Books like One Day
12 books with a reading profile close to One Day by David Nicholls. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Eleanor & Park
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1986 Omaha, sixteen-year-old Eleanor Douglas joins a new school with bright red hair and mismatched clothes that invite immediate bullying.
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Forever, Interrupted
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
After a whirlwind nine-day courtship and a secret elopement, Elsie Porter loses her husband, Ben Ross, in a fatal bicycle accident just weeks into their marriage.
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3
I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Jandy Nelson’s novel centers on twins Jude and Noah, told through two shifting timelines.
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4
The Wedding People
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Phoebe Stone arrives at a luxury Rhode Island hotel with a suitcase full of evening gowns and a plan to end her life following a divorce and the collapse of her academic career.
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As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Salama Kassab is a pharmacy student working as a surgeon in a Homs hospital during the Syrian revolution.
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The Little Paris Bookshop
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Jean Perdu operates a floating bookstore on a barge called the Literary Apothecary, moored on the Seine.
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Me Before You
by Jojo Moyes
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Louisa Clark lives a predictable life in a small English town until she loses her cafe job and becomes a companion for Will Traynor.
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8
Why We Broke Up
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Minny Green, a high school junior and film fanatic, writes a lengthy letter to her ex-boyfriend, Ed Slaterton, the school’s star basketball player.
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Ghosts
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Dolly Alderton's debut novel, "Ghosts," introduces readers to Nina Dean, a successful food writer navigating the treacherous waters of modern dating in her early thirties.
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10
History Is All You Left Me
by Adam Silvera
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Griffin Jennings struggles to process the sudden death of his first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, who drowned in a private school pool.
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
by Coco Mellors
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Twenty-four-year-old Cleo, a British painter living in New York on an expiring student visa, impulsively marries Frank, an advertising executive twenty years her senior.
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