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Books like Girl in Pieces

12 books with a reading profile close to Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

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.
2

Thirteen Reasons Why

by Jay Asher

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who recently died by suicide.
3

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

by Jesse Andrews

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Greg Gaines is a high school senior whose social strategy involves drifting between cliques without making friends.
4

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In 1964, Dr.
5

The Silver Linings Playbook

by Matthew Quick

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Pat Peoples returns to his parents’ home in New Jersey after months in a psychiatric facility.
6

Cut

by Patricia McCormick

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Callie is a fourteen-year-old girl who has stopped speaking and is sent to Sea Pines, a residential treatment center for troubled girls, where she is being treated for cutting herself.
7

Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In Sterling, New Hampshire, Peter Houghton undergoes years of relentless bullying before bringing firearms to his high school and killing ten people.
8

This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Rosie and Penn Walsh are parents to five boys, the youngest of whom is Claude.
9

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.
10

House Rules

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Jacob Hunt is an eighteen-year-old with Asperger's syndrome who has an encyclopedic knowledge of forensic science and a habit of showing up at crime scenes, which he studies with a police scanner.
11

Three Women

by Lisa Taddeo

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Lisa Taddeo documents the intimate lives of three American women to map the landscape of female desire and social stigma.
12

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Eleanor Oliphant lives a life of rigid, isolated routine in Glasgow, working as a finance clerk and spending weekends with frozen pizza and vodka.

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