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The Paper Palace

저자: Miranda Cowley Heller • 2021

A Cape Cod wife beside her oldest friend. Her husband sleeps. Her past will not.

3.77

400,000+

🩸 Generational Trauma 💔 Love Triangle 🤍 Survivor's Guilt 🏡 Family Saga 💍 Marriage In Crisis

The Paper Palace

A Cape Cod wife beside her oldest friend. Her husband sleeps. Her past will not.

저자: Miranda Cowley Heller 2021 400 페이지

3.77

400,000+ 개의 평점

🩸 Generational Trauma 💔 Love Triangle 🤍 Survivor's Guilt 🏡 Family Saga 💍 Marriage In Crisis

Show Me Where It Hurts

저자: Claire Gleeson • 2025

When a crash kills her children, an Irish nurse must learn to live inside the wreckage.

4.20

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☘️ Irish Literary Fiction 💔 Family Tragedy 🥀 Quiet Devastation ⏳ Dual Timeline 🌱 Slow Healing

Show Me Where It Hurts

When a crash kills her children, an Irish nurse must learn to live inside the wreckage.

저자: Claire Gleeson 2025 256 페이지

4.20

2,000+ 개의 평점

☘️ Irish Literary Fiction 💔 Family Tragedy 🥀 Quiet Devastation ⏳ Dual Timeline 🌱 Slow Healing

Only Here, Only Now

저자: Tom Newlands • 2024

Drowning in a dead Scottish coastal town, a restless girl discovers the family business is survival.

4.02

3,000+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Working Class Scotland 🧠 Neurodivergent Voice 🏠 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond 🏚️ Gritty Adolescence

Only Here, Only Now

Drowning in a dead Scottish coastal town, a restless girl discovers the family business is survival.

저자: Tom Newlands 2024 368 페이지

4.02

3,000+ 개의 평점

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Working Class Scotland 🧠 Neurodivergent Voice 🏠 Found Family 👩‍👧 Mother Daughter Bond 🏚️ Gritty Adolescence

The Hour I First Believed

저자: Wally Lamb • 2008

A school shooting traps his wife. A family farm hides a century of buried secrets.

3.84

66,000+

📜 Generational Saga 🏫 School Shooting Aftermath 🔍 Family Secrets 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🌀 Addiction Spiral

The Hour I First Believed

A school shooting traps his wife. A family farm hides a century of buried secrets.

저자: Wally Lamb 2008 740 페이지

3.84

66,000+ 개의 평점

📜 Generational Saga 🏫 School Shooting Aftermath 🔍 Family Secrets 💔 Marriage In Crisis 🌀 Addiction Spiral

Two-Part Invention

저자: Madeleine L'Engle • 1988

Forty years of marriage, two artists, one old farmhouse: a widow's reckoning with love and loss.

4.24

3,000+

📖 Literary Memoir 💍 Marriage Memoir 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🎨 Artist Marriage 🤲 Caregiving Journey

Two-Part Invention

Forty years of marriage, two artists, one old farmhouse: a widow's reckoning with love and loss.

저자: Madeleine L'Engle 1988 240 페이지

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3,000+ 개의 평점

📖 Literary Memoir 💍 Marriage Memoir 🙏 Spiritual Memoir 🎨 Artist Marriage 🤲 Caregiving Journey

The Choice

저자: Henry Denker • 1987

A surgeon who prioritized patients over family must now watch his daughter fight leukemia.

3.84

103

🏥 Medical Family Drama 🩺 Pediatric Cancer 💔 Loss Of A Child 😢 Tearjerker 🏨 Hospital Setting

The Choice

A surgeon who prioritized patients over family must now watch his daughter fight leukemia.

저자: Henry Denker 1987 311 페이지

3.84

103 개의 평점

🏥 Medical Family Drama 🩺 Pediatric Cancer 💔 Loss Of A Child 😢 Tearjerker 🏨 Hospital Setting

I Dreamt That You Loved Me

저자: Emery Rose • 2025

She finds a notebook full of aching confessions, then meets its author: her best friend's boyfriend.

