Books like Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
12 books with a reading profile close to Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.
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Dear Edward
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the sole survivor of a commercial plane crash that kills 191 people, including his parents and older brother.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky, Stephen Chbosky
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Charlie is an introverted high school freshman who narrates his life through a series of anonymous letters.
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3
We Are Okay
by Nina LaCour
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Marin leaves her California life behind without a word, fleeing to a New York college dormitory to spend winter break alone.
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Still Alice
by Lisa Genova
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Alice Howland is a fifty-year-old linguistics professor at Harvard whose life centers on the mastery of language and cognitive performance.
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Almond
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Yunjae is born with alexithymia, a neurological condition caused by underdeveloped amygdalae that prevents him from feeling fear, anger, or affection.
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A Woman Is No Man
by Etaf Rum
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In 1990 Palestine, Fareeda forces eighteen-year-old Isra into an arranged marriage that moves her to Brooklyn.
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This Is How It Always Is
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Rosie and Penn Walsh are parents to five boys, the youngest of whom is Claude.
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The Silver Linings Playbook
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Pat Peoples returns to his parents’ home in New Jersey after months in a psychiatric facility.
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9
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The story spans several decades, tracking Marilyn and David Sorenson and their four adult daughters in suburban Chicago.
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
by Ned Vizzini
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Craig Gilner is a high school student in Manhattan who becomes paralyzed by the academic pressure of his competitive executive pre-professional school.
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Alice and Mattia first meet as teenagers in an Italian town.
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Fourteen-year-old June Elbus struggles to navigate a world that feels increasingly narrow after the death of her uncle, Finn Weiss, a renowned painter who dies from AIDS in 1987.
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