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12 books with a reading profile close to What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty. Inward-looking; an easy read.

1

Before We Were Yours

by Lisa Wingate

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

The story oscillates between 1939 Mississippi and modern-day South Carolina.
2

Fly Away Home

by Jennifer Weiner

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Sylvie Serfer Woodruff, the wife of a Connecticut senator, learns that her husband Richard has been having an affair, and the news breaks just as her two daughters face their own crises.
3

Tara Road

by Maeve Binchy

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Ria Lynch lives in a house on Tara Road in Dublin.
4

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

by Rebecca Wells

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Sidda Lee Walker, a successful theater director in New York, gives an interview in which she calls her childhood with her mother Vivi "dark," and her mother, in Louisiana, is furious.
5

The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

by Mitch Albom

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Narrated by Music itself, the story follows Frankie Presto, an orphan born in a burning Spanish chapel who becomes the greatest guitar player in history.
6

Perfect Match

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Nina Frost, an assistant district attorney in Massachusetts, discovers that her young son has been abused by a local Catholic priest.
7

Heartburn

by Nora Ephron

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Rachel Samstat, a successful cookbook author seven months pregnant with her second child, discovers her husband Mark is having an affair with a mutual acquaintance.
8

Wish You Were Here

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Diana O’Toole is a professional art specialist in New York City with a rigid plan for her career and engagement.
9

Good Material

by Dolly Alderton

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Andy is a thirty-five-year-old struggling stand-up comedian whose life collapses when his girlfriend, Jen, ends their four-year relationship.
10

Wonderstruck

by Brian Selznick

narrative, literary

Ben and Rose live fifty years apart, but their lives intersect through a shared experience of deafness and a search for belonging.
11

Remarkably Bright Creatures

by Shelby Van Pelt

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Tova Sullivan works the night shift cleaning the Sowell Bay Aquarium to cope with the isolation of widowhood and the disappearance of her son thirty years ago.
12

Home Front

by Kristin Hannah

Also inward-looking · narrative, literary

Jolene Zarkades is a helicopter pilot in the Army National Guard and also a wife and mother, with two daughters, living in Seattle.

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