Books like Alias Grace
12 books with a reading profile close to Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Death in Her Hands
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · mystery, psychology
Vesta Gul, a seventy-two-year-old widow living in a remote forest cabin, discovers a handwritten note claiming a woman named Maggs was murdered.
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2
When We Were Orphans
Also deep and inward-looking · mystery, psychology
Christopher Banks, a celebrated detective in 1930s London, remains haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his parents in the International Settlement of Shanghai decades earlier.
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3
The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Also deep and inward-looking · mystery, psychology
Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, Richard Papen joins an elite circle of five students at Hampden College dedicated to Greek antiquity.
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Elizabeth Is Missing
by Emma Healey
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · mystery, psychology
Maud Horsham is an eighty-year-old woman living with worsening dementia.
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Broken Harbor
Also inward-looking · mystery, psychology
Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy arrives at Brianstown, a half-finished "ghost estate" stalled by the Irish financial collapse.
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Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · mystery, psychology
The story begins in 1970s Ohio with the discovery of Lydia Lee’s body in a local lake.
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The Likeness
by Tana French
Also inward-looking · mystery, psychology
Detective Cassie Maddox is pulled back into undercover work when a young woman is found murdered in a derelict cottage outside Dublin.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Also inward-looking and contemplative · mystery, psychology
Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, killed with a garden fork.
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9
Quan érem orfes
by Kazuo Ishiguro, Xavier Pàmies Giménez
Also inward-looking and contemplative · psychology, literary
In the English translation by Xavier Pàmies Giménez, Christopher Banks is a celebrated London detective during the 1930s who remains fixated on the disappearance of his parents in Shanghai decades earlier.
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Surfacing
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
An unnamed female protagonist returns to her childhood home on a desolate island in northern Quebec to investigate her father's unexplained disappearance.
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Crossroads
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
In suburban Chicago on a single day in 1971, the Hildebrandt family faces individual crises of faith and morality.
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12
Bluebeard's Egg and other stories
Also deep and contemplative · psychology, literary
In this collection, Margaret Atwood presents twelve stories centered on the domestic friction and inner lives of Canadian women during the late twentieth century.
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