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Books that make you crave a soulmate

Curated by @shelfthreads · 9 books

For anyone who believes in the one: two people who find each other young, lose each other to time and keep coming back, across years and decades.

  1. 1

    One Day

    David Nicholls

    Emma and Dexter meet on graduation night in 1988 Edinburgh, and we drop in on them every 15 July for twenty years of near misses.

  2. 2

    Normal People

    Sally Rooney

    Connell and Marianne keep finding and losing each other, from a small town in the west of Ireland to their student years in Dublin.

  3. 3

    Talking at Night

    Claire Daverley

    Will and Rosie grow up in the same English village, talking for hours on late-night phone calls and almost getting together, again and again, across a decade.

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