Books like Modern Lovers
12 books with a reading profile close to Modern Lovers by Emma Straub. Balanced in tone; an easy read.
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1
Mary Jane
narrative, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Mary Jane Duer grows up in a strictly conservative, religious household in 1970s Baltimore.
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2
Heart of the Matter
by Emily Giffin
narrative, accessible
Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home mother who prioritizes her marriage to Nick, a renowned pediatric plastic surgeon.
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3
Wonderstruck
narrative, accessible
Ben and Rose live fifty years apart, but their lives intersect through a shared experience of deafness and a search for belonging.
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4
The Music of Bees
narrative, accessible
In the high desert of Hood River, Oregon, forty-four-year-old widow Alice Holtzman fills her solitary life with the meticulous labor of beekeeping.
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5
The Paris Library
narrative, accessible
In 1939 Paris, Odile Souchet secures her dream job at the American Library in Paris, but her life fractures when the Nazis occupy the city.
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6
All We Ever Wanted
by Emily Giffin
narrative, accessible
Nina Browning has lived in a wealthy Nashville suburb for years, moving between charity events and the school where her son Finch is a student.
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7
Miss Benson's Beetle
by Rachel Joyce
narrative, accessible
In 1950s London, Margery Benson, a lonely domestic science teacher, abandons her stifling life to find a mythical golden beetle on the island of New Caledonia.
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8
Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
Diana O’Toole is a professional art specialist in New York City with a rigid plan for her career and engagement.
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9
Elevation
by Stephen King
narrative, accessible
Scott Carey lives in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, and he has a puzzling medical problem: he is steadily losing weight, but he looks the same and weighs the same on the scale whether he is dressed or naked and c…
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10
Dear Evan Hansen
by Val Emmich
narrative, accessible
Evan Hansen is a high school senior with severe social anxiety, whose therapist suggests he write himself letters of encouragement.
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11
Vanishing Acts
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
Delia Hopkins is a search-and-rescue worker in New Hampshire, raising her daughter with her fiance, Fitz.
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12
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom
narrative, accessible
Narrated by Music itself, the story follows Frankie Presto, an orphan born in a burning Spanish chapel who becomes the greatest guitar player in history.
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