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Books like Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit

12 books with a reading profile close to Je ne suis pas sortie de ma nuit by Annie Ernaux. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

1

Heart Berries

by Terese Marie Mailhot

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

Terese Marie Mailhot writes a series of essays documenting her time in a mental health facility following a post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II diagnosis.
2

Le Consentement

by Vanessa Springora

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

In this memoir, Vanessa Springora details her relationship as a thirteen-year-old girl with the celebrated writer Gabriel Matzneff, who was then fifty.
3

Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

by William Styron

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

In this memoir, William Styron documents his descent into a paralyzing clinical depression that began during a trip to Paris in 1985.
4

Autobiography of a Face

by Lucy Grealy

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

Lucy Grealy describes her childhood diagnosis of Ewing’s sarcoma and the subsequent removal of much of her jawbone.
5

The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

by Olivia Laing

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

After moving to New York City and experiencing a period of intense isolation, Olivia Laing investigates the social and psychological mechanics of loneliness through the lens of twentieth-century American art.
6

Girl, Interrupted

by Susanna Kaysen

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

Susanna Kaysen recounts her eighteen-month stay at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility, after a suicide attempt and a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder in 1967.
7

The Liars' Club

by Mary Karr

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

Published in 1995, Mary Karr’s memoir recreates her volatile childhood in the 1960s within a gritty East Texas oil town.
8

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

by Kay Redfield Jamison

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

Kay Redfield Jamison provides a clinical and personal account of living with manic-depressive illness while maintaining a career as a professor of psychiatry.
9

My Body

by Emily Ratajkowski

Also inward-looking · memoir, literary

In this collection of personal essays, Emily Ratajkowski examines the commodification of female beauty through her career as a high-fashion model and actress.
10

The Year of Magical Thinking

by Joan Didion

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

Joan Didion documents the first twelve moon cycles following the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne.
11

Letters to Milena

by Franz Kafka

Also inward-looking · memoir, literary

Franz Kafka’s correspondence with Milena Jesenská begins as a professional exchange regarding the translation of his prose into Czech but quickly pivots into a private record of obsessive emotional attachment.
12

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

by Alison Bechdel

Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology

Alison Bechdel follows her previous memoir about her father with this investigation into her relationship with her mother, Helen.

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