| Mr. | Banks | A character in Mary Poppins. |
| Joseph | Bernadin | Cardinal. |
| Steve | Cropper | Co-writer of "Dock of the Bay". |
| Tom | Demarchi | Whom "The Grief Vacation" is for. |
| Lee | Durkee | Beth Ann's friend. |
| Maurice | Field | Drowned trying to save a young girl in the back seat. |
| David | Gavin | Whom "Why I'm So Well-Read" is for. |
| Blair | Hobbs | Beth Ann's friend. |
| Bruce | Levingston | Pianist. |
| Robert E. | Mayer | Priest who sexually abused altar boys. AKA: Father Mayer. |
| Donny | O'Dell | Beth Ann's classmate. |
| Nance | O'Dell | Donny's mother. |
| Otis | Redding | Band lead. |
| "Dr. | Thompson" | Beth Ann's friend. A successful sports writer. |
| Vince | Vaughn | Actor. |
| Dr. | Yates | The hand surgeon. |
| Ann | | Beth Ann's friend. |
| Anna Claire | | Beth Ann's daughter. |
| Beth | | Director of social work for a big prison and master of TV trivia. |
| Beth Ann | | Narrator. |
| Beyonce | | Lauren's chicken. |
| Brendan | | Beth Ann's Canadian cousin. |
| Colin (1) | | A character who suffers a horrible death in every book narrator's husband has written. |
| Colin (2) | | Narrator's ex boyfriend. Scottish. An architect. |
| Denise | | Former captain of the Norte Dame Soccer Team and now CMO of a fortune 500 company. |
| Elaine | | Beth Ann's friend. Taught conversational English in Barcelona. |
| Gaylord | | Beth Ann's friend. |
| Gerald | | A mechanic. |
| Gramps | | Lara's grandfather. |
| Julie | | Beth Ann's sister. |
| Kathleen | | Beth Ann's friend. |
| Lara | | Beth Ann's friend. |
| Laura | | Beth Ann's friend. |
| Lauren | | Beth Ann's neighbor. |
| Matthew | | Repairman. |
| Pete | | Guy at the Biker Bar. |
| Thisbe | | Beth Ann's friend. |
| Thomas | | Beth Ann's son. |
| Tommy | | Beth Ann's now-husband. |
| Wendy | | Beth Ann's friend. |