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Omaha Reading Challenge 2023: Read a Book About or Featuring Friendship

The Omaha Public Library (OPL) Reading Challenge is back! OPL staff have created a series of reading challenges to push you outside of your reading comfort zone and into new literary realms. This list contains titles about or featuring friendship. For more details on the reading challenge go to omahalibrary.org/reading-challenge.

33 items

  • Text Me When You Get Home

    the Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship

    Schaefer, Kayleen,
    Book, 2018New York : Dutton, [2018] — 302.34 Schaefer 2018
  • Book, 2010New York : Ecco, c2010. — B Smith 2010
  • Book, 2022New York : Doubleday, [2022] — B Hsu 2022
  • Inseparable

    a Never-before-published Novel

    Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986,
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2021] — FICTION Beauvoir 2021
  • A Secret Sisterhood

    the Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, & Virginia Woolf

    Midorikawa, Emily,
    Book, 2017Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017. — 820.9 Midorika 2017
  • The Art of Showing Up

    How to Be There for Yourself and Your People

    Miller, Rachel Wilkerson,
    Book, 2020New York : The Experiment, [2020] — 158.2 Miller 2020
  • Dinner With Edward

    the Story of a Remarkable Friendship

    Vincent, Isabel, 1965-
    Book, 2016Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2016. — B Vincent 2016
  • The Marmalade Diaries

    the True Story of An Odd Couple

    Aitken, Ben,
    Book, 2022London : Icon Books, [2022] — B Aitken 2022
  • Solid Seasons

    the Friendship of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Cramer, Jeffrey S., 1955-
    Book, 2019Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2019. — 818 Cramer 2019
  • Book, 2021New York : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon and Schuster, 2021. — FICTION Larkin 2021
  • Platonic

    How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make--and Keep--friends

    Franco, Marisa G.,
    Book, 2022New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] — 302.34 Franco 2022
  • Book, 2013Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. — FICTION Bauer 2013
  • How to Break Up With Your Friends

    Finding Meaning, Connection, and Boundaries in Modern Friendships

    Falconer, Erin,
    Book, 2022Boulder, CO : Sounds True, 2022. — 177.62 Falconer 2022
  • Marley & Me

    Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

    Grogan, John, 1957-
    Book, 2005New York : Morrow, c2005. — 636.752 Grogan 2005