Books like Please Ignore Vera Dietz
12 books with a reading profile close to Please Ignore Vera Dietz by A.S. King. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In 1996, restless teenagers Frankie Budge and Zeke create a cryptic poster featuring a drawing of a person holding a severed head and a mysterious sentence about a "coal child." They secretly photocopy and distribute th…
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The Last Story of Mina Lee
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Margot Lee, a young Korean American woman in Los Angeles, comes home to find her mother, Mina, dead in her small apartment.
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Ordinary Grace
narrative, mystery
In 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum lives in New Bremen, Minnesota, where his father serves as a Methodist minister.
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The Wonder
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In the humid summer of 1859, English nurse Lib Wright arrives in a rural Irish village to oversee an eleven-year-old girl named Anna O'Donnell.
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The Lie Tree
narrative, mystery
Faith Sunderly is a fourteen-year-old girl in Victorian England whose family moves to a small island after a scandal involving her father, Reverend Sunderly, a respected naturalist who is suspected of fraud.
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The House We Grew Up In
by Lisa Jewell
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Lorelei Bird has raised her children in a sprawling house where nothing is thrown away and every room is full.
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Winter's Bone
narrative, mystery
Ree Dolly is a sixteen-year-old girl living in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, taking care of her two younger brothers and her mentally ill mother.
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Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter
by Tom Franklin
narrative, mystery
In a small Mississippi town, two boys grew up on opposite sides of a divide: Larry Ott, a white loner whose father owned a garage, and Silas Jones, a Black boy who became friends with him.
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The Book of Speculation
by Erika Swyler
narrative, mystery
Simon Watson, a young librarian in a small New York town, receives a package from an antiquarian bookseller: a fragile, water-damaged ledger from the 1700s, which appears to be a record kept by a traveling circus.
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Happiness Falls
by Angie Kim
narrative, mystery
When Mia Parkson’s father disappears during a morning hike in Virginia, the only witness is her younger brother, Eugene, who has autism and a rare genetic condition called Angelman syndrome.
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The Muse
narrative, mystery
In 1967 London, Odelle Bastien, a Trinidadian immigrant, begins working at the Skelton Institute under the enigmatic Marjorie Quick.
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey, in a suburban Pennsylvania cornfield in 1973.
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