Books like City of Girls
12 books with a reading profile close to City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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Miss Benson's Beetle
by Rachel Joyce
narrative, accessible
In 1950s London, Margery Benson, a lonely domestic science teacher, abandons her stifling life to find a mythical golden beetle on the island of New Caledonia.
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Elevation
by Stephen King
narrative, accessible
Scott Carey lives in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, and he has a puzzling medical problem: he is steadily losing weight, but he looks the same and weighs the same on the scale whether he is dressed or naked and c…
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Keeping Faith
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
Mariah Hopkins is a young mother whose husband has left her, and she is raising seven-year-old Faith alone.
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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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The Paris Library
narrative, accessible
In 1939 Paris, Odile Souchet secures her dream job at the American Library in Paris, but her life fractures when the Nazis occupy the city.
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Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Rufi Thorpe
narrative, accessible
Margo Scarlett is a twenty-year-old college student who becomes pregnant after an affair with her English professor.
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Heartburn
by Nora Ephron
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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The Invention of Hugo Cabret
narrative, accessible
In 1930s Paris, a young orphan named Hugo Cabret lives in the hidden maintenance tunnels of a busy train station.
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Mary Jane
narrative, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Duer grows up in a strictly conservative, religious household in 1970s Baltimore.
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The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom
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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