Musical Chairs
By: Amy Poeppel
3.81
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The “quick-witted and razor-sharp” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy…
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1. The Garden of Small Beginnings
By: Abbi Waxman
3.93
Format: 368 pages, ebook
Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years—ever since her husband died in a car acciden… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"Now if I sat in one position for more than five minutes, I seized up. I felt like the Tin Man: oil . . . can . ."-Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings
"I was lounging in the kitchen, enjoying the small fermata between emptying the dishwasher and reloading it. It's a glamorous life."-Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings
"I filled my mouth with spaghetti and thanked God for the Italians. Spaghetti, pizza, ice cream. If they weren't so busy making love and whizzing around on Vespas, they'd probably rule the world."-Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings
"I lined the back fence with salvia (kind of a blue-purple color) with something called Scabiosa "summer berries" (kind of pinks and purples, including one that was almost black- so cool, a gothic flo…"-Abbi Waxman, The Garden of Small Beginnings
2. The Admissions
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.95
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The Admissions brilliantly captures the frazzled pressure cooker of modern life as a seemingly perf… read more
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3. Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
By: J. Ryan Stradal
3.63
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very diffe… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"This place is in your blood, but not your heart. Go find a place that is."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"People here liked to say they rooted for the underdog, but some of them got real quiet when the underdog was different from them."-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
"Winter was her cathedral, and the snow-decked trees its endless pillars, and although it was quiet, it wasn't empty. The silence coaxed voices into her imagination, voices of the past and future, voi…"-J. Ryan Stradal, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club
4. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
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- chick lit
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- audiobook
5. The Celebrants
By: Steven Rowley
3.64
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A Big Chill for our times, celebrating decades-long friendships and promises—especially to ourselve… read more
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- adult fiction
- humor
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- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"My purpose, in this life, has been to love and spend it with you."-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
"You only live once. That was the truth of it. But if you do it right, and he felt that he had, once is more than enough"-Steven Rowley, The Celebrants
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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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
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- contemporary
- chick lit
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- audiobook
8. 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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- romance
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- contemporary romance
- adult
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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
9. 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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- humor
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- contemporary romance
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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
10. Christa Comes Out of Her Shell
By: Abbi Waxman
3.59
Format: 379 pages, Paperback
Just when she thought she’d gotten far enough away . . . a life-changing phone call throws an antis… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
11. 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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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"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
12. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"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
13. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
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- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
14. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
15. Musical Chairs
By: Amy Poeppel
3.81
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The “quick-witted and razor-sharp” (Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- music
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
16. Summer Stage
By: Meg Mitchell Moore
3.70
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A spirited summer page-turner following a family of actors grappling with fame, scandal, and ambiti… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
17. The Ensemble
By: Aja Gabel
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
"Pitch-perfect." — People "You won’t be able to quit these characters." —goop The addictive … read more
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- music
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"… you misunderstand ‘ease.’ I think whoever said that means joy, not the quality of being easy. And difficult things can bring joy. And joy can bring ease."-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
"The story spanned the distance between their past and their future, and suddenly, briefly, they were two versions of themselves. And if they were two versions of themselves, they were also all the ve…"-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
"She was sad, and she was angry with herself for being sad. She didn’t like wanting what she hadn’t intended to want as much as she didn’t like being denied what she hadn’t really wanted in the first …"-Aja Gabel, The Ensemble
18. Girls and Their Horses
By: Eliza Jane Brazier
3.72
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Set in the glamorous, competitive world of showjumping, a novel about the girls who ride, their cut… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- contemporary
19. Same As It Ever Was
By: Claire Lombardo
4.00
Format: 498 pages, Hardcover
Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more
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- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
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"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was
20. 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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- adult fiction
- humor
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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
21. The Wedding People
By: Alison Espach
4.25
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more
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- humor
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"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."-Alison Espach, The Wedding People
