Valentine’s Day (and, ahem, my 31st birthday!) is Sunday, which is as good as reason as any to recommend some books about love of all kinds. (If you are specifically in need of romance novels, here’s a starter list!
On love between a father and a son: A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself - Peter Ho Davies
On love between a daughter and a father: Small Fry - Lisa Brennan-Jobs
On love (or lack thereof) between you and your work: Work Won’t Love You Back - Sarah Jaffe
On the complicated ways love and science and faith inform grief: Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi
On loving your family: A Place for Us - Fatima Farheen Mirza
When loving someone you really shouldn’t: Tell Me Lies - Carola Lovering
When loving someone you really shouldn’t destroys you but also eventually you get the opportunity to love again: In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado
On loving a merman. (Go with it.): The Pisces - Melissa Broder
When love changes (and maybe destroys?) your sense of self, and also makes your life infinitely hotter: The Idea of You - Robinne Lee
On loving being alone: No One Tells You This - Glynnis MacNicol
On hot hot hot love: Kink - R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell
On loving dogs: The Friend - Sigrid Nunez
January was such a good book month and so obviously, February’s been a real slump. My full reading list is here. If this was forwarded to you, sign up for the next one!
Great list! I adored The Friend. And also enjoyed No One Tells You This. I’m really excited to read Transcendent Kingdom.