Books like What Happened to Goodbye
12 books with a reading profile close to What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen. Inward-looking, clear-cut and escapist; an easy read.
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1
Frankly in Love
by David Yoon
Also inward-looking and 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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2
The Sea of Tranquility
by Katja Millay
Also inward-looking and escapist · romance, narrative
Nastya Kashnikov was a piano prodigy until a violent attack destroyed her hand and her identity.
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3
Twenty Boy Summer
by Sarah Ockler
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Anna and her best friend Frankie, both fifteen, spend a summer with Frankie's family at a beach house in California.
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4
Nana, Vol. 1
by Ai Yazawa
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Two young women, both named Nana, travel on the same train to Tokyo at age twenty.
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5
Lock and Key
by Sarah Dessen
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Ruby Cooper has spent years living in a state of self-reliance, hiding the fact that her mother abandoned her in their dilapidated rental house.
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Boy Meets Boy
Also inward-looking and 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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7
Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist
by Rachel Cohn
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Nick and Norah meet in a crowded Manhattan punk club when Nick asks a total stranger to be his girlfriend for five minutes to avoid his ex.
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8
The Girl He Used to Know
Also inward-looking and 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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9
Making Faces
by Amy Harmon
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Set in a small town in Pennsylvania, the story follows Fern Taylor, a quiet girl who grows up in the shadow of Ambrose Young, the local wrestling star.
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10
Nick and Charlie
by Alice Oseman
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Nick and Charlie follows the central couple from the Heartstopper series during a period of transition as Nick prepares to leave for university.
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11
Us
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Douglas Petersen, a biochemist, wakes one night to hear his wife Connie say she thinks their marriage is over.
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12
Where the Heart Is
by Billie Letts
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, narrative
Novalee Nation is seventeen, seven months pregnant, and abandoned by her boyfriend at a Walmart in a small Oklahoma town.
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