Books like The Storyteller
If you liked The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Pact
Because also by Jodi Picoult; shares tags: fiction, family.
After Emily Gold dies from a gunshot, her boyfriend Chris Harte says it was a suicide pact and faces trial for murder.
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Nineteen Minutes
Because also by Jodi Picoult; shares tags: fiction, family.
Sterling High student Peter Haddon commits a school shooting and lawyer Jordan McAfee defends him while Josie Cormier hides truth.
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My Sister's Keeper
Because also by Jodi Picoult; shares tags: fiction, family.
Thirteen-year-old Anna sues her parents for medical emancipation so she can refuse to give her dying sister Kate a kidney.
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The Measure
Because shares tags: fiction, family.
Small wooden boxes arrive for every adult, each holding a string that shows life length. Eight people decide if they will open theirs.
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Olive Kitteridge
Because shares tags: fiction, family.
Thirteen linked stories orbit blunt Crosby teacher Olive, husband Henry and son Christopher through love, aging and Maine small-town life.
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My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises
Because shares tags: fiction, family.
Seven-year-old Elsa loses her granny and best friend, then delivers apology letters to neighbours while holding onto fairy tales of Miamas…
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Still Alice
Because shares tags: fiction, family.
Harvard professor Alice Howland faces early onset Alzheimer's and her family must adapt as memory fades.
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Because shares tags: holocaust, family.
Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir.
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Sarah's Key
Because shares tags: holocaust, family.
In 1942 Paris Sarah locks her brother to save him, then vanishes. Sixty years later journalist Julia traces her, exposing family guilt and…
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Wish You Were Here
Because also by Jodi Picoult; shares tag: fiction.
Diana goes to the Galapagos alone when Covid keeps her boyfriend in New York, and being stranded there forces her to rethink her job and…
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Where the Heart Is
Because shares tag: fiction.
Pregnant teen Novalee Nation is abandoned at a Sequoyah, Oklahoma Wal-Mart, where she gives birth to Americus and rebuilds life with town…
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The Summer of Broken Rules
Because shares tag: family.
Meredith plays Assassin at Vineyard wedding a year after sister Claire died.