4.24

3,000+

🕰️ Second Chance Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🎸 Rock Star Romance ✨ Fated Connection ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine

I Dreamt That You Loved Me

She finds a notebook full of aching confessions, then meets its author: her best friend's boyfriend.

저자: Emery Rose 2025

4.24

3,000+ 개의 평점

🕰️ Second Chance Romance 💔 Forbidden Love 🎸 Rock Star Romance ✨ Fated Connection ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine

La hija de la española

저자: Karina Sainz Borgo • 2019

After burying her mother in lawless Caracas, a woman steals a dead neighbor's identity to escape.

3.72

8,000+

🏚️ Societal Collapse 💔 Mother Loss 🎭 Identity Theft 😞 Survivor's Guilt 🌑 Bleak Atmosphere

La hija de la española

After burying her mother in lawless Caracas, a woman steals a dead neighbor's identity to escape.

저자: Karina Sainz Borgo 2019 220 페이지

3.72

8,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Societal Collapse 💔 Mother Loss 🎭 Identity Theft 😞 Survivor's Guilt 🌑 Bleak Atmosphere

What Comes After

저자: JoAnne Tompkins • 2021

A grieving father takes in a pregnant runaway hiding secrets about his murdered son.

3.76

29,000+

🖤 Literary Murder Mystery 🏘️ Small Town Grief 🫂 Found Family 💔 Grieving Parent 🏠 Reluctant Guardian

What Comes After

A grieving father takes in a pregnant runaway hiding secrets about his murdered son.

저자: JoAnne Tompkins 2021 420 페이지

3.76

29,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Literary Murder Mystery 🏘️ Small Town Grief 🫂 Found Family 💔 Grieving Parent 🏠 Reluctant Guardian

Always, in December

저자: Emily Stone • 2021

She dreads December until a bike crash with a London stranger opens her guarded heart.

3.72

33,000+

🎄 Holiday Romance 🥀 Tragic Love Story 💫 Chance Encounter 🤍 Secret Illness 💌 Unsent Letters

Always, in December

She dreads December until a bike crash with a London stranger opens her guarded heart.

저자: Emily Stone 2021 416 페이지

3.72

33,000+ 개의 평점

🎄 Holiday Romance 🥀 Tragic Love Story 💫 Chance Encounter 🤍 Secret Illness 💌 Unsent Letters

Malum

저자: Amo Jones • 2019

Caged by the king she loves, a dead friend returns, a sister thirsts for blood.

4.39

9,000+

🖤 Mafia Romance 🏛️ Secret Society ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🤝 Found Family 💔 Trauma Bonding

Malum

Caged by the king she loves, a dead friend returns, a sister thirsts for blood.

저자: Amo Jones 2019 299 페이지

4.39

9,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Mafia Romance 🏛️ Secret Society ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 🤝 Found Family 💔 Trauma Bonding

The Passenger

저자: Cormac McCarthy • 2022

Grieving his genius sister, a salvage diver finds a vanished passenger and his own life erased.

3.57

39,000+

🥀 Southern Gothic 🔍 Existential Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🧠 Genius And Madness 👥 Sibling Bond

The Passenger

Grieving his genius sister, a salvage diver finds a vanished passenger and his own life erased.

저자: Cormac McCarthy 2022 385 페이지

3.57

39,000+ 개의 평점

🥀 Southern Gothic 🔍 Existential Mystery 💔 Forbidden Love 🧠 Genius And Madness 👥 Sibling Bond

What Happened That Night

저자: Susanna Beard • 2017

When her best friend is murdered, she survives with no memory of the attack, only guilt.

3.89

3,000+

🖤 Psychological Suspense 🩹 Trauma Recovery 😞 Survivor's Guilt 🔒 Repressed Memory 👭 Female Friendship

What Happened That Night

When her best friend is murdered, she survives with no memory of the attack, only guilt.

