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Books like The Stationery Shop

12 books with a reading profile close to The Stationery Shop by Marjan Kamali. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

Honey Girl

by Morgan Rogers

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Grace Porter is a high-achieving astronomer who has spent her life meeting her father’s rigid expectations.
2

The Shell Seekers

by Rosamunde Pilcher

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.
3

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.
4

The Magic Fish

by Trung Le Nguyen

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Tiên is a Vietnamese-American teenager who shares a love for fairy tales with his mother, Hiền.
5

Here on Earth

by Alice Hoffman

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.
6

Talking at Night

by Claire Daverley

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

Will and Rosie are classmates who belong to different social circles but form a secret bond through late-night conversations.
7

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.
8

The Gargoyle

by Andrew Davidson

Also inward-looking · romance, narrative

A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.
9

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.
10

The Other Bennet Sister

by Janice Hadlow

romance, narrative

Mary Bennet occupies the margins of the Longbourn household, dismissed by her mother for her plainness and overlooked by her sisters.
11

Sunburn

by Chloe Michelle Howarth

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.
12

Pride

by Ibi Zoboi

romance, narrative

In this contemporary remix of Pride and Prejudice, Zuri Benitez lives in a Bushwick apartment with her four sisters while their Brooklyn neighborhood undergoes rapid gentrification.

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