Books to read next
Every book here was chosen because it captures what made It Ends With Us special — not just the genre, but the feeling.
Ugly Love
A woman falls into a no-strings arrangement with an emotionally unavailable pilot — but strings have a way of appearing.
CoHo's most purely devastating book. The dual-timeline structure mirrors what the characters are hiding from each other.
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Confess
A girl discovers her new job is at an artist's studio — an artist whose anonymous confessions she's been reading for years.
More mystery than It Ends With Us, but the same emotional core: a relationship with a secret at its heart.
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Verity
A struggling author discovers a manuscript hidden in an injured author's house — and the manuscript is a confession to murders.
CoHo's thriller. Completely different tone from It Ends With Us but the same 'you will not see that coming' plotting.
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The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A reclusive Hollywood legend finally tells her story to one young journalist — and the story is not what anyone expected.
Same emotional devastation, same complex female protagonist, same ending that recontextualises everything that came before.
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Normal People
Connell and Marianne keep finding each other across years and cities — and keep failing to say the thing they mean.
If you want the emotional intensity of It Ends With Us with more literary weight and less plot-driven pacing, Normal People is the answer.
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All Your Perfects
A couple is slowly falling apart — and their past is the only thing that might save them. Told in two timelines.
CoHo at her most structurally elegant. Less plotted than It Ends With Us, more focused on the interior of a marriage.
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A Little Life
Four college friends build their lives in New York — and the story of the most damaged of them slowly reveals itself.
Warning: the most emotionally devastating novel on this list. If It Ends With Us broke you, A Little Life will require recovery time. The best literary fiction of the decade.
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