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It Starts with Us, Colleen Hoover
Published in October 2022, It Starts with Us—the sequel to It Ends with Us—follows the continued stories of Lily Bloom and Atlas Corrigan through alternating perspectives, exploring their pasts and present as Lily coparents with her ex-husband Ryle Kincaid and reunites with Atlas. The book details the difficulty inherent in escaping abusive cycles and reveals the power of love and community in healing trauma.
Verity, Colleen Hoover
Also by Colleen Hoover, Verity (published in 2018) is a psychological thriller about a struggling writer, Lowen Ashleigh, who is ghostwriting a novel on behalf of Verity Crawford, a woman who is in a vegetative state following a terrible accident. The novel examines themes of loss, grief, trauma, obsession, and self-doubt.
Normal People, Sally Rooney
Normal People is Sally Rooney’s second novel, a coming-of-age story about young love that explores complex issues like mental health, identity, miscommunication, and the changing social and political climate in Ireland. Like It Ends with Us, the book analyzes cycles of physical and emotional abuse and the lifelong impact they have on those who experience them.
Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Where the Crawdads Sing, a 2018 novel by Delia Owens, is set in the marshes of North Carolina and follows the life of Kya Clark, known as the “Marsh Girl,” who is abandoned by her family and grows up isolated from society. Similar to the use of flashbacks in It Ends with Us, the narrative alternates between two timelines, exploring Kya's journey into adulthood in the 1950s and early 1960s and a murder investigation several years later. Where the Crawdads Sing, also like It Ends with Us, dives into the affects of abuse and details the healing power of nature.
