Contemporary fiction · Similar reads
Books like It Ends with Us
The best books like It Ends with Us are Conversations with Friends, Normal People, and A General Theory of Love. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover is about domestic abuse, cycles of violence, first love. 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.
- Conversations with Friends
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Conversations with Friends is told by Frances, a twenty-one-year-old Dublin student who performs spoken-word poetry with her best friend and ex-girlfriend Bobbi.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Normal People
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Sally Rooney · Literary fiction
Normal People follows Connell and Marianne from their small-town Irish secondary school through their years at Trinity College Dublin.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A General Theory of Love
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Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon · Psychology
A General Theory of Love is a 2000 book by three psychiatrists at the University of California, San Francisco — Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon — who set out to explain love scientifically without stripping it of its significance.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Body Keeps the Score
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Bessel van der Kolk · Psychology
The Body Keeps the Score is Bessel van der Kolk's account of four decades spent studying and treating trauma, from Vietnam veterans at the VA in the 1970s to survivors of childhood abuse, accidents, and domestic violence.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Beloved
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Toni Morrison · Literary fiction
Beloved is set in post-Civil War Ohio, where Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a house shadowed by the ghost of a baby she killed rather than let be taken back into slavery.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - November 9
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Colleen Hoover · Contemporary fiction
Fallon and Ben meet in a diner on November 9th, the day Fallon is leaving Los Angeles to move across the country.
Both dig into first love.
Read the summary → - The Great Alone
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Kristin Hannah · Contemporary fiction
In 1974, Ernt Allbright brings his wife Cora and teenage daughter Leni to the Alaskan wilderness.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah · Memoir
Ishmael Beah was twelve years old when the Sierra Leone civil war reached his village and he was separated from his family.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - All Quiet on the Western Front
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque · History
All Quiet on the Western Front follows Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier who enlists with his classmates during the First World War after being swept up in patriotic speeches.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - All the Light We Cannot See
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Anthony Doerr · Historical fiction
All the Light We Cannot See follows two children through the Second World War on a collision course neither can see coming.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - An Ember in the Ashes
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Sabaa Tahir · Fantasy
An Ember in the Ashes is set in a Roman Empire-inspired world where the Martial empire has conquered and brutalized the Scholar people for centuries.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Suleika Jaouad · Memoir
Suleika Jaouad was twenty-two and newly graduated, living in Paris with her first real job and a boyfriend, when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
Both dig into survival.
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Books like It Ends with Us: quick answers
What are the best books like It Ends with Us?
The best books like It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover are Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Normal People by Sally Rooney, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Beloved by Toni Morrison, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with It Ends with Us, such as domestic abuse, cycles of violence, first love.
What should I read after It Ends with Us?
A natural next read after It Ends with Us is Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney. A kindred contemporary fiction read. Other strong choices are Normal People by Sally Rooney, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.
What books are similar to It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover?
It Ends with Us centers on domestic abuse, cycles of violence, first love. Books with a similar feel include Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Normal People by Sally Rooney, A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, Beloved by Toni Morrison, November 9 by Colleen Hoover — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
