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Books like Heartburn

12 books with a reading profile close to Heartburn by Nora Ephron. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

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.
2

Perfect Match

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Nina Frost, an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts, discovers that her young son has been abused by a local Catholic priest.
3

Wish You Were Here

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Diana O’Toole is a professional art specialist in New York City with a rigid plan for her career and engagement.
4

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

by Mitch Albom

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Narrated by Music itself, the story follows Frankie Presto, an orphan born in a burning Spanish chapel who becomes the greatest guitar player in history.
5

A Long Way Down

by Nick Hornby

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

On New Year’s Eve, four strangers—Martin, Maureen, Jess, and JJ—separately climb to the top of a London skyscraper known as Toppers’ House with the intention of jumping.
6

Tara Road

by Maeve Binchy

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Ria Lynch lives in a house on Tara Road in Dublin.
7

City of Girls

by Elizabeth Gilbert

narrative, accessible

In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York City after being expelled from Vassar College.
8

Fly Away Home

by Jennifer Weiner

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Sylvie Serfer Woodruff, the wife of a Connecticut senator, learns that her husband Richard has been having an affair, and the news breaks just as her two daughters face their own crises.
9

What Alice Forgot

by Liane Moriarty

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Twenty-nine-year-old Alice Love wakes up on a gym floor believing she is pregnant and happily married.
10

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

by Rebecca Wells

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Sidda Lee Walker, a successful theater director in New York, gives an interview in which she calls her childhood with her mother Vivi "dark," and her mother, in Louisiana, is furious.
11

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Tova Sullivan works the night shift cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium to cope with the isolation of widowhood and the disappearance of her son thirty years ago.
12

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.

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