Books like Eleanor & Park
12 books with a reading profile close to Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
One Day
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
On July 15, 1988, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew share a single night together after their university graduation in Edinburgh.
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2
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Salama Kassab is a pharmacy student working as a surgeon in a Homs hospital during the Syrian revolution.
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3
I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Jandy Nelson’s novel centers on twins Jude and Noah, told through two shifting timelines.
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4
Forever, Interrupted
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
After a whirlwind nine-day courtship and a secret elopement, Elsie Porter loses her husband, Ben Ross, in a fatal bicycle accident just weeks into their marriage.
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5
The Wedding People
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Phoebe Stone arrives at a luxury Rhode Island hotel with a suitcase full of evening gowns and a plan to end her life following a divorce and the collapse of her academic career.
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6
The Little Paris Bookshop
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Jean Perdu operates a floating bookstore on a barge called the Literary Apothecary, moored on the Seine.
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7
Why We Broke Up
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Minny Green, a high school junior and film fanatic, writes a lengthy letter to her ex-boyfriend, Ed Slaterton, the school’s star basketball player.
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8
Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Louisa Clark lives a predictable life in a small English town until she loses her cafe job and becomes a companion for Will Traynor.
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9
Shopgirl
by Steve Martin
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Mirabelle Buttersfield, a young woman from Vermont, sells gloves at the Neiman Marcus counter in Beverly Hills, lonely and quietly depressed in her Los Angeles apartment.
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10
Ghosts
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Dolly Alderton's debut novel, "Ghosts," introduces readers to Nina Dean, a successful food writer navigating the treacherous waters of modern dating in her early thirties.
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11
History Is All You Left Me
by Adam Silvera
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Griffin Jennings struggles to process the sudden death of his first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, who drowned in a private school pool.
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12
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
by Coco Mellors
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Twenty-four-year-old Cleo, a British painter living in New York on an expiring student visa, impulsively marries Frank, an advertising executive twenty years her senior.
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