Books like Affinity
12 books with a reading profile close to Affinity by Sarah Waters. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Reader
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · history, psychology
In late 1950s West Germany, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg begins a secret sexual affair with Hanna Schmitz, a tram conductor twice his age.
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At Night All Blood is Black
by David Diop
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · history, psychology
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese Tirailleur fighting for France in the trenches of World War I.
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House of Sand and Fog
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Kathy Nicolo, a recovering addict, loses her small California bungalow due to a bureaucratic tax error.
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Still Born
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
In Mexico City, Laura and her close friend Alina reach their thirties with a shared resolve to remain childless.
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Eileen
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Set in a 1964 New England winter, the story follows Eileen Dunlop, a young woman trapped in a cycle of self-loathing and squalor.
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The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood, Deborah Simmons
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Set in contemporary Toronto, the narrative follows three former college friends—Tony, Roz, and Charis—who believe their shared nemesis, Zenia, died in an explosion years ago.
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History of Wolves
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Fourteen-year-old Linda lives in a former commune in the woods of Northern Minnesota, isolated by her parents’ counterculture lifestyle and her own social alienation.
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Lady Oracle
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Joan Foster fakes her own death by drowning in Lake Ontario to escape a messy entanglement of secret identities.
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The Lying Life of Adults
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Giovanna, a teenager living in an upper-class neighborhood in Naples, overhears her father compare her appearance to his estranged sister, Vittoria.
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The Idiot
by Elif Batuman
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Set in 1995, the narrative follows Selin, a linguistics student navigating her first year at Harvard.
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The Night Watch
by Sarah Waters
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · history, literary
Set in London during and immediately after the Second World War, the narrative moves backward in time from 1947 to 1941.
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