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• Britt-Marie Was Here

  a Novel

  Backman, Fredrik, 1981-

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  If you enjoyed Backman's writing style, check out this other book he wrote.

• The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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  What would happen if a 100 year old man climbed out of a window and decided to have an adventure? Check out this movie to find out!

• The Heirloom Garden

  Shipman, Viola,

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  Iris Maynard lost her will to live after she lost her husband and her young daughter. Now, decades later, a young girl moves in next door and helps Iris find joy again.

• Grumpy Old Men

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  If you enjoyed Rune and Ove's relationship, you'll enjoy the relationship between the feuding neighbor protagonists in this movie.

• The Curious Charms of Arthur Pepper

  a Novel

  Patrick, Phaedra

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  Like Ove, Arthur Pepper struggles to find joy in life once his wife dies. When he finds a charm bracelet charm he's never seen before, he embarks on a journey to figure out the origins.

• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

  a Novel

  Joyce, Rachel

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  Ove is incredibly stubborn throughout A Man Called Ove. Similarly, Harold is stubborn and believes that if he doesn't make a 600 mile walk, his old friend will die.

• Secondhand Lions

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  In this movie, young Walter is sent to live with his great-uncles. The generations are forced to grow and change with each other, much like Ove was forced to change and grow.

• The Lido

  Page, Libby,

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  Ove hated all of the changes in his neighborhood. In this book, the main character, Rosemary, faces similar challenges, and she is forced to act after the pool where she first met her husband after WWII is threatened by a local house developer.

• The Old Woman Who Named Things

  Rylant, Cynthia

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  An old woman names things she knows will outlive her, but she's not sure how to react when a puppy shows up on her doorstep. Should she name it and open herself up to love?

• Until Tomorrow, Mr. Marsworth

  O'Connor, Sheila,

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  If you enjoyed the relationship between Ove and his young neighbors, you'll enjoy this book in which the main character writes letters to her elderly neighbor in hopes of raising money so her brother can go to college and avoid being drafted into…Read moreRead more of this annotation