Books like Breasts and Eggs
12 books with a reading profile close to Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
All the Lovers in the Night
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her mid-thirties who lives a solitary, ritualistic life in Tokyo.
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2
Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Peter and Ivan Koubek are brothers navigating personal crises following their father's death.
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3
Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Alice Munro's collection has eight stories, many set in rural Ontario.
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4
Heaven
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In a Japanese middle school, a fourteen-year-old boy suffers daily physical and psychological torment from his classmates because of his lazy eye.
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5
The Days of Abandonment
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
When Mario abruptly announces he is leaving their fifteen-year marriage, Olga is stranded in a Turin apartment with two young children and a dog.
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6
Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
The novel documents the twenty-four-year marriage of Lotto and Mathilde Satterwhite, beginning with their impulsive college graduation wedding and following their ascent into the New York elite.
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7
My Dark Vanessa
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In 2000, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye begins a sexual relationship with her forty-two-year-old English teacher, Jacob Strane, at a Maine boarding school.
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8
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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9
Sally Rooney 3 Books Collection Set
by Sally Rooney
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
This collection gathers Sally Rooney’s early prose, focusing on the intricate social dynamics and intimate exchanges between young adults in modern Ireland.
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10
A Little Life
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Hanya Yanagihara’s novel follows four college classmates—Willem, JB, Malcolm, and Jude—as they navigate adulthood in New York City.
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Real Life
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Wallace, a Black queer doctoral student from Alabama, navigates a tense weekend at a predominantly white Midwestern university.
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12
L'Avversario
Also deep and inward-looking · 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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