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This is How You Lose the Time War

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

I’m Glad My Mom Died

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

This is How You Lose the Time War

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

sleepy small town

Books that are set in a small town; variety of genres but all one teeny tiny town

Beartown

Bright Young Women

All the Colors of the Dark

Pines

Beartown

Bright Young Women

it's not a family road trip until someone's crying

by miathermopolis

(dys)functional family road trip books full of lots of feelings, chaos, and too many rest stops

The Lincoln Highway

The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

The Wangs vs. the World

The Road to Tender Hearts

The Lincoln Highway

The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise

Messy Families

Books about complicated family dynamics

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Commonwealth

Blue Sisters

Olympus, Texas

I’m Sorry You Feel That Way

Commonwealth

Blue Sisters

ew, david

Book recs that give off schitt's creek vibe: small-town chaos, found family by fellow pagebound users alternatively, “Who knows what will befall us tomorrow? You could be hit by a Mack truck or bopped on the head by a tiny piece of space debris.”

The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

Jane and Dan at the End of the World

Story of My Life

The Road to Tender Hearts

The Guncle (The Guncle, #1)

Jane and Dan at the End of the World

Charming Casts & Fantastic Found Families

by onceinabluemoon

cozy found family reads

Still Life

Legends & Lattes

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

Still Life

Legends & Lattes

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