Books like Less
Arthur Less, a middling novelist about to turn fifty, accepts every literary invitation abroad, from Mexico to India, rather than attend the wedding of his younger ex-boyfriend.
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High Fidelity
When his girlfriend Laura leaves him, Rob Fleming, a thirty-five-year-old who runs a failing record shop in north London, ranks his all-time top five breakups and goes back to find out what went wrong with each one.
Good Material
Andy, a stand-up comedian in London on the edge of forty, is dumped by Jen, the love of his life, and sets out to work out what went wrong.
Bridget Jones's Diary
A year in the diary of Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner counting calories, cigarettes and units of alcohol, torn between her charming, caddish boss Daniel Cleaver and Mark Darcy, a stiff barrister her mother keeps pushing at her.
Roaming
Three college friends meet up for a spring-break week in New York and watch the triangle of their attention bend, crack, and set in a new shape.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Two middle-aged men attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail and discover that nature is harder, funnier, and more terrifying than expected.
Love in the Big City
A young gay writer in Seoul makes his way through flatmates, flings, and illness, in a novel-in-stories about finding and losing love in the city.
The Unhoneymooners
When everyone at her twin sister's wedding gets food poisoning except Olive Torres and the groom's insufferable brother Ethan, the two take the couple's free honeymoon to Maui, which means pretending to be newlyweds for ten days.
Wonder Boys
Over one chaotic weekend, a stalled middle-aged novelist and writing teacher tries to manage a troubled student, a dead dog, a pregnant mistress, and the 2,600-page novel he cannot finish.
Red, White & Royal Blue
Alex Claremont-Diaz, son of the American president, has a public feud with Prince Henry of Wales, and after it ends with both of them falling into a royal wedding cake, the two are ordered to stage a friendship for the cameras.
Romantic Comedy
Sally Milz writes sketches for a late-night comedy show and has watched ordinary male colleagues date glamorous stars, but when pop singer Noah Brewster hosts one week and they hit it off, she is sure it cannot be real.
People We Meet on Vacation
Poppy and Alex, best friends who could not be more different, took a trip together every summer until two years ago, when something went wrong; now Poppy talks him into one more vacation to win back what they lost.
Attachments
In 1999, Lincoln O'Neill is hired to read the flagged emails of a Nebraska newspaper's staff, and instead of reporting Beth and Jennifer, two friends who chat about everything, he finds himself falling for Beth before he has ever seen her.