Books like Le Consentement
12 books with a reading profile close to Le Consentement by Vanessa Springora. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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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.
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
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.
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Heart Berries
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.
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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.
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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.
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Arundhati Roy's 'Mother Mary Comes To Me' is a collection of essays and non-fiction pieces rather than a novel, despite the evocative title.
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How to Say Babylon
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Safiya Sinclair recounts her childhood in Jamaica under the rigid authority of her father, a strict Rastafarian musician who enforced a sequestered life to protect his daughters from "Babylon," his term for the corrupti…
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Girl, Interrupted
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.
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This Is How You Lose Her
by Junot Díaz
Also inward-looking · psychology, literary
Yunior is a Dominican-American man who struggles with chronic infidelity and the emotional fallout of his choices.
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Sybil
Also inward-looking · memoir, psychology
Flora Rheta Schreiber documents the psychiatric case of Shirley Ardell Mason, referred to by the pseudonym Sybil Dorsett.
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The Basketball Diaries
by Jim Carroll
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Jim Carroll's memoir draws on diaries he kept as a teenager in 1960s New York, between ages twelve and sixteen.
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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.
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