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The Collected Regrets of Clover

Mikki Brammer · 320 pages

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La liste des regrets

Mikki Brammer, Emmanuelle Urien · 500 pages

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Since You've Been Gone

Morgan Matson · 464 pages

Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.

IntroversionSelf-DiscoveryContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
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The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

Melissa Bank · 274 pages

After following the advice from a manual called "How to Meet and Marry Mr Right", Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise. This is a funny collection of connected stories and a portrait of Jane, a woman manoeuvring her way through love, sex and relationships.

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The Opposite of Love

Julie Buxbaum · 360 pages

With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship just as her boyfriend is on the verge of proposing, she can't explain to even her closest friends why she did it. So

Self-DiscoveryNew York CityContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Gail Honeyman · 352 pages

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond,

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This Song Will Save Your Life

Leila Sales · 288 pages

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Penelope

Rebecca Harrington · 284 pages

Misfit freshman Penelope is rapidly overwhelmed by the aggressive competitiveness of Harvard University's environment in and out of the classrooms, a situation that is complicated by her crush on an upper classman and her participation in an absurdist production of Caligula.

IntroversionSelf-DiscoveryContemporary FictionNeurodivergent Character
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Muriel Barbery · 325 pages

EA novel by the French professor of philosophy Muriel Barbery. The book centers on a working-class concierge of an upscale apartment building in Paris, Renee Michel. She is an auto-didact of immense learning who deliberately conceals her intelligence. Her secret is discovered by a young resident of the building named Paloma. The novel is narrated alternately by each of these two characters. Fir

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The Princess Diaries

Meg Cabot, megu kiyabotsuto · 301 pages

Self-DiscoveryNew York CityContemporary FictionFirst Person Narrator
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Chasing Harry Winston

Lauren Weisberger · 304 pages

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Rachel's Holiday

Marian Keyes · 570 pages

RACHEL'S HOLIDAY, Marian's classic novel about addiction, is being given a new lease of life with a fantastic new jacket treatment. Here's Rachel Walsh, twenty-seven and the miserable owner of size 8 feet. She has regular congress with Luke Costello, a man who wears his leather trousers tight. And she's fond - some might say too fond - of recreational drugs. Until she finds herself being frogmarch

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The Woman in the Wall

Patrice Kindl · 185 pages

Because she suffers from extreme shyness, Anna retreats into herself and her secret rooms where she attempts to remain hidden from the outside world.

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The Big Love

Sarah Dunn · 248 pages

Alison Hopkins isn't just looking for Mr. Right . . . or even Mr. Big. She's holding out for the Big Love.When 32-year-old Alison's first real boyfriend unceremoniously dumps her - he steps out to buy mustard for a dinner party and never returns - it's time for Alison to reassess her lifelong search for romantic fulfillment. Does true love even exist? Is every romantic involvement with a coworker

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The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky · 216 pages

Charlie writes letters to an unknown mail recipient, detailing his struggles with high school, family, and finding his place in the world. Full of beautiful quotes and written with such sincerity, this is a book that makes the reader reflect on their purpose in life, while simultaneously reminding us about the power music, friendships, and "feeling infinite" can have on our life. Read this book.

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Summer and the City

Candace Bushnell · 409 pages

Carrie Bradshaw beleeft haar eerste weken in New York en moet allerlei tegenslagen overwinnen om zich te verzekeren van haar plaats in de Big Apple. Prequel bij 'Sex and the City' en vervolg op 'The Carrie diaries'. Carrie Bradshaw beleeft haar eerste weken in New York en moet allerlei tegenslagen overwinnen om zich te verzekeren van haar plaats in de Big Apple. Prequel bij 'Sex and the City' e

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STILL ME

Jojo Moyes, Eva Carballeira Díaz, Sandra Chaparro Martínez · 496 pages

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Speak

Laurie Halse Anderson · 197 pages

"Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated

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Something Borrowed

Emily Giffin · 322 pages

Something Borrowed tells the story of Rachel, a young attorney living and working in Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl---until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend, Darcy, throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed with Darcy's fiancé. Although she wakes up determined to put the one-night fling behind her, Rachel is horrified to di

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The Rosie Project

Graeme Simsion · 329 pages

Don Tillman, professor of genetics, has never been on a second date. He is a man who can count all his friends on the fingers of one hand, whose lifelong difficulty with social rituals has convinced him that he is simply not wired for romance. So when an acquaintance informs him that he would make a "wonderful" husband, his first reaction is shock. Yet he must concede to the statistical probabilit

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How to Be Single

Liz Tuccillo · 352 pages

On a brisk October morning in New York, Julie Jenson, a single thirty-eight-year-old book publicist, is on her way to work when she gets a hysterical phone call from her friend Georgia. Reeling from her husband's announcement that he is leaving her for a samba teacher, Georgia convinces a reluctant Julie to organize a fun girls' night out with all their single friends to remind her why it is so mu

New York CitySelf-DiscoveryContemporary FictionFunny
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The Regulars

Georgia Clark · 397 pages

Evie, Krista, and Willow are regular girls trying to make it through their mid-twenties in New York. Until they come across Pretty, a magic tincture that makes them, well, gorgeous. Like, supermodel gorgeous. And it's certainly not their fault if the sudden gift of beauty causes unexpected doors to open for them. But there's a dark side to Pretty, too, and the question arises: What would you sacri

New York CitySelf-DiscoveryContemporary FictionChick Lit
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Girls in White Dresses

Jennifer Close · 304 pages

New York CitySelf-DiscoveryContemporary FictionFunny

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