Best Friends

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Michaela is a 22-year-old personal assistant for the parkour runners in the reality show, Running on Air, who has been harboring a secret crush on James who happens to not only be 9 years older, but also her boss and also ENGAGED to someone else. Maryam is happily married and a parent to a three-year old; Zahra is happily divorced and the “fourth member” in her bestie’s home setup.

The only problem – he’s been hanging out with Ruth Barber, his new work neighbor, and he’s getting that swoony feeling for both women. When William meets Julia Padavano, a lively girl extremely close to her parents and three sisters, he quickly becomes a part of the close-knit Padavano family. With hilarious honesty, the two give a rundown on how to find, keep, and sustain life-changing female friendships. When you've finished reading these, don't forget to pass your copy along to your reading buddies, then head on over to the GH Book Club to find some new picks! Brishen Khaskem, prince of the Kai, and Ildiko is the niece to the Gauri king, enter an arranged marriage to secure a political alliance between kingdoms.Zahra, sensitive to the unreliable narration of our selves, unpicks the lies, telling Maryam: “We all create our neat narrative arcs, don’t we? The two girls attend the same expensive school, listen to the same music (George Michael, Tracy Chapman) and briefly fancy the same boy at 14.

Much like a protective parent, Shamsie goes out of her way to make sure her characters are spared any lasting consequences of their actions. The beginning is alive and interesting, deep in the friendship of two girls who have very different families and lives and personalities.Growing up, Malak, Kees, and Jenna have always struggled to reconcile their own wants with their expectations as Muslim women. Ryland and Brenna have known each other for years as Rye is the bassist for the biggest rock band in the world and Brenna is his publicist and the cousin of his bandmate.

Throw in a fun mystery at the local theatre festival, and you have a sweet story for your reading list.The book opens around 1988 in a Karachi private school – with two best friends who have known each other almost their whole lives, but are now 14 ( “they were conscious they were in Class 10 now, old enough for the younger students to look up to them, and also at that stage where familiarity could start to replace deference in their relationship with the A level students”) and starting their O Levels ( “how well or badly you fared in the exams that waited two years down the line would determine the life altering matter of which American or British University would want you another two years after that”) – again little is left for the reader to deduce. You can’t help but already start to fall for Fox and Hannah in It Happened One Summer, but this is their story which can easily be read as a standalone. Jamie and Ryan became friends at hockey camp but then Ryan ghosted Jamie after the night they took things further than just friends. Although both girls are from the same milieu, Zahra is framed as having an “uncertain social position”.

But when two troubling figures from their past resurface, they must finally confront their bedrock differences—and find out whether their friendship can survive.Hitting on the tough topics of abuse and mental health, Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower is one of the top YA books about friendship and gained lots of notoriety with its popular film adaptation.