Read-alikes and related books

Books like Love

24 titles for readers of Love by Roddy Doyle, selected for shared themes: Friendship and Literary.

Friendship Literary Fiction

Top related books to Love

Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of Love.

The Diamond Eye A Novel

Kate Quinn

Themes: Friendship • Literary

The Eighth Girl A Novel

Maxine Mei-Fung Chung

Themes: Friendship • Literary

Friends Like These A Novel

Kimberly McCreight

Themes: Friendship • Literary

The Miseducation of Evie Epworth

Matson Taylor

Themes: Friendship

Beijing Sprawl

Zechen Xu

Themes: Friendship • Literary

The Last Goodbye A Novel

Fiona Lucas

Themes: Friendship • Literary

Anxious People A Novel

Fredrik Backman

Themes: Friendship • Literary

A Girl Returned

Donatella Di Pietrantonio

Themes: Friendship • Literary

A Man Called Ove A Novel

Fredrik Backman

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#10

The Orchard A Novel

David Hopen

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#11

The Boy and the Dog

Seishu Hase

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#12

What I was

Meg Rosoff

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#13

Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook A Novel

Celia Rees

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#14

Bucket List The ‘ultimate Feel-Good Novel&#8217

Russell Jones

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#15

Dreams of Speaking

Gail Jones

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#16

Bug Hollow A Novel

Michelle Huneven

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#17

The Observations of Henry by Jerome K. Jerome, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Historical

Jerome Jerome

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#18

The Woman in the Sable Coat A Novel

Elizabeth Brooks

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#19

Evenings and Weekends A Novel

Oisín McKenna

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#20

The Original Daughter: A GMA Book Club Pick A Novel

Jemimah Wei

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#21

The Printed Letter Bookshop

Katherine Reay

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#22

Everything Is Probably Fine

Julia London

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#23

The Waves

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Friendship • Literary

#24

The Island of Sea Women A Novel

Lisa See

Themes: Friendship • Literary

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Love by Roddy Doyle. Connected by Friendship, Literary. Authors featured include Kate Quinn, Maxine Mei-Fung Chung, Kimberly McCreight, Matson Taylor, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.