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12 books with a reading profile close to Elizabeth Is Missing by Emma Healey. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.

1

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

by Mark Haddon

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery

Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, killed with a garden fork.
2

Everything I never told you

by Celeste Ng

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery

The story begins in 1970s Ohio with the discovery of Lydia Lee’s body in a local lake.
3

Nothing Can Hurt You

by Nicola Maye Goldberg

Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery

In 1997, college student Sara Morgan is murdered by her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, who escapes a prison sentence through a successful temporary insanity plea.
4

Broken Harbour

by Tana French

Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery

In the ghost estate of Brianstown, a coastal development stalled by the Irish financial collapse, Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy investigates a triple homicide.
5

Broken Harbor

by Tana French, Stephen Hogan

Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery

Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy arrives at Brianstown, a half-finished "ghost estate" stalled by the Irish financial collapse.
6

The Secret History

by Donna Tartt

Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, Richard Papen joins an elite circle of five students at Hampden College dedicated to Greek antiquity.
7

When We Were Orphans

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery

Christopher Banks, a celebrated detective in 1930s London, remains haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his parents in the International Settlement of Shanghai decades earlier.
8

Winter in Sokcho

by Elisa Shua Dusapin

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

In a decaying guesthouse in the South Korean port city of Sokcho, a young woman of French-Korean heritage works for an eccentric manager during the frigid off-season.
9

Flesh

by David Szalay

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Set in the heat of a Mediterranean summer, the narrative tracks the physical and psychological decline of a retired civil servant as his body begins to fail him.
10

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Celestial and Roy are a young Black couple in Atlanta building a life together when their marriage is fractured by a wrongful conviction.
11

Ufak Yangınlar

by Celeste Ng

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Set in the planned community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, the story follows the intersection of the Richardsons, a wealthy family rooted in local tradition, and Mia Warren, an enigmatic artist who moves into town with her d…
12

Diary of a Void

by Emi Yagi

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

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