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Strangers
✮✮✮✮✮, Memoir, Nonfiction Repy White 3/11/26 ✮✮✮✮✮, Memoir, Nonfiction Repy White 3/11/26

Strangers

This book was hard not to finish in one sitting…

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One in a Millennial
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 3/13/24 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 3/13/24

One in a Millennial

I am here to say this book is SoOoO Millennial coded…

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Glossy
✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 8/19/23 ✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 8/19/23

Glossy

This book is about Glossier…

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The Daddy Diaries
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction, Autobiography Repy White 6/8/23 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction, Autobiography Repy White 6/8/23

The Daddy Diaries

I had a lot of fun reading this dishy diary…

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How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 3/17/23 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 3/17/23

How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

I have to admit that I initially grabbed this book because of the title…

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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/9/22 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/9/22

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

The kind of book that makes you have a nice cry after reading…

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Blowing My Way to the Top
✮✮✮✮, Autobiography, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮✮✮, Autobiography, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22

Blowing My Way to the Top

No hair decision in my life is made without consulting @jenatkinhair…

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Think Like a Monk
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22

Think Like a Monk

I learned so much from this book…

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Atomic Habits
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22

Atomic Habits

I learned that good habits compound (so do bad... so be careful ⚠️)…

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Tiny Beautiful Things
✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/8/22

Tiny Beautiful Things

Dear Sugar, 
I love you…

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An American Summer
✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/7/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/7/22

An American Summer

This is a nonfiction book filled with stories from one Chicago summer…

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The Housewives
✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/2/22 ✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/2/22

The Housewives

I was VERY excited to get a behind-the-scenes look into how all my favorite franchises were made…

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Growing Young
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/2/22 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/2/22

Growing Young

When I heard about this book, I bought it immediately…

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Not All Diamonds and Rosé
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/1/22 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 6/1/22

Not All Diamonds and Rosé

I like to think of this as a Bravo encyclopedia…

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Four Thousand Weeks
✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/28/22 ✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/28/22

Four Thousand Weeks

I truly picked this up as a time management book…

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Dopesick
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/27/22 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/27/22

Dopesick

This book is incredibly disheartening, frustrating, and informative…

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Joyful
✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/27/22 ✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/27/22

Joyful

Cracking this book open was the perfect way to start the year…

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The Only Plane in the Sky
✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/24/22 ✮✮✮✮✮, Nonfiction Repy White 5/24/22

The Only Plane in the Sky

This book is an incredible way to remember the horrific events of September 11…

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⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, romance)

This romance really took me by surprise! Great banter, deeply emotional, and well written. A romance that feels very real. Not a rom-com, definitely a “rom-dram”.

Our leading woman, Nicole Speyer, has been struggl
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(5/5, fiction)

I was just totally gobsmacked by this book! Brilliant, biting, and impossible to look away from. This is not a light and fluffy read! It had me running the full gamut of emotion. Rage & stress were the emotional frontrun
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (4/5, fiction) 

I just love the way Rebecca Serle tells a story!
This is the story of the decisions we make and how they shape our lives, a story of love and loss and connection, and of mothers and daughters.

Lauren has known her entire li
The results are in for our 2026 Romance Novel March Madness!

At the end of 2025, I polled BR&B readers on their favorite books of the year. I took the top 60 romance responses, sprinkled in some newer releases, and voilà…. those bo
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️(4/5, mystery)
Mabel lives on a quiet street, and if you asked any of her neighbors, she’s your typical 80-year-old woman. She’s a little crabby, a bit in everyone’s business, and she appreciates a cup of tea. No one would s

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