Books Like Regretting You

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Tanya Eby and Lauren Ezzo each take a side of the mother-daughter divide, and that split keeps the emotional distance between the two women audible — you don't just read about the rift, you hear it in the shift between registers. At eleven hours, the pacing earns its grief rather than rushing through it, letting the introspective stretches breathe alongside the tenser ones. The recommendations here share that same sustained emotional weight: Eby herself narrates two of them, nearly all run close to that eleven-hour mark, and the Goodreads ratings across the list reflect the kind of durability that comes with stories willing to sit in the hard parts rather than skip past them.

10 books for fans of Regretting You

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    What Remains True

    by Janis Thomas

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    One child's death shatters an ordinary family, revealing secrets that threaten to destroy what's left of their bonds. Thomas excavates the aftermath of tragedy with unflinching emotional honesty.

    3.97 BLT Score (10.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.01 Goodreads (10.2K)
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    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban cover

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Harry Potter • Book 3

    by J.K. Rowling

    5.00 BLT Score (4.9M ratings)
    ★ 4.58 Goodreads (4.9M)
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    Sunrise on the Reaping

    The Hunger Games

    by Suzanne Collins

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    Follow teenage Haymitch Abernathy into the arena during the second Quarter Quell, where the Capitol's twisted anniversary celebration doubles the death toll.

    4.90 BLT Score (1.1M ratings)
    ★ 4.5 Goodreads (1.1M)
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    Theo of Golden

    by Allen Levi

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    When Theo starts purchasing ninety-two portraits from a coffeehouse wall, he quietly begins changing an entire town through simple acts of recognition.

    4.85 BLT Score (168.5K ratings)
    ★ 4.57 Goodreads (168.5K)
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    The Hate U Give

    The Hate U Give • Book 1

    by Angie Thomas

    4.83 BLT Score (1.0M ratings)
    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (1.0M)
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    Remarkably Bright Creatures

    by Shelby Van Pelt

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    What starts as a widow's late-night cleaning job at an aquarium becomes something unexpectedly profound when she connects with a giant Pacific octopus who might hold clues to her son's disappearance.

    4.83 BLT Score (1.3M ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (1.3M)
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    The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

    by Robert Dugoni

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    Sam Hill's rare condition that gives him red pupils makes him an outcast, but with support from his devout mother, practical father, and two misfit friends, he learns to see differently.

    4.68 BLT Score (230.8K ratings)
    ★ 4.45 Goodreads (230.8K)
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    Atmosphere: A GMA Book Club Pick

    by Taylor Jenkins Reid

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    A physics professor leaves academia to become one of NASA's first female astronauts, trading telescopes for shuttles in pursuit of the cosmos she's studied from afar.

    4.68 BLT Score (758.2K ratings)
    ★ 4.33 Goodreads (758.2K)
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    A Thousand Splendid Suns

    by Khaled Hosseini

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    Hosseini traces Afghanistan's tumultuous history through Mariam and Laila, whose friendship becomes their lifeline through Taliban rule and personal tragedy.

    4.66 BLT Score (1.8M ratings)
    ★ 4.46 Goodreads (1.8M)
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    My Friends

    by Fredrik Backman

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    Four teenagers forge a friendship so powerful it reaches across twenty-five years to transform a complete stranger's life in ways none of them could imagine.

    4.58 BLT Score (413.4K ratings)
    ★ 4.36 Goodreads (413.4K)

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