Best Books About Friendship [Top 10 Recommended Books] [2024 Update]

What are the best books on friendship? In this list, you will find the best recommendations for both youth and adults. Friendship is a popular theme in literature, so read on …

The top 10 books to read about friendship

Some friendships are for life, others only for a short time … Read in the following books the theory behind the phenomenon of friendship, the best stories in which friendship is central, or children’s books related to the theme.

We start our recommendations with the top 10 best books about Friendship of all time. This list has been updated this year, including all the recent titles.

Best Books About Friendship	Author
Three Things About Elsie	Joanna Cannon
Mornings with Rosemary	Libby Page
Passion on Park Avenue	Lauren Layne
My Soul Looks Back	Jessica B. Harris
Hank and Jim	Scott Eyman
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe	Benjamin Alire Saenz
My Friend Anna	Rachel DeLoache Williams
The Interestings	Meg Wolitzer
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini
The Friend	Sigrid Nunez

The updated top 10 list: the best books about friendships

Friendship Isn’t a Big Thing, It’s a Million Little Things: The Art of Female Friendship (Affirmations, Gift for Best Friend)

Have you ever looked closely at the women in your life and the relationship you have with them? This book will be an inspiration, and you will find that it’s the little things that count the most.

Art of Friendship

Loneliness could become a greater threat than all other illnesses, and we shouldn’t be looking for more friends, but invest in deepening the relationship with people that are close to us. God can help you understand how that works.

We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships

Kat Vos teaches us about adult friendship and its secrets. Getting together, with relocations, busy agenda’s, and a family to take care of, can become a complicated matter, when it shouldn’t be. This handbook will allow you to make friends and stay friends for the rest of your lives.

On Friendship

We like this book, because of its philosophical approach of friendship. If you are interested in the why and how, then this is your best choice on this top ten list of books about friendship.

Life Lessons On Friendship: 13 Honest Tales of the Most Important Relationships of Our Lives

Relationships come in different shapes and sizes, and if you care about a friend, you can be faced with several difficult or challenging situations. What do you do in these cases? This book shares 13 stories about friendships that you can learn from.

Angels on Earth: Inspiring Real-Life Stories of Fate, Friendship, and the Power of Kindness

Can you remember doing something for someone that changed their life? It doesn’t have to be big, even little things can make a big difference. This book by Laura Schroff will inspire you, because of the true stories that had a huge effect on people, and sometimes they had only just met. 

The Little Book Of Friendship: The Best Way to Make a Friend Is to Be a Friend

We recommend this book if you want to teach your children about friendship. This book is suitable for children age 5 to 7, and the lessons are on the values, emotions, and activities on friendship.

Coach Wooden and Me: Our 50-Year Friendship On and Off the Court

This is the story of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and his coach. Their friendship lasted for 50 years, and one can say that this is the most special friendship in the history of sports.

Hearticulations: On Love, Friendship, and Healing

When there are so many things that divide us these days, it is good to know that there are even more things that connect us. This book with quotes tells you about different kinds of friendship.

The Hero Two Doors Down: Based on the True Story of Friendship Between a Boy and a Baseball Legend

When baseball hero Jackie Robinson moves into the same building as 8 year old Stephen Satlow, this changes his entire world. He becomes friends with him and shares his story with you in this book.