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Books like Secret Daughter

12 books with a reading profile close to Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

The Vacationers

by Emma Straub

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

The Post family embarks on their annual summer vacation to Mallorca, but behind the sun-drenched facade, simmering resentments and long-held secrets threaten to unravel their seemingly perfect lives.
2

Still Life with Bread Crumbs

by Anna Quindlen

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Rebecca Winter, a once-famous New York City photographer, finds her bank account dwindling and her artistic relevance fading as she enters her sixties.
3

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

by Michiko Aoyama

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

The narrative centers on five Tokyo residents at different life crossroads, including a restless retail clerk and a retired salaryman.
4

About a Boy

by Nick Hornby

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Will Freeman is a thirty-six-year-old Londoner living off the royalties of a Christmas song written by his father.
5

Orbiting Jupiter

by Gary D. Schmidt

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Twelve-year-old Joseph is sent to live with a foster family after his parents are unable to care for him due to his mother's mental illness.
6

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald was conceived through preimplantation genetic diagnosis to serve as a biological match for her older sister, Kate, who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia.
7

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

by Hwang Bo-Reum

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Yeoju, a woman who abruptly leaves her successful career and marriage after a burnout, opens a small bookstore in a quiet residential neighborhood in Seoul.
8

Eliza and Her Monsters

by Francesca Zappia

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Eliza Mirk is a shy high school senior who secretly creates Monstrous Sea, a global webcomic phenomenon.
9

Saving Francesca

by Melina Marchetta

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Francesca Cassarini begins her sophomore year at St.
10

Fresh Water for Flowers

by Valérie Perrin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Violette Toussaint is the caretaker of a cemetery in Burgundy, where she lives in a lodge by the gate.
11

Kira-Kira

by Cynthia Kadohata

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Katie Takeshima is a Japanese-American girl who grows up in Georgia in the 1950s, and her older sister Lynn teaches her the word "kira-kira," meaning glittering, as a way of seeing the world.
12

Solitaire

by Alice Oseman

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Tori Spring is a teenager navigating a period of deep cynicism and chronic apathy at Higgs Hospital for Girls.

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