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12 books with a reading profile close to Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

by Mitch Albom

Also inward-looking · 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.
2

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Tova Sullivan works the night shift cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium to cope with the isolation of widowhood and the disappearance of her son thirty years ago.
3

The Authenticity Project

by Clare Pooley

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

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.
4

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

by Michiko Aoyama

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

The narrative centers on five Tokyo residents at different life crossroads, including a restless retail clerk and a retired salaryman.
5

Fly Away Home

by Jennifer Weiner

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Sylvie Serfer Woodruff, the wife of a Connecticut senator, learns that her husband Richard has been having an affair, and the news breaks just as her two daughters face their own crises.
6

Wish You Were Here

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Diana O’Toole is a professional art specialist in New York City with a rigid plan for her career and engagement.
7

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

by Hwang Bo-Reum

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Yeoju, a woman who abruptly leaves her successful career and marriage after a burnout, opens a small bookstore in a quiet residential neighborhood in Seoul.
8

Tara Road

by Maeve Binchy

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Ria Lynch lives in a house on Tara Road in Dublin.
9

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

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.
10

The Keeper of Lost Things

by Ruth Hogan

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Anthony Peardew is an elderly writer who has spent decades collecting lost objects, such as a glove, a key and a child's toy, which he keeps at home with notes about where he found them.
11

Home Front

by Kristin Hannah

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Jolene Zarkades is a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard and also a wife and mother, with two daughters, living in Seattle.
12

Saving Francesca

by Melina Marchetta

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Francesca Cassarini begins her sophomore year at St.

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