Books Like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: 6 to Read Next
Taylor Jenkins Reid built The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo on a reliable spell: a dazzling, complicated woman; a sweep of decades; a confession that reframes everything you thought you knew. If you want the same blend of old-Hollywood shimmer and aching, secret-keeping interior life, here are six we love handing across the counter.
1. Daisy Jones & The Six — Taylor Jenkins Reid
The obvious next step, and for good reason. Told as an oral history of a 1970s rock band’s rise and combustion, it has the same hindsight ache and the same unforgettable woman at the center. Read it before the band plays your last nerve.
2. Malibu Rising — Taylor Jenkins Reid
One unforgettable party, one famous family, and twenty-four hours that unravel decades of resentment. If you came to Evelyn Hugo for ambition, celebrity, and family secrets, this is the same world from a different window.
3. The House of Eve — Sadeqa Johnson
Two women in 1950s America navigating ambition, class, and impossible choices about love and motherhood. Richer on social history than glitz, but the same propulsive, emotionally honest character drama.
4. Lessons in Chemistry — Bonnie Garmus
A brilliant, prickly heroine refuses to shrink for a world that wants her to. Sharper and funnier than Evelyn Hugo, with the same pleasure of watching a woman refuse the role she’s been handed.
5. The Henna Artist — Alka Joshi
In 1950s Jaipur, a self-made woman builds an independent life among the city’s elite while her carefully guarded past closes in. Lush, vivid, and full of the secret-keeping tension Reid fans crave.
6. The Final Revival of Opal & Nev — Dawnie Walton
Another oral-history-style novel about a 1970s music duo, race, and the cost of fame. If Daisy Jones hooked you on the format, this is the bolder, more pointed cousin.
Where to start
These are the kind of books that get read in a weekend and passed straight to a friend. Browse what’s on our shelves in Milwaukie, or tell the Next Read Matchmakerwhich one you loved most and we’ll point you onward. If thrillers are more your speed lately, our twisty-thriller read-alikes are right next door. Already nearby? Come visit — free parking, and decades of secondhand finds waiting.