Books like The Immortalists
12 books with a reading profile close to The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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This One Summer
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
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The Language of Flowers
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Victoria Jones ages out of the California foster care system with no resources and a history of failed placements.
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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.
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Interesting Facts about Space
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.
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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.
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The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
Also inward-looking · 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.
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The Astonishing Color of After
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Leigh Chen Sanders is convinced that her mother turned into a large red bird after dying by suicide.
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Born in a rural Irish village to an unwed teenager, Cyril Avery is adopted by an eccentric, wealthy Dublin couple who constantly remind him he is not a "real" Avery.
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Before I Fall
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Samantha Kingston is a popular high school senior who occupies a high rank in her school’s social hierarchy alongside her three best friends.
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Hello Beautiful
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
William Waters grows up in a silent, loveless household, finding his only refuge in basketball.
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Tom Lake
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
During the 2020 pandemic, Lara gathers with her three adult daughters on their family cherry orchard in Michigan.
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The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
by E. Lockhart
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
At Alabaster Preparatory Academy, sophomore Frankie Landau-Banks discovers that her boyfriend belongs to the Loyal Order of the Basset Hound, an all-male secret society with deep historical roots.
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