All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner

One of the more popular books in the ncvrs collection is All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner, which tells the story of suburban mom Allison Weiss. Weiss “had it all” until succumbing to and fighting her way out of a painkiller addiction. It is a well-told story and pulls no punches.

You’re not going to be any good to anyone if you’re not taking care of yourself.

As we’ve done with a few other books, we dug into the data to see books both liked and disliked by people who liked All Fall Down.

People who liked All Fall Down also liked:

• To Kill a Mockingbird
• White Teeth: A Novel
• A Visit from the Goon Squad
• To the Lighthouse
• All the Light We Cannot See
• Everything I Never Told You
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Manhattan Transfer: A Novel
• The Great Gatsby
• A Death in the Family

I especially love the connection to John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer here, as it too chronicles people’s struggles with the demands of modernity.

People who liked All Fall Down disliked:

• The Spy
• The Color Purple
• The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving: A Novel
• The Good Soldier
• Happy All the Time
• The Queen’s Gambit: A Novel
• Jayber Crow
• American Psycho

I yield to no one in my love for James Fenimore Cooper, but yeah there is probably zero overlap between Weiner’s readers and his.