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“What Does It Feel Like? is fiction, but it is my most autobiographical work to date. Eve’s story is my story.”—Sophie Kinsella
Eve is a successful novelist who wakes up one day in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there. Her husband, nev...
What Does It Feel Like?
This started my like of Sophie Kinsella
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic*, also known as Confessions of a Shopaholic in the US, is the first novel in Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic series. It follows Rebecca “Becky” Bloomwood, a financial journal...
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
It’s been almost two years since Effie’s beloved parents got divorced, destroying the image of the happy, loving childhood she thought she had. Since then, she’s become estranged from her father and embarked on a feud with his hot (and much younger) ...
The Party Crasher: A Novel
Samantha Sweeting is a workaholic lawyer. After a mental breakdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train at Paddington station, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Sweeting knocks on the doors of a well-kept manor where she is mistak...
The Undomestic Goddess
Great to be able to see some behind the scenes of her tour
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One of my FAVORITE authors
Jen Lancaster's The Anti-Heroes is a humorous novel about two dissatisfied best friends who take extreme measures to confront their fears and change their lives. The story is told from alternating character perspectives, ...
The Anti-Heroes: A Novel
Three grown women find escape and camaraderie on sorority row in a delightfully exhilarating novel about fresh starts, whether you want them or not, by New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster. How fast can charity fundraiser CeCe Barclay's un...
Housemoms
Sasha has had it. She cannot bring herself to respond to another inane, "urgent" (but obviously not at all urgent) email or participate in the corporate employee joyfulness program. She hasn't seen her friends in months. Sex? Seems like a lot of effo...
The Burnout: A Novel
MORE CONFESSIONS OF A FORTY-SOMETHING F##K UP: The laugh-out-loud sequel to the runaway bestseller of 2022 and funniest WTF AM I DOING NOW novel of the year.There is no magical land you finally arrive at where everything is figured out, fixed and sor...
Confessions of a Forty-Something F**k Up
Katherine Center's romantic comedy Hello Stranger follows Sadie Montgomery, a struggling artist who becomes face blind after an accident. Sadie's world is turned upside down when she sees faces as jumbled features, just after being named a finalist i...
Hello Stranger: A Novel
Center explores the limits of hope and love in this bittersweet tale of a young woman suffering from a devastating injury who learns to care about others when she can't figure out what to do for herself . . . Transforms the story of a family tragedy ...
How to Walk Away
This books started my like for this author
A bittersweet romance about courage and forgiveness, Things You Save in a Fire centers on the story of Cassie Hanwell, a highly competent firefighter and paramedic, as she relocates to a fire station that h...
Things You Save in a Fire: A Novel
She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own?Emma Wheeler desperately longs to be a screenwriter. She’s spent her life studying, obsessing over, and writing romantic comedies—good ones! That win contests! But she’s also been the sole c...
The Rom-Commers: A Novel
This was an absolute yes and heartbreaking to read
The Woman in Me
New York Times bestselling author Jen Lancaster takes you from sorority house to penthouse to poorhouse in her hilarious memoir of living the sweet life—until real life kicked her to the curb.She had the perfect man, the perfect job—hell, she had the...
Bitter is the New Black: Confessions
Sure Jen has made mistakes. She spent all her money from a high-paying job on shoes, clothes, and spa treatments. She then carried a Prada bag to the unemployment office. She wrote a whole memoir about dieting…but didn’t lose weight. She embarked on ...
I Regret Nothing: A Memoir
The second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of If You Were Here takes us back to the hair metal 80's. Twenty years after ruling the halls of her suburban Chicago high school, Lissy Ryder doesn’t understand why her glory days ended. Ba...
Here I Go Again: A Novel: Lancaster, Jen
Jacqueline Jordan knows conflict. A fearless journalist, she’s spent the past decade embedded in the world’s hot spots, writing about the fall of nations and the rise of despots. But if you were to inquire about who topped Jack’s enemy list, she’d no...