저자: Susanna Beard 2017 223 페이지

3.89

3,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Psychological Suspense 🩹 Trauma Recovery 😞 Survivor's Guilt 🔒 Repressed Memory 👭 Female Friendship

Embodied Hope

저자: Kelly M. Kapic • 2017

Why the Christian response to suffering starts not with an argument, but with a body.

4.35

500+

🐑 Pastoral Theology 🧱 Embodied Faith 😢 Lament And Grief ✝️ Vicarious Suffering 🌅 Resurrection Hope

Embodied Hope

Why the Christian response to suffering starts not with an argument, but with a body.

저자: Kelly M. Kapic 2017 197 페이지

4.35

500+ 개의 평점

🐑 Pastoral Theology 🧱 Embodied Faith 😢 Lament And Grief ✝️ Vicarious Suffering 🌅 Resurrection Hope

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (6-Jul-2006) Paperback

저자: Per Petterson • 2003

He fled to the Norwegian woods to forget. A neighbor's face pulled him back to 1948.

3.81

38,000+

🏔️ Norwegian Fiction 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👦 Absent Father 👦 Boyhood Friendship 🤫 Trauma And Silence

Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson (6-Jul-2006) Paperback

He fled to the Norwegian woods to forget. A neighbor's face pulled him back to 1948.

저자: Per Petterson 2003

3.81

38,000+ 개의 평점

🏔️ Norwegian Fiction 🕰️ Dual Timeline 👨‍👦 Absent Father 👦 Boyhood Friendship 🤫 Trauma And Silence

Bố con cá gai

저자: Cho Chang-In • 2000

When leukemia strikes his son, a Korean father begins selling the only asset left: himself.

4.41

2,000+

👨‍👦 Father And Son 💔 Parental Sacrifice 🎗️ Childhood Cancer 🥀 Quiet Grief 🇰🇷 Contemporary Korea

Bố con cá gai

When leukemia strikes his son, a Korean father begins selling the only asset left: himself.

저자: Cho Chang-In 2000 337 페이지

4.41

2,000+ 개의 평점

👨‍👦 Father And Son 💔 Parental Sacrifice 🎗️ Childhood Cancer 🥀 Quiet Grief 🇰🇷 Contemporary Korea

The Lies That Bind

저자: Emily Giffin • 2020

A journalist loses her new love on 9/11, then discovers the wife he never mentioned.

3.76

81,000+

💔 Love Triangle 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏙️ Post 9/11 🤫 Secrets And Lies 🌱 Starting Over

The Lies That Bind

A journalist loses her new love on 9/11, then discovers the wife he never mentioned.

저자: Emily Giffin 2020 352 페이지

3.76

81,000+ 개의 평점

💔 Love Triangle 🔄 Second Chance Romance 🏙️ Post 9/11 🤫 Secrets And Lies 🌱 Starting Over

The Sea of Tranquility

저자: Katja Millay • 2012

A mute girl, a grieving boy, and a garage where silence says everything.

4.28

88,000+

🖤 Trauma Romance 💔 Broken Boy Broken Girl 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 😢 Tearjerker

The Sea of Tranquility

A mute girl, a grieving boy, and a garage where silence says everything.

저자: Katja Millay 2012 449 페이지

4.28

88,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Trauma Romance 💔 Broken Boy Broken Girl 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Found Family 😢 Tearjerker

The Trick to Time

저자: Kit de Waal • 2018

An Irish dollmaker crafts weighted babies for grieving mothers. Her own daughter was stillborn.

3.93

2,000+

🔀 Dual Timeline 👶 Infant Loss 💕 Late-Life Romance 🧵 Healing Through Craft 🍀 Irish Emigration

The Trick to Time

An Irish dollmaker crafts weighted babies for grieving mothers. Her own daughter was stillborn.

