Books on dating, marriage, communication, and interpersonal connections
Belle Burden's debut memoir debuted at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List and became one of the most-talked-about books of 2026, expanding a viral "Modern Love" essay into a full account of her marriage's sudden collapse during the COVID-19 pandemic — a story that is at once intimate and inescapably entangled with old money, elite social worlds, and the financial choices women make inside marriage.
Apr 4, 2026
Coco Mellors' debut novel follows Frank, a successful Manhattan ad executive with a worsening drinking problem, and Cleo, an aspiring British painter twenty years his junior, who meet on New Year's Eve and are married six months later — a whirlwind union that slowly unravels under the weight of infidelity, addiction, and unresolved childhood wounds. Published by Bloomsbury, the novel is both an intimate portrait of a damaged marriage and a satirical panorama of downtown New York's creative class. Publishers Weekly called it "involving if strained," while the Evening Standard described being "intensely consumed" by its world — a tension that captures the book's essential duality: genuinely magnetic at its core, inconsistent at its edges.
Apr 29, 2026
Rachel Lithgow's debut memoir, published by She Writes Press on November 11, 2025, chronicles her year of spectacularly ill-fated online dates in the aftermath of a gutting breakup—while simultaneously navigating a 22-year divorce, single motherhood, career reinvention, and a PTSD diagnosis. Kirkus Reviews awarded it their "Get It" verdict, calling it "funny, honest, and heart-wrenching," and the book delivers exactly what its title promises: the dates are, indeed, really bad.
Jun 12, 2026
Published in November 2023 by The Core Media Group, Inc., Love, Intimacy and Sex in the Second Half is a Christian marriage guide co-authored by Dr. Kim Kimberling and Nancy Kimberling — the duo behind the Awesome Marriage ministry — designed to help long-married couples deepen their connection, rebuild intimacy, and revitalize their sexual relationship once the child-rearing years are behind them.
Jul 18, 2026
Strangers Again: A Memoir of Marriage, Betrayal, and Becoming Whole is an independently published memoir by Sam Joe, released in 2026, chronicling a personal journey through marriage breakdown, betrayal, and self-reconstruction — a compact, intimate account offered directly to readers outside traditional publishing channels.
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