One of E! News' 13 Books to Read This September | One of Bookish's Debuts to Read in the Second Half of 2021 | One of Medium's Best Releases Out Today “Hazel Hayes writes with such honesty and casual confidence and flowing dialogue, you feel you are overhearing it rather than reading it. The writing sparkles with wit and a poignant emotional reality. I love it.”—Matt Haig, bestselling author of The Midnight Library “A smart, touching, time-bending romance. Funny and affecting.”—David Nicholls, bestselling author of One Day and Sweet Sorrow For anyone who has loved and lost, and lived to tell the tale, this gorgeously written debut is a love story told in reverse, a modern novel with the heart of a classic: truthful, tragic, and ultimately full of hope. Out of Love begins at the end. A couple call it quits after nearly five years, and while holding a box of her ex-boyfriend’s belongings, the young woman wonders: How could they have spent so long together? When did they fall out of love? Were there good times before the bad? These are the questions we obsess over when a relationship ends, even when obsessing can do no good. But instead of moving forward through the emotional fallout of a break-up, Out of Love moves backward in time, weaving together an already unraveled tapestry, from tragic ending to magical first kiss. Each chapter jumps further into the past, mining their history for the days and details that might help us understand love; how it happens and why it sometimes falls apart. Readers of Normal People; Goodbye, Vitamin; and One Day will adore this bittersweet romance, a sparkling debut that you won’t want to miss.

All Out of love is an honest look at love written in a poetic journal of sorts. It is an intimate collection of thoughts that gives a front and center view of the pitfalls of love.

"At 27 years old, Laura’s life is going exactly as planned. She has a great job, a loving family, and is engaged to her true love….until everything changes. Suddenly Laura is forced to recreate her reality and embark on unknown adventures in love and friendships. Rather than a romantic honeymoon, Laura heads off to Europe with her sister Sophia. They enjoy cheese and baguettes by the Eiffel Tower, tapas in Barcelona, and Aperol Spritz in Italy. They practice their Italian, meet New Yorkers that seem like distant cousins, Australians that remind them not to take life too seriously, and most importantly, they discover themselves. Laura begins to see that even though she is missing the love she once had, the love of friends and family is invaluable. Being open to new situations, Laura accepts a job on a cruise ship where she becomes part of an entirely different world. She meets new friends from England, Croatia, Australia, South Africa, and all around the world. She gets to explore countries she never thought to visit. She begins to find happiness as a single woman. She eventually moves into her own condo and celebrates her independence. She becomes open to the online dating world, only to realize that she’s rarely interested in going on a second date with the guys she meets. When she does enter a relationship, she often discovers that unlike her, most men have not moved away from their past or forgiven their exes. Some men, regardless of their age, can tell a lie so well that they’ve fully embraced it as reality. Eventually, lies are revealed, and Laura moves on to find herself once again. She’s adamant to not settle for the sake of being in a relationship. So she returns to her love - travel. Although romances are sometimes short-lived, it brings Laura happiness and reminds her that she doesn’t need anyone. She is enough. Until she meets Connor. From their love of music, concerts, and art, the two are inseparable. She felt chemistry from the moment they met, and their passionate nature made even the mundane of days exciting. But just as she finally lets go of the pain of her past, things drastically take another turn and Laura is no longer safe in her own home. Realizing her independence and happiness are in jeopardy, Laura must find a way to escape and start over once again. She must learn to accept that no matter how much she plans, nothing is ever truly in her control. "

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

"Football star Pierce Hollister has fame, fortune, and beautiful women who'll do anything for him . . . whether he asks them to or not. But when it all comes crashing down, Pierce finds himself back home, running the ranch in Cupid, Texas, wondering how it all went wrong. But one thing is right: Lace Bettingfield. The former plain-Jane has turned into a luscious knockout--trouble is, she won't even give him the time of day no matter how many passes he makes. Being in love with your older brother's best friend is awkward enough, and Pierce was the cause of Lace's most embarrassing high school moment ever when her secret letter to him declaring her love landed right on the front page of the school newspaper! Pierce is still as stubborn, sexy, and arrogant as ever . . . but Lace is about to see that things aren't always as they seem . . . especially when it comes to love."--Back cover.

“Three relatable thirty somethings drive this ode to womanhood. Learning the hard way to love themselves, the women teach invaluable lessons.”—People “Everyone who loves Sally Rooney should be reading Jana Casale!”—Julie Buntin, author of Marlena Three women confront the compromises they’ve made to appease the men they love. Joy and Annie are friends and roommates whose thirty-something lives aren’t exactly what they’d imagined. To make ends meet, they decide to rent their extra bedroom to Theo, who charms Joy with his salt-and-pepper hair and adoration of their one-eyed cat. When Annie goes to live with her boyfriend, Theo and Joy settle into a comfortable domesticity. Then Theo brings home Celine, the girlfriend he’s never mentioned, who is possibly the most stunning woman Joy has ever seen. Joy resolves to do whatever it takes to hold on to him, falling ever deeper into an emotional hellscape of her own making. She is too obsessed to realize that Celine’s beauty doesn’t protect her from pain. Haunted by an event from her past, Celine can’t escape her shame and finds herself in an endless cycle of self-sabotage. Annie is baffled by Joy’s senseless devotion to Theo, but she’s consumed by her own obsessions: she can’t stop parsing her commitment-phobic boyfriend’s texts in an exhausting mission to maintain his approval. At work, where she fully embraces her natural assertiveness, Annie is a star. But when an anonymous letter lands on her desk accusing her esteemed and supportive boss of sexual misconduct, she is forced to decide who and what she’s willing to stand up for. Perceptive, mordantly funny, and full of heart, How to Fall Out of Love Madly examines women’s many relationships—with one another, their mothers, their work, men, and themselves—to reveal their underlying power and complexity. It asks, why do so many smart, compassionate, otherwise empowered women tolerate egregious behavior from the men they love? And what will it take for them to reclaim control?

Nothing you have read in Books 1 and 2 has prepared you for Book 3-The Space of Love.