Books like What You Are Looking for Is in the Library
12 books with a reading profile close to What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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My Sister's Keeper
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Thirteen-year-old Anna Fitzgerald was conceived through preimplantation genetic diagnosis to serve as a biological match for her older sister, Kate, who suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia.
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The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto
by Mitch Albom
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
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.
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Secret Daughter
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
In a village in India, a young mother named Kavita gives birth to a girl and, knowing that her husband will not accept a daughter, secretly gives the baby away to an orphanage in Mumbai.
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The Authenticity Project
by Clare Pooley
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Julian Jessop is an elderly artist and widower in London, who is so lonely that he writes the truth about his life in a green notebook and leaves it in his local cafe.
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Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
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.
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Eliza and Her Monsters
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Eliza Mirk is a shy high school senior who secretly creates Monstrous Sea, a global webcomic phenomenon.
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Saving Francesca
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Francesca Cassarini begins her sophomore year at St.
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Kira-Kira
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Katie Takeshima is a Japanese-American girl who grows up in Georgia in the 1950s, and her older sister Lynn teaches her the word "kira-kira," meaning glittering, as a way of seeing the world.
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The Vacationers
by Emma Straub
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The Post family embarks on their annual summer vacation to Mallorca, but behind the sun-drenched facade, simmering resentments and long-held secrets threaten to unravel their seemingly perfect lives.
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Wish You Were Here
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Diana O’Toole is a professional art specialist in New York City with a rigid plan for her career and engagement.
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Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Yeoju, a woman who abruptly leaves her successful career and marriage after a burnout, opens a small bookstore in a quiet residential neighborhood in Seoul.
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The Reading List
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in Wembley, London, the story follows Mukesh, a lonely widower struggling to connect with his bookworm granddaughter, and Aleisha, a distressed teenager working a summer job at the local library.
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