Books to read if you love Sally Rooney

Words in Deep Blue

Cath Crowley

This is a love story. It’s the story of Henry Jones and Rachel Sweetie. It’s the story of how we leave our histories in the things we love - like…

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A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

Jessie Tu

Growing up is always hard, but especially when so many think you're a washed-up has-been at twenty-two.

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The Idiot

Elif Batuman

Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself dangerously overwhelmed by the challenges and possibilities of adulthood.

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Cherry Beach

Laura McPhee-Browne

Beautifully written and intimate, Cherry Beach is a revelatory story of friendship and desire.

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You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here

Frances Macken

Told from Katie’s witty, quirky perspective, Frances Macken’s debut beautifully captures life in a small town and the power of yearning for something bigger.

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Everything I Know About Love

Dolly Alderton

When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist Dolly Alderton has seen and tried it all.

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The New Me

Halle Butler

Like a dark and twisted mash up of Lena Dunham’s Girls and Ricky Gervais’s The Office – this is “a dark comedy of female rage” (Catherine Lacey) and a biting…

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We Are Okay

Nina LaCour

After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her…

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Such a Fun Age

Kiley Reid

With empathy and piercing social commentary, Such a Fun Age explores the awkwardness of transactional relationships, what it means to make someone ‘family’, the complicated reality of being a grown-up…

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Our Magic Hour

Jennifer Down

Katy’s unexpected suicide forever changes life for her best friend Audrey, and their group of close friends in their twenties.

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Kokomo

Victoria Hannan

Winner of the 2019 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript. Both tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how secrets and love have the…

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