Books like Good-Bye, Chunky Rice
12 books with a reading profile close to Good-Bye, Chunky Rice by Craig Thompson. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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The Lover's Dictionary
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
This novel constructs the history of a single romantic relationship through a sequence of dictionary entries ordered alphabetically.
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Ghost World
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a fading American suburb, the story follows Enid Coleslaw and Rebecca Doppelmeyer, two cynical teenagers drifting through the summer after high school graduation.
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The Arrival
by Shaun Tan
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
In this wordless narrative, a man departs from a shadow-threatened city, leaving his wife and young daughter behind to find employment in a distant land.
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Ripe
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Cassie works at Veda, a high-pressure tech company in Silicon Valley where she endures toxic corporate hierarchies and the skyrocketing cost of living.
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Death Valley
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
An unnamed narrator flees a Los Angeles hotel and her dying father’s bedside to seek isolation in the high desert.
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Our Missing Hearts
by Celeste Ng
narrative, literary
Twelve-year-old Noah Gardner, known as Bird, lives in a future America governed by PACT: the Preserving American Culture and Traditions Act.
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Luster
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Edie is a young Black woman working an insecure publishing job while navigating a series of chaotic sexual encounters in New York.
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Nightbitch
by Rachel Yoder
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
An unnamed artist pauses her career to stay at home with her toddler, only to find the monotony and isolation of domestic labor triggering a physical mutation.
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
by Miranda July
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Miranda July's debut collection brings together sixteen stories about lonely, odd and hopeful people.
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Less Than Zero
Also thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Clay returns to Los Angeles from his eastern college for the winter break, and he drifts through a round of parties, nightclubs, and drives with friends who are rich, bored, and numb.
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Bad Girls
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In the city of Córdoba, Argentina, a group of trans women, travestis, work at night in a park and live together in a boarding house.
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Shark Heart
by Emily Habeck
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Newlyweds Wren and Lewis face a physiological crisis when Lewis is diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation that will gradually transform him into a great white shark.
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