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12 books with a reading profile close to The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop

by Hwang Bo-Reum

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.
2

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Tova Sullivan works the night shift cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium to cope with the isolation of widowhood and the disappearance of her son thirty years ago.
3

Kira-Kira

by Cynthia Kadohata

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.
4

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

by Fannie Flagg

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

In 1980s Alabama, Evelyn Couch is a middle-aged housewife trapped in a cycle of emotional stagnation and binge-eating.
5

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.
6

Two Boys Kissing

by David Levithan

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Harry and Craig, two former boyfriends, attempt to set a new world record for the longest continuous kiss.
7

Secret Daughter

by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

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.
8

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library

by Michiko Aoyama

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.
9

Counting by 7s

by Holly Goldberg Sloan

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible

Willow Chance is a twelve-year-old genius obsessed with clinical diagnostics, nature, and the number seven.
10

The Boston Girl

by Anita Diamant

Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible

The novel follows Addie Baum, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, as she recounts her life story to her granddaughter in 1985.
11

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

by Rebecca Wells

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.
12

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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