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12 books with a reading profile close to Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

All We Ever Wanted

by Emily Giffin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Nina Browning has lived in a wealthy Nashville suburb for years, moving between charity events and the school where her son Finch is a student.
2

Change of Heart

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

June Nealon's husband, Michael, is a lawyer, and her daughter is dead.
3

The Tenth Circle

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Daniel Stone is a comic-book artist with a troubled childhood, married to Laura, a college professor, and father to fourteen-year-old Trixie.
4

Good Material

by Dolly Alderton

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Andy is a thirty-five-year-old struggling stand-up comedian whose life collapses when his girlfriend, Jen, ends their four-year relationship.
5

Go Ask Alice

by Beatrice Sparks

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Presented as the authentic diary of an anonymous fifteen-year-old girl, the narrative chronicles a teenager’s rapid descent into substance abuse during the late 1960s.
6

Solitaire

by Alice Oseman

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Tori Spring is a teenager navigating a period of deep cynicism and chronic apathy at Higgs Hospital for Girls.
7

Home Front

by Kristin Hannah

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Jolene Zarkades is a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard and also a wife and mother, with two daughters, living in Seattle.
8

About a Boy

by Nick Hornby

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Will Freeman is a thirty-six-year-old Londoner living off the royalties of a Christmas song written by his father.
9

Heart of the Matter

by Emily Giffin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home mother who prioritizes her marriage to Nick, a renowned pediatric plastic surgeon.
10

Mary Jane

by Jessica Anya Blau

narrative, accessible

Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Duer grows up in a strictly conservative, religious household in 1970s Baltimore.
11

Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend

by Matthew Dicks

narrative, accessible

Budo is the imaginary friend of Max, a boy with autism, and he has lasted far longer than most imaginary friends because Max still needs him.
12

Mosquitoland

by David Arnold

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Mary Iris Malone, who goes by Mim, is sixteen, dosed with medication, and unhappy in Mississippi with her father and new stepmother.

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