Friendship

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
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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

How to win friends & influence people
Carnegie, Dale
Paper Book
Updated for the first time in more than forty years, Dale Carnegie's timeless bestseller How to Win Friends and Influence People--a classic that has improved and transformed the personal and professional lives of millions. This new edition of the most influential self-help...

158.2 Carnegie

The laws of connection : the scientific secrets of building a strong social network
Robson, David (Science journalist)
Ebook
This groundbreaking study reveals how social connections are far more important than we thought, showing us the steps we can take to build better relationships and improve our lives. Social connection is as essential for our health and happiness as a balanced diet and regular...

302.3 Robson 2024

Platonic : how the science of attachment can help you make--and keep--friends
Franco, Marisa G.
Paper Book
Instant New York Times bestseller Is understanding the science of attachment the key to building lasting friendships and finding "your people" in an ever-more-fragmented world? How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, burnout, and chaos,...

302.34 Franco 2022

Unbroken bonds of battle : a modern warriors book of heroism, patriotism, and friendship
Jones, Johnny Joey
Ebook
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Life only really starts when we start serving others. For many people, military service isn't simply a job. It's a ticket out of a lonely society and into a family of enduring bonds. In over a decade of working with veterans, Johnny Joey...

355.0092 Jones, Johnny 2023

Own your past, change your future : a not-so-complicated approach to relationships, mental health, and wellness
Delony, John
Paper Book
#1 WALL STREET JOURNAL NATIONAL BESTSELLER Your Mental Health Matters. We're the most technologically advanced society in history, but we've never been more stressed, medicated, or lonely. We have 1,000 Facebook friends but no one to help us move our couch. The pace of life is...

616.8521 Delony 2022

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

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

Me and Paul : untold stories of a fabled friendship
Nelson, Willie
Paper Book
Stories of Willie Nelson and Paul English's misadventures became legendary, but many have gone untold--until now. Immortalized in Willie Nelson's road song "Me and Paul," Paul English was the towering figure who acted as Willie's drummer, bodyguard, accountant, partner in crime, and right...

782.4216 Nelson, Willie Nelson 2022

Behind the shoulder pads : tales I tell my friends
Collins, Joan
Paper Book
USA TODAY BESTSELLER "I've had many amazing adventures in my life. Some stories, though, I have only ever shared with my friends.... Until now!" Dame Joan Collins has always believed that one should retain some mystery in life and hide a knowing smile behind...

791.43 Collins, Joan Collins 2023

The Blues Brothers : an epic friendship, the rise of improv, and the making of an American film classic
De Vise?, Daniel
Paper Book

791.4372 Blues De Vise 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

Welcome to Pawnee : stories of friendship, waffles, and Parks and recreation
O'Heir, Jim
Paper Book
"Filled with hilarious stories and sweet observations, Welcome to Pawnee is a book for any Parks and Rec fan. It's funny and straight from the heart. Jim did a great job of not Jerry-ing this book." -- Amy Poehler "There is no one more qualified to...

791.4572 Parks O'Heir 2024

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
Audiobook
"Both heartbreaking and life-affirming" (Edith Eger, author of The Choice), the long-awaited memoir of Holocaust survivor Hannah Pick-Goslar, who shares an intimate look into her life and friendship with Anne Frank. In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar and...

940.5318 Frank, Anne Pick-Goslar 2023

The forgotten girls : a memoir of friendship and lost promise in rural America
Potts, Monica
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small town in Arkansas while her brilliant friend could not, and, in the process, illuminates the unemployment, drug abuse, sexism, and evangelicalism killing poor, rural white women all over...

976.7054 Potts 2023


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