Books like I'll Give You the Sun
12 books with a reading profile close to I'll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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One Day
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
On July 15, 1988, Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew share a single night together after their university graduation in Edinburgh.
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2
Eleanor & Park
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1986 Omaha, sixteen-year-old Eleanor Douglas joins a new school with bright red hair and mismatched clothes that invite immediate bullying.
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3
Ghosts
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Dolly Alderton's debut novel, "Ghosts," introduces readers to Nina Dean, a successful food writer navigating the treacherous waters of modern dating in her early thirties.
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Queenie
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old British-Jamaican woman living in South London whose life begins to unravel after a difficult breakup with her white boyfriend, Tom.
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Why We Broke Up
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Minny Green, a high school junior and film fanatic, writes a lengthy letter to her ex-boyfriend, Ed Slaterton, the school’s star basketball player.
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History Is All You Left Me
by Adam Silvera
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Griffin Jennings struggles to process the sudden death of his first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, who drowned in a private school pool.
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The Wedding People
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Phoebe Stone arrives at a luxury Rhode Island hotel with a suitcase full of evening gowns and a plan to end her life following a divorce and the collapse of her academic career.
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As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Salama Kassab is a pharmacy student working as a surgeon in a Homs hospital during the Syrian revolution.
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Hazel Grace Lancaster lives with a terminal thyroid cancer diagnosis and carries an oxygen tank to breathe.
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
by Coco Mellors
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Twenty-four-year-old Cleo, a British painter living in New York on an expiring student visa, impulsively marries Frank, an advertising executive twenty years her senior.
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Forever, Interrupted
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
After a whirlwind nine-day courtship and a secret elopement, Elsie Porter loses her husband, Ben Ross, in a fatal bicycle accident just weeks into their marriage.
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12
Peony in Love
by Lisa See
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in seventeenth-century China, this story follows Peony, a sheltered girl from a wealthy family who becomes obsessed with the opera The Peony Pavilion.
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