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

1

Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

In Sterling, New Hampshire, Peter Houghton undergoes years of relentless bullying before bringing firearms to his high school and killing ten people.
2

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

In 1964, Dr.
3

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

by Jesse Andrews

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Greg Gaines is a high school senior whose social strategy involves drifting between cliques without making friends.
4

This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Rosie and Penn Walsh are parents to five boys, the youngest of whom is Claude.
5

Three Women

by Lisa Taddeo

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Lisa Taddeo documents the intimate lives of three American women to map the landscape of female desire and social stigma.
6

A Woman Is No Man

by Etaf Rum

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

In 1990 Palestine, Fareeda forces eighteen-year-old Isra into an arranged marriage that moves her to Brooklyn.
7

The Most Fun We Ever Had

by Claire Lombardo

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

The story spans several decades, tracking Marilyn and David Sorenson and their four adult daughters in suburban Chicago.
8

The Silver Linings Playbook

by Matthew Quick

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Pat Peoples returns to his parents’ home in New Jersey after months in a psychiatric facility.
9

Thirteen Reasons Why

by Jay Asher

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who recently died by suicide.
10

Girl in Pieces

by Kathleen Glasgow

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis awakens in a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt, her body scarred from years of self-harm.
11

It's Kind of a Funny Story

by Ned Vizzini

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Craig Gilner is a high school student in Manhattan who becomes paralyzed by the academic pressure of his competitive executive pre-professional school.
12

Dear Edward

by Ann Napolitano

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the sole survivor of a commercial plane crash that kills 191 people, including his parents and older brother.

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