Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Conversations with Friends | 2017 | Sally Rooney | Buy |
| 2 | Normal People | 2018 | Sally Rooney | Buy |
| 3 | Beautiful World, Where Are You | 2021 | Sally Rooney | Buy |
| 4 | Intermezzo | 2024 | Sally Rooney | Buy |
Sally Rooney’s four standalone novels have been published between 2017 and 2024. Conversations with Friends follows two college students who become involved with a married couple, while Normal People tracks the on-and-off relationship between two classmates from a small Irish town. Both books were adapted for television.
Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021) follows four friends exchanging emails about love, literature, and politics, and Intermezzo (2024) centers on two brothers dealing with grief. Each novel stands alone, but together they form a body of work with consistent interests in class, intimacy, and how people fail to say what they mean.