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Books like Nine Perfect Strangers
The best books like Nine Perfect Strangers are Big Little Lies, Normal People, and The Glass Castle: A Memoir. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty is about grief and reinvention, wellness culture and its promises, consent and manipulation. 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.
- Big Little Lies
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Liane Moriarty · Thriller
Big Little Lies begins with a death at a school trivia night and then spends its entire length working backward to explain how it happened.
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 → - The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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Jeannette Walls · Memoir
The Glass Castle is Jeannette Walls's memoir about growing up as the second of four children in a family that moved constantly across the American Southwest and West Virginia, rarely had enough to eat, and existed almost entirely outside conventional institutions.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Little Life
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Hanya Yanagihara · Literary fiction
A Little Life follows four men from college into middle age and beyond — Willem, an actor; JB, a painter; Malcolm, an architect; and Jude, a lawyer with a past that is revealed in increasingly devastating detail as the novel progresses.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Gail Honeyman · Contemporary fiction
Eleanor Oliphant is twenty-nine years old, works in a Glasgow office doing data entry, and has not had a proper conversation with anyone outside of work in years.
Both dig into loneliness and connection.
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.
Read the summary → - Book Lovers
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Emily Henry · Contemporary fiction
Nora Stephens is a literary agent in New York who is professionally excellent and personally guarded.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
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Books like Nine Perfect Strangers: quick answers
What are the best books like Nine Perfect Strangers?
The best books like Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty are Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, Normal People by Sally Rooney, The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Nine Perfect Strangers, such as grief and reinvention, wellness culture and its promises, consent and manipulation.
What should I read after Nine Perfect Strangers?
A natural next read after Nine Perfect Strangers is Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty. A kindred contemporary fiction read. Other strong choices are Normal People by Sally Rooney, The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.
What books are similar to Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty?
Nine Perfect Strangers centers on grief and reinvention, wellness culture and its promises, consent and manipulation. Books with a similar feel include Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty, Normal People by Sally Rooney, The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Walls, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
