Books like All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
12 books with a reading profile close to All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Big Swiss
by Jen Beagin
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Greta lives in a drafty, unheated farmhouse in Hudson, New York, where she works as a transcriptionist for a sex therapist.
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2
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Five years after the car accident that killed her husband, Feyi Adekola is finally re-entering the dating scene in Brooklyn.
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3
Evenings and Weekends
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set during a sweltering weekend in London, the narrative follows a group of interconnected friends navigating the precariousness of the modern city.
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4
Travesuras de la niña mala
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Ricardo, a Peruvian translator who lives in Paris, first falls for Lily, a Chilean girl in Lima in the 1950s.
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5
Exciting Times
by Naoise Dolan
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Ava is a twenty-two-year-old Irish expatriate teaching English to wealthy children in Hong Kong.
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6
Swimming in the Dark
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in early 1980s Poland during the decline of the communist regime, the story follows Ludwik Glowacki, a university student who falls in love with the charismatic Janusz at an agricultural summer camp.
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7
Sunburn
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in the early 1990s in the rural Irish village of Crosshaven, this novel follows Lucy, a teenager navigating the oppressive social expectations of a small Catholic community.
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8
Eva Luna
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Eva Luna is born to a servant mother and a gardener father in an unnamed South American country, and her mother tells her stories to survive.
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9
The Gargoyle
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.
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10
The Paper Palace
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Elle Bishop, a middle-aged woman, spends twenty-four hours at her family’s summer camp in Cape Cod, known as The Paper Palace.
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11
In Memoriam
by Alice Winn
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1914, Gaunt and Ellwood are students at Preshute College, an elite English boarding school where they hide their romantic feelings for one another behind a shared obsession with epic poetry.
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12
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
by Kiran Desai
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Sonia and Sunny are two individuals navigating the isolation of contemporary urban life while attempting to maintain a long-distance connection.
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