저자: Kit de Waal 2018 272 페이지

3.93

2,000+ 개의 평점

🔀 Dual Timeline 👶 Infant Loss 💕 Late-Life Romance 🧵 Healing Through Craft 🍀 Irish Emigration

Los seres queridos

저자: Berta Dávila • 2022

An unexpected pregnancy forces a mother to confront the ambivalence she has never spoken aloud.

4.01

500+

🖊️ Autofiction 🔀 Fragmented Narrative 🫂 Ambivalent Motherhood 🌑 Postpartum Depression 👵 Intergenerational Women

Los seres queridos

An unexpected pregnancy forces a mother to confront the ambivalence she has never spoken aloud.

저자: Berta Dávila 2022 106 페이지

4.01

500+ 개의 평점

🖊️ Autofiction 🔀 Fragmented Narrative 🫂 Ambivalent Motherhood 🌑 Postpartum Depression 👵 Intergenerational Women

I Liked My Life

저자: Abby Fabiaschi • 2017

A dead mother handpicks her replacement, determined to fix the family she left behind.

4.15

15,000+

👻 Posthumous Narrator 💔 Grieving Teenager 🌅 Love After Loss 🤝 Found Family 🥀 Bittersweet

I Liked My Life

A dead mother handpicks her replacement, determined to fix the family she left behind.

저자: Abby Fabiaschi 2017 272 페이지

4.15

15,000+ 개의 평점

👻 Posthumous Narrator 💔 Grieving Teenager 🌅 Love After Loss 🤝 Found Family 🥀 Bittersweet

La Papeterie Tsubaki

저자: Ito Ogawa • 2016

She never wanted the shop, but now she writes the words her Kamakura neighbors cannot say.

4.11

11,000+

🍃 Slice Of Life 🫂 Found Family 🏪 Inherited Shop 🍵 Cozy Japanese Setting 💌 Healing Fiction

La Papeterie Tsubaki

She never wanted the shop, but now she writes the words her Kamakura neighbors cannot say.

저자: Ito Ogawa 2016 375 페이지

4.11

11,000+ 개의 평점

🍃 Slice Of Life 🫂 Found Family 🏪 Inherited Shop 🍵 Cozy Japanese Setting 💌 Healing Fiction

Hasta que nos quedemos sin estrellas

저자: Inma Rubiales • 2022

A grieving girl agrees to fake date a YouTuber, but their staged love becomes dangerously real.

4.27

50,000+

🎭 Fake Dating 🚗 Road Trip Romance 💞 Strangers To Lovers 🌟 Fame Meets Ordinary 💔 Grief Healing

Hasta que nos quedemos sin estrellas

A grieving girl agrees to fake date a YouTuber, but their staged love becomes dangerously real.

저자: Inma Rubiales 2022 552 페이지

4.27

50,000+ 개의 평점

🎭 Fake Dating 🚗 Road Trip Romance 💞 Strangers To Lovers 🌟 Fame Meets Ordinary 💔 Grief Healing

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

저자: Ben Reeves • 2026

Death is a lonely man restoring old photographs. A child's friendship shatters his detachment.

4.15

1,000+

🖤 Death As Narrator 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 💔 Grieving Mother 🌧️ Melancholy Tenderness 🤝 Unlikely Friendship

Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt

Death is a lonely man restoring old photographs. A child's friendship shatters his detachment.

저자: Ben Reeves 2026 256 페이지

4.15

1,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Death As Narrator 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 💔 Grieving Mother 🌧️ Melancholy Tenderness 🤝 Unlikely Friendship

How Not to Disappear

저자: Clare Furniss • 2015

A pregnant teen drives her great-aunt across England to outrun dementia and unearth family secrets.

4.08

1,000+

🏠 Generational Drama 🤰 Teen Pregnancy 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🚗 Road Trip Journey

How Not to Disappear

A pregnant teen drives her great-aunt across England to outrun dementia and unearth family secrets.

