Books like I Have Lost My Way
12 books with a reading profile close to I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Jacob Have I Loved
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Set on the isolated island of Rass in the Chesapeake Bay during the 1940s, the story follows Louise Bradshaw’s struggle to find an identity separate from her twin sister, Caroline.
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Clap When You Land
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Twin sisters Camino and Yahaira Rios live separate lives in the Dominican Republic and New York City, unaware of each other’s existence.
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Love Letters to the Dead
by Ava Dellaira
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
When Laurel’s English teacher assigns a letter to a deceased person, the high school freshman begins a secret journal addressed to figures like Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse.
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Suicide Notes
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Jeff Weeks is a fifteen-year-old who wakes up in a psychiatric ward after attempting suicide.
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The Black Flamingo
by Dean Atta
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Michael, a mixed-race teenager of Jamaican and Greek-Cypriot heritage, grows up in London feeling he is never enough of any single identity.
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The People We Keep
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In 1994, April Sawicki lives in a motorhome in Little River, New York, where she works at a motor vehicle office and plays guitar.
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Signal Fires
by Dani Shapiro
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Two families, the Wilfs and the Shenkmans, live as neighbors in a Connecticut town.
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Ghost Boys
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Jerome is a twelve-year-old boy killed by a police officer who thinks his toy gun is real.
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The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · 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.
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10
The Astonishing Color of After
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Leigh Chen Sanders is convinced that her mother turned into a large red bird after dying by suicide.
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Maame
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Twenty-five-year-old Maddie Wright spends her days navigating a high-pressure London office and her nights as the sole caregiver for her father, who struggles with late-stage Parkinson’s disease.
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The Language of Flowers
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Victoria Jones ages out of the California foster care system with no resources and a history of failed placements.
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