The Best of Enemies
Despite her overwhelming professional success, Reagan never seems to earn her family’s respect. Her younger sister, Geri, is and always will be the Bishop family favorite. When a national network buys Reagan’s show, the pressure for unreasonably quic...
Twisted Sisters: Lancaster, Jen
A NOTE FROM JEN LANCASTER: "To whom the fat rolls…I'm tired of books where a self-loathing heroine is teased to the point where she starves herself skinny in hopes of a fabulous new life. And I hate the message that women can't possibly be happy unti...
Such a Pretty Fat: A Narcissist's Quest
Actuary Penny Sinclair has a head for business, and she always makes rational decisions. Knowing that 60% of spouses cheat and 50% of marriages end in divorce, she wasn’t too surprised when her husband had an affair. (That he did so with a woman thei...
By the Numbers
Before she was bitter, before she was lazy, Jen Lancaster was a badge-hungry Junior Girl Scout with a knack for extortion, an aspiring sorority girl who didn't know her Coach from her Louis Vuitton, and a budding executive who found herself bewildere...
Pretty in Plaid: A Life, A Witch, and a Wardrobe
Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's cracked up to be. Contrary to what you see on TV and in the movies, most urbanites aren't party-hopping in slinky dresses and strappy stilettos. But lucky ...
Bright Lights, Big Ass
When did USA become shorthand for the United States of Anxiety? From the moment Americans wake up, we're bombarded with all-new terrifying news about crime, the environment, politics, and stroke-inducing foods we've been enjoying for years. We're jud...
Welcome to the U.S. of Anxiety: Observations
Jen uses any means necessary on her quest to better herself: reading canonical literature, viewing classic films, attending the opera, researching artisan cheeses, and even enrolling in etiquette classes to improve her social graces.
In Jen’s corner...
My Fair Lazy: A Culture-Up Manifesto
In Such a Pretty Fat, Jen Lancaster learned how to come to terms with her body. In My Fair Lazy, she expanded her mind. Now the New York Times bestselling author gives herself—and her generation—a kick in the X, by facing her greatest challenge to da...
Jeneration X: One Reluctant Adult's Journey
Told in the uproariously entertaining voice readers have come to expect from Jen Lancaster, If You Were Here follows Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying-...
If You Were Here: A Novel
After all, she’s no Martha Stewart. And that’s why Jen is going to Martha up and live her life according to the advice of America’s overachieving older sister—the woman who turns lemons into lavender-infused lemonade. By immersing herself in Martha’s...
The Tao of Martha: My Year of LIVING
Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Older - but arguably not wiser - Lancaster gets back to basics in this hilarious essay collection about everything from taking community policing classes to accidentally getting stoned with her waiter after a fancy dinner. T...
Stories I'd Tell in Bars
Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. More recently, her husband made a fortune selling his tech business, and their adored son has been accepted to Princeton. Yet sometimes the middle-class small-town girl in N...
All We Ever Wanted
Emily Giffin's 2005 debut novel, Something Borrowed, explores the complexities of love, friendship, and societal pressures. The story centers on Rachel White, a Manhattan attorney and maid of honor to her seemingly perfect best friend, Darcy. On her ...
Something Borrowed
Darcy Rhone thought she had it all figured out: the more beautiful the girl, the more charmed her life. Never mind substance. Never mind playing by the rules. Never mind karma.
But Darcy's neat, perfect world turns upside down when her best friend, ...
Something Blue
follows four college freshmen from different backgrounds who form an inseparable bond. Lainey, Tyson, Summer, and Hannah's friendship is tested by a tragic event before graduation, leading them to make a pact to support each other always. Ten years l...
The Summer Pact: A Novel
They are the perfect couple - until he wants a child, and she doesn't ...
Ever since their first date, when they discovered neither of them wanted children, Claudia and Ben's relationship seemed destined to succeed. They envisaged a life filled with...
