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If you loved serious themes handled with warmth
This Is How It Always Is
Laurie Frankel
Why Matchbook recommends it: A family navigates their youngest child's gender identity — funny, tender and honest without ever being heavy-handed.
What to read next
Books Like The Wedding People
The Wedding People follows Phoebe, who arrives at a grand Newport hotel planning to end her life — only to find it booked for an entire week-long wedding, and herself pulled into its chaos. Readers looking for books like The Wedding People want the same balance: sharp, darkly funny writing about genuinely heavy subjects, a heroine at rock bottom and an unlikely connection that changes everything.
Our picks
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If you loved a heroine's depression written with wit
Sorrow and Bliss
Meg Mason
Why Matchbook recommends it: Martha's life, marriage and undiagnosed illness, told with bitingly funny honesty. The closest match to Phoebe's voice.
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If you loved a woman trying to disappear
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
Why Matchbook recommends it: A young woman plans to sleep for a year — darker and stranger, but with the same deadpan black humour.
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If you loved comic chaos around a woman in crisis
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Maria Semple
Why Matchbook recommends it: An agoraphobic architect vanishes before a family trip to Antarctica — sharp, satirical and surprisingly moving.
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If you loved a wedding gone sideways
The Unhoneymooners
Christina Lauren
Why Matchbook recommends it: Wedding guests end up on the honeymoon together — lighter, but full of the same comic wedding chaos.
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If you loved strangers saving each other
Anxious People
Fredrik Backman
Why Matchbook recommends it: A failed bank robber takes an apartment viewing hostage — funny, humane and quietly about despair and connection.
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If you loved a woman rebuilding after grief
Writers & Lovers
Lily King
Why Matchbook recommends it: A grieving aspiring novelist waiting tables in Boston, finding her way back to life and love.
What did you love about The Wedding People?
The romance? The characters? The setting? The twists? Tell Matchbook what worked for you — and what didn't — and we'll find your next read.