Friendship: books and films

BFFs, chosen family, chums, cronies, mates, buddies, homies, confidants, amigos, pals, frenemies. Explore the many wonderful books and films about Friendship!

Barbie	The Breakfast Club
Weird rules to follow by Kim Spencer	Good girl : a novel by Aria Aber
The subtweet by Vivek Shraya	Chasing painted horses by Drew Hayden Taylor

FILMS

Barbie

Big Hero 6

The lesser blessed

How to train your dragon (Motion picture)

Superbad

Harold & Kumar go to White Castle

The First Wives Club

Bridesmaids

Steel Magnolias

Thelma & Louise

The Breakfast Club

Stand by me

 

FICTION

White teeth / Zadie Smith.

The subtweet : a novel / Vivek Shraya.

We are all good people here / Susan Rebecca White.

The Gustav Sonata / Rose Tremain.

We are okay : a novel / by Nina LaCour.

A friendship for today / Patricia C. McKissack.

The sun in your eyes / Deborah Shapiro.

Eleven hours / Pamela Erens.

Weird rules to follow / Kim Spencer.

Tell me everything : a novel / Elizabeth Strout.

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda / Becky Albertalli.

The cardboard kingdom / by Chad Sell

The full catastrophe : a novel / Méira Cook.

Good girl : a novel / Aria Aber.

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe / Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

Chasing painted horses / a novel by Drew Hayden Taylor.

Swing time / Zadie Smith.

Roaming foliage / Patrick Kyle.

Lissa : a story about medical promise, friendship, and revolution / written by Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye ; illustrated by Sarula Bao and Caroline Brewer ; lettering by Marc Parenteau

Meat and bone / by Kat Verhoeven.

The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse / Charlie Mackesy.

A tale for the time being / Ruth Ozeki

Apeirogon : a novel / Colum McCann.

The good doctor / Damon Galgut.

The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry : a novel / Rachel Joyce.

Major Pettigrew’s last stand : a novel / Helen Simonson.

A gentleman in Moscow / Amor Towles.

NON- FICTION

The love queen of Malabar : memoir of a friendship with Kamala Das / Merrily Weisbord.

The Roosevelts and the royals : Franklin and Eleanor, the king and queen of England, and the friendship that changed history / Will Swift.

Uncommon lives : my lifelong friendship with Margaret Mead / Patricia Grinager.

Sargent’s women : four lives behind the canvas / Donna M. Lucey.

Parties, dorms and social norms : a crash course in safe living for young adults on the autism spectrum

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out: Kids Living and Learning with New Media

The undoing project : a friendship that changed our minds / Michael Lewis.

Aging together : dementia, friendship, and flourishing communities / Susan H. McFadden and John T. McFadden.