Books like Lonely Castle in the Mirror
12 books with a reading profile close to Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
Mad Honey
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, mystery
Olivia McAfee relocates to her New Hampshire childhood home to raise her son, Asher, and manage her father’s apiary after escaping an abusive marriage.
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2
Where the Crawdads Sing
by Delia Owens
narrative, mystery
In late 1969, the body of Chase Andrews lies in the swampy mud of Barkley Cove, North Carolina.
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3
Anxious People
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
A failed bank robber escapes into an open house apartment viewing, inadvertently taking a group of prospective buyers hostage.
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4
Plain Truth
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In rural Pennsylvania, a Amish farm woman, Katie Fisher, is accused of killing her newborn baby, whose body is found in a barn.
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5
Tara Road
by Maeve Binchy
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Ria Lynch lives in a house on Tara Road in Dublin.
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6
Marina
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In the labyrinthine streets of Barcelona, a young boy named Oscar Drai is drawn into a mysterious world when he discovers a forbidden book.
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7
Fly Away Home
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Sylvie Serfer Woodruff, the wife of a Connecticut senator, learns that her husband Richard has been having an affair, and the news breaks just as her two daughters face their own crises.
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8
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Sidda Lee Walker, a successful theater director in New York, gives an interview in which she calls her childhood with her mother Vivi "dark," and her mother, in Louisiana, is furious.
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9
What Alice Forgot
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Twenty-nine-year-old Alice Love wakes up on a gym floor believing she is pregnant and happily married.
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10
Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
The story oscillates between 1939 Mississippi and modern-day South Carolina.
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11
Heartburn
by Nora Ephron
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Rachel Samstat, a successful cookbook author seven months pregnant with her second child, discovers her husband Mark is having an affair with a mutual acquaintance.
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12
Remarkably Bright Creatures
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, literary
Tova Sullivan works the night shift cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium to cope with the isolation of widowhood and the disappearance of her son thirty years ago.
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