Books To Read With Your Best Friend
Sometimes the greatest relationships in literature are between friends – new ones, old ones, and unlikely ones. So, hug your best bud and grab a book that celebrates the people who make boring things fun, and bad days better.
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Add to BookshelfThe Girls from Corona del Mar
by Rufi Thorpe
Fans of Elena Ferrante’s books will love this story of two friends, different in every way. Mia’s boisterous personality often outshines Lorrie Ann’s meek, but more mature, nature. But as relationships are wont to do, time changes their friendship and they soon find their roles reversed. Lorrie Ann, once trouble-free, is now burdened with responsibility while Mia is falling in love and having adventures. As they each question who the other person has become, their friendship is put to the test.
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Fiona and Jane
by Jean Chen Ho
A witty, warm, and irreverent book that traces the lives of two young Taiwanese American women as they navigate friendship, sexuality, identity, and heartbreak over two decades. In stories told in alternating voices, Jean Chen Ho’s debut collection peels back the layers of female friendship – the intensity, resentment, and boundless love–to probe the beating hearts of young women coming to terms with themselves and daring to stake a claim on joy in a changing, contemporary America.
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Best Friends
by Martha Moody
If the title didn’t make it clear, this is the story of two best friends, Clare and Sally, though their friendship is an unlikely one. While Sally calls Los Angeles home, Clare comes from a working-class family in Ohio and quickly becomes fascinated with Sally’s charmed and sheltered life. We follow their friendship for many years, watching as they graduate from college and move into the real world. Time and distance don’t seem to damage their bond, but when long-held secrets are revealed, their relationship faces the ultimate test.
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Tiny Beautiful Things (10th Anniversary Edition): Reese’s Book Club
by Cheryl Strayed
Hailed as the self-help book that women love to give to one another, this slim volume allows you to call on Cheryl Strayed for advice about any of your woes. Based on Dear Sugar, her once-anonymous advice column for The Rumpus, Strayed doles out the words everyone needs to hear. It will have you weeping and laughing all at the same time, and then running out to overnight a copy to your best friend.
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Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
Two brown girls dream of being dancers – but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about Black bodies and Black music, what constitutes a tribe, or what makes a person truly free. It’s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either.
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Girls in White Dresses
by Jennifer Close
With a wry sense of humor, Jennifer Close brings us through those thrilling, bewildering years of early adulthood as she pulls us inside the circle of three friends, perfectly capturing the wild frustrations and soaring joys of modern life.
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Let’s Take the Long Way Home
by Gail Caldwell
One of the hardest things in life is losing your friend to illness. In this powerful memoir that examines those friendships that are more akin to family, Gail Caldwell recounts a relationship that shared everything and defined what were two ordinary lives. Brave and honest, funny and heart-wrenching, Gail’s celebration of her and Caroline’s relationship will have you calling your best friend as soon as you turn the last page.
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Cantoras
by Caro de Robertis
From the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of The Gods of Tango, a revolutionary new novel about five wildly different women who, in the midst of the Uruguayan dictatorship, find one another as lovers, friends, and ultimately, family.
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The Expatriates
by Janice Y. K. Lee
Janice Y. K. Lee explores with devastating poignancy the emotions, identities, and relationships of three very different American women living in the same small expat community in Hong Kong.
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Summer Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick
by Judy Blume
When Caitlin Somers chooses Victoria Leonard to be her friend, Vix’s world opens. As someone who has spent her life blending in, becoming friends with Caitlin – the most envied girl in school – means summers on Martha’s Vineyard and a lifelong friendship. But years later, the simplistic relationship they once had has become complicated. And when Caitlin gets engaged and asks Vix to be her maid of honor, the two are forced to confront the very things that pulled them apart.
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Conversations with Friends
by Sally Rooney
Written with gemlike precision and marked by a sly sense of humor, Conversations with Friends is wonderfully alive to the pleasures and dangers of youth, and the messy edges of female friendship.
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The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
Wide in scope, ambitious, and populated by complex characters who come together and apart in a changing New York City, The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money, and power; and how all of it can shift and tilt precipitously over the course of a friendship and a life.
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The Color Purple (Movie Tie-In)
by Alice Walker
A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, Alice Walker’s epic carries readers on a spirit-affirming journey toward redemption and love.
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Sabrina & Corina
by Kali Fajardo-Anstine
Latinas of Indigenous descent living in the American West take center stage in this haunting debut story collection – a powerful meditation on friendship, mothers and daughters, and the deep-rooted truths of our homelands. Sabrina & Corina is a moving narrative and unrelenting feminine power and an exploration of the universal experiences of abandonment, heritage, and an eternal sense of home.
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Text Me When You Get Home
by Kayleen Schaefer
“Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: ‘There just isn’t only one love story in our lives,’ Schaefer writes. If you’re lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. It’s high time we start seeing it that way” (NPR.org). Text Me When You Get Home is a validation that has never existed before. A thoughtful, heart-soaring, deeply reported look at how women are taking a stand for their friendships and not letting go.
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Sam and Sadie – two college friends, often in love, but never lovers – become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality. It is a love story, but not one you have read before.
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