저자: Clare Furniss 2015 416 페이지

4.08

1,000+ 개의 평점

🏠 Generational Drama 🤰 Teen Pregnancy 🤝 Unlikely Friendship 💔 Intergenerational Trauma 🚗 Road Trip Journey

For Lucy

저자: Jewel E. Ann • 2021

A lie to protect his daughter costs a father his wife after their young son drowns.

4.43

7,000+

🖤 Second Chance Love 💔 Estranged Spouses 🤫 Family Secret 😢 Grieving Parents 😭 Ugly Cry Book

For Lucy

A lie to protect his daughter costs a father his wife after their young son drowns.

저자: Jewel E. Ann 2021 306 페이지

4.43

7,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Second Chance Love 💔 Estranged Spouses 🤫 Family Secret 😢 Grieving Parents 😭 Ugly Cry Book

No Time to Say Goodbye

저자: Carla Fine • 1996

For anyone left behind after a suicide: why this grief is different, and what actually helps.

4.25

1,000+

🖤 Suicide Bereavement 💔 Trauma Recovery 😞 Survivor Guilt 👥 Suicide Survivors 🗣️ Breaking Stigma

No Time to Say Goodbye

For anyone left behind after a suicide: why this grief is different, and what actually helps.

저자: Carla Fine 1996 272 페이지

4.25

1,000+ 개의 평점

🖤 Suicide Bereavement 💔 Trauma Recovery 😞 Survivor Guilt 👥 Suicide Survivors 🗣️ Breaking Stigma

This Is Not About Us

저자: Allegra Goodman • 2026

After their youngest sister dies, two women stop speaking. Their rift echoes for three generations.

3.58

15,000+

🖇️ Linked Short Stories 🏡 Family Saga 💔 Sister Estrangement 👥 Divorced Co-Parents 🏠 Blended Families

This Is Not About Us

After their youngest sister dies, two women stop speaking. Their rift echoes for three generations.

저자: Allegra Goodman 2026 336 페이지

3.58

15,000+ 개의 평점

🖇️ Linked Short Stories 🏡 Family Saga 💔 Sister Estrangement 👥 Divorced Co-Parents 🏠 Blended Families

Finding Hayes

저자: Laura Pavlov • 2024

Inheriting a farmhouse comes with a thirty-day deadline to marry the best friend she abandoned.

4.30

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🏡 Small Town Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🔄 Second Chance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🏠 Forced Proximity

Finding Hayes

Inheriting a farmhouse comes with a thirty-day deadline to marry the best friend she abandoned.

저자: Laura Pavlov 2024 370 페이지

4.30

19,000+ 개의 평점

🏡 Small Town Romance 💍 Marriage Of Convenience 🔄 Second Chance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🏠 Forced Proximity

Where Wolves Don't Die

저자: Anton Treuer • 2024

Accused of a fire he dreamed first, a Native teen escapes to his grandfather's trapline.

4.17

4,000+

🕵️ Indigenous Mystery 🧓 Elder Mentorship 💕 Friends To Lovers 🦅 Rites Of Passage 🌙 Spiritual Realism

Where Wolves Don't Die

Accused of a fire he dreamed first, a Native teen escapes to his grandfather's trapline.

저자: Anton Treuer 2024 320 페이지

4.17

4,000+ 개의 평점

🕵️ Indigenous Mystery 🧓 Elder Mentorship 💕 Friends To Lovers 🦅 Rites Of Passage 🌙 Spiritual Realism

Laws of Love and Logic

저자: Debra Curtis • 2026

Raised on saints and science, she loved a wounded boy. One Rhode Island night stole their tomorrow.

3.78

7,000+

💘 First Love ⏳ Decades-Spanning Romance 👭 Sister Bond 💰 Class Divide 🏘️ Small Town New England

Laws of Love and Logic

Raised on saints and science, she loved a wounded boy. One Rhode Island night stole their tomorrow.

저자: Debra Curtis 2026 320 페이지

3.78

7,000+ 개의 평점

💘 First Love ⏳ Decades-Spanning Romance 👭 Sister Bond 💰 Class Divide 🏘️ Small Town New England

Swift River

저자: Essie J. Chambers • 2024

Her father vanished. A mixed-race girl in a sundown town finds her family's past through letters.

