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Books like The Goldfinch

12 books with a reading profile close to The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, Katia Benovich. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

1

The Dovekeepers

by Alice Hoffman

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Alice Hoffman reconstructs the 70 C.E.
2

Animal Dreams

by Barbara Kingsolver

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Codi Noline returns to her rural Arizona hometown to care for her father, a doctor descending into Alzheimer’s disease.
3

This Must Be the Place

by Maggie O'Farrell

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Daniel Sullivan, an American linguist, lives in a remote farmhouse in Ireland with his second wife, Claudette Wells, a famously reclusive former film star.
4

Brick Lane

by Monica Ali

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Nazneen is seventeen when she leaves a village in Bangladesh for an arranged marriage to Chanu, a man more than twenty years older, in a London housing estate in Tower Hamlets.
5

The Safekeep

by Yael van der Wouden

narrative, literary

In 1961 Overijssel, Isabel lives a life defined by rigid routine and the preservation of her late mother’s isolated country estate.
6

One Two Three

by Laurie Frankel

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

In the small town of Bourne, the Mitchell triplets—Mab, Monday, and Mirabel—navigate lives shaped by a legacy of environmental poisoning.
7

Inseparable

by Simone de Beauvoir

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

This autobiographical novel tracks the intense friendship between Sylvie and Andrée, fictionalized versions of Simone de Beauvoir and Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin.
8

The Wife

by Meg Wolitzer

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Joan Castleman has stood beside her husband Joe, a celebrated novelist, for decades.
9

The Sentence

by Louise Erdrich

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Tookie, an Ojibwe woman who survived an unusual incarceration, works at a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis.
10

Euphoria

by Lily King

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Set in 1930s New Guinea, this novel recreates the intense professional and personal intersection of three anthropologists: Nell Stone, Fenwick, and Bankson.
11

Deep Cuts

by Holly Brickley

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Deep Cuts investigates the evolution of independent music scenes and the technical shifts in how listeners discover underground artists.
12

Beautyland

by Marie-Helene Bertino

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Adina Gady grew up in Philadelphia believing she was a human girl, but she is actually an extraterrestrial sent to observe the inhabitants of Earth.

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