Books like The Paper Palace
12 books with a reading profile close to The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
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.
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2
Evenings and Weekends
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.
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3
Memorial
Also inward-looking · 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.
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Swimming in the Dark
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in early 1980s Poland during the decline of the communist regime, the story follows Ludwik Glowacki, a university student who falls in love with the charismatic Janusz at an agricultural summer camp.
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5
Like Water for Chocolate
Also inward-looking · 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.
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Sunburn
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in the early 1990s in the rural Irish village of Crosshaven, this novel follows Lucy, a teenager navigating the oppressive social expectations of a small Catholic community.
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7
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
After her parents die in a car accident, Cameron Post moves to rural Montana to live with her conservative aunt and grandmother.
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8
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life
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.
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9
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.
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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.
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11
Big Swiss
by Jen Beagin
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Greta lives in a drafty, unheated farmhouse in Hudson, New York, where she works as a transcriptionist for a sex therapist.
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12
My Policeman
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.
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