Relationships and marriage

Love, marriage, friendship and the work of living well with other people. 20 books.

• AttachedAmir Levine, Rachel HellerUnderstand how anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment patterns shape intimacy, then use clearer communication and mutual responsiveness to build safer, steadier relationships.
• StrangersBelle BurdenA memoir in the author voice of marriage, abandonment, family silence, financial dependence, and rebuilding a truthful life after divorce.
• The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It MattersPriya ParkerPriya Parker shows how purpose can shape invitations, hosting, participation, and endings. Her examples offer practical ways to help people connect at dinners, meetings, and ceremonies.
• The Glass CastleJeannette WallsRaised hungry and on the move by a brilliant, alcoholic father and an artist mother, we children looked after one another, and I got out without ceasing to love them.
• The Good LifeRobert Waldinger, Marc SchulzWhat the Harvard Study of Adult Development, following lives for over eighty years, reveals about why warm relationships keep us happier and healthier, and how to invest in them.
• The Marriage Go RoundAndrew J. CherlinA sociological account of why Americans value marriage deeply while moving through relationships faster, and what history, culture, and inequality teach us about family stability.
• The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at HomeArlie Russell Hochschild, Anne MachungA close study of working couples reveals why paid employment did not end women's second shift at home, and how care, gratitude, and workplace rules shape marriage.
• Fair Play: A Game Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live)Eve Rodsky
• Getting Past NoWilliam Ury
• It Will Never Happen to Me [Paperback] [2001] \(Author\Claudia Black
• Marriage and Love in England 1300–1840Alan Macfarlane
• Second Chances: Men, Women, and Children a Decade After DivorceJudith S. Wallerstein, Sandra Blakeslee
• Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern RelationshipsChristopher Ryan, Cacilda Jethá
• Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live TooAdele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
• Thanks for the FeedbackDouglas Stone, Sheila Heen
• The Complete ACOA SourcebookJanet G. Woititz
• The Development of the Family and Marriage in EuropeJack Goody
• The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and FamilyBarbara Dafoe Whitehead
• The Good DivorceConstance R. Ahrons
• You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in ConversationDeborah Tannen