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Books like Nineteen Minutes

12 books with a reading profile close to Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult. Inward-looking; an easy read.

  1. 1 Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

    Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

    by Jesse Andrews

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    Greg Gaines is a high school senior whose social strategy involves drifting between cliques without making friends.

  2. 2 House Rules

    House Rules

    by Jodi Picoult

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    Jacob Hunt is an eighteen-year-old with Asperger's syndrome who has an encyclopedic knowledge of forensic science and a habit of showing up at crime scenes, which he studies with a police scanner.

  3. 3 The Memory Keeper's Daughter

    The Memory Keeper's Daughter

    by Kim Edwards

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    In 1964, Dr.

  4. 4 Thirteen Reasons Why

    Thirteen Reasons Why

    by Jay Asher

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who recently died by suicide.

  5. 5 A Woman Is No Man

    A Woman Is No Man

    by Etaf Rum

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    In 1990 Palestine, Fareeda forces eighteen-year-old Isra into an arranged marriage that moves her to Brooklyn.

  6. 6 The Most Fun We Ever Had

    The Most Fun We Ever Had

    by Claire Lombardo

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    The story spans several decades, tracking Marilyn and David Sorenson and their four adult daughters in suburban Chicago.

  7. 7 This Is How It Always Is

    This Is How It Always Is

    by Laurie Frankel

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    Rosie and Penn Walsh are parents to five boys, the youngest of whom is Claude.

  8. 8 The Silver Linings Playbook

    The Silver Linings Playbook

    by Matthew Quick

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    Pat Peoples returns to his parents’ home in New Jersey after months in a psychiatric facility.

  9. 9 It's Kind of a Funny Story

    It's Kind of a Funny Story

    by Ned Vizzini

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    Craig Gilner is a high school student in Manhattan who becomes paralyzed by the academic pressure of his competitive executive pre-professional school.

  10. 10 Three Women

    Three Women

    by Lisa Taddeo

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    Lisa Taddeo documents the intimate lives of three American women to map the landscape of female desire and social stigma.

  11. 11 Girl in Pieces

    Girl in Pieces

    by Kathleen Glasgow

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis awakens in a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt, her body scarred from years of self-harm.

  12. 12 Cut

    Cut

    by Patricia McCormick

    Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

    Callie is a fourteen-year-old girl who has stopped speaking and is sent to Sea Pines, a residential treatment center for troubled girls, where she is being treated for cutting herself.

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