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
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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
We love some good mommy issues
The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir a book by Yrsa Daley-Ward
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
This sweeping four-part series wrote the book on complex female friendships (pun intended)
The Neapolitan Novels Boxed Set a book by Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein
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
