Books like The Paris Wife
12 books with a reading profile close to The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Becoming Mrs. Lewis
Also inward-looking · romance, biography
Joy Davidman is a gifted American writer and mother trapped in a disintegrating marriage when she begins a long-distance correspondence with C.S.
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The Magic Fish
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Tiên is a Vietnamese-American teenager who shares a love for fairy tales with his mother, Hiền.
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The Story of Beautiful Girl
by Rachel Simon
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1968, Lynnie, a young woman with a developmental disability, lives in a Pennsylvania institution called the School.
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Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1890s Whitstable, Nancy Astley lives a quiet life shucking oysters until she becomes obsessed with Kitty Butler, a male impersonator performing at a local music hall.
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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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Here on Earth
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
March Murray returns with her teenage daughter Gwen to her childhood home in a coastal Massachusetts town after a death in the family.
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Last Night at the Telegraph Club
by Malinda Lo
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in 1954 San Francisco, the story follows Lily Hu, a seventeen-year-old high school student living in Chinatown.
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The Museum of Extraordinary Things
romance, narrative
Set in early twentieth-century New York, this novel follows Coralie Sardie, the daughter of a sinister museum proprietor who exhibits biological anomalies on Coney Island.
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The Shell Seekers
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Penelope Keeling is in her sixties and living in a Cornish house, the daughter of a painter, Lawrence Stern, whose work has fallen out of fashion.
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Honey Girl
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Grace Porter is a high-achieving astronomer who has spent her life meeting her father’s rigid expectations.
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The Stationery Shop
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1953 Tehran, seventeen-year-old Roya spends her afternoons in a stationery shop run by a kindly man, Mr.
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
by Jeff Hobbs
Also inward-looking · biography, narrative
Jeff Hobbs chronicles the life of his Yale roommate, Robert Peace, a gifted student from Newark, New Jersey, who navigated the tensions between an elite Ivy League education and his neighborhood roots.
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