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Books like Green Dot

12 books with a reading profile close to Green Dot by Madeleine Gray. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

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.
2

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.
3

You Are Here

by David Nicholls

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Marnie and Michael are two solitary individuals stuck in professional and emotional ruts.
4

Why We Broke Up

by Daniel Handler

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.
5

Vinegar Girl

by Anne Tyler

romance, narrative

Kate Battista, twenty-nine, works as a preschool teaching assistant and keeps house for her father, a scientist in Baltimore, and her flighty younger sister.
6

Ghosts

by Dolly Alderton

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.
7

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

by Jamie Ford

romance, narrative

Set in Seattle during World War II, the narrative follows Henry Lee, a Chinese American boy caught between his father’s nationalist fervor and his secret bond with Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American classmate.
8

Peony in Love

by Lisa See

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Set in seventeenth-century China, this story follows Peony, a sheltered girl from a wealthy family who becomes obsessed with the opera The Peony Pavilion.
9

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.
10

Queenie

by Candice Carty-Williams

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old British-Jamaican woman living in South London whose life begins to unravel after a difficult breakup with her white boyfriend, Tom.
11

Echoes

by Maeve Binchy

romance, narrative

Set in the 1950s seaside town of Castlebay, the story centers on Clare O’Brien, a shopkeeper's daughter, and David Power, the son of the local doctor.
12

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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