Mighty Gorgeous: A Little Book About Messy Love
By: Amy Ferris
4.36
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Why are we so determined to be loved rather than to love ourselves? Why is it so hard to forgive ou…
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1. We Are Water
By: Wally Lamb
3.83
Format: 561 pages, Hardcover
In middle age, Annie Oh—wife, mother, and outsider artist—has shaken her family to its core. After … read more
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"A life I didn't choose chose me."-Wally Lamb, We Are Water
"Change what you can, accept what you can’t, and be smart enough to know the difference"-Wally Lamb, We Are Water
"Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference."-Wally Lamb, We Are Water
"We are like water, aren’t we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too."-Wally Lamb, We Are Water
2. Insecure at Last
By: V (formerly Eve Ensler)
4.12
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Why has all this focus on security made me feel so much more insecure? Nothing is secure. And this… read more
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- memoir
3. Good Bones
By: Maggie Smith
4.19
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Poems written out of the experience of motherhood, inspired by the poet watching her own children t… read more
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4. A Hundred Summers
By: Beatriz Williams
4.34
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Memorial Day, 1938: New York socialite Lily Dane has just returned with her family to the idyllic o… read more
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5. Blank
By: Zibby Owens
3.71
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
A wife, mother, and frustrated writer faces an impossible deadline for turning her life around in a… read more
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- humor
6. Somehow: Thoughts on Love
By: Anne Lamott
3.95
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow , a joyful celebration of lo… read more
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- memoir
"I don’t know"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"…nobody in isolation becomes who they were designed to be."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"Sometimes it all just sucks, as Jesus says somewhere in the Gospels (although off the top of my head I can’t recall chapter and verse."-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
"When I first got sober, a man told me that upon waking every morning, instead of reciting the standard flowery recovery prayer, he said, “Whatever,“ and at night when he turned off his lights to go t…"-Anne Lamott, Somehow: Thoughts on Love
7. Miss Morgan's Book Brigade
By: Janet Skeslien Charles
4.02
Format: 318 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times and internationally bestselling author of the “captivating, richly drawn” (Woman… read more
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8. 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
9. Within Arm's Reach
By: Ann Napolitano
3.48
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more
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10. A Friend in the Dark
By: Samantha M. Bailey
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
A digital romance turns deadly... Eden Miller’s world is crumbling. Her husband blindsided her w… read more
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11. The House Is on Fire
By: Rachel Beanland
4.10
Format: 376 pages, Hardcover
The author of Florence Adler Swims Forever returns with a masterful work of historical fiction abou… read more
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"If you want to help... any of us, then you get where you're going and you work hard and you find a way to take care of someone else the way your uncle has taken care of you."-Rachel Beanland, The House Is on Fire
12. Everyone But Myself
By: Julie Chavez
3.89
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Like so many mothers, Julie Chavez ran herself ragged trying to meet the needs of everyone else, un… read more
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- memoir
13. The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
By: Sarah Ogilvie
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, … read more
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"Murray took Dictionary work with him to the hospital when Ada was giving birth. If you look at page 2, column 1 of the first volume of the printed Dictionary, twenty-third line from the bottom, you w…"-Sarah Ogilvie, The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
14. The Bullet Swallower
By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James
3.79
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more
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15. The Last Love Note
By: Emma Grey
4.08
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
You may never stop loving the one you lost. But you can still find love again. Kate is a bit of … read more
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"She's one of the golden threads running through each of our lives. Hope, in human form."-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note
"If I stay very still and very open, our energies feel so close it's as if we can almost touch in this place where love is infinite. Limitless."-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note
"I've learned that love outlives death. It holds steady through despair. It won't fade, even as time elapses and distance increases and your world shifts."-Emma Grey, The Last Love Note
16. Mercury
By: Amy Jo Burns
3.83
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more
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17. The House on Biscayne Bay
By: Chanel Cleeton
3.69
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and presen… read more
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"I think it did. He was quite staggered by the place. Then again, Vizcaya tends to have that effect. Is the home that grand? It Is. Vizcaya has brought the Mediterranean to Florida."-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
"I like to think of the houses I build as having their own personalities. Oh, there's the people who are their custodians to consider, of course, a symbiosis in the relationship between the house and …"-Chanel Cleeton, The House on Biscayne Bay
18. The Goddess of Warsaw
By: Lisa Barr
4.45
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
From the New York Times bestselling author of Woman on Fire, the harrowing and ultimately triumphan… read more
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19. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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20. The Deluge
By: Stephen Markley
4.23
Format: 896 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Ohio, a masterful American epic charting a near future approaching c… read more
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"Yeah, well, time marches on. Getting caught up in causes don’t interest me. Not anymore. Especially when you see the scope of what this is."-Stephen Markley, The Deluge
21. End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir
By: Meghan Riordan Jarvis
4.20
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What happens when a trauma therapist is traumatized by loss? Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riord… read more
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- memoir
"If I could stop getting caught in the old cobwebs of disappointment and accept my dad as he was, I might enjoy myself too. In the emotional tumbling routine of my father slowly dying, I did manage to…"-Meghan Riordan Jarvis, End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir
22. Birdie & Harlow: Life, Loss, and Loving My Dog So Much I Didn't Want Kids (…Until I Did)
By: Taylor Wolfe
4.52
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
The funny and poignant story of one woman’s wonderfully codependent relationship with her dog – and… read more
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- humor
- memoir
23. What You Do to Me
By: Rochelle B. Weinstein
4.24
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
From the bestselling author of This Is Not How It Ends comes a moving novel of two unfinished love … read more
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24. The Last Twelve Miles
By: Erika Robuck
3.82
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Two real, brilliant women on opposite sides of the law, in a deadly game of cat and mouse… 1926.… read more
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"Elizabeth’s heart feels a pang of jealousy, followed by a burst of love at seeing her happy family. It’s both freeing and agonizing not to be needed. That is the nature of motherhood, she thinks"-Erika Robuck, The Last Twelve Miles
25. The Same Bright Stars
By: Ethan Joella
3.87
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more
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26. An Impossible Choice: Utterly gripping and heart-wrenching family life fiction
By: Alison Ragsdale
4.30
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
Mothers talk about impossible choices. But, as I look at my daughter in a hospital bed, her red hai… read more
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27. Like Mother, Like Mother
By: Susan Rieger
4.04
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
An enthralling novel about three generations of strong-willed women, unknowingly shaped by the secr… read more
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28. What Does It Feel Like?
By: Sophie Kinsella
4.66
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
From #1 bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story—by turns heartbreaking and life-… read more
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29. Mighty Gorgeous: A Little Book About Messy Love
By: Amy Ferris
4.36
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Why are we so determined to be loved rather than to love ourselves? Why is it so hard to forgive ou… read more
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- humor
- memoir
30. The Die
By: Jude Berman
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Darah, a tech writer living in the democratic nation of California, is dismayed to see the game she… read more
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31. Of Lies and Honey
By: Donna Norman-Carbone
4.62
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
Harper Alexander is devastated by a miscarriage even though she thought she never wanted to be a mo… read more
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