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Books like Home Front

12 books with a reading profile close to Home Front by Kristin Hannah. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

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.
2

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald was conceived through preimplantation genetic diagnosis to serve as a biological match for her older sister, Kate, who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia.
3

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.
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

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

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

by Michiko Aoyama

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

The narrative centers on five Tokyo residents at different life crossroads, including a restless retail clerk and a retired salaryman.
7

Tara Road

by Maeve Binchy

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Ria Lynch lives in a house on Tara Road in Dublin.
8

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.
9

Heartburn

by Nora Ephron

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Rachel Samstat, a successful cookbook author seven months pregnant with her second child, discovers her husband Mark is having an affair with a mutual acquaintance.
10

Eliza and Her Monsters

by Francesca Zappia

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Eliza Mirk is a shy high school senior who secretly creates Monstrous Sea, a global webcomic phenomenon.
11

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.
12

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.

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