✍️ Sally Rooney
26 titles · Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Literary, Fiction, Romance
Conversations with Friends
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 320p
A Dublin college student starts an affair with an older, married actor.
Conversations with Friends
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 320p
College student Frances gets entangled with a married couple. Rooney's debut is sharper and colder than Normal People. The ambivalence is its own genre.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other from school to university. They're together, then apart, then together, then apart. The miscommunication is painful because it's so real. Rooney writes love like a wound.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other through high school and college — always connected, never quite right. Rooney writes miscommunication as an art form. The TV show is perfect too.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other through school and university. They keep finding and losing each other. Rooney writes intimacy and class with a scalpel. Will make you ache.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other through university, miscommunicating in ways that feel painfully real. The most realistic depiction of how class and insecurity ruin love. Spare and devastating.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other through school and university. They keep almost getting it right. Rooney writes miscommunication like a blade. The show captured it perfectly.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other through school and college. They keep almost getting it right. Rooney writes desire and miscommunication like no one else.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other through school and university in Ireland. They keep almost working out, then not. The miscommunication is agonizing because it's exactly how real life works.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 288p
Connell and Marianne circle each other from secondary school in Ireland to university at Trinity College Dublin. Their connection is undeniable, but timing and insecurity keep pulling them apart.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne circle each other through school and university, always almost together, never quite making it work. Rooney writes the ache of miscommunication like no one else.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other from school to university. They keep finding and losing each other. The miscommunication isn't a trope — it's the entire point.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other from high school through university. They keep finding and losing each other. The miscommunication is agonizing. The love is undeniable.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne orbit each other from school through university. They keep finding each other and losing each other. Every missed connection hurts. Sally Rooney distilled longing into prose.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 288p
Marianne and Connell, from secondary school to Trinity College. Quiet, devastating.
Normal People
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 273p
Connell and Marianne circle each other from school to college. Popular boy, outcast girl. They keep finding each other and losing each other.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 356p
Four people. Two couples forming. Long emails about capitalism, beauty, and whether anything matters. Rooney's most ambitious book. If you liked Normal People, this is the grown-up version.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 356p
Four people in their late twenties navigate love, friendship, and the end of the world via email. Rooney's most mature work. The emails will destroy you.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 356p
Alice and Eileen email each other about life, love, and whether anything matters. Meanwhile, they're both falling for men who might not be right for them. Rooney doing Rooney things.
Intermezzo
🌶️🌶️ · 448p
Two brothers — one a chess prodigy, one a grieving lawyer — navigate love, loss, and each other after their father's death. Rooney at her most intimate.
Intermezzo
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 448p
Two brothers grieving their father navigate love and each other. Peter is a mess dating two women. Ivan is a chess prodigy falling for an older woman. Rooney's most ambitious and most human novel.
Intermezzo
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 448p
Two brothers grieving their father navigate love, jealousy, and the mess of being alive. Rooney's most mature work — every sentence cuts. The age-gap romance subplot is quietly devastating.
Intermezzo
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 448p
Two brothers grieving their father navigate love, chess, and the gap between them. Rooney's most ambitious novel — the shifting perspectives are like watching a conversation from all angles at once.
Intermezzo
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 448p
Two brothers grieving their father. Peter is a lawyer dating two women. Ivan is a chess prodigy in love with someone older. Rooney writing about men is unexpectedly devastating.
Intermezzo
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 448p
Two brothers grieving their father. Peter is a lawyer falling apart. Ivan is a chess prodigy who doesn't fit anywhere. Rooney's most emotionally generous book — she finally lets her characters feel.
Intermezzo
🌶️🌶️🌶️ · 448p
Two brothers, Peter and Ivan, grieve their father while navigating complicated love lives. Rooney at her most mature and expansive.