Books like No One Belongs Here More Than You
12 books with a reading profile close to No One Belongs Here More Than You by Miranda July. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
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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2
Shark Heart
by Emily Habeck
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Newlyweds Wren and Lewis face a physiological crisis when Lewis is diagnosed with a rare genetic mutation that will gradually transform him into a great white shark.
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3
The Lover's Dictionary
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
This novel constructs the history of a single romantic relationship through a sequence of dictionary entries ordered alphabetically.
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First Person Singular: Stories
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · 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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Milk Fed
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Rachel is a twenty-four-year-old assistant in Los Angeles who manages a strict cycle of calorie counting and punishing exercise to suppress her physical and emotional desires.
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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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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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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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Love Is a Dog from Hell
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Published in 1977, this collection gathers Charles Bukowski’s poetry written between 1974 and 1977.
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Doce cuentos peregrinos
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Doce cuentos peregrinos follows Latin American migrants living throughout Europe, from the rainy streets of Geneva to the apartments of Barcelona and Rome.
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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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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · 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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