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Books that sounds like Olivia Dean’s songs🎧🎶
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items If you’re in love with Olivia Dean’s songs and you love to read, this list is literally made for you. These are the books that, to me, carry the same warmth, softness, and storytelling vibe as Olivia’s music. The kind of reads that feel like her song...
Map
This books sounds like “A Couple Minutes”. It gives the same cozy, slow-bloom warmth, the kind of love that doesn’t announce itself loudly but quietly fills a room and suddenly you can’t imagine life without it. It’s a story that feels like coming ho...
Loved One by Aisha Muharrar
This book sounds like “The Hardest Part”, this book carries that ache olivia captures so naturally, the feeling of being in love but separated by something bigger than you. The yearning here isn’t dramatic, it’s quiet but heavy, like missing someone ...
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
This books sounds like “Dangerously Easy”, it was written in a way that makes your chest hurt in the best way! Like someone tracing the bruise instead of pressing on it. The book is about love that’s fragile, complicated, and impossibly beautiful. I ...
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
This book sounds like “Messy”, because it’s messy, magnetic, and frustrating, this book is basically that one situationship you could never fully walk away from. The emotional tension is so raw it almost feels intrusive to read. Olivia’s song capture...
Normal People by Sally Rooney
This book sounds like “Let Alone the One You Love”, the story wraps heartbreak, longing, and complex emotion into one slow, soulful ballad. The book does something similar: deep introspection, complicated relationships, and emotional stakes that run ...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This book sounds like “Be My Own”, the story is messy in the most honest way with grief, desire, guilt, and the terrifying softness of opening up again. It reminded me of that olivia vibe where love feels like a risk you take even when you’re still b...
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty: A Novel
This books sounds like “Nice to Each Other”, it’s about connection without pressure, enjoying companionship without needing to define everything. That relaxed, human warmth reminds me of the way this book handles isolation, connection, and slowly lea...
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
This books sounds like “Lady, Lady”, it has playful confidence, a bit of sass and self-recognition. Messy, stylish, sometimes chaotic, but unapologetically itself. It’s about owning who you are, heartbreaks included, honest, unfiltered, and sometimes...
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
This book sounds like “So Easy (to Fall in Love), so airy, hopeful, sweet, the fluttery excitement of falling in love, new and perhaps a little naive. The book mirrors that: soft nostalgia, second chances, and the rush of first feelings re-awakened. ...
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
This book sounds like “Loud”, a moody, introspective, a bit haunted, the kind of that makes you want to sit in your feelings and let them wash over you. It’s soulful, raw, with an emotional depth that doesn’t shy away from pain or longing. Letting yo...
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
This books sounds like “I’ve Seen It”, thinking about where you come from, how time moves, what changes, and what stays within you. It’s gentle, thoughtful, and quietly hopeful.
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
This books sounds like “carme”, rich, layered, full of heritage and tenderness. It’s about family, identity, and the painful, gorgeous complexity of where you come from. You feel the weight of ancestors, the hope of generations, and the softness of l...
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
This books sounds like “No Man”, a spine-straightening moment, a reminder that you don’t need to shrink yourself for anyone. It’s fierce, mythic, and empowering in a way that makes you sit taller. Reading it feels like reclaiming pieces of yourself y...
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype