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Best of Animals
Grodstein's 2002 debut, "The Best of Animals," is a collection of short stories about 20-something men and women dealing with rough situations and loss. Reviewers praised Grodstein's vivid characters and use of humor to make the stories "come alive".

Reproduction is the Flaw of Love
Lauren Grodstein's next book was in 2004 called "Reproduction is the Flaw of Reproduction". In this novel, 28 year old Joel Miller is waiting for his girlfriend to finish a He is frightened about the future and how he will be when he is a father based on his parents' failed marriage. The main idea is show how our parents can have a big effect on the people we will become in the future.

Friend of the Family
This is the story of an internist named Pete Dizinoff and how he went from, what he thought, living the good life to nearly messing up everything.He quickly loses the great relationships he had with his friends and his wife, all because he was trying to be protective of his only son from a girl with a devious past.

Explanation of Everything
In early 2013, Grodstein published the novel "The Explanation of Everything". This story follows Andy Waite, a professor at a New Jersey college, with damaged beliefs in religion. He even teaches a class called "There is No God" which is and evolutionary biology class. However, he meets a troubled young lady and as she is telling him about her problems, he begins to think over his own beliefs.