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Books like The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

12 books with a reading profile close to The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.

1

The Travelling Cat Chronicles

by Hiro Arikawa

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative

The story follows Nana, a former stray cat with a hooked tail, and his owner, Satoru, as they drive across Japan in a silver van.
2

The Fifth Mountain

by Paulo Coelho

Also thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative

In 870 BC, the prophet Elijah is ordered by God to leave Israel after Queen Jezebel begins to kill the prophets.
3

The Valkyries

by Paulo Coelho

inspirational, narrative

Paulo Coelho describes forty days he and his wife Chris spent in the Mojave Desert in 1986, hoping to reach his guardian angel.
4

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

by Marianne Cronin

Also inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

In a Glasgow hospital terminal ward, seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson meets Margot Macrae, an eighty-three-year-old woman awaiting heart surgery.
5

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

by Fredrik Backman

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative

An aging mathematician sits on a park bench that exists inside his mind, struggling to retain his memories as dementia begins to erase his world.
6

Sea Prayer

by Khaled Hosseini

Also inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Written as a letter from a father to his sleeping son, this short narrative poem describes a family waiting on a dark beach to board a boat.
7

The Stranger in the Lifeboat

by Mitch Albom

Also inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

After a luxury yacht explodes in the Atlantic Ocean, ten survivors crowd into a small life raft, battling thirst, hunger, and hopelessness.
8

THEO OF GOLDEN

by Allen Levi

Also inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Theo enters the quiet town of Golden with a specific, unusual mission.
9

The Girl with the Louding Voice

by Abi Daré

Also inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Fourteen-year-old Adunni lives in a rural Nigerian village where her father sells her into marriage to a local polygamist to pay the rent.
10

Ask the Passengers

by A.S. King

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Astrid Jones is a teenager in a small Pennsylvania town where everyone gossips.
11

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams Bianco

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative

The story follows a stuffed rabbit, constructed of sawdust and velveteen, who lives in a nursery with more expensive mechanical toys.
12

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

by Fredrik Backman

Also inward-looking · inspirational, narrative

Seven-year-old Elsa is an outcast who finds sanctuary in the elaborate fairy tales told by her eccentric, rule-breaking grandmother.

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