Books like Normale Menschen
12 books with a reading profile close to Normale Menschen by Sally Rooney. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, psychology
Connell Waldron and Marianne Sheridan navigate a shifting power dynamic that begins in a small high school in County Sligo.
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Norwegian Wood
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, psychology
Set in late 1960s Tokyo, this novel follows university student Toru Watanabe as he navigates the aftermath of his best friend Kizuki’s suicide.
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White Nights
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, psychology
Set during the luminous summer twilight of Saint Petersburg, the story follows a lonely narrator who lives almost entirely within his own imagination.
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South of the Border, West of the Sun
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, psychology
Hajime is a successful jazz club owner in Tokyo who leads a stable, middle-class life with a wife and two daughters.
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Sorrow and Bliss
by Meg Mason
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Martha Friel is forty years old, her marriage to Patrick is ending, and she has spent most of her adult life navigating a severe, unnamed psychiatric disorder.
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More Happy Than Not
by Adam Silvera
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
In the wake of his father’s suicide, sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto struggles to find happiness in his Bronx housing project.
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Lie With Me
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary
In a hotel lobby in 2007, a chance encounter triggers a memory for the narrator, Philippe, returning him to 1984 in rural France.
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Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Leonard Peacock carries a P-38 Nazi handgun in his backpack on his eighteenth birthday.
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Sing You Home
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · psychology, literary
Zoe Baxter and her husband, Max, have spent years trying to have a baby, going through hormone treatments, IVF, and miscarriages.
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The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, literary
After her parents die in a car accident, Cameron Post moves to rural Montana to live with her conservative aunt and grandmother.
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Stay with Me
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
In 1980s Nigeria, Yejide and Akin navigate a marriage defined by their mutual decision to reject polygamy.
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Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Jules Moreau and his two siblings, Marty and Liz, grow up in a protected household until a car accident kills both of their parents.
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