Books like The Memory Keeper's Daughter
12 books with a reading profile close to The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Greg Gaines is a high school senior whose social strategy involves drifting between cliques without making friends.
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2
Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In Sterling, New Hampshire, Peter Houghton undergoes years of relentless bullying before bringing firearms to his high school and killing ten people.
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3
House Rules
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Jacob Hunt is an eighteen-year-old with Asperger's syndrome who has an encyclopedic knowledge of forensic science and a habit of showing up at crime scenes, which he studies with a police scanner.
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4
Thirteen Reasons Why
by Jay Asher
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a box of cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, a classmate who recently died by suicide.
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5
This Is How It Always Is
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Rosie and Penn Walsh are parents to five boys, the youngest of whom is Claude.
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The Silver Linings Playbook
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Pat Peoples returns to his parents’ home in New Jersey after months in a psychiatric facility.
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Girl in Pieces
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Seventeen-year-old Charlie Davis awakens in a psychiatric hospital after a suicide attempt, her body scarred from years of self-harm.
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8
A Woman Is No Man
by Etaf Rum
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In 1990 Palestine, Fareeda forces eighteen-year-old Isra into an arranged marriage that moves her to Brooklyn.
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9
It's Kind of a Funny Story
by Ned Vizzini
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Craig Gilner is a high school student in Manhattan who becomes paralyzed by the academic pressure of his competitive executive pre-professional school.
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10
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
The story spans several decades, tracking Marilyn and David Sorenson and their four adult daughters in suburban Chicago.
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11
Cut
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Callie is a fourteen-year-old girl who has stopped speaking and is sent to Sea Pines, a residential treatment center for troubled girls, where she is being treated for cutting herself.
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Eleanor Oliphant lives a life of rigid, isolated routine in Glasgow, working as a finance clerk and spending weekends with frozen pizza and vodka.
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