Books like We All Looked Up
12 books with a reading profile close to We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach. Clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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Opposite of Always
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
Jack falls for Kate at a party, but their romance ends abruptly when she dies from complications related to sickle cell anemia.
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The Identicals
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Harper and Tabitha Frost are identical twins who grew up in a divided family, and they have not spoken in years.
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Summer of '69
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
The narrative follows the Foley and Levin families during a summer of significant social upheaval on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.
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99 Days
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
Molly Barlow returns to her hometown of Starling Bay, Michigan, after a year away, hoping to get through the summer quietly.
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A Hundred Summers
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
In the summer of 1938, the privileged Lily and her former best friend Violet reconnect at Lily's lavish Long Island estate.
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Boy Meets Boy
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Paul Ames lives in a fictional town where being gay is unremarkable, the high school homecoming queen is a star quarterback named Infinite Darlene, and the Boy Scouts are inclusive.
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The Beginning of Everything
romance, narrative
Ezra Faulkner believes that everyone encounters a single tragedy that defines their personal history.
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What Happened to Goodbye
by Sarah Dessen
Also clear-cut and escapist · romance, narrative
Following her parents' bitter divorce, Mclean Sweet travels through four different towns in two years, utilizing each relocation to adopt a completely new identity.
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The Girl He Used to Know
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Annika Rose, a quiet, brilliant student with undiagnosed autism, meets Wes Winters at the University of Illinois chess club in the early 1990s.
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Frankly in Love
by David Yoon
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Frank Li is a Korean American high school senior living in California, navigating the strict expectations of his traditional immigrant parents.
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A Very Large Expanse of Sea
by Tahereh Mafi
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Set in 2002, one year after the 9/11 attacks, the story follows Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Persian-American girl navigating a suburban high school.
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Georgie, All Along
Also clear-cut · romance, narrative
Georgie Mulcahy returns to her Virginia hometown after her professional life in Los Angeles collapses.
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