Books like Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
12 books with a reading profile close to Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame by Charles Bukowski. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Red at the Bone
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
The narrative begins at a 2001 debutante ball in a Brooklyn brownstone, celebrating the sixteenth birthday of Melody.
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2
Detransition, Baby
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
The story centers on Reese, a trans woman in New York whose life is stalled by self-destruction and a lack of traditional domestic paths.
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3
Prep
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Lee Fiora, a girl from a modest family in Indiana, wins a scholarship to the Ault School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
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Migrations
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Franny Stone travels to Greenland to track the final migration of Arctic terns, a species nearing extinction in a world depleted of wildlife.
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Either/Or
by Elif Batuman
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Set in 1996, the story follows Selin Karadağ during her sophomore year at Harvard as she attempts to construct a life based on aesthetic and literary principles.
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Writers & Lovers
by Lily King
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Set in 1997 Massachusetts, the narrative follows Casey Peabody, a thirty-one-year-old waitress mourning her mother’s sudden death while struggling to finish a novel she has worked on for six years.
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The Magician's Assistant
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Sabine, a magician's assistant, has spent twenty years working with Parsifal, a gay magician, and living with him in Los Angeles.
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Long Way Down
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Fifteen-year-old Will Holloman sits in an elevator with a gun tucked into his waistband, intending to kill the man who shot his brother, Shawn.
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How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met.
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10
A Man Without a Country
accessible, literary
This collection of short essays serves as a final public address on the state of American life and the health of the planet.
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11
Interesting Facts about Space
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Enid Hoffman is a deaf woman who manages her chronic anxiety through a fixation on space trivia and a compulsive habit of monitoring local crime reports.
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12
Commonwealth
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
The story begins at a 1960s christening party in Southern California, where a chance kiss between Bert Cousins and Beverly Keating leads to the dissolution of two marriages.
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