Books like Normal People
If you liked Normal People by Sally Rooney, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Because also by Sally Rooney; shares tags: literary fiction, romance, ireland.
Two friends Alice and Eileen trade letters while navigating love with Felix and Simon.
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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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Part of Your World
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, class.
ER doctor Alexis Montgomery falls for carpenter Daniel Grant in Wakan while her surgeon family presses duty.
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Such a Fun Age
Because shares tags: literary fiction, class, contemporary.
A late-night grocery store clash pulls sitter Emira Tucker and her employer Alix Chamberlain into a tense fight over race, money, and good…
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Heart Bones
Because shares tags: romance, contemporary, class.
Poor Beyah spends summer in Texas with distant father and falls for secretive Samson.
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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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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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Mansfield Park
Because shares tags: romance, literary fiction.
Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.
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An American Marriage
Because shares tags: literary fiction, romance.
Newlywed Roy is wrongly imprisoned and Celestial loves Andre while waiting.
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Americanah
Because shares tags: literary fiction, romance.
Ifemelu leaves Nigeria for America on a scholarship, blogs about race and hair, while Obinze endures undocumented London until they reunite…
