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Books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The best books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo are Normal People, Conversations with Friends, and On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid is about identity and reinvention, ambition, queer 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.
- 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 → - 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 → - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · Literary fiction
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is structured as a letter from a young Vietnamese-American man, Little Dog, to his illiterate mother — a letter she will never be able to read.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - A Visit from the Goon Squad
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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.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald · Classics
The Great Gatsby is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner who moves to Long Island in the summer of 1922 and finds himself adjacent to the fabulous, mysterious parties of his neighbor Jay Gatsby.
A kindred contemporary fiction read.
Read the summary → - The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Jonas Jonasson · Contemporary fiction
Allan Karlsson turns one hundred years old in a Swedish nursing home, and rather than sit through his birthday party, he climbs out the window in his slippers and walks away.
Both dig into identity and reinvention.
Read the summary → - 10% Happier
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Dan Harris · Memoir
10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.
Both dig into ambition.
Read the summary → - Alexander Hamilton
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Ron Chernow · Biography
Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton — immigrant, orphan, Revolutionary War aide-de-camp, first Secretary of the Treasury, founder of the American financial system, and victim of Aaron Burr's bullet — is the most comprehensive single-volume account of Hamilton's life and the book that most directly sparked the Hamilton revival in popular culture, including Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical.
Both dig into ambition.
Read the summary → - American Gods
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Neil Gaiman · Fantasy
American Gods opens with Shadow Moon, a man released from prison days early because his wife has died in a car accident.
Both dig into identity and reinvention.
Read the summary → - Born Standing Up
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Steve Martin · Memoir
Born Standing Up is Steve Martin's account of the decade-long grind that preceded his sudden, seemingly overnight fame as America's biggest stand-up comedian of the late 1970s.
Both dig into ambition.
Read the summary → - Born to Run
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Bruce Springsteen · Memoir
Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run is among the most substantive rock memoirs written, in part because Springsteen is a better prose writer than his public image suggests and in part because he chose to write about the things that actually shaped him rather than the things that made him famous.
Both dig into ambition.
Read the summary → - Bossypants
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Tina Fey · Memoir
Bossypants is Tina Fey's memoir and comic essay collection about her upbringing in suburban Pennsylvania, her years doing improv comedy in Chicago, her time as a writer and head writer at Saturday Night Live, her creation of 30 Rock, and the experience of being a woman in charge in show business.
Both dig into ambition.
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Books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: quick answers
What are the best books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo?
The best books like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid are Normal People by Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, such as identity and reinvention, ambition, queer love.
What should I read after The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo?
A natural next read after The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is Normal People by Sally Rooney. A kindred contemporary fiction read. Other strong choices are Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
What books are similar to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid?
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo centers on identity and reinvention, ambition, queer love. Books with a similar feel include Normal People by Sally Rooney, Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
