Books like

Books like How I Live Now

12 books with a reading profile close to How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

1

Fleishman Is in Trouble

by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Toby Fleishman is a forty-one-year-old hepatologist navigating the immediate aftermath of a bitter divorce in Manhattan.
2

Monster

by Walter Dean Myers

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon sits in a courtroom facing charges of felony murder for his alleged role as a lookout in a drugstore robbery.
3

Interesting Facts about Space

by Emily R. Austin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Enid Hoffman is a deaf woman who manages her chronic anxiety through a fixation on space trivia and a compulsive habit of monitoring local crime reports.
4

Either/Or

by Elif Batuman

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Set in 1996, the story follows Selin Karadağ during her sophomore year at Harvard as she attempts to construct a life based on aesthetic and literary principles.
5

Wonder Boys

by Michael Chabon

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
6

Black Cake

by Charmaine Wilkerson

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

After the death of Eleanor Bennett, her estranged children, Byron and Benny, reunite in California to hear her final recorded message.
7

Migrations

by Charlotte McConaghy

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Franny Stone travels to Greenland to track the final migration of Arctic terns, a species nearing extinction in a world depleted of wildlife.
8

Writers & Lovers

by Lily King

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Set in 1997 Massachusetts, the narrative follows Casey Peabody, a thirty-one-year-old waitress mourning her mother’s sudden death while struggling to finish a novel she has worked on for six years.
9

Behold the Dreamers

by Imbolo Mbue

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, secures a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, an executive at Lehman Brothers.
10

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

by James McBride

narrative, accessible

In 1972, workers digging a foundation in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, discover a skeleton at the bottom of a well.
11

Ask Again, Yes

by Mary Beth Keane

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are rookie NYPD officers who buy neighboring houses in a quiet New York suburb.
12

Signal Fires

by Dani Shapiro

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Two families, the Wilfs and the Shenkmans, live as neighbors in a Connecticut town.

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