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Messy Girl Book Recs

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When you're in the mood for something fun and chaotic! The books on the list are so much fun, a wild ride and will defintiely make you feel better about your own life. You are WELCOME.
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Messy Family

The Kardashians have nothing on these families 

 
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sisters go to live with their estranged father after their mother is sent to a mental institution
The Deeper the Water the Uglier the Fish a book by Katya Apekina
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Sula returns home after years away
Sula a book by Toni Morrison
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PRE-ORDER! This book is for anyone who loves a not-so-classic revenge story
The Fetishist a book by Katherine Min
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PRE-ORDER: This book is for my skincare obsessed pals (who also may or may not have mommy issues)
Rouge a book by Mona Awad
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a middle age mother navigates the pandemic, as told through prophecy
Delphi a book by Clare Pollard
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We love some good mommy issues
The Terrible: A Storyteller's Memoir a book by Yrsa Daley-Ward
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Messy Friendships

Who doesn't love a chaotic bestie?

 
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This book is for anyone who met their best friend accidentally and their life was never the same
The Rachel Incident a book by Caroline O'Donoghue
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This book is for anyone who has ever spent a broke summer with their best friends
Happy Hour a book by Marlowe Granados
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a group of friends start a dinner club that spirals out of control
Supper Club a book by Lara Williams
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roommates meet studying abroad in Berlin & develop a toxic and dangerous relationship as they run a secret nightclub out of their apartment
Other People's Clothes a book by Calla Henkel
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Dolly Alderton explains how everything she has learned about love is from the friendships she's had
Everything I Know about Love: A Memoir a book by Dolly Alderton
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This sweeping four-part series wrote the book on complex female friendships (pun intended)
The Neapolitan Novels Boxed Set a book by Elena Ferrante and Ann Goldstein
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Messy Romance

We know love is a dangerous game but these books take it to the next level

 
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a not love love story on obsessive & dangerous love
Acts of Desperation a book by Megan Nolan
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This book is for anyone who has ever stalked someone on instagram
A Touch of Jen a book by Beth Morgan
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She has an affair with a married man… then befriends his wife & mentors his daughter? Messy, messy, messy
Luster a book by Raven Leilani
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Messy at Work

There is no work-life balance for this mess

 
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For the girlies whose job is killing them (literally?)
Ripe a book by Sarah Rose Etter
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For the messy girls with big hearts and lack of professional boundaries
Big Swiss a book by Jen Beagin
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a professor develops an obsession for a younger colleague in the wake of her husband's affair scandal
Vladimir a book by Julia May Jonas
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Messy All Around

They're messy at work, in love, in friendships, with their family-- honestly, we have to just give it to them.

 
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This book is for the high-achievers who are barely holding it together but know karaoke can fix just about anything
Post-Traumatic a book by Chantal V. Johnson
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Tove Ditlevsen memoir-- she is messy!
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency a book by Tove Ditlevsen, Tiina Nunnally, and Michael Favala Goldman
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Queer, funny, wacky & smart short story collection
Sarahland a book by Sam Cohen
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