Books like My Sister's Keeper
12 books with a reading profile close to My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · 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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2
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The narrative centers on five Tokyo residents at different life crossroads, including a restless retail clerk and a retired salaryman.
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3
About a Boy
by Nick Hornby
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Will Freeman is a thirty-six-year-old Londoner living off the royalties of a Christmas song written by his father.
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4
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom
Also inward-looking · 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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Secret Daughter
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In a village in India, a young mother named Kavita gives birth to a girl and, knowing that her husband will not accept a daughter, secretly gives the baby away to an orphanage in Mumbai.
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6
Home Front
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Jolene Zarkades is a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard and also a wife and mother, with two daughters, living in Seattle.
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All We Ever Wanted
by Emily Giffin
Also inward-looking · 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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The Vacationers
by Emma Straub
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The Post family embarks on their annual summer vacation to Mallorca, but behind the sun-drenched facade, simmering resentments and long-held secrets threaten to unravel their seemingly perfect lives.
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9
Eliza and Her Monsters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Eliza Mirk is a shy high school senior who secretly creates Monstrous Sea, a global webcomic phenomenon.
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10
Solitaire
by Alice Oseman
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Tori Spring is a teenager navigating a period of deep cynicism and chronic apathy at Higgs Hospital for Girls.
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11
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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The Authenticity Project
by Clare Pooley
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Julian Jessop is an elderly artist and widower in London, who is so lonely that he writes the truth about his life in a green notebook and leaves it in his local cafe.
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