Books like Peony in Love
12 books with a reading profile close to Peony in Love by Lisa See. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
You Are Here
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Marnie and Michael are two solitary individuals stuck in professional and emotional ruts.
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2
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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3
Vinegar Girl
by Anne Tyler
romance, narrative
Kate Battista, twenty-nine, works as a preschool teaching assistant and keeps house for her father, a scientist in Baltimore, and her flighty younger sister.
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4
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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5
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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6
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
romance, narrative
Set in Seattle during World War II, the narrative follows Henry Lee, a Chinese American boy caught between his father’s nationalist fervor and his secret bond with Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American classmate.
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7
In the Midst of Winter
romance, narrative
In Brooklyn, a snowstorm brings a minor car crash between Richard Bowmaster, a university professor, and Evelyn Ortega, a young undocumented Guatemalan woman working as a caregiver.
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8
Green Dot
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Hera, a woman in her twenties in Sydney, works a dull job at a magazine and wants to be a writer.
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9
Shopgirl
by Steve Martin
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Mirabelle Buttersfield, a young woman from Vermont, sells gloves at the Neiman Marcus counter in Beverly Hills, lonely and quietly depressed in her Los Angeles apartment.
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10
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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11
Girl with a Pearl Earring
romance, narrative
In seventeenth-century Delft, sixteen-year-old Griet enters the household of Johannes Vermeer as a quiet, observant maid.
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12
Echoes
by Maeve Binchy
romance, narrative
Set in the 1950s seaside town of Castlebay, the story centers on Clare O’Brien, a shopkeeper's daughter, and David Power, the son of the local doctor.
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