Books like The Girl You Left Behind
12 books with a reading profile close to The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
The Brightest Star in the Sky
by Marian Keyes
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
At 66 Star Street, a Dublin building with a mix of tenants, a mysterious narrator who has no body watches the residents and talks to the reader.
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2
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Frederica "Freddy" Riley is a high school student stuck in a cycle of toxic romance with Laura Dean, a popular girl who alternates between grand gestures of affection and cold, public neglect.
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3
In Her Shoes
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Rose and Maggie Feller are sisters who could hardly be less alike.
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4
In Five Years
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Dannie Kohan is an ambitious Manhattan lawyer who views life as a series of five-year plans.
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5
Holding Up the Universe
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Libby Strout returns to high school years after she was labeled America’s Fattest Teenager following a public rescue from her home.
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6
Circle of Friends
by Maeve Binchy
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Benny Hogan, a shy, plump girl from a small Irish town, goes to University College Dublin in the 1950s, where she becomes friends with Eve Malone, an orphan raised by nuns, and the glamorous Nan Mahon.
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7
Georgie, All Along
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Georgie Mulcahy returns to her Virginia hometown after her professional life in Los Angeles collapses.
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8
The Beginning of Everything
romance, narrative
Ezra Faulkner believes that everyone encounters a single tragedy that defines their personal history.
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9
Making Faces
by Amy Harmon
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in a small town in Pennsylvania, the story follows Fern Taylor, a quiet girl who grows up in the shadow of Ambrose Young, the local wrestling star.
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10
Bloom
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Ari has graduated from high school and dreams of moving to the city to find success with his band, but his father expects him to keep working at the family bakery.
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11
Us
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Douglas Petersen, a biochemist, wakes one night to hear his wife Connie say she thinks their marriage is over.
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12
Magic Hour
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Dr Julia Cates is a Los Angeles child psychiatrist whose career collapses after a high-profile case ends badly.
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