Books like They Both Die at the End
In a New York where a service called Death-Cast phones people on the day they will die, Mateo and Rufus, two teenagers who get the call just after midnight, meet through an app called Last Friend and spend their last day together.
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In Five Years
Dannie Kohan, a Manhattan lawyer who plans everything, gets the job and the proposal she wanted on the same day, then falls asleep and wakes up five years later in a different apartment with a different man.
All the Bright Places
Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of their Indiana high school's bell tower, and a class project to explore the wonders of their state draws them together as each struggles with what brought them there.
Patsy
Patsy, a young woman in Kingston, leaves her five-year-old daughter, Tru, with the girl's father and goes to New York on a tourist visa, hoping to find Cicely, the friend she has loved since childhood.
Blue Sisters
A year after their sister Nicky's death, the three remaining Blue sisters, a lawyer in London, a boxer in Los Angeles and a model in Paris, come back to New York to stop their parents selling the family apartment.
Clap When You Land
When their father dies in a plane crash on his way to the Dominican Republic, Camino Rios in Santo Domingo and Yahaira Rios in New York, half-sisters who never knew the other existed, each learn the secret he kept.
A Little Life
Four college friends make their way in New York, a lawyer, an actor, an architect and an artist, over decades in which one of them, Jude, carries a past of abuse that shapes all their lives.
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
A nine-year-old New York boy whose father died in the north tower finds a key in a vase in his dad's closet and walks, through every borough, trying to find the lock that matches it.
The Great Believers
In 1980s Chicago, art gallery director Yale Tishman watches the AIDS epidemic take his friends, and in 2015 Fiona, the sister of one of them, searches Paris for her estranged daughter.
Turtles All the Way Down
Aza Holmes, sixteen and caught in spirals of obsessive thought, is talked by her best friend into hunting for a missing Indianapolis billionaire, whose son she once knew, for the hundred-thousand-dollar reward.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A freshman in a Pittsburgh high school writes unsigned letters to a stranger about the senior friends who save his year and the childhood memory that comes back at the end of it.
Looking for Alaska
Miles Halter leaves Florida for a boarding school in Alabama in search of what Rabelais called the Great Perhaps, and finds it in his new friends and in Alaska Young, a clever, reckless girl who pulls him into her orbit.
Another Country
After the suicide of Rufus Scott, a Black jazz drummer, his friends in late-1950s New York, Black and white, gay and straight, try to love one another across every line America draws.