Book · 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
by Gabrielle Zevin
Two childhood friends spend three decades building video games together, and neither one calls it love.
What does Reddit think of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow?
It's the recurring answer to 'favorite of the year' threads, showing up alongside The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Vanishing Half in the same breath, and pulling comparisons to Colson Whitehead's back catalogue in longer year-end lists. Mentions peaked in 2023 at 104, more than 2022's 60 combined with 2024's 38, then settled to 36 in 2025, the freshman rush of a book everyone was pressing on each other. Not everyone caught the fever. One reader who went in with 'high hopes' after hearing it was 'massively beloved by every single person I talk to' came out calling it possibly 'the worst one,' filing it next to Fourth Wing and Verity as overhyped. The Sam-and-Sadie friendship, not a romance plot, is what people keep circling back to across 209 separate commenters.
Community feedback & reader fit
Themes
- · friendship mistaken for romance
- · video games as creative collaboration
- · grief carried across decades
- · disability and chronic pain
- · creative credit and ownership
Common praise
- + People keep naming it their favorite book of the year, right next to Evelyn Hugo and The Vanishing Half.
- + The friendship between Sam and Sadie carries the whole book without leaning on a romance plot.
- + It keeps surfacing unprompted in year-end favorites threads across three straight years, 2022 through 2024.
Common criticism
- − One reader who arrived with 'high hopes' after everyone raved calls it possibly 'the worst one' of the year's crop.
- − The hype built by 'massively beloved by every single person' recommendations sets up the same letdown pattern that hits Fourth Wing and Verity.
- − Outside r/suggestmeabook the discussion barely exists, just 6 mentions in r/printSF and 2 in r/Fantasy.
Who it's for
Pick this up if you want a friendship that outlasts three decades, two coasts, and one bitter falling-out, no romance required to make it hurt. Fans of Evelyn Hugo and The Vanishing Half already treat it as the natural next read. You don't need to know anything about game design going in; the mechanics stay in the background of the relationship. If 'massively beloved by every single person I talk to' sounds like pressure rather than a recommendation, know the backlash exists too, and it's not nothing.
Mentions over time
Top subreddits
Which Reddit comments matter for Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow?
Top-upvoted quotes across the subreddits where this book is mentioned. Click through to read the full thread.
“Favorite was definitely _Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow_ by Gabrielle Zevin. Very strong runner-up was _Olga Dies Dreaming_ by Xochitl Gonzalez - couldn’t put it down and finished in one sitting during my trip home yesterday.
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin was massively beloved by every single person I talk to and I…struggled with a lot of it. I can kinda see the appeal, but with the high hopes I had, that might be the worst one. Also the classic Fourth Wing & Verity, which are just two sides of …
“Books I’ve liked in no particular order- Fiction: - The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead - Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (It’s sequel Crook Manifesto is great too) - Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar - If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery - Pachinko b…
“The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was my favorite. Some close seconds are Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, and The Vanishing Half
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“Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin was my favorite book of the year. It's a pretty unique story that hits all the usual marks, but in a different way than typical. There are some video game elements, but it's not about video games. It's more of a focus on relationships and how…
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow — frequently asked
Is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow worth the hype?+
Mostly, yes, but not universally. It's the single most-discussed book in this dataset for r/suggestmeabook, 230 of 238 total mentions, and shows up unprompted in 'favorite of the year' threads (↑173, ↑100). Some readers push back hard: one described going in with high hopes after hearing it was 'massively beloved,' then struggled enough to call it possibly 'the worst one' next to Fourth Wing and Verity.
What do people compare Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow to?+
Readers pair it most often with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and The Vanishing Half in the same best-of-year comment (↑100), and with Colson Whitehead's Nickel Boys and Underground Railroad in longer favorites lists (↑105). It's rarely framed as a 'gaming novel' despite the subject matter; the friendship between Sam and Sadie is what gets named, not the industry backdrop.
Is Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow a romance?+
No, and that's the point readers keep making. It's built around a decades-long, non-romantic partnership between two people who make video games together.
Did Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow's popularity fade after 2023?+
Some. Mentions hit 104 in 2023, the peak year, up from 60 in 2022, then dropped to 38 in 2024 and 36 in 2025. That reads as a normal curve for a breakout literary hit rather than a sign of backlash; the book still gets cited as a 'favorite of the year' pick (↑173).