Books like The Authenticity Project
12 books with a reading profile close to The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Saving Francesca
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Francesca Cassarini begins her sophomore year at St.
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The Reading List
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Set in Wembley, London, the story follows Mukesh, a lonely widower struggling to connect with his bookworm granddaughter, and Aleisha, a distressed teenager working a summer job at the local library.
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3
What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
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.
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Far from the Tree
by Robin Benway
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Grace, an only child who recently placed her own baby for adoption, discovers she is a middle child.
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Sidda Lee Walker, a successful theater director in New York, gives an interview in which she calls her childhood with her mother Vivi "dark," and her mother, in Louisiana, is furious.
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Kira-Kira
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · 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.
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Hollis Woods is a twelve-year-old girl who has been moved from one foster home to another and has run away from many.
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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · 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.
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The Truth About Melody Browne
by Lisa Jewell
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Melody Browne is a woman who has no memory of her life before the age of seven, when her house burned down.
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10
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.
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The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Narrated by Music itself, the story follows Frankie Presto, an orphan born in a burning Spanish chapel who becomes the greatest guitar player in history.
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Secret Daughter
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.
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