Books like The Story of Beautiful Girl
12 books with a reading profile close to The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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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 Shell Seekers
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · 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 and clear-cut · 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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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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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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The Other Bennet Sister
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Mary Bennet occupies the margins of the Longbourn household, dismissed by her mother for her plainness and overlooked by her sisters.
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Talking at Night
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.
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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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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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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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The Gargoyle
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.
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