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Check Me Out - LKLD February 2025


REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY

By Monica Heisey

Love is in the air, but for some people it’s a toxic cloud that keeps us from seeing ourselves clearly. This hilarious and painfully relatable tale of one woman’s messy search for joy and meaning in the wake of an unexpected breakup is a prime example of “maybe work on yourself, first.”


ALL THE SINGLE LADIES

By Rebecca Traister

When women were given options beyond early marriage, the results were massive social change - temperance, abolition, secondary education, and more. This is a remarkable portrait of contemporary American life and how we got here through the lens of the single American woman.


THE PEOPLE WE HATE AT THE WEDDING

By Grant Ginder

What’s worse than a wedding when your own love story has turned sour? While Paul and Alice’s half-sister Eloise prepares to get married in a fancy schmancy London to-do, the siblings come to terms with their own jealousies and (not-so) subtle unhappiness in their own relationships.


WE WERE LIARS

By E. Lockhart

A genre-defying story that is part mystery, part romance…and 100% captivating. Spending the summers on her family’s private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.


THE END OF THE AFFAIR

By Graham Greene

This novel begins after an affair has already ended, but of course, the question is why? Taking the reader back in time, this epic romance follows a vengeful man determined to bring down the woman who broke his heart…but when we learn the reason why she did, it will break ours instead.


GRUMPY MONKEY VALENTINE GROSS-OUT

By Suzanne Lang

When Jim Panzee hears Oxpecker cooing over her doting boyfriend on Valentine’s Day, he has just one thought: gross. But Jim finds out that not everything about Valentine’s Day is hearts and kisses. Jim learns there are different types of valentines and many kinds of love, such as love for a parent or for friends.


GOOD MATERIAL

By Dolly Alderton

Set adrift after his girlfriend breaks up with him, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of his ruined relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him. But Andy still has a lot to learn, not the least is his ex-girlfriend’s side of the story.


YOU

By Caroline Kepnes

This series might make you want to delete your dating profile altogether. A man becomes obsessed with a woman in New York City, following her on social media in order to orchestrate the perfect relationship…and if necessary, the perfect murder.

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