Books like Perfect Match
12 books with a reading profile close to Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
Heartburn
by Nora Ephron
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rachel Samstat, a successful cookbook author seven months pregnant with her second child, discovers her husband Mark is having an affair with a mutual acquaintance.
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2
Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Diana O’Toole is a professional art specialist in New York City with a rigid plan for her career and engagement.
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3
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Narrated by Music itself, the story follows Frankie Presto, an orphan born in a burning Spanish chapel who becomes the greatest guitar player in history.
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4
Home Front
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Jolene Zarkades is a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard and also a wife and mother, with two daughters, living in Seattle.
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5
City of Girls
narrative, accessible
In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York City after being expelled from Vassar College.
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6
What Alice Forgot
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Twenty-nine-year-old Alice Love wakes up on a gym floor believing she is pregnant and happily married.
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Margo's Got Money Troubles
by Rufi Thorpe
narrative, accessible
Margo Scarlett is a twenty-year-old college student who becomes pregnant after an affair with her English professor.
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8
Keeping Faith
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Mariah Hopkins is a young mother whose husband has left her, and she is raising seven-year-old Faith alone.
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9
Good Material
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Andy is a thirty-five-year-old struggling stand-up comedian whose life collapses when his girlfriend, Jen, ends their four-year relationship.
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A Long Way Down
by Nick Hornby
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
On New Year’s Eve, four strangers—Martin, Maureen, Jess, and JJ—separately climb to the top of a London skyscraper known as Toppers’ House with the intention of jumping.
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The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old
narrative, accessible
Hendrik Groen is an elderly resident of a nursing home in North Amsterdam who refuses to succumb to the institutional apathy of his environment.
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12
Modern Lovers
by Emma Straub
narrative, accessible
Elizabeth and Andrew, and Zoe and Harry, are two couples who have been friends since their youth in a band, living in Brooklyn.
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