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12 books with a reading profile close to On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Elena Knows

by Claudia Piñeiro

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery

Elena, an aging woman in Argentina, navigates the physical rigidity caused by advanced Parkinson's disease to investigate her daughter Rita’s death.
2

Trespasses

by Louise Kennedy

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, narrative

Set in 1970s Belfast during the Troubles, the narrative follows Cushla Lavery, a Catholic primary school teacher who divides her time between her classroom and her family’s pub.
3

The Paying Guests

by Sarah Waters

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, narrative

Set in 1922 South London, the narrative centers on Frances Wray and her widowed mother, who are forced by financial ruin following the Great War to take in lodgers.
4

Young Mungo

by Douglas Stuart

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, narrative

Set in the housing schemes of 1990s Glasgow, the story follows Mungo Hamilton, a Protestant teenager defined by his gentleness.
5

Open Water

by Caleb Azumah Nelson

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, narrative

Set in South East London, the story follows an unnamed Black photographer and an unnamed Black dancer who meet at a pub and fall in love.
6

Exciting Times

by Naoise Dolan

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Ava is a twenty-two-year-old Irish expatriate teaching English to wealthy children in Hong Kong.
7

Travesuras de la niña mala

by Mario Vargas Llosa

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Ricardo, a Peruvian translator who lives in Paris, first falls for Lily, a Chilean girl in Lima in the 1950s.
8

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

by Akwaeke Emezi

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Five years after the car accident that killed her husband, Feyi Adekola is finally re-entering the dating scene in Brooklyn.
9

Snow Falling on Cedars

by David Guterson

Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery

Set in 1954 on the fictional San Piedro Island, the narrative centers on the murder trial of Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American fisherman accused of killing Carl Heine.
10

The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, narrative

In 1974 Nicosia, teenagers Kostas and Defne meet secretly at a taverna to navigate their forbidden relationship across the Greek-Turkish partition.
11

The Round House

by Louise Erdrich

Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery

In 1988 on an Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, thirteen-year-old Joe Coutts seeks justice after a violent physical and sexual assault leaves his mother, Geraldine, traumatized and silent.
12

Evenings and Weekends

by Oisín McKenna

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Set during a sweltering weekend in London, the narrative follows a group of interconnected friends navigating the precariousness of the modern city.

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