Books like A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares
12 books with a reading profile close to A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Perfect Match
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Nina Frost, an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts, discovers that her young son has been abused by a local Catholic priest.
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Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Diana O’Toole is a professional art specialist in New York City with a rigid plan for her career and engagement.
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3
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Narrated by Music itself, the story follows Frankie Presto, an orphan born in a burning Spanish chapel who becomes the greatest guitar player in history.
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4
Home Front
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Jolene Zarkades is a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard and also a wife and mother, with two daughters, living in Seattle.
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5
Good Material
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Andy is a thirty-five-year-old struggling stand-up comedian whose life collapses when his girlfriend, Jen, ends their four-year relationship.
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Modern Lovers
by Emma Straub
narrative, accessible
Elizabeth and Andrew, and Zoe and Harry, are two couples who have been friends since their youth in a band, living in Brooklyn.
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7
What Alice Forgot
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Twenty-nine-year-old Alice Love wakes up on a gym floor believing she is pregnant and happily married.
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8
Heartburn
by Nora Ephron
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rachel Samstat, a successful cookbook author seven months pregnant with her second child, discovers her husband Mark is having an affair with a mutual acquaintance.
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Solitaire
by Alice Oseman
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Tori Spring is a teenager navigating a period of deep cynicism and chronic apathy at Higgs Hospital for Girls.
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old
narrative, accessible
Hendrik Groen is an elderly resident of a nursing home in North Amsterdam who refuses to succumb to the institutional apathy of his environment.
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All We Ever Wanted
by Emily Giffin
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Nina Browning has lived in a wealthy Nashville suburb for years, moving between charity events and the school where her son Finch is a student.
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Fly Away Home
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sylvie Serfer Woodruff, the wife of a Connecticut senator, learns that her husband Richard has been having an affair, and the news breaks just as her two daughters face their own crises.
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