Books like The Secret Life of Bees
12 books with a reading profile close to The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Three thieves hiding in an abandoned general store discover they can communicate with the past through letters left in the store's old mailbox.
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2
Traumsammler
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
The narrative begins in a small Afghan village where a father tells his children a myth about a giant stealing a beloved son, a story that foreshadows a forced separation.
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The Weird Sisters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The three Andreas sisters, daughters of a Shakespeare professor who speaks mostly in quotations, come home to their small Ohio college town because their mother has breast cancer.
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Two Boys Kissing
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Harry and Craig, two former boyfriends, attempt to set a new world record for the longest continuous kiss.
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A Man Called Ove
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Fifty-nine-year-old Ove is a steadfast misanthropist who enforces neighborhood association rules with militant precision and drives a Saab.
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The Boston Girl
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The novel follows Addie Baum, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, as she recounts her life story to her granddaughter in 1985.
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Out of the Dust
by Karen Hesse
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Fourteen-year-old Billie Jo Kelby lives on a struggling Oklahoma wheat farm during the Great Depression.
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The Keeper of Lost Things
by Ruth Hogan
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Anthony Peardew is an elderly writer who has spent decades collecting lost objects, such as a glove, a key and a child's toy, which he keeps at home with notes about where he found them.
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The Island of Sea Women
by Lisa See
narrative, accessible
Set on the Korean island of Jeju, this novel follows the lifelong friendship between Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls who join a collective of haenyeo female divers.
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10
Maame
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Twenty-five-year-old Maddie Wright spends her days navigating a high-pressure London office and her nights as the sole caregiver for her father, who struggles with late-stage Parkinson’s disease.
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The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Nuri is a beekeeper who tends to hives in the Syrian city of Aleppo alongside his wife, Afra, an artist who loses her sight after a bomb kills their young son.
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The One-in-a-Million Boy
by Monica Wood
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · narrative, accessible
Ona Vitkus is a 104-year-old woman who agrees to let eleven-year-old Quentin, a Boy Scout looking for a service project, visit her on Saturdays to help with chores and chat.
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