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Books like Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

12 books with a reading profile close to Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

No Longer Human

by Junji Ito, Osamu Dazai

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Yozo Oba lives behind a literal and figurative mask, faking a persona of a cheerful clown to hide his profound alienation from the human race.
2

Normal People By Sally Rooney & Milkman By Anna Burns 2 Books Collection Set

by Sally Rooney, Anna Burns

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology

This collection brings together two distinct portraits of Irish life and social pressure.
3

We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

by Karen Joy Fowler

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology

Rosemary Cooke begins her college years by narrating her family's collapse, a disintegration sparked by the disappearance of her sister Fern and her brother Lowell.
4

My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Set in New York City during the year 2000, the narrative follows an unnamed narrator who decides to hibernate for an entire year.
5

Martyr!

by Kaveh Akbar

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Cyrus Shams is a young Iranian immigrant living in the Midwest who struggles with sobriety and a fixation on historical martyrdom.
6

Greek Lessons

by Han Kang

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology

In a classroom in Seoul, a woman who has lost her ability to speak begins studying Ancient Greek.
7

My Dark Vanessa

by Kate Elizabeth Russell

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.
8

Heaven

by Mieko Kawakami

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.
9

Breasts and Eggs

by Mieko Kawakami

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Natsu is a struggling writer living in Tokyo who receives a visit from her older sister, Makiko, and her niece, Midoriko.
10

Challenger Deep

by Neal Shusterman

Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Caden Bosch is a bright teenager who is slipping into mental illness.
11

Real Life

by Brandon Taylor

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.
12

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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