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Books like Malibu Rising

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid is about family and legacy, fame and neglect, sibling bonds. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
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    The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

    Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction

    Evelyn Hugo is eighty-one, a reclusive Hollywood legend who has outlived her beauty, most of her enemies, and all seven of her husbands.

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  2. Daisy Jones & The Six
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    Daisy Jones & The Six

    Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction

    Daisy Jones & The Six is structured as an oral history — a transcript of interviews with the members of a fictional 1970s rock band, reconstructing how they rose, created their defining album, and then spectacularly fell apart in a single night in 1979.

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  3. Normal People
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    Normal People

    Sally Rooney · Literary fiction

    Normal People follows Connell and Marianne from their small-town Irish secondary school through their years at Trinity College Dublin.

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  4. A Visit from the Goon Squad
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    A Visit from the Goon Squad

    Jennifer Egan · Literary fiction

    A Visit from the Goon Squad is a novel told in thirteen chapters, each from a different point of view and sometimes in a radically different form — including one chapter composed entirely as a PowerPoint presentation.

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  5. A Man Called Ove
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    A Man Called Ove

    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.

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  6. Anxious People
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    Anxious People

    Fredrik Backman · Contemporary fiction

    Anxious People begins with a failed bank robbery.

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