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12 books with a reading profile close to Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

Sorrow and Bliss

by Meg Mason

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Martha Friel is forty years old, her marriage to Patrick is ending, and she has spent most of her adult life navigating a severe, unnamed psychiatric disorder.
2

We Are Water

by Wally Lamb

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Annie Oh, a Connecticut artist, leaves her husband of twenty-seven years for her art dealer, Viveca, a woman, and announces their wedding.
3

She’s Come Undone

by Wally Lamb

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Dolores Price begins her story as a smart-mouthed girl in the 1950s whose life unravels after her parents’ marriage collapses and a neighbor commits a violent act of sexual assault against her.
4

The Girls

by Emma Cline

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Set in Northern California during the late 1960s, the narrative follows fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd as she becomes mesmerized by a group of older girls led by the magnetic Suzanne.
5

More Happy Than Not

by Adam Silvera

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

In the wake of his father’s suicide, sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto struggles to find happiness in his Bronx housing project.
6

All My Rage

by Sabaa Tahir

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

The story follows Sal and Noor, two Pakistani-American teenagers living in the Mojave Desert.
7

The Names

by Florence Knapp

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Set against the backdrop of the early twentieth century, Florence Knapp’s historical narrative follows a group of young people navigating the shifting social hierarchies and industrial changes of their era.
8

Hate List

by Jennifer Brown

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Valerie Leftman returns to Garvin High School for her senior year after her boyfriend, Nick Levil, opened fire in the cafeteria.
9

Little Fires Everywhere

by Celeste Ng

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Set in the planned community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, the story follows the collision between Elena Richardson, a woman dedicated to order and rules, and Mia Warren, an itinerant artist and single mother.
10

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

by Emily R. Austin

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Gilda is a twenty-something atheist lesbian burdened by intrusive thoughts about mortality and a paralyzing inability to say no.
11

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Celestial and Roy are a young Black couple in Atlanta building a life together when their marriage is fractured by a wrongful conviction.
12

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

by Matthew Quick

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Leonard Peacock carries a P-38 Nazi handgun in his backpack on his eighteenth birthday.

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