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Books like I Am the Messenger

12 books with a reading profile close to I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

by E. Lockhart

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

At Alabaster Preparatory Academy, sophomore Frankie Landau-Banks discovers that her boyfriend belongs to the Loyal Order of the Basset Hound, an all-male secret society with deep historical roots.
2

Was man von hier aus sehen kann

by Mariana Leky

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Luise, a ten-year-old girl in a small village in the German Westerwald, learns that whenever her grandmother Selma dreams of an okapi, someone in the village will die within twenty-four hours.
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

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.
5

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.
6

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.
7

Blue Sisters

by Coco Mellors

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Avery, Bonnie, and Lucky Blue are three estranged sisters who return to their family apartment in New York one year after the death of their fourth sibling, Nicky.
8

THE NEST

by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

The Plumb siblings—Leo, Beatrice, Jack, and Melody—have spent years anticipating the distribution of a shared trust fund they call the Nest.
9

Elsewhere

by Gabrielle Zevin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Fifteen-year-old Liz Hall dies in a hit-and-run accident and wakes up on a ship heading to Elsewhere, a land where the dead age backward toward infancy.
10

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.
11

The Light Between Oceans

by M.L. Stedman

Also inward-looking · 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.
12

Three Days in June

by Anne Tyler

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Set against the humid backdrop of Baltimore, seventeen-year-old June navigates seventy-two hours of familial tension and burgeoning romantic attraction.

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