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12 books with a reading profile close to Stay with Me by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.

1

Vom Ende der Einsamkeit

by Benedict Wells

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Jules Moreau and his two siblings, Marty and Liz, grow up in a protected household until a car accident kills both of their parents.
2

Little Altars Everywhere

by Rebecca Wells

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Siddalee Walker is a successful theater director in Seattle who must reconcile with her difficult mother Vivi, one of the Ya-Yas, a group of Louisiana women who have been friends since childhood.
3

The Prince of Tides

by Pat Conroy

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Tom Wingo, an unemployed teacher from the South Carolina lowcountry, travels to New York City after his twin sister, Savannah, attempts suicide.
4

Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock

by Matthew Quick

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Leonard Peacock carries a P-38 Nazi handgun in his backpack on his eighteenth birthday.
5

Uçurtma Avcısı

by Khaled Hosseini

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Set in Kabul during the final years of the Afghan monarchy and the subsequent rise of the Taliban, the narrative follows Amir, a privileged boy haunted by his failure to intervene during the assault of his servant and f…
6

A Place for Us

by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

In California, an Indian-American Muslim family reunites for a wedding, marking the return of the estranged youngest son, Amar.
7

This Is How You Lose Her

by Junot Díaz

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Yunior is a Dominican-American man who struggles with chronic infidelity and the emotional fallout of his choices.
8

Goodbye, Vitamin

by Rachel Khong

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Ruth, thirty years old, has lost her fiancé and her job, and she goes home to California to help care for her father Howard, a retired history professor with Alzheimer's.
9

White Oleander

by Janet Fitch

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Astrid Magnussen is a young teenager living in Los Angeles whose life fractures when her mother, the poet Ingrid, murders a former lover with the poison of white oleander flowers.
10

I Know This Much Is True

by Wally Lamb

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Dominick Birdsey spends his life anchored to his identical twin, Thomas, whose paranoid schizophrenia leads to a violent act of self-mutilation in a public library.
11

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.
12

Purple Hibiscus

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Fifteen-year-old Kambili Achike lives in Enugu, Nigeria, under the rigid authority of her father, Eugene, a charismatic businessman and devout Catholic.

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