Books like A Prayer for Owen Meany
If you liked A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Because shares tags: coming of age, friendship, literary fiction.
Chbosky's Perks retold: Charlie's letters, Sam and Patrick, first year of high school in Pittsburgh.
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The Kite Runner
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age, friendship.
Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner retold: Amir and Hassan in Kabul, the alley, the escape to America, and the return to find Sohrab.
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The Remains of the Day
Because shares tags: literary fiction, classic.
Stevens, the perfect English butler, drives west in 1956 and looks back on Darlington Hall, Miss Kenton, and a life spent serving.
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The Namesake
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Jhumpa Lahiri follows Gogol Ganguli from a hated namesake to adult loss, marriage, and family reckoning between Calcutta and Boston.
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The Lincoln Highway
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Emmett and Billy plan California in 1954, but two escapees steal their car and drag them east to New York.
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The God of Small Things
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Twins Rahel and Estha grow up in Kerala in 1969, where family rules and caste lines shape a loss that follows them into adulthood.
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Because shares tags: coming of age, friendship.
Fourteen-year-old Junior leaves his Spokane reservation school for an all-white farm town, drawing cartoons through grief, basketball, and…
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Stargirl
Because shares tags: coming of age, friendship.
Leo Borlock likes blending in until homeschooled Stargirl Caraway arrives at Mica High with a ukulele, a pet rat, and kindness that tests…
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On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
A son writes to the mother who cannot read him: war, migration, first love, and loss in one Vietnamese American family in Hartford.
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Mrs. Dalloway
Because shares tags: classic, literary fiction.
Clarissa Dalloway gives a London party across one June day while veteran Septimus Smith faces shell shock in the same city.
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Go Set a Watchman
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb and finds her father changed: Lee's contested 2015 draft about family loyalty and race in Alabama.
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City of Girls
Because shares tags: coming of age, friendship.
City of Girls retold: a Vassar dropout, a shabby theater, one scandal, and a love like no other.
