Books like Really Good, Actually
12 books with a reading profile close to Really Good, Actually by Monica Heisey. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
Heart of the Matter
by Emily Giffin
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Tessa Russo is a stay-at-home mother who prioritizes her marriage to Nick, a renowned pediatric plastic surgeon.
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2
Dear Evan Hansen
by Val Emmich
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Evan Hansen is a high school senior with severe social anxiety, whose therapist suggests he write himself letters of encouragement.
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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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All We Ever Wanted
by Emily Giffin
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Nina Browning has lived in a wealthy Nashville suburb for years, moving between charity events and the school where her son Finch is a student.
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5
Go Ask Alice
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Presented as the authentic diary of an anonymous fifteen-year-old girl, the narrative chronicles a teenager’s rapid descent into substance abuse during the late 1960s.
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Fly Away Home
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Sylvie Serfer Woodruff, the wife of a Connecticut senator, learns that her husband Richard has been having an affair, and the news breaks just as her two daughters face their own crises.
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Keeping Faith
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · 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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8
The Truth About Melody Browne
by Lisa Jewell
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Melody Browne is a woman who has no memory of her life before the age of seven, when her house burned down.
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9
The Book Club for Troublesome Women
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
In 2025, Marie Bostwick examines the intersection of civic engagement and female friendship in her study of grassroots political organizing.
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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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Iona Iverson's Rules for Commuting
by Clare Pooley
Also clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Iona Iverson takes the same train into London every day and follows a firm rule: no talking to other commuters.
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12
On the Come Up
by Angie Thomas
narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Brianna wants to be a legendary rapper, following the path of her late father, an underground hip-hop star.
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