by Mark Barrowcliffe

A too-clever-by-half Londoner faces a stew of moral and emotional crises when he learns that both his fiance and his much younger girlfriend are joyfully pregnant,

 

by Max Barry

At Zephyr Holdings, no one has ever seen the CEO. The receptionist is paid twice as much as anybody else, but does no work. One of the sales reps uses relationship books as sales manuals, and another is on the warpath because somebody stole his donut. In other words, it's an ordinary company.

by Kemper Donovan

Richard Baumbach and Elizabeth Santiago have never met, yet a mysterious benefactor offers them each $500,000 to spend a minimum of two hours a week together for a year. 

by Larry Doyle

Denis Cooverman wanted to say something really important in his high school graduation speech. So, in front of his 512 classmates and their 3,000 relatives, he announced: "I love you, Beth Cooper.

 

by Nick Earls

A newly widowed Australian doctor finds himself caught between the demands of raising his infant daughter and those of the dating world.

Cubicle dwellers at a Chicago ad agency cope with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, secret romance, elaborate pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks/

by Bill Fitzhugh

Disc-jockey Rick Shannon, rendered a hapless nomad by the heartless homogenization of corporate mass media, is at the point of selling blood or -- worse -- vinyl when a lil' ol' rock station run by a big ol' jackass hires him on as their new program director.

by Lisa Grunwald

In 1946 Martha Gaines ran a home-economics program for teaching young women how to be mothers. Many babies passed through the house, but only Henry captured Martha's heart, and she decided to keep Henry to raise as her own.

 

by Chad Harbach

part baseball novel, part campus satire, part exploration of male friendship, and part warped 21st-century love story. 

 

by Steve Hely

Pete Tarslaw wants to make a lot of money without working too hard, so he can live well, have a house with a great ocean view, and humiliate his ex-girlfriend at her wedding.

by Nick Hornby
 

Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women - women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will - might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something.

 

by Jim Keeble

Julius Miles is a mathematical genius, but he is hefty of frame, awkward with the opposite sex and struggling to bring his existence into balance. 

by Benjamin Kunkel

Dwight Wilmerding, a vacillating, down-market prepster, gets fired from his low-level job at Pfizer and, with the lease running out on his hive-like Chambers Street boys-club apartment, lights out for Quito, Ecuador, where high school flame Natasha is holed up.

by David Nicholls

This story takes place during a single day each year for two decades in the lives of Dexter, the louche public school boy, and Emma, the brainy Yorkshire lass.  They meet the day they graduate from university in 1988 and run circles around one another for the next 20 years.

 

The Best a Man Can Get : a Novel of Fatherhood and Its Discontents
 

by John O'Farrell

Are the wife and kids getting you down, taking up too much of your leisure time, disturbing your beauty rest? Pretend you're single, rent an apartment and sleep there instead.

How many times can we love -- truly love -- in the course of one lifetime? Alfie Budd found the perfect woman. Then he lost her. And he doesn't believe you get a second chance at love.

by Tom Perrotta

A forty-six-year-old divorcee whose beloved only child has just left for college, Eve is struggling to adjust to her empty nest when one night her phone lights up with a text message. Sent from an anonymous number, the mysterious sender tells Eve, "U R my MILF!"

Drew Silver's life hasn't quite turned out the way he expected. He's divorced, plays in a wedding band despite onetime musical stardom, and-to top it off-he's got a pregnant teenage daughter.