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Books like Pizza Girl

12 books with a reading profile close to Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

Monster

by Walter Dean Myers

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon sits in a courtroom facing charges of felony murder for his alleged role as a lookout in a drugstore robbery.
2

Interesting Facts about Space

by Emily R. Austin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Enid Hoffman is a deaf woman who manages her chronic anxiety through a fixation on space trivia and a compulsive habit of monitoring local crime reports.
3

Sweetbitter

by Stephanie Danler

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

The story follows twenty-two-year-old Tess, who moves to New York City and secures a position as a backwaiter at a high-end Union Square restaurant.
4

I Am the Messenger

by Markus Zusak

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Ed Kennedy is an underage cab driver in a dead-end Australian suburb with no prospects beyond playing cards with his eccentric friends.
5

Wonder Boys

by Michael Chabon

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
6

The Rest of Us Just Live Here

by Patrick Ness

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In an unnamed town where "indie kids" are busy fighting supernatural soul-eating Immortals, Mikey Mitchell just wants to graduate and work up the courage to ask out his crush, Henna.
7

The Jane Austen Book Club

by Karen Joy Fowler

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Six Californians meet monthly for six months to read and talk about one Austen novel each.
8

The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

by E. Lockhart

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

At Alabaster Preparatory Academy, sophomore Frankie Landau-Banks discovers that her boyfriend belongs to the Loyal Order of the Basset Hound, an all-male secret society with deep historical roots.
9

The Spectacular Now

by Tim Tharp

Also inward-looking · 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.
10

Migrations

by Charlotte McConaghy

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Franny Stone travels to Greenland to track the final migration of Arctic terns, a species nearing extinction in a world depleted of wildlife.
11

How I Live Now

by Meg Rosoff

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met.
12

Ask Again, Yes

by Mary Beth Keane

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Francis Gleeson and Brian Stanhope are rookie NYPD officers who buy neighboring houses in a quiet New York suburb.

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