How to Be Alone: If You Want To, and Even If You Don't

The former Sex & Relationships Editor for Cosmopolitan and host of the wildly popular comedy show Tinder Live with Lane Moore presents her poignant, funny, and deeply moving first book.

Lane Moore is a rare performer who is as impressive onstage—whether hosting her iconic show Tinder Live or being the enigmatic front woman of It Was Romance—as she is on the page, as both a former writer for The Onion and an award-winning sex and relationships editor for Cosmopolitan. But her story has had its obstacles, including being her own parent, living in her car as a teenager, and moving to New York City to pursue her dreams. Through it all, she looked to movies, TV, and music as the family and support systems she never had.

From spending the holidays alone to having better “stranger luck” than with those closest to her to feeling like the last hopeless romantic on earth, Lane reveals her powerful and entertaining journey in all its candor, anxiety, and ultimate acceptance—with humor always her bolstering force and greatest gift.

How to Be Alone is a must-read for anyone whose childhood still feels unresolved, who spends more time pretending to have friends online than feeling close to anyone in real life, who tries to have genuine, deep conversations in a roomful of people who would rather you not. Above all, it’s a book for anyone who desperately wants to feel less alone and a little more connected through reading her words.

• How to Be Single and Happy: Science-Based Strategies for Keeping Your Sanity While Looking for a Soul Mate
• Emotional First Aid: Healing Rejection, Guilt, Failure, and Other Everyday Hurts
• Living Alone and Loving It
• How to Fix a Broken Heart (TED Books)
• About the Art of Being Alone & Single: How to overcome loneliness and the fear of being alone +++ 70 strategies & ways to become happy alone +++
• How to Date Men When You Hate Men
• Dark Psychology Secrets & The Art Of Reading People 2 In 1: Signs A Toxic Person Is Manipulating You And How To Handle It
• On My Own: The Art of Being a Woman Alone
• It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
• How to Be a Person in the World: Ask Polly's Guide Through the Paradoxes of Modern Life