Books like Everybody Sees the Ants
12 books with a reading profile close to Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Prep
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Lee Fiora, a girl from a modest family in Indiana, wins a scholarship to the Ault School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
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Mercy
by Jodi Picoult
Also thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Cam MacDonald is a police chief in a small Massachusetts town, and he is happily married to his wife Allie.
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Pizza Girl
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Eighteen-year-old Jane is pregnant, grieving her alcoholic father’s recent death, and working as a pizza delivery driver in suburban Los Angeles.
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Migrations
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Franny Stone travels to Greenland to track the final migration of Arctic terns, a species nearing extinction in a world depleted of wildlife.
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American Born Chinese
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Gene Luen Yang weaves together three distinct narrative threads to examine the internal conflicts of cultural assimilation.
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Infinite Country
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
The narrative follows Elena and Mauro, a Colombian couple who overstay their visas in the United States, and the three children they raise across two nations.
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Interesting Facts about Space
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Enid Hoffman is a deaf woman who manages her chronic anxiety through a fixation on space trivia and a compulsive habit of monitoring local crime reports.
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Writers & Lovers
by Lily King
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in 1997 Massachusetts, the narrative follows Casey Peabody, a thirty-one-year-old waitress mourning her mother’s sudden death while struggling to finish a novel she has worked on for six years.
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Monster
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon sits in a courtroom facing charges of felony murder for his alleged role as a lookout in a drugstore robbery.
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Toby Fleishman is a forty-one-year-old hepatologist navigating the immediate aftermath of a bitter divorce in Manhattan.
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Wonder Boys
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
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Vladimir
narrative, accessible
A popular English professor at a small liberal arts college faces a social crisis when her husband, the chair of the department, is investigated for past sexual misconduct with students.
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