Books like The Lovely Bones
12 books with a reading profile close to The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
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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2
Elena Knows
Also inward-looking and contemplative · 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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3
The Last Story of Mina Lee
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Margot Lee, a young Korean American woman in Los Angeles, comes home to find her mother, Mina, dead in her small apartment.
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4
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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5
Snow Falling on Cedars
Also contemplative · 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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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
The Secret Keeper
by Kate Morton
narrative, mystery
During a 1961 summer party, teenager Laurel Nicolson witnesses her mother, Dorothy, kill a stranger with a paring knife.
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12
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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