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12 books with a reading profile close to The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Signal Fires

by Dani Shapiro

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

Two families, the Wilfs and the Shenkmans, live as neighbors in a Connecticut town.
2

The Immortalists

by Chloe Benjamin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

In 1969 New York, the four Gold siblings—Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon—visit a psychic who predicts the exact date each will die.
3

The Language of Flowers

by Vanessa Diffenbaugh

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Victoria Jones ages out of the California foster care system with no resources and a history of failed placements.
4

Black Cake

by Charmaine Wilkerson

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

After the death of Eleanor Bennett, her estranged children, Byron and Benny, reunite in California to hear her final recorded message.
5

The Spectacular Now

by Tim Tharp

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

Sutter Keely is a high school senior in a small Oklahoma town who lives for parties and drinking and thinks of himself as the life of every gathering.
6

Tom Lake

by Ann Patchett

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

During the 2020 pandemic, Lara gathers with her three adult daughters on their family cherry orchard in Michigan.
7

Interesting Facts about Space

by Emily R. Austin

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Enid Hoffman is a deaf woman who manages her chronic anxiety through a fixation on space trivia and a compulsive habit of monitoring local crime reports.
8

Writers & Lovers

by Lily King

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Set in 1997 Massachusetts, the narrative follows Casey Peabody, a thirty-one-year-old waitress mourning her mother’s sudden death while struggling to finish a novel she has worked on for six years.
9

This One Summer

by Mariko Tamaki

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
10

The Light Between Oceans

by M.L. Stedman

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Tom Sherbourne, a traumatized veteran of the Great War, takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a remote island off the Western Australian coast.
11

Was man von hier aus sehen kann

by Mariana Leky

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Luise, a ten-year-old girl in a small village in the German Westerwald, learns that whenever her grandmother Selma dreams of an okapi, someone in the village will die within twenty-four hours.
12

How I Live Now

by Meg Rosoff

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met.

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