Books like The Last Story of Mina Lee
12 books with a reading profile close to The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Please Ignore Vera Dietz
by A.S. King
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Vera Dietz is a high school senior balancing a full-time job at a pizza parlor with the weight of a secret involving her former best friend, Charlie Kahn.
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic
by Kevin Wilson
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In 1996, restless teenagers Frankie Budge and Zeke create a cryptic poster featuring a drawing of a person holding a severed head and a mysterious sentence about a "coal child." They secretly photocopy and distribute th…
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The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon is murdered by her neighbor, George Harvey, in a suburban Pennsylvania cornfield in 1973.
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The Wonder
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In the humid summer of 1859, English nurse Lib Wright arrives in a rural Irish village to oversee an eleven-year-old girl named Anna O'Donnell.
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Ordinary Grace
narrative, mystery
In 1961, thirteen-year-old Frank Drum lives in New Bremen, Minnesota, where his father serves as a Methodist minister.
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Elena Knows
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Elena, an aging woman in Argentina, navigates the physical rigidity caused by advanced Parkinson's disease to investigate her daughter Rita’s death.
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Snow Falling on Cedars
Also thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Set in 1954 on the fictional San Piedro Island, the narrative centers on the murder trial of Kabuo Miyamoto, a Japanese American fisherman accused of killing Carl Heine.
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The Lie Tree
narrative, mystery
Faith Sunderly is a fourteen-year-old girl in Victorian England whose family moves to a small island after a scandal involving her father, Reverend Sunderly, a respected naturalist who is suspected of fraud.
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Disappearing Earth
narrative, mystery
The story begins on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia with the abduction of two young sisters, Sophia and Alyona Golosovskaya, by a stranger in a tan sedan.
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Greenwood
narrative, mystery
The novel follows the Greenwood family across four generations, structured like the rings of a tree from 2038 back to 1908.
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Winter's Bone
narrative, mystery
Ree Dolly is a sixteen-year-old girl living in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri, taking care of her two younger brothers and her mentally ill mother.
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De Laatste Afspraak
by Tana French
narrative, mystery
Retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper seeks a quiet life in a remote West Irish village, but his peace is interrupted when a local teenager named Trey Reddy asks him to find a missing older brother.
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