Books like Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
12 books with a reading profile close to Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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In Her Shoes
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Rose and Maggie Feller are sisters who could hardly be less alike.
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2
Us
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Douglas Petersen, a biochemist, wakes one night to hear his wife Connie say she thinks their marriage is over.
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3
Magic Hour
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Dr Julia Cates is a Los Angeles child psychiatrist whose career collapses after a high-profile case ends badly.
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Circle of Friends
by Maeve Binchy
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Benny Hogan, a shy, plump girl from a small Irish town, goes to University College Dublin in the 1950s, where she becomes friends with Eve Malone, an orphan raised by nuns, and the glamorous Nan Mahon.
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Where the Heart Is
by Billie Letts
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Novalee Nation is seventeen, seven months pregnant, and abandoned by her boyfriend at a Walmart in a small Oklahoma town.
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The Brightest Star in the Sky
by Marian Keyes
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
At 66 Star Street, a Dublin building with a mix of tenants, a mysterious narrator who has no body watches the residents and talks to the reader.
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Holding Up the Universe
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Libby Strout returns to high school years after she was labeled America’s Fattest Teenager following a public rescue from her home.
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In Five Years
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Dannie Kohan is an ambitious Manhattan lawyer who views life as a series of five-year plans.
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The Bridges of Madison County
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1965, Francesca Johnson, an Italian war bride in her forties, is alone on an Iowa farm for four days while her husband Richard and their children attend a state fair.
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Bloom
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Ari has graduated from high school and dreams of moving to the city to find success with his band, but his father expects him to keep working at the family bakery.
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11
The Truth About Forever
by Sarah Dessen
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Macy Queen spends her summer grieving her father’s sudden death by maintaining a rigid, controlled routine.
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Our Chemical Hearts
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Henry Page is a high school senior, an editor of the school newspaper and a self-confessed neurotic.
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