Zoe’s daughter, Ruby-smart, flippant, and moody-starts showing a romantic interest in Elizabeth’s son, Harry (clean-cut, sweet, and naïve). It’s summer in Brooklyn, circa now, and three former college band mates, Elizabeth, Zoe, and Andrew, are living on the same block with their significant others (Elizabeth and Andrew are married Zoe has a wife named Jane) and kids. By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, you won’t be able to put this novel down. But what she was able to ignore about Leonard’s moodiness in college becomes impossible to ignore when they’re living together-his plunging depressions and wild manic episodes inevitably start to erode their relationship. MORE: The 15 Best Airbnb Beach Rentals to Book ASAPĪfter graduating from Brown in the 80s, dutiful English major and New Jersey WASP Madeleine follows her charismatic, mysterious boyfriend Leonard to Cape Cod, where he has a prestigious post-grad fellowship. Equal parts entertaining and accurate, it’s of my absolute favorites. Cataloguing the dating life of young male writer named Nate, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.explores what it’s like to be single in Brooklyn and navigating the cutthroat, incestuous dating scene of publishing intellectuals and ambitious 20- and 30-somethings. With rave reviews from The New Yorker, NPR, Slate, and more, this novel bursts from the seams with social insight, wit, and intelligence. Bennet to try to find her daughters a match, and for Sittenfeld to unpack every interpersonal dynamic with wit, hilarity, and insight. When a handsome ER doctor arrives in town after a stint on a reality dating show during which he failed to find a wife, it’s the perfect opportunity for Mrs. These 15 books-new and old, fluffy and intense-encapsulate what it’s like to love, fight, and fuck today, and will keep you entertained everywhere from the subway to the beach.Ī modern-day re-interpretation of Jane Austen’s inimitable classic, Pride and Prejudice, Eligible is set in the Cincinnati suburbs, where the Bennet family-complete with meddling mother, ailing father, and five single daughters-drama unfolds. MORE: The 7 Best Food and Drink Podcasts Ever It’s one of the same reasons SATC and “The Bachelor” reached stratospheric heights of success: A great story about relationships, dating, and sex is second to none when it comes to entertainment value. To me, there’s nothing better than an intelligent, talented writer taking to the page to dissect the very thing we spend so much time dissecting IRL. I’ll be the first to admit that while, as a reader, I’m not the most discriminating-I’ll read high- and low-brow books, fiction and non, light and serious-I do tend to favor books that focus on romantic relationships.

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