What would you do if you woke up as someone completely different? Not just a new life, but as a whole new person? What if you woke up in someone else’s body? Body and life swapping is a trope often used to bring together two characters both in search of something different than the lives they currently live and if this is a plot device you like, we’ve got you covered. In celebration of the sequel, Freakier Friday, here are some swap stories you won’t want to miss.
The Switch by Beth O’Leary
Leena Cotton is an overachiever who just blew a big presentation at work and now has to take a two-month break. Realizing some rest and relaxation is required, she escapes to her grandmother Eileen’s house. Eileen is newly single and on the cusp of eight-years-old in search of another chance at love. The tiny town Eileen lives in does not offer much for dating so she and Leena agree to a two-month swap. Eileen will search for love in London and Leena will get some rest in the quiet village of Yorkshire.
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The Last Flight by Julie Clark
From the outside looking in, you’d think Claire had the perfect life. But her husband has a bad temper and is controlling, and Claire has been planning for months to escape from his clutches and start a new life. When Claire meets another woman in an airport who is also looking to start fresh, the two women switch tickets to start their separate lives. When the flight Claire was supposed to be on crashes, Claire takes on the other woman’s identify to ensure she’s never found—but what Claire doesn’t realize is she also is taking on what the woman was desperate to leave behind.
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Where I End and You Begin by Preston Norton
Ezra Slevin is anxious and an insomniac who pines for the nerdy girl with a heart of gold, Imogen. Ezra has been dreaming for weeks of asking Imogen to prom, if it weren’t for her best friend, Wyonna Jones, whose main goal in life is to torment Ezra. On the night of the total solar eclipse, Ezra and Wyonna wake up in each other’s bodies only to find themselves swapping back and forth every day. While in Wyonna’s body, Ezra finds that she has a crush on his best friend, Holden, leading him to propose Wyonna in helping him ask Imogen to prom in exchange for him helping her date Holden.
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I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
Jenna Chen has spent her whole life living in the shadow of her perfect cousin, Jessica Chen. When Jenna makes a wish to become her cousin in hopes of being the girl who gets the perfect score on every test, the one people stop to stare at, and the one who got into Harvard, she never expected it to come true. Now, Jenna is at the top of the food chain at the Havenwood Private Academy, but things aren’t as she hoped when people forget the real Jenna Chen even existed. Now, Jenna wonders if trading it all was worth it to become Jessica.
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Swapping Lives by Jane Green
Vicky Townsley looks like she has everything she wants as the director of Poise! Magazine, but she doesn’t. She’s not married, has no children, and is lacking that house in the country. Amber Winslow in Connecticut has a mansion, two kids, and a husband, but she sometimes wishes she had something else that was more exciting for her. When the two get a chance to walk in each other’s shoes for a month, they both jump at the chance…but will they miss what they each had?
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Every Day by David Levithan
A wakes up in a different body every day experiencing a different life, yet in love with the same girl. When A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon, the rules A has set up of not getting too attached and never interfering don’t apply anymore. In Rhiannon, A has found someone he wants to be with for the rest of his life.
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The Identicals by Elin Hilderbrand
Estranged twin sisters Harper and Tabitha Frost feel like their lives are worlds away…but in reality, it’s only eleven miles from Nantucket to Martha’s Vineyard. In order to save what’s left of their family, the two swap lives (and islands). As they begin to walk in each other’s shoes, they find that secrets and lies could get in the way of ending their sibling rivalry.
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The House Swap by Rebecca Fleet
Caroline and Francis just received the offer of a lifetime. Trade in their city apartment for an upscale London suburb for a week. A week to escape from their home, son, and the tensions within the walls of their apartment that have tested their marriage. Shortly after arriving, the tensions mount again, a young female neighbor shows too much interest in their lives, and Caroline starts to notice things in the home that make her wonder if the person they swapped houses with isn’t a stranger after all.
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