Books like Bright Young Women
12 books with a reading profile close to Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll. Practical and escapist; an easy read.
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Big Little Lies
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
In the coastal town of Pirriwee, three mothers find their lives entangled through their children’s kindergarten class.
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2
Allegedly
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Mary Addison was convicted of killing a white infant when she was only nine years old.
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3
Monday's Not Coming
thriller, narrative
Claudia returns to school for the eighth grade only to find that her best friend, Monday Charles, has vanished.
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4
This Is Where It Ends
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Set over the course of fifty-four minutes at Opportunity High School, the narrative follows a school shooting from the perspectives of four students: Claire, Autumn, Sylv, and Tomas.
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5
Whisper Network
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Ames Garrett is positioned to become the next CEO of Truviv, a high-growth athletics company in Dallas.
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Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Lydia Smith is a clerk at the Bright Ideas Bookstore in Denver, a sanctuary for "BookFrogs"—the shop’s eccentric, marginalized regulars.
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7
Ace of Spades
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Devon Richards and Chiamaka Adebayo are the only Black students at Niveus Private Academy, and both have just been selected as senior prefects.
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8
The Girls in the Garden
by Lisa Jewell
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
When Clare moves her two daughters, Grace and Pip, into a communal garden square in London, she seeks a safe haven to recover from a domestic crisis.
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9
Sister
Also practical and escapist · thriller, narrative
Beatrice flies home to London from New York after her younger sister Tess goes missing.
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10
Genuine Fraud
by E. Lockhart
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Jule West is a young woman with a gift for becoming other people.
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11
Big Lies in a Small Town
Also practical and escapist · narrative, mystery
In 2018, Morgan Christopher is released from a North Carolina prison on the condition that she restores a massive, crumbling mural in the quiet town of Edenton.
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12
A Nearly Normal Family
Also escapist · thriller, narrative
Stella is an eighteen-year-old girl in Lund, Sweden, who is accused of the murder of a man in his thirties, whom she had been seeing.
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