Books like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
If you liked Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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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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My Brilliant Friend
Because shares tags: literary fiction, friendship.
Elena and Lila grow up in 1950s Naples bound by rivalry and love.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Because shares tags: literary fiction, friendship.
Two friends Alice and Eileen trade letters while navigating love with Felix and Simon.
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A Little Life
Because shares tags: literary fiction, friendship.
Four friends in New York orbit Jude, whose hidden past of abuse shapes every page of this 720-page epic.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Because shares tags: literary fiction, friendship.
Childhood friends Sam Masur and Sadie Green build hit games from Ichigo to Mapletown while love, disability, and work strain a thirty year…
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Because shares tags: friendship, literary fiction.
Chbosky's Perks retold: Charlie's letters, Sam and Patrick, first year of high school in Pittsburgh.
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The Kite Runner
Because shares tags: literary fiction, friendship.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner retold: Amir and Hassan in Kabul, the alley, the escape to America, and the return to find Sohrab.
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
Because shares tags: friendship, literary fiction.
Splendid Suns retold: Mariam and Laila share Kabul house, war, Rasheed, escape and return.
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The Catcher in the Rye
Because shares tags: fiction, literary fiction.
J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye explained: Holden's weekend in New York, the phony adults, Phoebe's carousel, and why readers keep…
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White Oleander
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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Tom Lake
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
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Things Fall Apart
Because shares tag: literary fiction.
Proud Igbo wrestler Okonkwo rises in 1890s Umuofia, then loses standing through hard exile, a son's conversion, and British missionaries…
