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12 books with a reading profile close to Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

  1. 1 The Shell Seekers

    The Shell Seekers

    by Rosamunde Pilcher

    Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Penelope Keeling is in her sixties and living in a Cornish house, the daughter of a painter, Lawrence Stern, whose work has fallen out of fashion.

  2. 2 The Stationery Shop

    The Stationery Shop

    by Marjan Kamali

    Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

    In 1953 Tehran, seventeen-year-old Roya spends her afternoons in a stationery shop run by a kindly man, Mr.

  3. 3 The Magic Fish

    The Magic Fish

    by Trung Le Nguyen

    Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

    Tiên is a Vietnamese-American teenager who shares a love for fairy tales with his mother, Hiền.

  4. 4 The Story of Beautiful Girl

    The Story of Beautiful Girl

    by Rachel Simon

    Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative

    In 1968, Lynnie, a young woman with a developmental disability, lives in a Pennsylvania institution called the School.

  5. 5 Here on Earth

    Here on Earth

    by Alice Hoffman

    Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

    March Murray returns with her teenage daughter Gwen to her childhood home in a coastal Massachusetts town after a death in the family.

  6. 6 The Other Bennet Sister

    The Other Bennet Sister

    by Janice Hadlow

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    Mary Bennet occupies the margins of the Longbourn household, dismissed by her mother for her plainness and overlooked by her sisters.

  7. 7 Talking at Night

    Talking at Night

    by Claire Daverley

    Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

    Will and Rosie are classmates who belong to different social circles but form a secret bond through late-night conversations.

  8. 8 Last Night at the Telegraph Club

    Last Night at the Telegraph Club

    by Malinda Lo

    Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

    Set in 1954 San Francisco, the story follows Lily Hu, a seventeen-year-old high school student living in Chinatown.

  9. 9 The Gargoyle

    The Gargoyle

    by Andrew Davidson

    Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

    A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.

  10. 10 Tipping the Velvet

    Tipping the Velvet

    by Sarah Waters

    Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

    In 1890s Whitstable, Nancy Astley lives a quiet life shucking oysters until she becomes obsessed with Kitty Butler, a male impersonator performing at a local music hall.

  11. 11 Pride

    Pride

    by Ibi Zoboi

    Also clear-cut · romance, narrative

    In this contemporary remix of Pride and Prejudice, Zuri Benitez lives in a Bushwick apartment with her four sisters while their Brooklyn neighborhood undergoes rapid gentrification.

  12. 12 The Museum of Extraordinary Things

    The Museum of Extraordinary Things

    by Alice Hoffman

    romance, narrative

    Set in early twentieth-century New York, this novel follows Coralie Sardie, the daughter of a sinister museum proprietor who exhibits biological anomalies on Coney Island.

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