Books like Maame
12 books with a reading profile close to Maame by Jessica George. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
Suicide Notes
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Jeff Weeks is a fifteen-year-old who wakes up in a psychiatric ward after attempting suicide.
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2
The Collected Regrets of Clover
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Clover Brooks works as a death doula in New York City, supporting terminal patients through their final hours.
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3
The Astonishing Color of After
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Leigh Chen Sanders is convinced that her mother turned into a large red bird after dying by suicide.
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4
Hello Beautiful
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
William Waters grows up in a silent, loveless household, finding his only refuge in basketball.
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5
The People We Keep
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In 1994, April Sawicki lives in a motorhome in Little River, New York, where she works at a motor vehicle office and plays guitar.
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Love Letters to the Dead
by Ava Dellaira
Also inward-looking · 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.
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The Weird Sisters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The three Andreas sisters, daughters of a Shakespeare professor who speaks mostly in quotations, come home to their small Ohio college town because their mother has breast cancer.
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8
Before I Die
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Tessa Scott has lived with leukemia for four years and has decided to stop her medical treatments.
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9
The Last Time We Say Goodbye
by Cynthia Hand
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
High school senior Lexie Tyson faces the aftermath of her younger brother Tyler’s suicide.
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10
The Thing About Jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
After her best friend Franny drowns, twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson stops talking.
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The Language of Flowers
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Victoria Jones ages out of the California foster care system with no resources and a history of failed placements.
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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.
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