Books about friendships! I’ve wanted to put together this list for a while. I love reading about friendship and have read some great books with that theme. Today I’m sharing 6 books that I’ve read and loved about friendship, some fiction and some non-fiction. Including, one of my all time favorite books (The Kite Runner) and one of my 2021 favorite books (Olive).
Olive by Emma Gannon
OLIVE is many things, and it’s ok that she’s still figuring it all out, navigating her world without a compass. But life comes with expectations, there are choices to be made, boxes to tick and – sometimes – stereotypes to fulfil. And when her best friends’ lives start to branch away towards marriage and motherhood, leaving the path they’ve always followed together, Olive starts to question her choices – because life according to Olive looks a little bit different.
Publication Date – June 25th 2020 by HarperCollins
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Big Friendship by Aminatou Sou & Ann Friedman
A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentiments surrounding friendship, most people don’t talk much about what it really takes to stay close for the long haul.
Publication Date – July 14th 2020 by Simon Schuster
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In Five Years by Rebecca Serle
When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Kohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan. But when she wakes up, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. It’s the same night—December 15—but 2025, five years in the future.
Publication Date – March 10th 2020 by Atria Books
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The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. A richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond.
Publication Date – October 8th 2019 by Pamela Dorman Books
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We are all good people here by Susan Rebecca White
A multigenerational novel that explores the complex relationship between two very different women and the secrets they bequeath to their daughters. Spanning more than thirty years of American history, from the twilight of Kennedy’s Camelot to the beginning of Bill Clinton’s presidency, We Are All Good People Here is a story about two flawed but well-meaning women clinging to a lifelong friendship that is tested by the rushing waters of history and their own good intentions.
Publication Date – August 6th 2019 by Atria Books
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
History and personal responsibility come together in the story of Amir, an Afghan boy who is haunted by the guilt of betraying his childhood friend Hassan, the son of his father’s servant. In the background loom the many tumultuous changes that have gripped Afghanistan in the years since Amir’s carefree kite-flying childhood. From the fall of the monarchy through the Soviet invasion to the mass exodus of refugees to Pakistan and the United States to the rise of the Taliban regime, the story of Amir and Hassan emerges as the story of Afghanistan itself.
Publication Date – January 1st 2009 by Chelsea House Publications
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On my TBR
These are some books with the theme of friendship that I am hoping to read soon!
When we were young by Richard Roper
A nostalgic, heart-warming story of two long-lost friends who embark on a 184-mile walk of the Thames Path in order to find their way back to the truth, and to their friendship.
Publication Date – July 20th 2021 by G.P. Putnam’s Sons
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Friends and Strangers by J. Courtney Sullivan
An insightful, hilarious, and compulsively readable novel about a complicated friendship between two women who are at two very different stages in life
Publication Date – June 30th 2020 by Knopf
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Do you have any favorite books that have friendship as a theme? Let me know in the comments!
I absolutely LOVED the giver of stars. It is one of my favourites.
The Kite Runner caught my attention here, will add this to my “want to read” list.
Thanks for sharing xx