Books like Never Let Me Go
12 books with a reading profile close to Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Bewilderment
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, science fiction
Astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for signs of life on light-years-distant planets while raising his neurodivergent nine-year-old son, Robin, following the death of his wife.
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The Door
by Magda Szabó
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
The narrative centers on the evolving relationship between a young Hungarian writer and her aging housekeeper, Emerence.
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Intermezzo
by Sally Rooney
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Peter and Ivan Koubek are brothers navigating personal crises following their father's death.
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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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A Pale View of Hills
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Etsuko, a Japanese widow living in England, reflects on a single summer in post-war Nagasaki following the suicide of her eldest daughter, Keiko.
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Klara and the Sun
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, science fiction
Klara is an Artificial Friend, a solar-powered solar-observing android waiting in a storefront to be chosen by a child.
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
by Jesmyn Ward
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Thirteen-year-old Jojo lives with his grandparents and toddler sister on the Mississippi Gulf Coast while his mother, Leonie, struggles with drug addiction and grief.
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Hot Milk
by Deborah Levy
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Sofia Papastergiadis, a frustrated doctoral student, travels with her mother, Rose, to a private medical clinic in Almería, Spain.
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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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10
Life Before Man
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set in Toronto during the late 1970s, the narrative centers on a stagnant love triangle between Elizabeth, her husband Nate, and his lover Lesje.
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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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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, psychology
Tsukuru Tazaki is a railway engineer in Tokyo whose life is defined by a sudden, unexplained rejection from his tight-knit group of high school friends.
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