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Books like Lost at Sea

12 books with a reading profile close to Lost at Sea by Bryan Lee O'Malley. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.

1

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.
2

Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too

by Jomny Sun

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Jomny Sun tells the story of an alien researcher, Jomny, who visits Earth to study its inhabitants but struggles with loneliness and self-doubt.
3

The Rest of Us Just Live Here

by Patrick Ness

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In an unnamed town where "indie kids" are busy fighting supernatural soul-eating Immortals, Mikey Mitchell just wants to graduate and work up the courage to ask out his crush, Henna.
4

The Rachel Incident

by Caroline O'Donoghue

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Set in Cork, Ireland, during the post-2008 financial crisis, the story follows Rachel, a bookstore employee and student, and her intense platonic bond with her roommate, James.
5

Mosquitoland

by David Arnold

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Mary Iris Malone, who goes by Mim, is sixteen, dosed with medication, and unhappy in Mississippi with her father and new stepmother.
6

Three Days in June

by Anne Tyler

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Set against the humid backdrop of Baltimore, seventeen-year-old June navigates seventy-two hours of familial tension and burgeoning romantic attraction.
7

Jacob Have I Loved

by Katherine Paterson

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

Set on the isolated island of Rass in the Chesapeake Bay during the 1940s, the story follows Louise Bradshaw’s struggle to find an identity separate from her twin sister, Caroline.
8

Love Letters to the Dead

by Ava Dellaira

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

When Laurel’s English teacher assigns a letter to a deceased person, the high school freshman begins a secret journal addressed to figures like Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, and Amy Winehouse.
9

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.
10

Felix Ever After

by Kacen Callender

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Felix Love is a Black, queer, transgender teenager attending a summer arts program in New York City while navigating the complicates of identity and self-worth.
11

Ghost Boys

by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible

Jerome is a twelve-year-old boy killed by a police officer who thinks his toy gun is real.
12

Orbiting Jupiter

by Gary D. Schmidt

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Twelve-year-old Joseph is sent to live with a foster family after his parents are unable to care for him due to his mother's mental illness.

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