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Books like Solitaire

12 books with a reading profile close to Solitaire by Alice Oseman. 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

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.
3

Radio Silence

by Alice Oseman

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Frances Janvier is a high-achieving student whose identity revolves around securing a place at Cambridge University.
4

Every Last Word

by Tamara Ireland Stone

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Samantha McAllister appears popular and composed, but she lives with Purely-Obsessional OCD, a condition defined by intrusive thoughts and hidden mental rituals.
5

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.
6

Secret Daughter

by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In a village in India, a young mother named Kavita gives birth to a girl and, knowing that her husband will not accept a daughter, secretly gives the baby away to an orphanage in Mumbai.
7

Felix Ever After

by Kacen Callender

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Felix Love is a Black, queer, transgender teenager attending a summer arts program in New York City while navigating the complicates of identity and self-worth.
8

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.
9

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.
10

Dreamland

by Sarah Dessen

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Caitlin O’Koren lives in the shadow of her older sister, Cass, whose sudden disappearance to run away with a boyfriend leaves their family fractured.
11

Home Front

by Kristin Hannah

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Jolene Zarkades is a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard and also a wife and mother, with two daughters, living in Seattle.
12

Mosquitoland

by David Arnold

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Mary Iris Malone, who goes by Mim, is sixteen, dosed with medication, and unhappy in Mississippi with her father and new stepmother.

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