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12 books with a reading profile close to It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

Girl in Pieces

by Kathleen Glasgow

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis awakens in a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt, her body scarred from years of self-harm.
2

The Silver Linings Playbook

by Matthew Quick

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Pat Peoples returns to his parents’ home in New Jersey after months in a psychiatric facility.
3

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

by Jesse Andrews

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Greg Gaines is a high school senior whose social strategy involves drifting between cliques without making friends.
4

Thirteen Reasons Why

by Jay Asher

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who recently died by suicide.
5

Cut

by Patricia McCormick

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Callie is a fourteen-year-old girl who has stopped speaking and is sent to Sea Pines, a residential treatment center for troubled girls, where she is being treated for cutting herself.
6

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

by Kim Edwards

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In 1964, Dr.
7

A Woman Is No Man

by Etaf Rum

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In 1990 Palestine, Fareeda forces eighteen-year-old Isra into an arranged marriage that moves her to Brooklyn.
8

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

by Gail Honeyman

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Eleanor Oliphant lives a life of rigid, isolated routine in Glasgow, working as a finance clerk and spending weekends with frozen pizza and vodka.
9

This Is How It Always Is

by Laurie Frankel

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Rosie and Penn Walsh are parents to five boys, the youngest of whom is Claude.
10

The Most Fun We Ever Had

by Claire Lombardo

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

The story spans several decades, tracking Marilyn and David Sorenson and their four adult daughters in suburban Chicago.
11

We Are Okay

by Nina LaCour

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Marin leaves her California life behind without a word, fleeing to a New York college dormitory to spend winter break alone.
12

Dear Edward

by Ann Napolitano

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the sole survivor of a commercial plane crash that kills 191 people, including his parents and older brother.

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