Books like Before I Fall
12 books with a reading profile close to Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
The Collected Regrets of Clover
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Clover Brooks works as a death doula in New York City, supporting terminal patients through their final hours.
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2
This One Summer
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
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3
The Language of Flowers
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Victoria Jones ages out of the California foster care system with no resources and a history of failed placements.
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4
The Light Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Tom Sherbourne, a traumatized veteran of the Great War, takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a remote island off the Western Australian coast.
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5
Hello Beautiful
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
William Waters grows up in a silent, loveless household, finding his only refuge in basketball.
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6
The People We Keep
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In 1994, April Sawicki lives in a motorhome in Little River, New York, where she works at a motor vehicle office and plays guitar.
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7
The Astonishing Color of After
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Leigh Chen Sanders is convinced that her mother turned into a large red bird after dying by suicide.
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8
The Immortalists
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In 1969 New York, the four Gold siblings—Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon—visit a psychic who predicts the exact date each will die.
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9
Blue Sisters
by Coco Mellors
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky Blue are three estranged sisters who return to their family apartment in New York one year after the death of their fourth sibling, Nicky.
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10
Before I Die
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Scott has lived with leukemia for four years and has decided to stop her medical treatments.
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11
The Last Time We Say Goodbye
by Cynthia Hand
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
High school senior Lexie Tyson faces the aftermath of her younger brother Tyler’s suicide.
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12
The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sutter Keely is a high school senior in a small Oklahoma town who lives for parties and drinking and thinks of himself as the life of every gathering.
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