Books like We Live in Water
12 books with a reading profile close to We Live in Water by Jess Walter. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Prep
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Lee Fiora, a girl from a modest family in Indiana, wins a scholarship to the Ault School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
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Migrations
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Franny Stone travels to Greenland to track the final migration of Arctic terns, a species nearing extinction in a world depleted of wildlife.
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Mercy
by Jodi Picoult
Also thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Cam MacDonald is a police chief in a small Massachusetts town, and he is happily married to his wife Allie.
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Infinite Country
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
The narrative follows Elena and Mauro, a Colombian couple who overstay their visas in the United States, and the three children they raise across two nations.
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The Casual Vacancy
by J.K. Rowling
narrative, accessible
Set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the story begins with the sudden death of parish councillor Barry Fairbrother.
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How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met.
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The Kite Runner--the graphic novel
Also thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Amir, a wealthy boy from Kabul, lives with a heavy conscience after failing to intervene when his friend Hassan is assaulted following a kite-fighting tournament.
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American Born Chinese
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
Gene Luen Yang weaves together three distinct narrative threads to examine the internal conflicts of cultural assimilation.
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Toby Fleishman is a forty-one-year-old hepatologist navigating the immediate aftermath of a bitter divorce in Manhattan.
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Wonder Boys
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
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Black Cake
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, accessible
After the death of Eleanor Bennett, her estranged children, Byron and Benny, reunite in California to hear her final recorded message.
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Pizza Girl
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Eighteen-year-old Jane is pregnant, grieving her alcoholic father’s recent death, and working as a pizza delivery driver in suburban Los Angeles.
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