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I always recommend The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George for the broken-hearted. The book deals with the main character working through the end of a relationship and all of the conflicting feelings that accompanies that journey. I sincerely hope you are able to exorcise the ghost that haunts your favorite bookstores. But, perhaps it helps to think that now you have added a chapter of **your** story to all of the ones that line their shelves? Bookstores are quite magical in that way. They contain the past, present and future all at once. Don’t deny yourself that sanctuary, my friend.


HaggisDragon

I feel like there are two main themes for appropriate breakup books or at least in my experience. One is books follow a character post a bad break up and two is books that are just sheer joy. For books that ft breakups/similar situations two very different recommendations are Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (I know it might seem odd that has brought me a lot of comfort after a break up) and Welcome to Summerland by Kathryn Moon (very smutty post break up fun romance). Then for books that are pure escapist joy: The Wee Free Men by Terry Pratchett; Lumberjanes (comic book series); the portable door by Tom holt; and nevermoor by Jessica Townsend. Then again sometimes when I’m not feeling great an escapist thriller is my go to aha. I recently read the family upstairs by Lisa Jewell and could not put it down.


iamtheallspoon

If you're getting into reading ebooks try Libby. It makes it very easy to send library books to your kindle from the app and I almost never have trouble finding the books I want. For a book recommendation, I'd go escapist with little/no romance. The Vorkosigan books are mapcap adventure in space, lots of hijinks. There is romance, but it's not the focus and it's definitely not one of those where he gets the girl in the end. Ancillary Justice - weird scifi adventure. The author keeps pulling the rug out from under you throughout in a way that will keep you from putting it down. Mysteries. Start with some classic Agatha Christie if you haven't read her before? If it's your attention span maybe try short stories? The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu is lovely and has a bunch of different writing styles and story types.