Romance · Similar reads
Books like The Seven Year Slip
The best books like The Seven Year Slip are Bel Canto, The Alchemist, and Anna Karenina. The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston is about grief and healing, time and fate, love and loss. 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.
- Bel Canto
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Ann Patchett · Literary fiction
Bel Canto opens at a birthday party in an unnamed South American country: a Japanese industrialist, Hosokawa, is celebrating in the private residence of the country's vice president, the sole attraction being a performance by his favorite soprano, Roxane Coss.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho · Religion & Spirituality
The Alchemist is a Brazilian novel first published in 1988 and translated into 80 languages, making it one of the most translated books in history.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - Anna Karenina
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Leo Tolstoy · Literary fiction
Anna Karenina opens with a famous line — all happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — and then proceeds to test that claim across two interlocking stories.
A kindred romance 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 romance read.
Read the summary → - A Farewell to Arms
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Ernest Hemingway · Literary fiction
A Farewell to Arms is set during the First World War in northern Italy and follows Frederic Henry, an American serving as a lieutenant in the Italian ambulance corps, who falls in love with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse.
Both dig into love and loss.
Read the summary → - The Basketball Diaries
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Jim Carroll · Memoir
The Basketball Diaries is Jim Carroll's account of his teenage years in New York City during the late 1960s, drawn from journals he kept between ages thirteen and sixteen.
Both dig into new york city.
Read the summary → - The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green · Contemporary fiction
Hazel Grace Lancaster is sixteen, has thyroid cancer that has spread to her lungs, and attends a cancer support group mostly to appease her parents.
Both dig into love and loss.
Read the summary → - The Little Prince
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · Philosophy
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote The Little Prince in New York in 1942, in exile from a France under occupation, and the book was published in French and English simultaneously in 1943, the year before he disappeared on a reconnaissance flight.
Both dig into love and loss.
Read the summary → - The Simple Wild
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K.A. Tucker · Contemporary fiction
The Simple Wild follows Calla Fletcher, a Toronto-based woman who has grown up estranged from her father Wren, a bush pilot living in rural Alaska.
Both dig into love and loss.
Read the summary → - Happy Place
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Emily Henry · Romance
Harriet and Wyn were the couple everyone else wanted to be.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - Hook, Line, and Sinker
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Tessa Bailey · Romance
Hannah Bellinger has always been the dependable one — her sister Piper's anchor, the practical twin who keeps things running.
A kindred romance read.
Read the summary → - It Happened One Summer
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Tessa Bailey · Romance
Piper Bellinger is LA royalty — or at least she was until a very public, very filmed party incident lands her in her stepfather's office facing consequences.
A kindred romance read.
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Books like The Seven Year Slip: quick answers
What are the best books like The Seven Year Slip?
The best books like The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston are Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Seven Year Slip, such as grief and healing, time and fate, love and loss.
What should I read after The Seven Year Slip?
A natural next read after The Seven Year Slip is Bel Canto by Ann Patchett. A kindred romance read. Other strong choices are The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
What books are similar to The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston?
The Seven Year Slip centers on grief and healing, time and fate, love and loss. Books with a similar feel include Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
