Book Bingo: Hard-to-Love Protagonist

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Alderton, Dolly

After a bad breakup, Andy desperately tried solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship with Jen in order to win her back. (NoveList)

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Leave your Mess at Home

Akinola, Tolani

Six months after Anjola Longe moves back to Chicago for her medical residency, her estranged older sister Sola returns as a tarnished and broke influencer. (Library Journal)

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Stop Me If You've Heard This One

Arnett, Kristen

A lesbian clown walks into a bar and tries to figure out her life. A funny and tender novel about life’s best and worst punchlines. (Kirkus)

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I Make My Own Fun

Beer, Hannah

Everyone knows Marina, the A-list movie star. But very few know Marina, the absolute monster. When she meets bartender Anna, Marina discovers something that can't be bought: Anna's affection. (NoveList)

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The Stalker

Bomer, Paula

An Untalented Mr. Ripley, a Dumb American Psycho: A young man combines boundless self-confidence with perpetual failure and ineptitude as he tries to manipulate his way into a better life, preying on women in New York City in the early ’90s. (NoveList)

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What A Time to Be Alive

Chang, Jade

Lola is broke, unemployed, and grieving the death of a friend when she ends up in a viral video, launching her into internet fame as a self-help guru. (Library Journal)

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Casanova 20, Or, Hot World

Davis, Davey

Adrian, 29, is so beautiful that people follow him on the street in New York City, and he takes any lover he wants, man or woman. Suddenly, with spring fever in the air amid the first wave of Covid-19 vaccinations in 2021, he finds he’s either lost his beauty or people no longer see him. (Publishers Weekly)

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Dear Dickhead

Despentes, Virginie

A movie star and a disgruntled writer engage in an epic war of words in the brash and provocative latest from Despentes, set during the Covid-19 lockdown in France. (Publishers Weekly)

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Sky Daddy

Folk, Kate

Linda is sexually attracted to planes, and a round-trip flight from San Francisco makes her feel like no human lover could -- but when coworker Karina invites her to brunch and Linda’s life becomes unbalanced, she must choose normalcy or her dream of “marrying” a suitor by dying in a plane crash. (NoveList)

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Spread Me

Gailey, Sarah

Kinsey has the perfect job as the team lead in a remote research outpost. When her crew discovers a mysterious specimen buried deep in the sand, Kinsey breaks quarantine and brings it inside. But the longer it's there, the more her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. (NoveList)

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