Books like…

Books Like Room

by Emma Donoghue · about this book

Loved Room by Emma Donoghue? If its first person narrator, child narrator and emotional hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Lolita, Good Morning, Monster and What My Bones Know. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Room: First Person Narrator · Child Narrator · Emotional · Single Mother · Kidnapping Plot

1. 

   Lolita

   Vladimir Nabokov

   Sexual Assault Content · Childhood Trauma · Child Abuse · Loss of Innocence · Kidnapping Plot

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2. 

   Good Morning, Monster

   Catherine Gildiner

   Trauma Recovery · Childhood Trauma · Child Abuse · PTSD · Sexual Assault

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3. 

   What My Bones Know

   Stephanie Foo

   Trauma Recovery · PTSD · Child Abuse · Childhood Trauma · Emotional

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4. 

   The Lovely Bones

   Alice Sebold

   Haunting · Sexual Assault Content · Loss of Innocence · Child Narrator · Emotional

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5. 

   Strange Sally Diamond

   Liz Nugent

   Kidnapping Plot · Child Abuse · Childhood Trauma · Sexual Assault Content · Tense and Suspenseful

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6. 

   These Silent Woods

   Kimi Cunningham Grant

   Kidnapping Plot · PTSD · Character-Driven · Tense and Suspenseful · Bittersweet

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7. 

   When We Were Silent

   Fiona McPhillips

   Sexual Assault · Child Abuse · Sexual Assault Content · Intense · Emotional

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8. 

   NO EXIT

   Taylor Adams

   Locked In Together · Kidnapping Plot · Kids in Danger · Survival Story · Intense

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9. 

   Long Bright River

   Liz Moore

   Single Mother · Childhood Trauma · Sexual Assault · Character-Driven · Literary Fiction

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10. 

    The Nightingale

    Kristin Hannah

    Survival Story · Sexual Assault Content · Haunting · Emotional · Bittersweet

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11. 

    Imaginary Friend

    Stephen Chbosky

    Single Mother · Kids in Danger · Intense · Child Narrator · Child Abuse

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12. 

    My Name Is Venus Black

    Heather Lloyd

    Trauma Recovery · Child Abuse · Emotional · Kidnapping Plot · Literary Fiction

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13. 

    Kiss the Girls

    James Patterson

    Kidnapping Plot · Sexual Assault Content · Sexual Assault · Intense · Tense and Suspenseful

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14. 

    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Ocean Vuong

    Haunting · Child Abuse · PTSD · Emotional · Character-Driven

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15. 

    Sunrise on the Reaping

    Suzanne Collins

    Loss of Innocence · Survival Story · Kids in Danger · Intense · Emotional

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16. 

    The Diary of a Young Girl

    Anne Frank

    Locked In Together · Survival Story · Haunting · Emotional · Character-Driven

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17. 

    The Dog Stars

    Peter Heller

    Survival Story · Character-Driven · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Bittersweet

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18. 

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Harper Lee

    Child Narrator · Loss of Innocence · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven · Bittersweet

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19. 

    Never Let Me Go

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Haunting · Loss of Innocence · Character-Driven · Emotional · First Person Narrator

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20. 

    The Return of Ellie Black

    Emiko Jean

    Kidnapping Plot · Kids in Danger · Tense and Suspenseful · Childhood Trauma · Trauma Recovery

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