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12 books with a reading profile close to The Miseducation of Cameron Post by Emily M. Danforth. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

Like Water for Chocolate

by Laura Esquivel

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

Set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, the narrative follows Tita de la Garza, the youngest daughter in a household governed by a strict family tradition that forbids her from marrying.
2

The Inexplicable Logic of My Life

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Salva, a Mexican-American teenager raised by his adoptive gay father, begins his senior year of high school feeling an unfamiliar, simmering anger.
3

Memorial

by Bryan Washington

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

Benson, a Black daycare teacher in Houston, and Mike, a Japanese American chef, have been together for a couple of years and are unsure about their relationship.
4

HEART THE LOVER

by Lily King

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Decades after the height of a complex romantic entanglement involving two different men, a woman reconstructs the timeline of her early adulthood to understand the lasting impact of her decisions.
5

Tin Man

by Sarah Winman

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

Ellis and Michael are two boys who become friends as teenagers in Oxford in 1960s England, where Ellis' working-class father works at a car factory.
6

Evenings and Weekends

by Oisín McKenna

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Set during a sweltering weekend in London, the narrative follows a group of interconnected friends navigating the precariousness of the modern city.
7

In Memoriam

by Alice Winn

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

In 1914, Gaunt and Ellwood are students at Preshute College, an elite English boarding school where they hide their romantic feelings for one another behind a shared obsession with epic poetry.
8

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

by Akwaeke Emezi

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Five years after the car accident that killed her husband, Feyi Adekola is finally re-entering the dating scene in Brooklyn.
9

The Paper Palace

by Miranda Cowley Heller

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Elle Bishop, a middle-aged woman, spends twenty-four hours at her family’s summer camp in Cape Cod, known as The Paper Palace.
10

My Policeman

by Bethan Roberts

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Brighton in the 1950s: Tom, a young policeman, courts and marries Marion, a schoolteacher, while also carrying on a secret relationship with Patrick, a museum curator, at a time when homosexuality is a crime.
11

Eva Luna

by Isabel Allende

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Eva Luna is born to a servant mother and a gardener father in an unnamed South American country, and her mother tells her stories to survive.
12

The Island of Missing Trees

by Elif Shafak

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

In 1974 Nicosia, teenagers Kostas and Defne meet secretly at a taverna to navigate their forbidden relationship across the Greek-Turkish partition.

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