Books like Death in Her Hands
12 books with a reading profile close to Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh. Inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Alias Grace
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · mystery, psychology
In 1843, sixteen-year-old servant Grace Marks is convicted of the murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and his housekeeper, Nancy Montgomery.
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Broken Harbor
Also inward-looking and open-ended · mystery, psychology
Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy arrives at Brianstown, a half-finished "ghost estate" stalled by the Irish financial collapse.
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In the Woods
by Tana French
Also inward-looking and open-ended · mystery, psychology
Dublin detective Rob Ryan investigates the murder of a twelve-year-old girl found at an archaeological site in the woods of Knocknaree.
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4
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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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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When We Were Orphans
Also inward-looking and open-ended · 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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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
Also 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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Nothing Can Hurt You
Also inward-looking · mystery, psychology
In 1997, college student Sara Morgan is murdered by her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, who escapes a prison sentence through a successful temporary insanity plea.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · mystery, psychology
Fifteen-year-old Christopher Boone discovers his neighbor’s poodle, Wellington, killed with a garden fork.
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History of Wolves
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Fourteen-year-old Linda lives in a former commune in the woods of Northern Minnesota, isolated by her parents’ counterculture lifestyle and her own social alienation.
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Eileen
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Set in a 1964 New England winter, the story follows Eileen Dunlop, a young woman trapped in a cycle of self-loathing and squalor.
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The Idiot
by Elif Batuman
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Set in 1995, the narrative follows Selin, a linguistics student navigating her first year at Harvard.
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