Books like Everything I never told you
12 books with a reading profile close to Everything I never told you by Celeste Ng. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Elizabeth Is Missing
by Emma Healey
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Maud Horsham is an eighty-year-old woman living with worsening dementia.
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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.
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White Oleander
by Janet Fitch
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Astrid Magnussen is a young teenager living in Los Angeles whose life fractures when her mother, the poet Ingrid, murders a former lover with the poison of white oleander flowers.
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When We Were Orphans
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.
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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.
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Broken Harbor
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy arrives at Brianstown, a half-finished "ghost estate" stalled by the Irish financial collapse.
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The Dutch House
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Danny Conroy narrates his life through the lens of the Dutch House, an architectural marvel in Pennsylvania purchased by his father.
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Nothing Can Hurt You
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.
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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.
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Challenger Deep
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Caden Bosch is a bright teenager who is slipping into mental illness.
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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.
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Real Life
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Wallace, a Black queer doctoral student from Alabama, navigates a tense weekend at a predominantly white Midwestern university.
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