Books like Uçurtma Avcısı
12 books with a reading profile close to Uçurtma Avcısı by Khaled Hosseini. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Stay with Me
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In 1980s Nigeria, Yejide and Akin navigate a marriage defined by their mutual decision to reject polygamy.
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Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Jules Moreau and his two siblings, Marty and Liz, grow up in a protected household until a car accident kills both of their parents.
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3
A Place for Us
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In California, an Indian-American Muslim family reunites for a wedding, marking the return of the estranged youngest son, Amar.
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4
Every Note Played
by Lisa Genova
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, psychology
Richard Seligman is a world-class concert pianist whose career ends abruptly when he is diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
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5
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Leonard Peacock carries a P-38 Nazi handgun in his backpack on his eighteenth birthday.
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Little Altars Everywhere
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Siddalee Walker is a successful theater director in Seattle who must reconcile with her difficult mother Vivi, one of the Ya-Yas, a group of Louisiana women who have been friends since childhood.
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The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Tom Wingo, an unemployed teacher from the South Carolina lowcountry, travels to New York City after his twin sister, Savannah, attempts suicide.
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Goodbye, Vitamin
by Rachel Khong
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, psychology
Ruth, thirty years old, has lost her fiancé and her job, and she goes home to California to help care for her father Howard, a retired history professor with Alzheimer's.
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This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Yunior is a Dominican-American man who struggles with chronic infidelity and the emotional fallout of his choices.
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10
She’s Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Dolores Price begins her story as a smart-mouthed girl in the 1950s whose life unravels after her parents’ marriage collapses and a neighbor commits a violent act of sexual assault against her.
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I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Dominick Birdsey spends his life anchored to his identical twin, Thomas, whose paranoid schizophrenia leads to a violent act of self-mutilation in a public library.
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Purple Hibiscus
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, psychology
Fifteen-year-old Kambili Achike lives in Enugu, Nigeria, under the rigid authority of her father, Eugene, a charismatic businessman and devout Catholic.
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