Books like Why We Broke Up
12 books with a reading profile close to Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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Shopgirl
by Steve Martin
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Mirabelle Buttersfield, a young woman from Vermont, sells gloves at the Neiman Marcus counter in Beverly Hills, lonely and quietly depressed in her Los Angeles apartment.
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2
Vinegar Girl
by Anne Tyler
romance, narrative
Kate Battista, twenty-nine, works as a preschool teaching assistant and keeps house for her father, a scientist in Baltimore, and her flighty younger sister.
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3
I'll Give You the Sun
by Jandy Nelson
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Jandy Nelson’s novel centers on twins Jude and Noah, told through two shifting timelines.
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Peony in Love
by Lisa See
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in seventeenth-century China, this story follows Peony, a sheltered girl from a wealthy family who becomes obsessed with the opera The Peony Pavilion.
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5
The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Hazel Grace Lancaster lives with a terminal thyroid cancer diagnosis and carries an oxygen tank to breathe.
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Cleopatra and Frankenstein
by Coco Mellors
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Twenty-four-year-old Cleo, a British painter living in New York on an expiring student visa, impulsively marries Frank, an advertising executive twenty years her senior.
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Eleanor & Park
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1986 Omaha, sixteen-year-old Eleanor Douglas joins a new school with bright red hair and mismatched clothes that invite immediate bullying.
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Green Dot
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Hera, a woman in her twenties in Sydney, works a dull job at a magazine and wants to be a writer.
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9
You Are Here
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Marnie and Michael are two solitary individuals stuck in professional and emotional ruts.
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Ghosts
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Dolly Alderton's debut novel, "Ghosts," introduces readers to Nina Dean, a successful food writer navigating the treacherous waters of modern dating in her early thirties.
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford
romance, narrative
Set in Seattle during World War II, the narrative follows Henry Lee, a Chinese American boy caught between his father’s nationalist fervor and his secret bond with Keiko Okabe, a Japanese American classmate.
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The Wedding People
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Phoebe Stone arrives at a luxury Rhode Island hotel with a suitcase full of evening gowns and a plan to end her life following a divorce and the collapse of her academic career.
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