Books like Tom Lake
12 books with a reading profile close to Tom Lake by Ann Patchett. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
The Spectacular Now
by Tim Tharp
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Sutter Keely is a high school senior in a small Oklahoma town who lives for parties and drinking and thinks of himself as the life of every gathering.
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The Language of Flowers
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Victoria Jones ages out of the California foster care system with no resources and a history of failed placements.
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3
The Light Between Oceans
by M.L. Stedman
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Tom Sherbourne, a traumatized veteran of the Great War, takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, a remote island off the Western Australian coast.
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4
Hello Beautiful
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
William Waters grows up in a silent, loveless household, finding his only refuge in basketball.
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5
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Nuri is a beekeeper who tends to hives in the Syrian city of Aleppo alongside his wife, Afra, an artist who loses her sight after a bomb kills their young son.
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The Thing About Jellyfish
by Ali Benjamin
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
After her best friend Franny drowns, twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson stops talking.
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7
This One Summer
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Rose and Wind are childhood friends who reunite every July at a lakeside cabin in Awago Beach.
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Was man von hier aus sehen kann
by Mariana Leky
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Luise, a ten-year-old girl in a small village in the German Westerwald, learns that whenever her grandmother Selma dreams of an okapi, someone in the village will die within twenty-four hours.
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The Immortalists
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In 1969 New York, the four Gold siblings—Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon—visit a psychic who predicts the exact date each will die.
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The Heart's Invisible Furies
by John Boyne
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Born in a rural Irish village to an unwed teenager, Cyril Avery is adopted by an eccentric, wealthy Dublin couple who constantly remind him he is not a "real" Avery.
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11
The Book of Unknown Americans
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Two families move into the same apartment building in Delaware: the Riveras, who came from Mexico, and the Toros from Panama.
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The Weird Sisters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The three Andreas sisters, daughters of a Shakespeare professor who speaks mostly in quotations, come home to their small Ohio college town because their mother has breast cancer.
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