Books like A Girl's Story
12 books with a reading profile close to A Girl's Story by Annie Ernaux. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Alison Bechdel reconstructs her childhood lived inside a meticulously restored Victorian mansion that doubled as the family-run funeral home.
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2
The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Joan Didion documents the first twelve moon cycles following the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne.
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3
Girl, Interrupted
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Susanna Kaysen recounts her eighteen-month stay at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility, after a suicide attempt and a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder in 1967.
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Kay Redfield Jamison provides a clinical and personal account of living with manic-depressive illness while maintaining a career as a professor of psychiatry.
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The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Published in 1995, Mary Karr’s memoir recreates her volatile childhood in the 1960s within a gritty East Texas oil town.
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Heavy
by Kiese Laymon
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, narrative
In this memoir, Kiese Laymon addresses his mother to recount a childhood in Jackson, Mississippi, shaped by academic rigor and physical discipline.
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
by Olivia Laing
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, psychology
After moving to New York City and experiencing a period of intense isolation, Olivia Laing investigates the social and psychological mechanics of loneliness through the lens of twentieth-century American art.
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Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, narrative
In August 2022, thirty-three years after the fatwa against him, Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage at the Chautauqua Institution.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Thirteen-year-old Jojo lives with his grandparents and toddler sister on the Mississippi Gulf Coast while his mother, Leonie, struggles with drug addiction and grief.
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The Door
by Magda Szabó
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
The narrative centers on the evolving relationship between a young Hungarian writer and her aging housekeeper, Emerence.
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11
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, narrative
In 1990, Liliana Rivera Garza was murdered in Mexico City by an ex-boyfriend who refused to accept the end of their relationship.
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Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Gifty is a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she studies reward-seeking behavior in mice to understand the neural pathways of addiction and depression.
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