Contemporary fiction · Similar reads
Books like Reminders of Him
The best books like Reminders of Him are It Ends with Us, Ugly Love, and Conversations with Friends. Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover is about redemption, grief and loss, motherhood. 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.
- It Ends with Us
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Colleen Hoover · Contemporary fiction
Lily Bloom moves to Boston after her father's death and opens the flower shop she always dreamed of.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - Ugly Love
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Colleen Hoover · Contemporary fiction
Tate Collins moves in with her brother and meets Miles Archer, his pilot roommate, the same night Miles drunkenly mistakes Tate for someone else.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - 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 → - Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · Biography
Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from his juvenile delinquency in Depression-era California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he ran the 5,000 meters at nineteen and briefly caught Hitler's attention.
Shares redemption and forgiveness with Reminders of Him.
Read the summary → - Firefly Lane
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Kristin Hannah · Contemporary fiction
Tully Hart and Kate Mularkey meet in the summer of 1974 as fourteen-year-olds on Firefly Lane in rural Washington State, and their friendship spans three decades — through high school, college, careers in television journalism, marriages, and heartbreak.
Both dig into grief and loss.
Read the summary → - Little Fires Everywhere
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Celeste Ng · Contemporary fiction
In Shaker Heights, Ohio — a meticulously planned, deliberately integrated suburb — two families collide.
Both dig into motherhood.
Read the summary → - Remarkably Bright Creatures
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Shelby Van Pelt · Contemporary fiction
Marcellus is a giant Pacific octopus living in the Sowell Bay Aquarium.
Both dig into grief and loss.
Read the summary → - The Reading List
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Sara Nisha Adams · Contemporary fiction
Widower Mukesh has withdrawn from the world since his wife's death, eating the same meals alone, avoiding the extended family and community he once shared with her.
Both dig into grief and loss.
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.
Both dig into motherhood.
Read the summary → - Circe
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Madeline Miller · Fantasy
Circe is the daughter of Helios, god of the sun, but she inherits neither divine radiance nor power — only a human voice that embarrasses her immortal family.
Both dig into motherhood.
Read the summary → - Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor Dostoevsky · Literary fiction
Raskolnikov is a former student living in desperate poverty in St.
Both dig into redemption.
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Books like Reminders of Him: quick answers
What are the best books like Reminders of Him?
The best books like Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover are It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with Reminders of Him, such as redemption, grief and loss, motherhood.
What should I read after Reminders of Him?
A natural next read after Reminders of Him is It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover. A kindred contemporary fiction read. Other strong choices are Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Normal People by Sally Rooney.
What books are similar to Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover?
Reminders of Him centers on redemption, grief and loss, motherhood. Books with a similar feel include It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, Normal People by Sally Rooney, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
