Domestic Affairs

10 best books like Domestic Affairs (Bridget Siegel): Hollow Kingdom, 99 Percent Mine, Supper Club, If You're Out There, June, Goodnight Stranger, No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work, The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You, The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups, The Opposite of Love

Hollow Kingdom

Author	Kira Jane Buxton
ISBN	1538745828

One pet crow fights to save humanity from an apocalypse in this uniquely hilarious debut from a genre-bending literary author.

S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying...

99 Percent Mine

Author	Sally Thorne
ISBN	0062439626

Crush: a strong and often short-lived infatuation, particularly for someone beyond your reach…

Darcy Barrett has undertaken a global survey of men. She’s travelled the world, and can categorically say that no one measures up to Tom Valeska, whose only flaw is that Darcy’s twin brother...

Supper Club

Author	Lara Williams
ISBN	0525539581

A sharply intelligent and intimate debut novel about a secret society of hungry young women who meet after dark and feast to reclaim their appetites--and their physical spaces--that posits the question: if you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?

Roberta spends her life trying...

If You're Out There

Author

Katy Loutzenhiser

After Zan’s best friend moves to California, she is baffled and crushed when Priya suddenly ghosts. Worse, Priya’s social media has turned into a stream of ungrammatical posts chronicling a sunny, vapid new life that doesn’t sound like her at all.

Everyone tells Zan not to be an idiot:...

June

Author	Miranda Beverly-Whittemore
ISBN	0553447688

From the New York Times bestselling author of Bittersweet comes a novel of suspense and passion about a terrible mistake made sixty years ago that threatens to change a modern family forever. 

Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Danvers is holed up in her family’s crumbling mansion in rural...

Goodnight Stranger

Author

Miciah Bay Gault

Lydia and Lucas Moore are in their late twenties when a stranger enters their small world on Wolf Island. Lydia, the responsible sister, has cared for her pathologically shy brother, Lucas, ever since their mom’s death a decade before. They live together, comfortable yet confined, in their family...

No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work

Author

Liz Fosslien

The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield, filled with confusing power structures and unwritten rules. We're expected to be authentic but not too authentic. Professional but not stiff. Friendly but not an oversharer.

As organizational consultants and regular people, we know...

The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You

Author	Julie Zhuo
ISBN	0735219567

Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller!

Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.

That's exactly how...

The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups

Author	Daniel Coyle
ISBN	0804176981

This is a nonfiction book that explores how groups succeed achieving their goals. 

It describes the characteristics of successful groups in different fields including sports teams and corporate environments. I learned new insights on what makes people genuinely engage in organizational...

The Opposite of Love

Author	Julie Buxbaum
ISBN	0385341229

With perfect pitch for the humor and heartbreak of everyday life, Julie Buxbaum has fashioned a heroine who will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has loved and lost and loved again.

When successful twenty-nine-year-old Manhattan attorney Emily Haxby ends her happy relationship...

Monsieur Mediocre: One American Learns the High Art of Being Everyday French

Author	John von Sothen
ISBN	0735224838

A hilarious, candid account of what life in France is actually like, from a writer for Vanity Fair and GQ

Americans love to love Paris. We buy books about how the French parent, why French women don't get fat, and how to be Parisian wherever you are. While our work hours increase every year, we think...

Favourite Daughter

Author

Kaira Rouda

One of them lied. One of them died.

Jane’s life has become a haze of antidepressants since the tragic death of her daughter, Mary. The accident, which happened over a year ago now, destroyed their perfect family life forever.

The trouble is, the more Jane thinks about that night,...

The Birthday Girl

Author	Melissa de la Cruz
ISBN	1524743771

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex & Eliza comes a return to adult fiction, centered around a mysterious woman's birthday celebration—and what it reveals about her past.

Ellie de Florent-Stinson is celebrating her fortieth birthday with a grand celebration in her...

Keep You Close

Author	Lucie Whitehouse
ISBN	1632863200

When the artist Marianne Glass falls to her death, everyone insists it was a tragic accident. Yet Rowan Winter, once her closest friend, suspects there is more to the story. Ever since she was young, Marianne had paralyzing vertigo. She would never have gone so close to the roof's edge.

Marianne...

The House at the Edge of Night

Author	Catherine Banner
ISBN	0812998790

A sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting Mediterranean island off the coast of Italy—combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry works of Isabel Allende.

Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be...

One Less Problem Without You

Author	Beth Harbison
ISBN	1250043824

Meet Prinny, Chelsea and Diana. Prinny is the owner of Cosmos, a shop that sells crystals, potions, candles, and hope. It’s also a place where no one turns down a little extra-special cocktail that can work as a romance potion or heal a broken heart. But Prinny is in love with her married lawyer and she’ll...

A French Wedding

Author	Hannah Tunnicliffe
ISBN	0385541848

A French Wedding is a delicious novel about six college friends reuniting on the coast of Brittany to celebrate one of their own's fortieth birthday. With sumptuous food and plenty of wine, the table is set for tricky romantic entanglements, fiery outbursts, and a range of secrets. Readers who loved...