Books like Our Souls at Night
12 books with a reading profile close to Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
Small Things Like These
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
In 1985, during the weeks preceding Christmas in a small Irish town, coal merchant Bill Furlong balances the demands of his business and his responsibility to his wife and daughters.
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2
Please Look After Mom
by Kyung-Sook Shin, Chi-Young Kim
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Sixty-nine-year-old Park So-nyo disappears in a crowded Seoul subway station after losing her husband’s hand in the rush.
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3
Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
During the 2020 pandemic, Lara gathers with her three adult daughters on their family cherry orchard in Michigan.
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4
The Thing About Jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
After her best friend Franny drowns, twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson stops talking.
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5
This One Summer
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
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6
Bridge to Terabithia
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Jess Aarons, a fifth-grader living in rural Virginia, spends his summer training to be the fastest runner in his school.
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The Light Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Tom Sherbourne, a traumatized veteran of the Great War, takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a remote island off the Western Australian coast.
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8
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Set in San Francisco, the narrative follows four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters who gather as the Joy Luck Club.
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9
Foster
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Set in rural Ireland during the early 1980s, the story follows a young girl sent to live with distant relatives, the Kinsellas, while her mother awaits the birth of another child.
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10
The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Sutter Keely is a high school senior in a small Oklahoma town who lives for parties and drinking and thinks of himself as the life of every gathering.
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11
American Born Chinese
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Gene Luen Yang weaves together three distinct narrative threads to examine the internal conflicts of cultural assimilation.
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Hello Beautiful
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
William Waters grows up in a silent, loveless household, finding his only refuge in basketball.
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