Books like Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
12 books with a reading profile close to Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn. Practical, inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
Frankly in Love
by David Yoon
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Frank Li is a Korean American high school senior living in California, navigating the strict expectations of his traditional immigrant parents.
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2
A Very Large Expanse of Sea
by Tahereh Mafi
Also practical and inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in 2002, one year after the 9/11 attacks, the story follows Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Persian-American girl navigating a suburban high school.
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3
Nana, Vol. 1
by Ai Yazawa
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Two young women, both named Nana, travel on the same train to Tokyo at age twenty.
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4
Instructions for Dancing
by Nicola Yoon
Also practical and inward-looking · romance, narrative
Evie Thomas gains a supernatural ability to witness the entire trajectory of a couple’s romance, from the first spark to the eventual breakup, just by watching them kiss.
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5
What Happened to Goodbye
by Sarah Dessen
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Following her parents' bitter divorce, Mclean Sweet travels through four different towns in two years, utilizing each relocation to adopt a completely new identity.
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6
The Girl He Used to Know
Also practical and inward-looking · romance, narrative
Annika Rose, a quiet, brilliant student with undiagnosed autism, meets Wes Winters at the University of Illinois chess club in the early 1990s.
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7
Twenty Boy Summer
by Sarah Ockler
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Anna and her best friend Frankie, both fifteen, spend a summer with Frankie's family at a beach house in California.
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8
Lock and Key
by Sarah Dessen
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Ruby Cooper has spent years living in a state of self-reliance, hiding the fact that her mother abandoned her in their dilapidated rental house.
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9
Georgie, All Along
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Georgie Mulcahy returns to her Virginia hometown after her professional life in Los Angeles collapses.
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10
The Sea of Tranquility
by Katja Millay
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Nastya Kashnikov was a piano prodigy until a violent attack destroyed her hand and her identity.
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11
Boy Meets Boy
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Paul Ames lives in a fictional town where being gay is unremarkable, the high school homecoming queen is a star quarterback named Infinite Darlene, and the Boy Scouts are inclusive.
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12
Us
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Douglas Petersen, a biochemist, wakes one night to hear his wife Connie say she thinks their marriage is over.
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