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Books like Big Friendship

A rigorous, big-hearted love letter to the messy, essential work of keeping your best friends close. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Big Friendship.

intimate
validating
warm
reflective

01
The Other Significant Others
Rhaina Cohen
A thoughtful, paradigm-shifting exploration of how centering platonic love can fundamentally reshape our lives and communities.
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- intimate
- validating
- warm
- reflective
02
Eloquent Rage
Brittney C. Cooper
An unapologetic and energizing memoir that reclaims anger as a transformative tool for justice and resilience.
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- reflective
03
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton
A chaotic, fiercely funny, and ultimately tender love letter to the messy reality of growing up and the enduring power of female friendship.
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- warm
- earnest
04
The Art of Gathering
Priya Parker
A warm, paradigm-shifting guide that makes you want to immediately throw a dinner party or restructure your next board meeting.
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- warm
- reflective
- earnest
05
Pleasure Activism
adrienne maree brown
A radical, joyful invitation to center healing, desire, and happiness in the fight for a better world.
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- warm
- conversational
- earnest
06
Three Women
Lisa Taddeo
An intensely intimate, voyeuristic deep-dive into the raw and often destructive nature of female desire.
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- intimate
- frank
07
Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall
A fierce, necessary dismantling of mainstream feminism that demands we look at survival, not just privilege.
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- conversational
08
The body is not an apology
Sonya Renee Taylor
A fierce, poetic manifesto that dismantles body shame and invites you into a revolution of radical self-love.
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- warm
09
The cost of living
Deborah Levy
A vibrant, urgent reflection on dismantling the social hierarchies that diminish women, in pursuit of a life lived with meaning, pleasure, and ultimate freedom.
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- reflective
10
Many love
Sophie Lucido Johnson
A warm, illustrated invitation to rethink everything you know about romance, jealousy, and the shape of a happy life.
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- intimate
- warm
- reflective
- earnest
11
Shrill
Lindy West
A hilarious, battle-tested manifesto for taking up space and refusing to apologize for it.
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- warm
12
Burnout
Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
A deeply validating, science-backed permission slip to stop trying to do it all and finally complete the stress cycle.
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- validating
- conversational

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