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The Virgin Suicides
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Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
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She's Come Undone
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
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Everything I Never Told You
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family, mystery.
In 1977 Ohio, sixteen-year-old Lydia Lee is found dead in a lake, forcing her interracial family to face the secret pressures around race,…
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Because shares tags: mystery, literary fiction, coming of age.
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The Lovely Bones
Because shares tags: coming of age, mystery, family.
Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones retold: Susie watches from above as her family hunts her killer.
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Wrong Place Wrong Time
Because shares tags: mystery, family.
Jen sees her son Todd kill a stranger, then wakes the day before, slipping back in time to stop the murder.
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White Oleander
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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Tom Lake
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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The Paper Palace
Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
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The Locked Door
Because shares tags: mystery, family.
Surgeon Nora Davis hides serial killer father while patients die.
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