 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
- adult
- 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
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
- audiobook
- adult
- 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
7. 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
- adult
- 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
8. I'm a Fan
By: Sheena Patel
3.32
Format: 207 pages, None
In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more
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- romance
- feminism
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"It is toxic. I am familiar"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan
9. 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
10. 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
- adult
- contemporary
11. Send Nudes
By: Saba Sams
3.53
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In ten dazzling stories, Saba Sams dives into the world of girlhood and immerses us in its contradi… read more
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- audiobook
- feminism
- adult
- contemporary
"The sky was black, sprinkled with crystals of salt. The moon made polite conversation. The trees stood up and waved."-Saba Sams, Send Nudes
12. 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
- adult
- 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
13. 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
- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
14. 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
- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"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
15. 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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- audiobook
- feminism
- adult
- contemporary
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."-Yomi Adegoke, The List
16. 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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- self help
- memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
17. Dear Dolly
By: Dolly Alderton
3.83
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- love
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- contemporary
- adult
- self help
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly
18. 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
- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
"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
19. 4am: Answers to the conundrums that keep you up at night • Advice from Ask Shameless
By: Zara McDonald
3.95
Format: 222 pages, Kindle Edition
Since 2021, tens of thousands of readers have devoured the Ask Shameless weekly columns on dating, … read more
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- self help
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
20. Crushing
By: Genevieve Novak
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When do you stop starting over? The sparkling new novel from the author of No Hard Feelings. Gettin… read more
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- romance
- audiobook
- adult
- contemporary
21. Notes on Heartbreak
By: Annie Lord
4.16
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a b… read more
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- romance
- love
- memoir
- nonfiction
- contemporary
- adult
- self help
"Why suffer for something ordinary?"-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"That's the thing about pain: we forget it."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"I'll try my best to forget, but I think I'll love you for all my life."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
"Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain."-Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak
