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Beautiful World, Where Are You

By Sally Rooney

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Beautiful World, Where Are You is a new novel by Sally Rooney, the bestselling author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends. Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young―but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

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Published Jun 7, 2022

368 pages

Average rating: 5.95

502 RATINGS

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sneed

Jun 18, 2025

6/10 stars

i almost wanted to rate this book 4 stars because i found the 2nd half to be very peaceful ? but i was so bored the entire first half, i just donât think that can be forgotten

cnicwhite

Jun 04, 2024

Such a quality easy read -- a great meditation on what's worth living for in our modern societal decline

Shananigans

Mar 02, 2023

8/10 stars

I don't know what it is about Sally Rooney and her books. When I think about Beautiful World, Where Are You objectively, it doesn't seem like something I'd enjoy, yet I did—and it is even my favorite book by her. If you haven't read any of her contemporary fiction before, I would say that she is one of those authors you might need to develop an acquired taste for. Her books are character driven, rather than plot heavy, and that can be very offputting for some. This one is about 4 characters navigating life in their early 30s. They are outright obnoxious and pretentious yet weirdly fascinating, and nothing really significant happens to them, but there is just something about Rooney's writing that enthralls me.

Zoe E.

Dec 31, 2021

8/10 stars

While I preferred her other books, this one still had the deep relationships and incisive commentary of a typical Sally Rooney novel. The end was a bit of a let down but overall still an enjoyable read

loridougovito

Jun 23, 2025

1/10 star

Holy shit I hated this book