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12 books with a reading profile close to Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

by Marina Keegan

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

The collection compiles fiction and non-fiction written by Marina Keegan before her death just days after graduating from Yale.
2

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Fourteen-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr., a budding cartoonist born with physical vulnerabilities, lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation where poverty and alcoholism are pervasive.
3

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

by Maggie O'Farrell

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

This memoir documents seventeen instances where Maggie O’Farrell narrowly escaped death.
4

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Jacqueline Woodson’s memoir, written in verse, chronicles her childhood across the 1960s and 1970s.
5

Persepolis, Volume 1

by Marjane Satrapi

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel chronicles her childhood in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War.
6

Beautiful Country

by Qian Julie Wang

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Qian Julie Wang was seven when she and her parents left China for New York in 1994, where her mother and father, a former professor and a professional, became undocumented workers.
7

The Language of Flowers

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Victoria Jones ages out of the California foster care system with no resources and a history of failed placements.
8

I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

by Nora Ephron

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Nora Ephron examines the physical humiliations and domestic frustrations of aging, focusing on the specific maintenance required to camouflage a sagging neck.
9

Stitches: A Memoir

by David Small

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

David Small’s graphic memoir recounts his childhood in 1950s Detroit, living in a household defined by emotional withdrawal and medical negligence.
10

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
11

Just Kids

by Patti Smith

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Just Kids chronicles the relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, beginning with their chance meeting in Brooklyn in 1967.
12

The Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

In 1969 New York, the four Gold siblings—Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon—visit a psychic who predicts the exact date each will die.

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