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What to read after The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is a glamorous, devastating Hollywood story about ambition, love, identity, and survival. If you loved the sweeping historical scope, the LGBTQ love story at the center, the reveal about why Monique was chosen, and the feeling of a life fully lived, these eight books will satisfy the same appetite.
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Daisy Jones and the Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Reid's oral-history novel about a fictional 1970s rock band — same format-play, same historical glamour, same sense of people telling you the truth about their lives and the love at the center of everything
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Malibu Rising
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Four famous siblings throw a party in Malibu in 1983 while their celebrity father's legacy haunts them — same interweaving timelines and the same understanding of what fame costs the people who carry it
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
A love story about two people who keep finding each other across time — quieter than Evelyn Hugo but with the same emotional devastation and the same interest in what love costs
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Big Little Lies
by Liane Moriarty
Women who perform perfect lives while carrying devastating secrets — same pleasure of the behind-the-scenes story and the same interest in what women do to survive the lives they've made
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Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
A woman alone in the Carolina marshes, two love stories, and a mystery — same scope and emotional register, same sense of a woman misunderstood by everyone around her
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The Nightingale
by Kristin Hannah
Two sisters in occupied France making impossible choices — same sweeping historical scope, same emotional devastation, same interest in what women survive and what it costs them
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It Ends with Us
by Colleen Hoover
A love story that is also about damage and cycles — same emotional devastation and the same willingness to ask what women endure for people they love
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Hamnet
by Maggie O'Farrell
A woman made invisible by her famous husband's name — told finally from the inside; same project of recovering a woman who history has buried under someone else's story
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