Ordinary People | Suggested Reading

Ordinary People What Do I Read Next?

Second Heaven, Judith Guest's second novel, was published in 1982 and deals with some of the same themes as Ordinary People. At the heart of the book is a troubled teenager who is struggling to escape his abusive father with the help of his lawyer and a recently divorced woman who takes him in.

Errands, Judith Guest's 1997 novel, continues her themes of suburbanites struggling to connect and heal in a story dealing with the death of a father and husband.

Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir, discusses the author's hospitalization for depression at age eighteen and her transition from mental patient to productive adult

A Separate Peace (1959), by John Knowles, sensitively sketches the friendship of two adolescent boys (one of whom dies in an accident) at a prep school in New England during World Warn.

A Map of the World (1994), by Jane Hamilton,...
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