Books like Dear Evan Hansen
12 books with a reading profile close to Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
Heart of the Matter
by Emily Giffin
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home mother who prioritizes her marriage to Nick, a renowned pediatric plastic surgeon.
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2
Really Good, Actually
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Kit Bennett is twenty-nine, and her marriage has just ended after only a short time.
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3
The Truth About Melody Browne
by Lisa Jewell
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Melody Browne is a woman who has no memory of her life before the age of seven, when her house burned down.
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4
Good Material
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
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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5
All We Ever Wanted
by Emily Giffin
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
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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6
On the Come Up
by Angie Thomas
narrative, literary
Sixteen-year-old Brianna wants to be a legendary rapper, following the path of her late father, an underground hip-hop star.
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7
The Authenticity Project
by Clare Pooley
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Julian Jessop is an elderly artist and widower in London, who is so lonely that he writes the truth about his life in a green notebook and leaves it in his local cafe.
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8
The School of Essential Ingredients
Also clear-cut · narrative, literary
Lillian teaches a weekly cooking class at her restaurant, where eight students gather to learn the mechanics of food preparation.
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9
The Reading List
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Set in Wembley, London, the story follows Mukesh, a lonely widower struggling to connect with his bookworm granddaughter, and Aleisha, a distressed teenager working a summer job at the local library.
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10
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
Also clear-cut · narrative, literary
In 2025, Marie Bostwick examines the intersection of civic engagement and female friendship in her study of grassroots political organizing.
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11
Mary Jane
narrative, literary
Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Duer grows up in a strictly conservative, religious household in 1970s Baltimore.
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12
My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald was conceived through preimplantation genetic diagnosis to serve as a biological match for her older sister, Kate, who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia.
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