For many people out there, the Hallmark holiday of Valentine’s Day is just the kind of norm-confirming, rude baloney that deserves to be relegated to the back of the calendar. Hence, we’re here to help! Here are some books that will get you through this irritating, “romance”-focused, is-it-over-yet ordeal of a day.
📚 Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling
📚 Princesses Behaving Badly: Real Stories from History—without the Fairy-Tale Endings by Linda Rodríguez McRobbie
📚 Difficult Women by Roxane Gay
📚 All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation by Rebecca Traister
📚 How to Be a Person in the World by Heather Havrilesky
📚 The Lonely City by Olivia Laing
📚 Everywhere I Look by Helen Garner
📚 The Breakup Monologues: The Unexpected Joy of Being Heartbreak by Rosie Wilby – check out episode 28 and our interview with the author.
📚 The Unexpected Joy of Being Single by Catherine Gray – check out the book club session on this read.
Are there any books you love to read when you are just living your life to the largest being single?
