Books like This Is How It Always Is
12 books with a reading profile close to This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.
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1
A Woman Is No Man
by Etaf Rum
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In 1990 Palestine, Fareeda forces eighteen-year-old Isra into an arranged marriage that moves her to Brooklyn.
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2
The Most Fun We Ever Had
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
The story spans several decades, tracking Marilyn and David Sorenson and their four adult daughters in suburban Chicago.
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3
The Silver Linings Playbook
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Pat Peoples returns to his parents’ home in New Jersey after months in a psychiatric facility.
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4
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, psychology
Eleanor Oliphant lives a life of rigid, isolated routine in Glasgow, working as a finance clerk and spending weekends with frozen pizza and vodka.
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5
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In 1964, Dr.
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6
House Rules
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Jacob Hunt is an eighteen-year-old with Asperger's syndrome who has an encyclopedic knowledge of forensic science and a habit of showing up at crime scenes, which he studies with a police scanner.
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7
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Greg Gaines is a high school senior whose social strategy involves drifting between cliques without making friends.
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8
It's Kind of a Funny Story
by Ned Vizzini
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Craig Gilner is a high school student in Manhattan who becomes paralyzed by the academic pressure of his competitive executive pre-professional school.
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9
Dear Edward
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, psychology
Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the sole survivor of a commercial plane crash that kills 191 people, including his parents and older brother.
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10
Three Women
by Lisa Taddeo
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Lisa Taddeo documents the intimate lives of three American women to map the landscape of female desire and social stigma.
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Nineteen Minutes
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In Sterling, New Hampshire, Peter Houghton undergoes years of relentless bullying before bringing firearms to his high school and killing ten people.
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12
We Are Okay
by Nina LaCour
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, psychology
Marin leaves her California life behind without a word, fleeing to a New York college dormitory to spend winter break alone.
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