3.49

11,000+

🏚️ Sundown Towns ✉️ Family Letters 🏡 Small Town Isolation 💔 Missing Father 🪞 Body And Belonging

Swift River

Her father vanished. A mixed-race girl in a sundown town finds her family's past through letters.

저자: Essie J. Chambers 2024 304 페이지

3.49

11,000+ 개의 평점

🏚️ Sundown Towns ✉️ Family Letters 🏡 Small Town Isolation 💔 Missing Father 🪞 Body And Belonging

Hero

저자: Lauren Rowe • 2018

A widow vowed to never love again, then fell for the firefighter assigned to her care.

3.93

18,000+

🚒 Firefighter Romance 🖤 Widow Romance 👶 Single Parent Romance 🚫 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn

Hero

A widow vowed to never love again, then fell for the firefighter assigned to her care.

저자: Lauren Rowe 2018 480 페이지

3.93

18,000+ 개의 평점

🚒 Firefighter Romance 🖤 Widow Romance 👶 Single Parent Romance 🚫 Forbidden Love 🔥 Slow Burn

Sam

저자: Allegra Goodman • 2023

For Sam, climbing is escape: up doorframes, trees, gym walls, away from the chaos of home.

3.77

16,000+

🧗 Girl Athlete 💔 Absent Father 🛠️ Working Class Family 🫂 Found Family 🍷 Parental Addiction

Sam

For Sam, climbing is escape: up doorframes, trees, gym walls, away from the chaos of home.

저자: Allegra Goodman 2023 336 페이지

3.77

16,000+ 개의 평점

🧗 Girl Athlete 💔 Absent Father 🛠️ Working Class Family 🫂 Found Family 🍷 Parental Addiction

The Weight of Sand

저자: Wolf Gunnar • 2025

A Marine veteran builds his neighbor's porch to quiet the war still raging in his head.

4.46

236

🎖️ Veteran Fiction 💥 War Trauma 🏡 Neighbors To Lovers 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family

The Weight of Sand

A Marine veteran builds his neighbor's porch to quiet the war still raging in his head.

저자: Wolf Gunnar 2025 370 페이지

4.46

236 개의 평점

🎖️ Veteran Fiction 💥 War Trauma 🏡 Neighbors To Lovers 🔥 Slow-Burn Romance 🫂 Found Family

The Music of Bees

저자: Eileen Garvin • 2021

On an Oregon bee farm, three wounded strangers discover that survival depends on each other.

4.09

31,000+

🐝 Beekeeping Fiction 🏠 Found Family 🌱 Second Chances ✊ Environmental Activism 🌤️ Quietly Hopeful

The Music of Bees

On an Oregon bee farm, three wounded strangers discover that survival depends on each other.

저자: Eileen Garvin 2021 322 페이지

4.09

31,000+ 개의 평점

🐝 Beekeeping Fiction 🏠 Found Family 🌱 Second Chances ✊ Environmental Activism 🌤️ Quietly Hopeful

A través de los ojos del león

저자: Levi Lusko • 2015

When his five-year-old died, the easy answers vanished. What remained was hope stronger than death.

4.57

5,000+

🕊️ Pastoral Grief ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🌅 Resurrection Hope ✝️ Suffering And Faith 🔭 Eternal Perspective

A través de los ojos del león

When his five-year-old died, the easy answers vanished. What remained was hope stronger than death.

저자: Levi Lusko 2015 211 페이지

4.57

5,000+ 개의 평점

🕊️ Pastoral Grief ⚔️ Spiritual Warfare 🌅 Resurrection Hope ✝️ Suffering And Faith 🔭 Eternal Perspective

En attendant Bojangles

저자: Olivier Bourdeaut • 2016

A boy's family dances on the edge of joy and madness, until the music finally stops.

