Books like Will Grayson, Will Grayson
12 books with a reading profile close to Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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An Abundance of Katherines
by John Green
Also inward-looking · romance, accessible
Colin Singleton is a child prodigy who has been dumped by nineteen girls, all of whom share the name Katherine.
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Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
Also clear-cut · romance, accessible
Naomi Porter, a high school student, slips on a bar of soap in her kitchen, hits her head, and loses four years of memory.
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Love & Misadventure
by Lang Leav
Also inward-looking · romance, accessible
Lang Leav’s collection uses brief, rhyming stanzas and minimalist illustrations to chart the timeline of a romantic relationship.
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Autoboyography
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, accessible
Tanner Scott is a bisexual teenager living in Provo, Utah, where the local culture is dominated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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This Lullaby
by Sarah Dessen
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, accessible
Remy Starr is a cynical eighteen-year-old who manages her romantic life through a strict set of rules designed to avoid emotional attachment.
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Eligible
Also clear-cut · romance, accessible
Curtis Sittenfeld transplants Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice to modern-day Cincinnati.
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The Beach House
by Jane Green
Also clear-cut · romance, accessible
Nan Powers, a widow in her sixties, lives in a large old house on Nantucket that she has owned for years.
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Evidence of the Affair
Also inward-looking · romance, accessible
Set in the 1970s, this epistolary novella centers on the correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer after Carrie discovers a stash of love letters written by David’s wife to Carrie’s husband.
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The Little Paris Bookshop
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, accessible
Jean Perdu operates a floating bookstore on a barge called the Literary Apothecary, moored on the Seine.
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Emergency Contact
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, accessible
Penny Lee leaves for college in Austin, Texas, hoping to distance herself from her mother and a stagnant hometown life.
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The Japanese Lover
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · romance, accessible
In 1939, Alma Belasco leaves Nazi-occupied Poland for her relatives' San Francisco estate.
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