Books like The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
12 books with a reading profile close to The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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The Pisces
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Lucy is a PhD student stalled on her dissertation about Sappho and recovering from a messy breakup in Phoenix.
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Alone With You in the Ether
by Olivie Blake
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Aldo Damiani, a doctoral student obsessed with the theoretical mechanics of time, meets Charlotte Regan, an artist and counterfeit analyst struggling with bipolar disorder, in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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The Song of Achilles
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
In this reimagining of the Trojan War, the awkward prince Patroclus is exiled to the court of King Peleus, where he forms an unlikely friendship with the golden demi-god Achilles.
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The Binding
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
In a world where books are physical vessels for human memories, Emmett Farmer is sent to apprentice under a Binder.
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Circe
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
On the island of Aiaia, the exiled nymph Circe transforms from a rejected daughter of the sun god Helios into a formidable witch.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
romance, literary
Set in the early 1900s, January Scaller lives as a ward in the sprawling mansion of Mr.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V.E. Schwab
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
In 1714, a young French woman named Adeline LaRue strikes a deal with a god of darkness to escape a forced marriage and live without belonging to anyone.
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The Night Circus
romance, literary
Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair are two young illusionists tethered to Le Cirque des Rêves, a traveling venue of monochrome tents that appears without warning and opens only at night.
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Here on Earth
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
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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Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
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 Lantern of Lost Memories
by Sanaka Hiiragi, Jesse Kirkwood
Also inward-looking · literary, fantasy
In a world where memories can be stored and lost, a young woman named Elara inherits a mysterious lantern that holds the forgotten past of a lost civilization.
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