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Celebrate Friendship Week by exploring a diverse range of stories that center on the profound and transformative power of friendship, exploring its emotional, psychological, and social dimensions. Each book offers unique insights—from scientific studies on human connection to personal memoirs that celebrate enduring bonds, connection, loyalty, and personal growth. Delve into the complexities of maintaining strong friendships over time.

Whether examining how friendships shape our identities or offering practical advice for deepening relationships, this collection highlights the essential role friends play in our health, happiness, and sense of belonging.

Updated July 25, 2025

Fond du Lac Public Library

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Dinners with Ruth : a memoir on the power of friendships

Totenberg, Nina

Paper Book

Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Four years before Nina...

070.92 Totenberg Totenberg 2022

Plays well with others : the surprising science behind why everything you know about relationships is (mostly) wrong

Barker, Eric

Paper Book

AN INSTANT USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER From the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree comes a cure-all for our increasing emotional distance and loneliness--a smart, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining...

158.2 Barker 2022

How to win friends & influence people

Carnegie, Dale

Paper Book

You can go after the job you want--and get it! You can take the job you have--and improve it! You can take any situation--and make it work for you! Dale Carnegie's rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business...

158.2 Carnegie

The other significant others : reimagining life with friendship at the center

Cohen, Rhaina

Paper Book

NATIONAL BESTSELLER AN INDIE BESTSELLER "The Other Significant Others...fundamentally, it's become my new Bible." -- Trevor Noah "An arresting work of compassion and insight." ―Lori Gottlieb "I loved and recommend [The Other Significant Others...

177.62 Cohen 2024

The art and science of connection : why social health is the missing key to living longer, healthier, and happier

Killam, Kasley

Paper Book

2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER A groundbreaking redefinition of what it means to be healthy that introduces the need for social health--the part of wellbeing that comes from feeling connected--to truly flourish. Exercise. Eat a balanced diet. Go to therapy. Most wellness...

302 Killam 2024

Guardians of the valley : John Muir and the friendship that saved Yosemite

King, Dean

Paper Book

Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography *"We see through this book the immense power of language...to change the minds of lawmakers and tourists alike." --The New York Times Book Review *"A poignant portrait of an era when mere...

333.72 Muir King 2023

Fox and I : an uncommon friendship

Raven, Catherine

Paper Book

Winner of the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award * 2022 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner * Shortlisted for the John Burroughs Medal * Finalist for the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize * Shortlisted for a Reading the West Book Award Instant New York Times<...

570.92 Raven Raven 2021

B.F.F. : a memoir of friendship lost and found

Tate, Christie

Paper Book

* "A love story about the miracle of friendship." --Maggie Smith * "Fearless and unflinching." --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette * From the author of Group, a New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club Pick, a poignant, funny, and emotionally satisfying...

616.8915 Tate Tate 2023

The best minds : a story of friendship, madness, and the tragedy of good intentions

Rosen, Jonathan

Paper Book

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST * Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate, and People One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 "Brave and nuanced . . . an act of...

616.898 Laudor Rosen 2023

Good lookin' cookin' : a year of meals : a lifetime of family, friends, and food

Parton, Dolly

Paper Book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * You're invited to pull up a chair to a year of meals, friends, and fun with the Partons, as Dolly and her sister (and favorite cook) Rachel share beloved, crowd-pleasing recipes and family stories. "Hey, good lookin'--what ya got cookin...

641.564 Parton 2024

Friends, lovers, and the big terrible thing : a memoir

Perry, Matthew

Paper Book

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The BELOVED STAR OF FRIENDS takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this "CANDID, DARKLY FUNNY...POIGNANT" memoir (The New York Times) ...

791.45 Perry, Matthew Perry 2022

The Office BFFs : tales of The Office from two best friends who were there

Fischer, Jenna

Paper Book

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * One of Esquire's Best Celebrity Memoirs of All Time An intimate, behind-the-scenes, richly illustrated celebration of beloved The Office co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey's friendship, and an insiders' view of Pam Beesly, Angela Martin, and the...

791.4572 Office Fischer 2022

Miss Chloe : a memoir of a literary friendship with Toni Morrison

Verdelle, A. J.

Paper Book

"Passionate, personal, insightful, testy, and unique." --Kirkus (starred review) "Verdelle offers us testimony in praise and consideration of life as a literary citizen and Black woman alongside the guiding light of Toni Morrison. This is a holy testimony, indeed, one that deserves to be...

813.54 Morrison Verdelle 2022

My friend Anne Frank : the inspiring and heartbreaking true story of best friends torn apart and reunited against all odds

Pick-Goslar, Hannah

Paper Book

"Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited New York Times bestselling memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In...

940.5318 Frank, Anne Pick-Goslar 2023

The forgotten girls : a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America

Potts, Monica

Paper Book

Talented and ambitious, Monica Potts and her best friend, Darci, were both determined to make something of themselves. How did their lives turn out so different? "The Forgotten Girls is much more than a memoir; it's the unflinching story of rural women trying to live in...

976.7054 Potts 2023

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