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Messy Girl Book Recs

When you're in the mood for something fun and chaotic! The books on the list are so much fun, a wild ride and will defintiely make you feel better about your own life. You are WELCOME.

Sections

Messy Family

Messy Friendships

Messy Romance

Messy at Work

Messy All Around

Messy Family

The Kardashians have nothing on these families

sisters go to live with their estranged father after their mother is sent to a mental institution

The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish a book by Katya Apekina

Sula returns home after years away

Sula a book by Toni Morrison

PRE-ORDER! This book is for anyone who loves a not-so-classic revenge story

The Fetishist a book by Katherine Min

PRE-ORDER: This book is for my skincare obsessed pals (who also may or may not have mommy issues)

Rouge a book by Mona Awad

a middle age mother navigates the pandemic, as told through prophecy

Delphi a book by Clare Pollard

Messy Friendships

Who doesn't love a chaotic bestie?

This book is for anyone who met their best friend accidentally and their life was never the same

The Rachel Incident a book by Caroline O'Donoghue

This book is for anyone who has ever spent a broke summer with their best friends

Happy Hour a book by Marlowe Granados

a group of friends start a dinner club that spirals out of control

Supper Club a book by Lara Williams

roommates meet studying abroad in Berlin & develop a toxic and dangerous relationship as they run a secret nightclub out of their apartment

Other People's Clothes a book by Calla Henkel

Dolly Alderton explains how everything she has learned about love is from the friendships she's had

Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir a book by Dolly Alderton

Messy Romance

We know love is a dangerous game but these books take it to the next level

a not love love story on obsessive & dangerous love

Acts of Desperation a book by Megan Nolan

This book is for anyone who has ever stalked someone on instagram

A Touch of Jen a book by Beth Morgan

She has an affair with a married man… then befriends his wife & mentors his daughter? Messy, messy, messy

Luster a book by Raven Leilani

Messy at Work

There is no work-life balance for this mess

For the girlies whose job is killing them (literally?)

Ripe a book by Sarah Rose Etter

For the messy girls with big hearts and lack of professional boundaries

Big Swiss a book by Jen Beagin

a professor develops an obsession for a younger colleague in the wake of her husband's affair scandal

Vladimir a book by Julia May Jonas

Messy All Around

They're messy at work, in love, in friendships, with their family-- honestly, we have to just give it to them.

This book is for the high-achievers who are barely holding it together but know karaoke can fix just about anything

Post-Traumatic a book by Chantal V. Johnson

Tove Ditlevsen memoir-- she is messy!

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency a book by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally, and Michael Favala Goldman

Queer, funny, wacky & smart short story collection

Sarahland a book by Sam Cohen