4.23

19,000+

🎪 Eccentric Family 👩‍👧 Troubled Mother 🎭 Tragicomic Tone 🏥 Psychiatric Hospital 💕 Love And Madness

En attendant Bojangles

A boy's family dances on the edge of joy and madness, until the music finally stops.

저자: Olivier Bourdeaut 2016 159 페이지

4.23

19,000+ 개의 평점

🎪 Eccentric Family 👩‍👧 Troubled Mother 🎭 Tragicomic Tone 🏥 Psychiatric Hospital 💕 Love And Madness

How to Be Sad

저자: Helen Russell • 2021

Fighting sadness backfires: why letting sorrow in may be the only path back to happiness.

3.97

1,000+

🌊 Emotional Acceptance 🚫 Toxic Positivity Critique 🕯️ Grief Processing 🧩 Overcoming Perfectionism 🎭 Happiness Myths

How to Be Sad

Fighting sadness backfires: why letting sorrow in may be the only path back to happiness.

저자: Helen Russell 2021 352 페이지

3.97

1,000+ 개의 평점

🌊 Emotional Acceptance 🚫 Toxic Positivity Critique 🕯️ Grief Processing 🧩 Overcoming Perfectionism 🎭 Happiness Myths

What I Should've Said

저자: Max Monroe • 2024

A runaway bride collides with a brooding artist and his dying daughter's impossible bucket list.

4.21

22,000+

🏃‍♀️ Runaway Bride 🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👧 Single Dad 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

What I Should've Said

A runaway bride collides with a brooding artist and his dying daughter's impossible bucket list.

저자: Max Monroe 2024 352 페이지

4.21

22,000+ 개의 평점

🏃‍♀️ Runaway Bride 🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Enemies To Lovers 👨‍👧 Single Dad 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family

Don’t Come Back

저자: Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas • 2017

A nurse smuggles her mother's corpse across Colombia. Every family legend here is a survival story.

4.14

🇨🇴 Colombian History ✈️ Immigrant Memoir 🧬 Generational Trauma 🌍 Diaspora Literature ⚔️ Political Violence

Don’t Come Back

A nurse smuggles her mother's corpse across Colombia. Every family legend here is a survival story.

저자: Lina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas 2017 253 페이지

4.14

73 개의 평점

🇨🇴 Colombian History ✈️ Immigrant Memoir 🧬 Generational Trauma 🌍 Diaspora Literature ⚔️ Political Violence

The Ballad of Ronan McCoy

저자: Colin Morgan • 2026

A boy who washes hearses in secret already knows death. Then silence steals his only friend.

4.44

497

🖋️ Literary Coming-Of-Age 🍀 Northern Irish Fiction 👦 Childhood Friends 🤝 Caretaker Friendship 💔 Bittersweet Friendship

The Ballad of Ronan McCoy

A boy who washes hearses in secret already knows death. Then silence steals his only friend.

저자: Colin Morgan 2026 384 페이지

4.44

497 개의 평점

🖋️ Literary Coming-Of-Age 🍀 Northern Irish Fiction 👦 Childhood Friends 🤝 Caretaker Friendship 💔 Bittersweet Friendship

Good as Gold

저자: Sarina Bowen • 2023

They swore never to cross the line. Now she's asking him to father her child.

4.05

4,000+

🏡 Small Town Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💘 Forbidden Love

Good as Gold

They swore never to cross the line. Now she's asking him to father her child.

저자: Sarina Bowen 2023 310 페이지

4.05

4,000+ 개의 평점

🏡 Small Town Romance 💔 Second Chance Romance 👫 Friends To Lovers 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 💘 Forbidden Love

Finding Perfect

저자: Colleen Hoover • 2019

The baby they surrendered haunts his girlfriend. He searches for their son to give her peace.

4.11

100,000+

🫂 Adoption Reunion 💕 High School Sweethearts 🤫 Hidden Child 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 😢 Bittersweet

Finding Perfect

The baby they surrendered haunts his girlfriend. He searches for their son to give her peace.

