Author: Christina Lauren
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren is a delightful rom-com that combines humor, heart, and a gorgeous setting. Olive and Ethan, two people who can’t stand each other, are forced to take a honeymoon trip together after the rest of Olive’s family gets food poisoning. The catch? They’re stuck on the trip of a lifetime to Hawaii, with no way out. The best part of this book is the dynamic between Olive and Ethan. Th...
Author: Kristen Arnett
Kristen Arnett’s Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One is a darkly funny and surprisingly emotional journey of self-reinvention. The story follows Cherry Hendricks, a down-on-her-luck clown in Orlando who’s struggling to make ends meet. She’s a mess, caught between self-sabotage and a desperate need for change. Her life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Margot the Magnificent, a magician offering her a new opportunit...
Author: Lisa Jewell
Ralph's Party by Lisa Jewell is an engaging and delightful debut that takes place in a quirky London apartment building. The novel centers around Ralph, a man who has been stuck in a routine and is secretly pining for his best friend, Jem, who happens to be dating someone else. His life gets even more complicated when his new roommate, Smith, enters the picture—a laid-back, carefree guy who seems to have a handle on l...
Author: Elif Batuman
The Idiot by Elif Batuman is a wonderfully offbeat and darkly comic coming-of-age novel. It follows Selin, a Turkish-American student starting her first year at Harvard in the 1990s. As she navigates the awkwardness of college life, Batuman takes us inside her mind, where humor and confusion blend together seamlessly. The novel’s charm lies in its dry, intellectual humor and the quirky lens through which Selin view...
Author: Christina Lauren
A heartfelt second-chance romance, Twice in a Blue Moon explores love, betrayal, and redemption. Tate and Sam fell in love on a European vacation, but when Sam betrays her trust, their relationship is shattered. Fourteen years later, they cross paths again in Hollywood, forcing them to confront their past and the love they never forgot. While the story has emotional moments, it’s fairly predictable and lacks the...
Author: Christina Lauren
A fun and flirty romance, The True Love Experiment is a lighthearted take on love, reality TV, and self-discovery. Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is a bestselling romance author who has never actually been in love. When documentary filmmaker Connor Prince casts her in a dating reality show, she unexpectedly finds herself drawn to him instead. While the premise is engaging and the banter is fun, the execution feels a bit ...
Author: Bonnie Garmus
Brilliantly written and utterly engaging, Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus is a novel that blends humor, feminism, and resilience into a powerful story. Set in the 1960s, the book follows Elizabeth Zott, a fiercely intelligent chemist whose career is constantly derailed by the sexism of her time. When circumstances force her to become the host of a cooking show, she turns it into an unconventional science les...
Author: Casey McQuiston
A fun and chaotic high school mystery, I Kissed Shara Wheeler delivers an over-the-top rom-com with plenty of heart. For four years, Chloe and prom queen Shara have been academic rivals, competing fiercely for the title of valedictorian. But just a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe—and then vanishes. Determined to find out what happened, Chloe embarks on a scavenger hunt of clues, only to discover that Sha...