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Books like Hello Beautiful

12 books with a reading profile close to Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.

1

The Language of Flowers

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Victoria Jones ages out of the California foster care system with no resources and a history of failed placements.
2

The Light Between Oceans

by M.L. Stedman

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible

Tom Sherbourne, a traumatized veteran of the Great War, takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a remote island off the Western Australian coast.
3

The Collected Regrets of Clover

by Mikki Brammer

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Clover Brooks works as a death doula in New York City, supporting terminal patients through their final hours.
4

Tom Lake

by Ann Patchett

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible

During the 2020 pandemic, Lara gathers with her three adult daughters on their family cherry orchard in Michigan.
5

The Thing About Jellyfish

by Ali Benjamin

Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible

After her best friend Franny drowns, twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson stops talking.
6

Before I Fall

by Lauren Oliver

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Samantha Kingston is a popular high school senior who occupies a high rank in her school’s social hierarchy alongside her three best friends.
7

The Astonishing Color of After

by Emily X.R. Pan

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Leigh Chen Sanders is convinced that her mother turned into a large red bird after dying by suicide.
8

Love Letters to the Dead

by Ava Dellaira

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

When Laurel’s English teacher assigns a letter to a deceased person, the high school freshman begins a secret journal addressed to figures like Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse.
9

The Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In 1969 New York, the four Gold siblings—Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon—visit a psychic who predicts the exact date each will die.
10

Maame

by Jessica George

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Twenty-five-year-old Maddie Wright spends her days navigating a high-pressure London office and her nights as the sole caregiver for her father, who struggles with late-stage Parkinson’s disease.
11

The Spectacular Now

by Tim Tharp

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Sutter Keely is a high school senior in a small Oklahoma town who lives for parties and drinking and thinks of himself as the life of every gathering.
12

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.

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