18 books like Conversations With Friends

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The Idiot Elif Batuman · 1969 · ★ 3.6 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Embarking on her freshman year at Harvard in the early tech days of the 1990s, a young artist and daughter of Turkish immigrants begins a correspondence with an older mathematics student from Hungary while struggling with her changing sense of self, first love and a daunting career prospect. Shares: Contemporary Women, College students, Literary, Coming-of-age

Circle of Friends Maeve Binchy · 1990 · ★ 4.1 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Moderate It began with Benny Hogan and Eve Malone, growing up, inseparable, in the village of Knockglen. Benny--the only child, yearning to break free from her adoring parents...Eve--the orphaned offspring of a convent handyman and a rebellious blueblood, abandoned by her mother's wealthy family to be raised by nuns. Eve and Benny--they knew the sins and secrets behind every villager's lace… Shares: Dublin, Female friendship, Literary, Young women

Hangsaman Shirley Jackson · 1951 · ★ 3.9 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Seventeen-year-old Natalie Waite longs to escape home for college. Her father is a domineering and egotistical writer who keeps a tight rein on Natalie and her long-suffering mother. When Natalie finally does get away, however, college life doesn’t bring the happiness she expected. Little by little, Natalie is no longer certain of anything—even where reality ends and her dark imaginings begin.… Shares: College students, Interpersonal relations, Young women

Normal People Sally Rooney · 2018 · ★ 3.8 · 309p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal. A year later, they’re… Shares: Dublin, College students, Coming-of-age, Romance & Relationships

Strangers in paradise Terry Moore · 1996 · ★ 3.5 · 107p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Years before David met Katchoo, he was a ruthless gang member named Yousaka Takahashi who was destined to head the American Yukuza. One day, he discovered guilt and remorse, and started down the path that would make him a mild-mannered artist named David. Shares: Female friendship, Interpersonal relations, Young women, Romance & Relationships

The Scarlet Feather Maeve Binchy · 1686 · ★ 4.0 · 518p · ≈ 17h · Demanding A fascinating look at large, diverse Irish families with sub plots and characters from the hard working just getting started to those in the upper echelons with challenges of their own. A delightful book. Shares: Dublin, Romance & Relationships, Friendship

Sushi für Anfänger Marian Keyes · 2000 · ★ 3.7 · 576p · ≈ 19h · Moderate A nervous breakdown seems like a great idea: all that lying in bed and watching daytime TV. But who's going to have it? Will it be housewife Clodagh, who spends her days microwaving pasta for her demanding toddlers and waiting for her beautiful husband Dylan to come home? Or Lisa, hard, brittle and shiny as an M&M, reeling from the shock of a demotion from her fabulous job in London to a… Shares: Dublin, Female friendship, Young women

Nana Yazawa Aï · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Publishers Weekly: Nana, Japan's most popular shojo (girl's) manga, is appearing in English for the first time. Nana Komatsu is a flaky young woman who's just emerged from an emotionally devastating affair with an older, married man. She dreams of a perfect romantic love, like in the movies, but her best friend, Junko, counsels her that it might be time to try being friends with a guy instead of… Shares: Female friendship, Young women, Romance & Relationships, Friendship

Nana Yazawa Aï · 2005 · ★ 4.4 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help here make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock' n' roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly gecome best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night… Shares: Female friendship, Young women, Romance & Relationships, Friendship

Invincible summer Alice Adams · 2016 · ★ 4.3 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Four close friends who graduate college together in 1998 venture off to pursue their fortunes in the new millennium, but find themselves drawn back together twenty years later amidst broken dreams, lost jobs, and shattered relationships. Shares: Contemporary Women, Coming-of-age, Friendship

Fifty Shades of Grey E. L. James · 2000 · ★ 3.7 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants… Shares: Contemporary Women, College students, Romance & Relationships

Alpha Treva Harte · 2007 · 308p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Four blazing hot stories of werewolf packs in the wilds of West Texas… Walk Away: When Dek left her, Leila vowed never to fall for an animal like him again. But now he’s back, and resistance seems futile. Dek needs her, and he’s not about to take no for an answer. Stay: Lowell doesn’t think any woman can accept the kind of guy he’s turned out to be, but Lin knows she’s more than ready to be his… Shares: Young women, Romance & Relationships

Luckiest Girl Alive Jessica Knoll · 2001 · ★ 3.5 · 374p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "A young woman strives to create the perfect life--husband, home, career--until a violent incident from her past threatens to unravel everything and expose her most shocking secret of all"-- Shares: Contemporary Women, Literary, Young women

On Chesil Beach Ian McEwan · 2007 · ★ 3.6 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Moderate A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time.It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musician who dreams of a career on the concert stage and of the perfect life she will create with Edward, an earnest young history student at University College of London, who unexpectedly wooed and won her heart. Newly married that morning, both virgins, Edward and… Shares: College students, Coming-of-age, Romance & Relationships

If We Were Villains M. L. Rio · 2017 · ★ 4.1 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Entreated to tell his side of the story to a detective who put him in prison a decade earlier for a murder he may not have committed, Oliver Marks describes his past as a Shakespearean actor in college whose rivalry with a castmate escalated in dangerous ways. Shares: College students, Literary, Coming-of-age

The Girls from Corona del Mar Rufi Thorpe · 2014 · ★ 3.7 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "An emotional novel about friendships made in youth and how these bonds-- challenged by loss, illness, parenthood, and distance--either break or endure"-- Shares: Literary, Young women, Coming-of-age, Friendship

קופסה שחורה עמוס עוז · 1987 · ★ 3.8 · 286p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Please see https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1580904W. Shares: Contemporary Women, Romance & Relationships

The Magicians Lev Grossman · 2009 · ★ 3.5 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Moderate A thrilling and original coming-of- age novel about a young man practicing magic in the real worldQuentin Coldwater is brilliant but miserable. A senior in high school, he’s still secretly preoccupied with a series of fantasy novels he read as a child, set in a magical land called Fillory. Imagine his surprise when he finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of… Shares: College students, Coming-of-age, Friendship

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