Books like The Lovely Bones
If you liked The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Because shares tags: mystery, coming of age, family.
Curious Incident retold: Christopher finds Wellington dead, maps primes, seeks truth in Swindon.
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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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The Virgin Suicides
Because shares tags: coming of age, mystery.
Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
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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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Still Alice
Because shares tags: family, drama.
Harvard professor Alice Howland faces early onset Alzheimer's and her family must adapt as memory fades.
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She's Come Undone
Because shares tags: coming of age, family.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
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Running with Scissors
Because shares tags: family, coming of age.
A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.
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Nineteen Minutes
Because shares tags: drama, 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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Apples Never Fall
Because shares tags: family, mystery.
A retired tennis coach vanishes, and her four children rethink their family story.
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And the Mountains Echoed
Because shares tags: family, drama.
When Abdullah and Pari are split in 1952 Afghanistan, their parting echoes across decades from Kabul to Paris to California in linked…
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Because shares tags: coming of age, family.
Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.
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The Light Between Oceans
Because shares tags: drama, family.
Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and Isabel raise a boat baby on Janus Rock and face her true mother on shore.
