The Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Nina Hill has arranged her life exactly the way she likes it. An only child raised by a globe-trotting single mother and a devoted nanny, she now works at a beloved Los Angeles bookstore, captains a fiercely competitive trivia team, and spends her evenings with her cat and a color-coded planner. She is an introvert who has made a small, contented world and has no intention of letting anyone disturb it.

Two things disturb it. First, the father Nina never knew she had dies — and leaves behind a sprawling, boisterous family of half-siblings, nieces, and nephews who are suddenly, alarmingly hers. Second, an infuriatingly likable member of a rival trivia team named Tom keeps turning up, and Nina's carefully guarded heart isn't cooperating.

Warm, funny, and full of book-lover in-jokes, Abbi Waxman's novel is a cozy contemporary romance about anxiety, family, and the terror and joy of letting new people into a life you've built to keep them out.