For nights when you need a book that matches the ache in your chest. Raw, tender, and a little waterlogged. These are the reads that feel like crying in the bath, candle flickering on the counter, steam rising, and your heart cracked open.
Grief, food, and mother daughter love. You'll cry into your bathwater and crave kimchi after.
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Family secrets and forbidden love unravel at a summer house. Moody, raw, and devastating.
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
A marriage falling apart in the prettiest prose. Beautiful chaos you'll highlight through tears.
Cleopatra and Frankenstein by Coco Mellors
Funny, messy essays about growing up, heartbreak, and friendship. Like Facetiming your funniest friend when they're mid breakdown.
Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton
Short fragments about grief, desire, and the color blue. Gorgeous and aching. Perfect for bathtub meditation.
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
Dark humor meets trauma memoir. Brutal and freeing, like exhaling something you've been holding in.
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Second change high school sweethearts who broke your heart once and will again. TikTok wept for a reason.
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
Family drama and sisterhood written in luminous prose. Tender, painful, unforgettable.
Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
Advice column essays that will wreck you. Half therapy, half pep talk, all bathtub sobbing.