Baby Proof
LOVE THE ONE YOU'RE WITH skillfully explores the secret workings of a young woman's heart, and the often painful consequences of one's actions.” ―The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “Giffin's fluid storytelling and appealing characters give her novels ...
Love the One You're With
Emily Giffin's 2012 New York Times bestselling novel, Where We Belong, explores themes of family, identity, and love through the story of Marian Caldwell, a successful 36-year-old television producer in New York City. Her seemingly stable life is dis...
Where We Belong
It's 2 a.m. in a dive bar on the Lower East Side, May 2001. Cecily figures it's the perfect place to order a beer and try to forget that she's just been dumped by the man she suspects she'll always think of as The One Who Got Away. Her best friend wa...
The Lies That Bind
Meredith thought she'd done it all right--married the perfect man, had the perfect daughter--but as she grows increasingly restless, she can't help but wonder if she got the love part wrong.
Josie has been happily single for years, but she want...
First Comes Love - Emily Giffin
Thirty-three-year-old Shea Rigsby has spent her entire life in Walker, Texas—a small college town that lives and dies by football, a passion she unabashedly shares. Raised alongside her best friend, Lucy, the daughter of Walker’s legendary head coach...
The One & Only
A restless golden boy and a girl with a troubled past navigate a love story that may be doomed before it even begins. The Kingsley family is practically American royalty, beloved for their military heroics, political service, and unmatched elegance.
Meant to Be: A Novel
The story explores how women's roles have changed and remained the same over the past 70 years, set against the backdrop of Vietnam, Woodstock, and the women's liberation movement. The sisters grow up in a perfect home with clearly defined roles, Jo ...
Mrs. Everything: A Novel
Daisy Shoemaker can't sleep. With a thriving cooking business, full schedule of volunteer work, and a beautiful home in the Philadelphia suburbs, she should be content. But her teenage daughter can be a handful, her husband can be distant, her work c...
That Summer: A Novel
Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she’s lived since college still looks like she’s just moved in. But she’s got good friends, her bike, and her bic...
The Breakaway: A Novel
She’s got his back.
Hannah Brooks looks more like a kindergarten teacher than somebody who could kill you with a wine bottle opener. Or a ballpoint pen. Or a dinner napkin. But the truth is, she’s an Executive Protection Agent (aka "bodyguard"), and ...
The Bodyguard: A Novel
It's been almost thirteen years since we last saw Cannie Shapiro, the heroine of Good in Bed, whose journey towards happy-ever-after made millions of women the world over laugh, cry and recognise themselves.
The last decade of Cannie's life has brou...
Certain Girls
I'm missing out on my life. What's wrong with me?
If that's ever crossed your mind, and if you know there's more to life than what you've been living, this book is for you.
It sucks to acknowledge that you are what's keeping you from the life you w...
Chasing Cupcakes: A Transformation Guide
When a slick Hollywood producer shows up in her hometown of Savannah, Georgia, she gets a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity: star in a beach house renovation reality show called The Homewreckers, cast against a male lead who may be a love interest, or m...
The Homewreckers: A Novel
In the Long Island oceanfront community of Mattauk, three different women discover that midlife changes bring a whole new type of empowerment…
After Nessa James’s husband dies and her twin daughters leave for college, she’s left all alone in a trim ...
The Change
Nora Stephens, a successful and driven New York agent, is persuaded by her sister Libby to vacation in the idyllic town. There, she unexpectedly encounters her professional rival, the grumpy editor Charlie Lastra. The novel explores themes of family,...
Book Lovers
Colleen Hoover's 2016 romance novel It Ends with Us explores the complex relationship between love and abuse. The story follows Lily Bloom, a young woman who struggles to avoid repeating the patterns of violence she experienced in her abusive childho...
It Ends with Us
We've been waiting for an hour." Tha's what Audrey says. She states it with a little bit of an edge, her words just bordering on cursive. That's the thing I think first. Not: Audrey Hepburn is at my birthday dinner, but Audrey Hepburn is annoyed." At...
The Dinner List