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Friendship here is rarely simple: it survives a summer apart, a school year that turns dangerous, or a town that keeps its own secrets. Emily Henry's «People We Meet on Vacation» follows two best friends whose yearly trips together carry everything they can't quite say to each other, and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone begins with a boy who has never been loved finding the first friends who choose him. If you like company that feels tested and real, these are books about what people mean to each other.

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The oldest child who learned to keep everything buttoned up.

Alex Nilsen is a study in control. In that tall, broad, permanently slouched and/or pretzel-folded body of his, there’s a surplus of stoicism (the result of being the oldest child of a widower with the most vocal anxiety of anyone I’ve ever met) and a stockpile of repression (the result of a strict religious upbringing in direct opposition to most of his passions; namely, academia), alongside the most truly strange, secretly silly, and intensely softhearted goofball I’ve had the pleasure to know.
Excerpt from People We Meet on Vacation, Emily Henry, Berkley 2021. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals

  2. It

    Stephen King, 1986

    A Maine town, a childhood summer, and the shape-shifting thing that hunts its children — a horror novel about memory as much as monsters.

  19. Me Before You

    Jojo Moyes, 2012

    A wry, underemployed Englishwoman takes a care job in a grand house and finds her ordinary life opened up by the most difficult person in it.

  21. Curtain

    Agatha Christie, 1975

    An ageing Poirot returns to Styles, the scene of his first case, to hunt a murderer who leaves no trace and seems always one step ahead.

  23. The Group

    Mary McCarthy, 1963

    Eight Vassar friends graduate into 1930s New York and discover what their fine educations are actually for — careers, marriages, psychoanalysis, politics, and each other.

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  1. The story we invent to keep friends from seeing what we are.

    Now, my three friends could hardly fail to notice that I disappeared once a month. I made up all sorts of stories. I told them my mother was ill, and that I had to go home to see her... I was terrified they would desert me the moment they found out what I was. But of course, they, like you, Hermione, worked out the truth...

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban · J. K. Rowling

  2. The moment a magic lesson becomes a contest of who says it right.

    ‘And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?’ ‘Throw it away and punch him on the nose,’ Ron suggested. Wingardium Leviosa!’ he shouted, waving his long arms like a windmill. ‘You’re saying it wrong,’ Harry heard Hermione snap. ‘It’s Wing-gar-dium Levi-o-sa, make the “gar” nice and long.’ ‘You do it, then, if you’re so clever’ Ron snarled. Hermione rolled up the sleeves of her gown, flicked her wand and said, Wingardium Leviosa!’ Their feather rose off the desk and hovered about four feet above their heads.

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone · J. K. Rowling

  3. The case for being seventeen and certain nothing can end you.

    When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid smile on their faces, they don’t know how right they are. We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think that we are invincible because we are. We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations. They forget that when they get old. They get scared of losing and failing. But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail.

    Looking for Alaska · John Green

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