Books like Heaven
12 books with a reading profile close to Heaven by Mieko Kawakami. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Alice Munro's collection has eight stories, many set in rural Ontario.
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2
Breasts and Eggs
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.
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3
Real Life
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.
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4
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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5
My Dark Vanessa
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.
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6
The Days of Abandonment
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
When Mario abruptly announces he is leaving their fifteen-year marriage, Olga is stranded in a Turin apartment with two young children and a dog.
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7
Conversations With Friends
by Sally Rooney
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Frances is a university student and aspiring poet in Dublin who performs spoken word pieces with her former girlfriend and best friend, Bobbi.
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8
All the Lovers in the Night
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her mid-thirties who lives a solitary, ritualistic life in Tokyo.
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9
Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
On the night before her daughter Lolly's wedding, June Reid's house burns down, killing her daughter, Lolly's fiancé Will, her ex-husband Luke and her boyfriend Adam.
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10
The Death of Vivek Oji
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
The novel begins with the discovery of Vivek’s lifeless body on his mother’s doorstep in southeastern Nigeria.
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11
Cat’s Eye
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Elaine Risley, a middle-aged painter, returns to Toronto for a retrospective of her art.
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12
The Woman Upstairs
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Nora Eldridge is a schoolteacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in her forties, once an aspiring artist, who has been living a careful, respectable life.
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