Adult Assembly Required
By: Abbi Waxman
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, trying to escape an overprotective family and the hauntin…
Want to Read $ 4.99"that child only needs the slightest encouragement to go rogue"-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required
"but the thing with Target is there is always something...ideal."-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required
"Catching and holding the attention of an eight-year-old on Halloween is like trying to catch a hummingbird with a piece of dental floss. It's theoretically possible, but not very likely."-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required
"Polly was so forthright she blew right past Lauraʻs defenses and made them feel unnecessary. Laura didnʻt really understand the mechanics of it; one minute she was completely alone and feeling like crap, the next minute Polly was there and she was feeling better."-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required
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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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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
2. 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
- contemporary romance
- 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
3. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"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
4. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"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
5. The Lost Ticket
By: Freya Sampson
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Strangers aboard a London bus unite to help an elderly man find his missed love connection in the h… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- womens fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"Hector looked unconvinced. “Does your job make you rich?"-Freya Sampson, The Lost Ticket
6. 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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- romance
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"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)
7. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"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
8. Adult Assembly Required
By: Abbi Waxman
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, trying to escape an overprotective family and the hauntin… read more
Want to Read $ 4.99Similar categories in Abbi Waxman's Adult Assembly Required book and Abbi Waxman's Adult Assembly Required
- romance
- adult fiction
- womens fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"that child only needs the slightest encouragement to go rogue"-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required
"but the thing with Target is there is always something...ideal."-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required
"Catching and holding the attention of an eight-year-old on Halloween is like trying to catch a hummingbird with a piece of dental floss. It's theoretically possible, but not very likely."-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required
"Polly was so forthright she blew right past Lauraʻs defenses and made them feel unnecessary. Laura didnʻt really understand the mechanics of it; one minute she was completely alone and feeling like c…"-Abbi Waxman, Adult Assembly Required
9. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- womens fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"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
10. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"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
11. 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
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
12. Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
By: Clare Pooley
4.19
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Co… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"Ljubav je najveći rizik od svih, no život bez nje je besmislen."-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
"Postoje neki problemi koje zaista ne možeš riješiti. Samo moraš naći način da s njima živiš."-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
"Katkad ti sudbina jednostavno pokaže kojim putem da ideš i nemaš drugu opciju nego poći. A ako je ovo tvoja sudbina, dogodit će se. Samo čekaj. Ni u kom slučaju nije gotovo dok nije gotovo."-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
"But sometimes when you put two very different people together, a kind of magic, an alchemy, occurs. Bea said I was like eggs and sugar, and she was flour and butter, and when you mixed us together, w…"-Clare Pooley, Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
13. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"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
14. Something Wilder
By: Christina Lauren
3.66
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father Duke Wilder left Lily with… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
15. 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
16. Nora Goes Off Script
By: Annabel Monaghan
4.09
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Nora's life is about to get a rewrite... Nora Hamilton knows the formula for love better than an… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"To write is to re-create something as you'd like it to be."-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script
" Maybe he really likes me , I think in my tiniest thinking voice."-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script
"What if this is my new normal—showing people my heart and having them applaud it?"-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script
"There's nothing more shameful than this retrospective knowing, because it reminds you how blind you can be to things that don't jibe with the reality you're trying to believe in."-Annabel Monaghan, Nora Goes Off Script
17. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
18. The Good Part
By: Sophie Cousens
4.03
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
By the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year… read more
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- romance
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
19. Thank You for Listening
By: Julia Whelan
4.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of… read more
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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- contemporary romance
- adult
- audiobook
"You have a gray hair!"-Julia Whelan, Thank You for Listening
"Of course there should be an HEA. I’m so sick of this question. It’s a Romance! That’s the deal we make with our readers. It’s misogyny, plain and simple. You don’t see anyone telling Mystery readers…"-Julia Whelan, Thank You for Listening
20. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
21. 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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- romance
- adult fiction
- humor
- fiction
- contemporary
- chick lit
- adult
- audiobook
"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
