Books like Bluebeard's Egg and other stories
12 books with a reading profile close to Bluebeard's Egg and other stories by Margaret Atwood. Deep, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Quan érem orfes
by Kazuo Ishiguro, Xavier Pàmies Giménez
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
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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2
Lady Oracle
Also thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Joan Foster fakes her own death by drowning in Lake Ontario to escape a messy entanglement of secret identities.
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3
The Robber Bride
by Margaret Atwood, Deborah Simmons
Also thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
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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4
The Lying Life of Adults
Also thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
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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5
Crossroads
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In suburban Chicago on a single day in 1971, the Hildebrandt family faces individual crises of faith and morality.
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6
Skippy Dies
by Paul Murray
Also deep and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Skippy is a fourteen-year-old boarding school student at Seabrook College, a Catholic school in Dublin, who dies in the first pages after collapsing in a doughnut shop.
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7
The Great Believers
Also contemplative and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In 1985 Chicago, Yale Tishman manages a gallery while his social circle disintegrates during the height of the AIDS epidemic.
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8
Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Also deep and contemplative · 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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9
Flesh
by David Szalay
Also thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Set in the heat of a Mediterranean summer, the narrative tracks the physical and psychological decline of a retired civil servant as his body begins to fail him.
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10
L'Avversario
Also deep · narrative, psychology
On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, and his parents before attempting to take his own life.
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11
Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
Also thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
On the night before her daughter Lolly's wedding, June Reid's house burns down, killing her daughter, Lolly's fiancé Will, her ex-husband Luke and her boyfriend Adam.
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12
The Death of Vivek Oji
Also thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
The novel begins with the discovery of Vivek’s lifeless body on his mother’s doorstep in southeastern Nigeria.
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