Books like Dear Edward
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano reads as emotional, bittersweet. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
One True Loves
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2016
Shares the grief + lovetime thread
69% genome match
Hello Beautiful
Ann Napolitano · 2023
Shares the grief thread
83% genome match
The Measure
Nikki Erlick · 2022
Shares the grief thread
72% genome match
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris · 2018
Shares the collapse + lovetime thread
69% genome match
Me Before You
Jojo Moyes · 2012
Shares the grief thread
69% genome match
Everything I Never Told You
Celeste Ng · 2014
Shares the grief thread
69% genome match
Two Lives of Lydia Bird
Josie Silver · 2020
Shares the grief + lovetime thread
70% genome match
It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover · 2016
Shares the lovetime thread
69% genome match
Message in a bottle
Nicholas Sparks · 1998
Shares the grief + lovetime thread
69% genome match
In Five Years
Rebecca Serle · 2020
Shares the lovetime thread
74% genome match
The Bear Came Over the Mountain
Alice Munro
Shares the grief thread
69% genome match
Love and Other Words
Christina Lauren · 2018
Shares the lovetime + grief thread
69% genome match
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