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Books like Interesting Facts about Space

12 books with a reading profile close to Interesting Facts about Space by Emily R. Austin. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

The Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In 1969 New York, the four Gold siblings—Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon—visit a psychic who predicts the exact date each will die.
2

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.
3

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.
4

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.
5

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.
6

I Am the Messenger

by Markus Zusak

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Ed Kennedy is an underage cab driver in a dead-end Australian suburb with no prospects beyond playing cards with his eccentric friends.
7

How I Live Now

by Meg Rosoff

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met.
8

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.
9

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.
10

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
11

Pizza Girl

by Jean Kyoung Frazier

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Eighteen-year-old Jane is pregnant, grieving her alcoholic father’s recent death, and working as a pizza delivery driver in suburban Los Angeles.
12

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.

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