저자: Colleen Hoover 2019 128 페이지

4.11

100,000+ 개의 평점

🫂 Adoption Reunion 💕 High School Sweethearts 🤫 Hidden Child 👨‍👩‍👧 Found Family 😢 Bittersweet

My Phantoms

저자: Gwendoline Riley • 2021

A daughter traces her mother's rituals and evasions, searching for the connection that never came.

3.77

5,000+

💔 Difficult Mother 🌫️ Emotional Distance 🪞 Parental Narcissism 🥀 Understated Grief 📖 Book Club Fiction

My Phantoms

A daughter traces her mother's rituals and evasions, searching for the connection that never came.

저자: Gwendoline Riley 2021 201 페이지

3.77

5,000+ 개의 평점

💔 Difficult Mother 🌫️ Emotional Distance 🪞 Parental Narcissism 🥀 Understated Grief 📖 Book Club Fiction

Trinkets

저자: Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith • 2013

Three girls from different cliques are caught shoplifting and sentenced to the same therapy group.

3.40

3,000+

🛒 Teen Shoplifting 👭 Unlikely Friends 🏠 Found Family 🖤 Grief And Loss 🏘️ Affluent Suburb

Trinkets

Three girls from different cliques are caught shoplifting and sentenced to the same therapy group.

저자: Kirsten "Kiwi" Smith 2013 288 페이지

3.40

3,000+ 개의 평점

🛒 Teen Shoplifting 👭 Unlikely Friends 🏠 Found Family 🖤 Grief And Loss 🏘️ Affluent Suburb

Midwinter Break

저자: Bernard MacLaverty • 2017

An aging wife secretly tours Amsterdam seeking sanctuary from her alcoholic husband and their past.

3.59

6,000+

💔 Marriage In Crisis 🏡 Quiet Domestic Drama 🥃 Alcoholic Spouse 🌧️ Melancholy Fiction 🌷 Amsterdam Setting

Midwinter Break

An aging wife secretly tours Amsterdam seeking sanctuary from her alcoholic husband and their past.

저자: Bernard MacLaverty 2017 256 페이지

3.59

6,000+ 개의 평점

💔 Marriage In Crisis 🏡 Quiet Domestic Drama 🥃 Alcoholic Spouse 🌧️ Melancholy Fiction 🌷 Amsterdam Setting

Perfect Love Story

저자: Natasha Madison • 2018

Her husband's death reveals a double life, sending her seaside into a guarded single dad's path.

4.20

7,000+

🏘️ Small Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👧 Single Parent Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌅 Starting Over

Perfect Love Story

Her husband's death reveals a double life, sending her seaside into a guarded single dad's path.

저자: Natasha Madison 2018 186 페이지

4.20

7,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ Small Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👧 Single Parent Romance ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 🌅 Starting Over

Never Seen the Stars

저자: Kate Korsh • 2025

Her eyes are failing. Her dead friend keeps appearing. He needs her to see one last thing.

3.69

112

🖤 Teen Grief 👁️ Vision Loss 🦯 Hidden Disability 💔 Toxic First Love 🎭 High School Theater

Never Seen the Stars

Her eyes are failing. Her dead friend keeps appearing. He needs her to see one last thing.

저자: Kate Korsh 2025 288 페이지

3.69

112 개의 평점

🖤 Teen Grief 👁️ Vision Loss 🦯 Hidden Disability 💔 Toxic First Love 🎭 High School Theater

Happy After All

저자: Maisey Yates • 2025

A pink desert motel, a heartbroken owner, and the widower who checks in each summer.

3.87

10,000+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🕰️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Dating ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 💔 Grieving Hero

Happy After All

A pink desert motel, a heartbroken owner, and the widower who checks in each summer.

저자: Maisey Yates 2025 315 페이지

3.87

10,000+ 개의 평점

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🕰️ Slow Burn Romance 💍 Fake Dating ☀️ Grumpy Sunshine 💔 Grieving Hero

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