Books like Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead
12 books with a reading profile close to Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily R. Austin. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Celestial and Roy are a young Black couple in Atlanta building a life together when their marriage is fractured by a wrongful conviction.
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2
Sorrow and Bliss
by Meg Mason
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Martha Friel is forty years old, her marriage to Patrick is ending, and she has spent most of her adult life navigating a severe, unnamed psychiatric disorder.
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3
She’s Come Undone
by Wally Lamb
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Dolores Price begins her story as a smart-mouthed girl in the 1950s whose life unravels after her parents’ marriage collapses and a neighbor commits a violent act of sexual assault against her.
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4
The Names
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set against the backdrop of the early twentieth century, Florence Knapp’s historical narrative follows a group of young people navigating the shifting social hierarchies and industrial changes of their era.
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5
The Girls
by Emma Cline
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set in Northern California during the late 1960s, the narrative follows fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd as she becomes mesmerized by a group of older girls led by the magnetic Suzanne.
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White Oleander
by Janet Fitch
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Astrid Magnussen is a young teenager living in Los Angeles whose life fractures when her mother, the poet Ingrid, murders a former lover with the poison of white oleander flowers.
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7
Stay with Me
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
In 1980s Nigeria, Yejide and Akin navigate a marriage defined by their mutual decision to reject polygamy.
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8
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
by Aimee Bender
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
On her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into a homemade lemon cake and inadvertently discovers she can taste her mother’s hidden emotions within the ingredients.
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9
Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Jules Moreau and his two siblings, Marty and Liz, grow up in a protected household until a car accident kills both of their parents.
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10
Goodbye, Vitamin
by Rachel Khong
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Ruth, thirty years old, has lost her fiancé and her job, and she goes home to California to help care for her father Howard, a retired history professor with Alzheimer's.
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11
Sana Soyleyemedigim Her Sey
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set in 1970s Ohio, the narrative begins with the disappearance and subsequent death of Lydia Lee, the favorite child of a Chinese-American family.
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Sana Anlatmadigim Her Sey
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set in 1970s Ohio, the narrative begins with the death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a biracial family.
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