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Books like The Travelling Cat Chronicles

12 books with a reading profile close to The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.

1

The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

by Kate DiCamillo

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative

Edward Tulane is a china rabbit with an expansive wardrobe of silk suits and a pocket watch, living with a girl named Abilene.
2

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer

by Fredrik Backman

Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative

An aging mathematician sits on a park bench that exists inside his mind, struggling to retain his memories as dementia begins to erase his world.
3

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot

by Marianne Cronin

Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative

In a Glasgow hospital terminal ward, seventeen-year-old Lenni Pettersson meets Margot Macrae, an eighty-three-year-old woman awaiting heart surgery.
4

The Fifth Mountain

by Paulo Coelho

Also thought-provoking · inspirational, narrative

In 870 BC, the prophet Elijah is ordered by God to leave Israel after Queen Jezebel begins to kill the prophets.
5

The Valkyries

by Paulo Coelho

inspirational, narrative

Paulo Coelho describes forty days he and his wife Chris spent in the Mojave Desert in 1986, hoping to reach his guardian angel.
6

Sea Prayer

by Khaled Hosseini

Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative

Written as a letter from a father to his sleeping son, this short narrative poem describes a family waiting on a dark beach to board a boat.
7

The Stranger in the Lifeboat

by Mitch Albom

Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative

After a luxury yacht explodes in the Atlantic Ocean, ten survivors crowd into a small life raft, battling thirst, hunger, and hopelessness.
8

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

by Fredrik Backman

Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative

Seven-year-old Elsa is an outcast who finds sanctuary in the elaborate fairy tales told by her eccentric, rule-breaking grandmother.
9

The Velveteen Rabbit

by Margery Williams Bianco

Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative

The story follows a stuffed rabbit, constructed of sawdust and velveteen, who lives in a nursery with more expensive mechanical toys.
10

THEO OF GOLDEN

by Allen Levi

Also inward-looking and contemplative · inspirational, narrative

Theo enters the quiet town of Golden with a specific, unusual mission.
11

Ask the Passengers

by A.S. King

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Astrid Jones is a teenager in a small Pennsylvania town where everyone gossips.
12

The Danish Girl

by David Ebershoff

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Einar Wegener, an artist living in Denmark, experiences a profound shift in his identity, leading him to identify as a woman named Lili Elbe.

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