Books like Beautiful World, Where Are You
If you liked Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Normal People
Because also by Sally Rooney; shares tags: romance, literary fiction, ireland.
Normal People retold: Connell and Marianne from Sligo school to Trinity, class and love.
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Conversations with Friends
Because also by Sally Rooney; shares tags: literary fiction, ireland, contemporary.
Rooney's debut: Frances and Bobbi, Dublin students and ex-lovers, fall into the orbit of married Melissa and Nick, and wit turns into…
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The Flatshare
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, friendship.
Two strangers share one bed on opposite shifts and fall in love through notes left around the flat.
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Something Borrowed
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, friendship.
Good girl Rachel loves her best friend's fiance through a summer of weddings and lies.
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In Five Years
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, friendship.
Dannie sees herself with another man in 2025, then meets him as her best friend Bella's boyfriend. A sad, readable story about plans,…
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People We Meet on Vacation
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, friendship.
Poppy and Alex have shared one vacation each summer for ten years. Two years after a silent falling out, she talks him into one more trip…
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Me Before You
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, literary fiction.
Me Before You retold: Lou cares for Will in a Welsh annexe, trips and talks, choice and loss.
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Tom Lake
Because shares tags: literary fiction, romance.
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: literary fiction, romance.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Because shares tags: friendship, literary fiction.
Footbound Lily and Snow Flower share laotong bond through 19th century Hunan hardship.
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PS, I Love You
Because shares tags: romance, ireland.
Widowed at thirty, Holly Kennedy follows ten monthly letters left by her late husband Gerry, facing grief, loving family chaos and slow…
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One Day
Because shares tags: romance, friendship.
Emma and Dexter meet July 15 1988 and we revisit each St Swithins Day for 20 years.
