Books like As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
12 books with a reading profile close to As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Eleanor & Park
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1986 Omaha, sixteen-year-old Eleanor Douglas joins a new school with bright red hair and mismatched clothes that invite immediate bullying.
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The Little Paris Bookshop
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Jean Perdu operates a floating bookstore on a barge called the Literary Apothecary, moored on the Seine.
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3
One Day
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
On July 15, 1988, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew share a single night together after their university graduation in Edinburgh.
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Forever, Interrupted
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
After a whirlwind nine-day courtship and a secret elopement, Elsie Porter loses her husband, Ben Ross, in a fatal bicycle accident just weeks into their marriage.
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The Wedding People
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Phoebe Stone arrives at a luxury Rhode Island hotel with a suitcase full of evening gowns and a plan to end her life following a divorce and the collapse of her academic career.
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I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Jandy Nelson’s novel centers on twins Jude and Noah, told through two shifting timelines.
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Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Louisa Clark lives a predictable life in a small English town until she loses her cafe job and becomes a companion for Will Traynor.
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Why We Broke Up
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Minny Green, a high school junior and film fanatic, writes a lengthy letter to her ex-boyfriend, Ed Slaterton, the school’s star basketball player.
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9
Shopgirl
by Steve Martin
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Mirabelle Buttersfield, a young woman from Vermont, sells gloves at the Neiman Marcus counter in Beverly Hills, lonely and quietly depressed in her Los Angeles apartment.
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Evidence of the Affair
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in the 1970s, this epistolary novella centers on the correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer after Carrie discovers a stash of love letters written by David’s wife to Carrie’s husband.
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Echoes
by Maeve Binchy
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Set in the 1950s seaside town of Castlebay, the story centers on Clare O’Brien, a shopkeeper's daughter, and David Power, the son of the local doctor.
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With the Fire on High
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Emoni Santiago is a high school senior in Philadelphia balancing the demands of raising her young daughter with the academic pressures of her final year.
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