Books like Milk Fed
12 books with a reading profile close to Milk Fed by Melissa Broder. Inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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All Fours
by Miranda July
Also inward-looking and open-ended · narrative, literary
A forty-five-year-old artist abandons a planned cross-country drive from Los Angeles to New York, instead checking into a nondescript motel just thirty miles from her home.
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2
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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3
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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Rejection
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Tony Tulathimutte’s story collection centers on the psychological mechanics of social and sexual exclusion in the internet age.
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5
Men Without Women
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Across seven short stories, various men cope with the physical or emotional absence of women in their lives.
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6
First Person Singular: Stories
Also inward-looking and open-ended · narrative, literary
Eight stories by Haruki Murakami, most narrated in the first person by men looking back at odd episodes in their lives.
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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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Intimacies
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
An unnamed female interpreter moves from New York to The Hague to work at the International Criminal Court.
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9
Bridge of Clay
by Markus Zusak
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Matthew Dunbar, the eldest of five brothers, tells how the boys were raised alone in a Sydney house after their mother's death and their father's disappearance.
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10
The Discomfort of Evening
by Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchison
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
On a strict Reformed dairy farm in the rural Netherlands, ten-year-old Jas navigates the disintegration of her family following the accidental drowning of her older brother.
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11
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Also inward-looking and open-ended · narrative, literary
This collection of short stories presents the domestic lives of working-class people living in the Pacific Northwest and American West.
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12
Boy, Snow, Bird
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In 1953, Boy Novak flees her abusive father in New York City and settles in Flax Hill, Massachusetts.
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