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Books like If I Had Your Face

12 books with a reading profile close to If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

  1. 1 Euphoria

    Euphoria

    by Lily King

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Set in 1930s New Guinea, this novel recreates the intense professional and personal intersection of three anthropologists: Nell Stone, Fenwick, and Bankson.

  2. 2 Deep Cuts

    Deep Cuts

    by Holly Brickley

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Deep Cuts investigates the evolution of independent music scenes and the technical shifts in how listeners discover underground artists.

  3. 3 Same As It Ever Was

    Same As It Ever Was

    by Claire Lombardo

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Julia Ames is fifty-seven when her life begins to unravel through a series of unexpected encounters in a grocery store and the complicated return of her adult son.

  4. 4 The Unseen World

    The Unseen World

    by Liz Moore

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Set in a 1980s computer science laboratory, the story follows Ada Sibelius, a young girl homeschooled by her father, David, a brilliant researcher developing an artificial intelligence program nicknamed ELIXIR.

  5. 5 How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

    How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

    by Angie Cruz

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Set in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the narrative follows Cara Romero, a woman in her sixties who loses her factory job of twenty-five years.

  6. 6 The Wife

    The Wife

    by Meg Wolitzer

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Joan Castleman has stood beside her husband Joe, a celebrated novelist, for decades.

  7. 7 The Female Persuasion

    The Female Persuasion

    by Meg Wolitzer

    narrative, literary

    The narrative tracks Greer Kadetsky, a college student whose life shifts after she meets Faith Frank, a central figure in the second-wave feminist movement.

  8. 8 The Leavers

    The Leavers

    by Lisa Ko

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    One morning in the Bronx, eleven-year-old Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Fuzhounese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never returns home.

  9. 9 The Space Between Us

    The Space Between Us

    by Thrity Umrigar

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Sera Dubash is a Parsi woman in Mumbai who has employed Bhima as a maid for over twenty years.

  10. 10 The Mighty Red

    The Mighty Red

    by Louise Erdrich

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Set in the Red River Valley of North Dakota during the 2008 financial crisis, the narrative centers on Kismet Poe, a teenager caught between two suitors: a star athlete and a fragmented loner.

  11. 11 The Pull of the Stars

    The Pull of the Stars

    by Emma Donoghue

    narrative, literary

    The story takes place over three days in a cramped, understaffed maternity quarantine ward in Dublin during the 1918 influenza pandemic.

  12. 12 Honor

    Honor

    by Thrity Umrigar

    Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

    Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.

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