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Books like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
The best books like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine are The Bell Jar, Reasons to Stay Alive, and Lost Connections. Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman is about trauma and recovery, loneliness and connection, childhood abuse and its aftermath. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath · Memoir
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel, published in January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, one month before Plath's death.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Reasons to Stay Alive
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Matt Haig · Memoir
Reasons to Stay Alive is Matt Haig's account of the severe depression and anxiety disorder he experienced in his mid-twenties, and how he survived it, returned to functioning, and eventually to something he could call a good life.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Lost Connections
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Johann Hari · Health
Lost Connections is Johann Hari's argument that depression and anxiety are not primarily chemical imbalances in the brain but responses to social and environmental conditions — disconnection from meaningful work, close relationships, the natural world, a secure future, and status that feels deserved.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Noonday Demon
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Andrew Solomon · Health
The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon's exhaustive, literary account of depression — his own experience of it, its science and treatment history, its cultural and political dimensions, and the lives of people living with it across the world.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Nine Perfect Strangers
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Liane Moriarty · Contemporary fiction
Nine Perfect Strangers gathers nine guests at Tranquillum House, an exclusive wellness retreat in the Australian countryside run by the enigmatic Masha — a former Russian corporate executive who had a near-death experience and emerged convinced she can guide others through radical transformation.
Both dig into loneliness and connection.
Read the summary → - A Court of Mist and Fury
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Sarah J. Maas · Fantasy
A Court of Mist and Fury begins where A Court of Thorns and Roses ended: Feyre is back in the Spring Court with Tamlin, but she is not the same person who left.
Both dig into trauma and recovery.
Read the summary → - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Philip K. Dick · Science fiction
Rick Deckard is a bounty hunter in a post-nuclear-war San Francisco, tasked with "retiring" — killing — six escaped androids who have fled a Martian colony to Earth.
Both dig into loneliness and connection.
Read the summary → - The Goblin Emperor
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Katherine Addison · Fantasy
The Goblin Emperor begins with an accident: Maia, the half-goblin, half-elf youngest son of the Emperor — long exiled to a remote estate and treated as an embarrassment — learns that his father and three brothers have been killed in an airship crash.
Both dig into loneliness and connection.
Read the summary → - A Man Called Ove
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
A Man Called Ove opens in a Swedish suburb where a fifty-nine-year-old man named Ove has just been forced into early retirement.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Anxious People
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
Anxious People begins with a failed bank robbery.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beach Read
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Emily Henry · Contemporary fiction
January Andrews is a romance novelist who has completely lost faith in love after discovering her late father had a secret mistress for years.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beartown
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Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction
Beartown is a dying town in rural Sweden whose only remaining source of identity and pride is its youth hockey program.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
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Books like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine: quick answers
What are the best books like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine?
The best books like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman are The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig, Lost Connections by Johann Hari, The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, such as trauma and recovery, loneliness and connection, childhood abuse and its aftermath.
What should I read after Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine?
A natural next read after Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. A kindred contemporary fiction read. Other strong choices are Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig, Lost Connections by Johann Hari, The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon.
What books are similar to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman?
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine centers on trauma and recovery, loneliness and connection, childhood abuse and its aftermath. Books with a similar feel include The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig, Lost Connections by Johann Hari, The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon, Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty, A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
