Books like Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
What should you read after Gabrielle Zevin’s novel? It depends on what you loved most about it.
- Gabrielle Zevin
- 2022
- 416 pages
- Literary fiction
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Best books to read after Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Best overall matchThe Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach
The same braid of talent, friendship and quiet catastrophe — five people whose lives keep bending around one shared obsession.
- Friendship over decades
- Making something together
- Ambition and rivalry
- Baseball, not games
Best for making something togetherStation Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel
A travelling theatre company keeping art alive after the end of the world. Same conviction that the thing you make together is what survives you.
- Making something together
- Grief and repair
- The writing style
- Post-apocalyptic setting
Best for the creative partnershipDaisy Jones & The Six
Taylor Jenkins Reid
Two people who can only make their best work with each other and can't quite be in a room together. The Sam-and-Sadie dynamic, turned up loud.
- Ambition and rivalry
- Making something together
- Friendship over decades
- Oral-history format, all dialogue
Worth a look — with a warningA Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The definitive novel of four friends over thirty years. If the decades-long friendship was the part that got you, nothing goes deeper — but go in prepared.
- Friendship over decades
- Love that isn't romance
- Grief and repair
- Far darker; sustained trauma throughout
Best for the game worldsThe Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
Not a novel, but the closest thing in tone: the same affection for games, small designed objects and the people who made them.
- The game worlds
- The writing style
- Nineties nostalgia
- Essays, no plot or characters
Great matchNormal People
Sally Rooney
Two people who keep finding and losing each other over years. The same ache of near-misses, at a fraction of the length.
- The writing style
- Friendship over decades
- Love that isn't romance
- Romantic, not platonic
What should you read after Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow?
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin works on several levels at once, and which book you should read next depends on which of those levels got you. For most readers the closest match is The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach — the same braid of talent, friendship and quiet catastrophe — five people whose lives keep bending around one shared obsession.
If what stayed with you was making something together, read Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel instead: a travelling theatre company keeping art alive after the end of the world. Same conviction that the thing you make together is what survives you. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is the other strong option — two people who can only make their best work with each other and can't quite be in a room together. The Sam-and-Sadie dynamic, turned up loud.
Common questions
- What should you read after Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow?
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid are the closest matches. Which fits best depends on what you loved about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: friendship over decades, making something together, the game worlds, love that isn't romance.
- What is the best book like Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow?
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach is the strongest overall match. The same braid of talent, friendship and quiet catastrophe — five people whose lives keep bending around one shared obsession.
- What are books similar to Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin?
- The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara, The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green, Normal People by Sally Rooney. Each one matches a different part of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow rather than just its genre.
- What's a book like Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow but shorter?
- Normal People by Sally Rooney — 273 pages against 416. Two people who keep finding and losing each other over years. The same ache of near-misses, at a fraction of the length.
- Is The Art of Fielding worth reading after Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow?
- Yes — readers who loved Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow tend to land well with it: friendship carried across a decade; obsessive craft and practice; ensemble told from four angles. One thing to know going in: baseball, not games.
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