Books like Real World
12 books with a reading profile close to Real World by Natsuo Kirino. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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These Violent Delights
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
In 1970s Pittsburgh, Paul Fleischer, a solitary college student mourning his father's suicide, meets the charismatic and affluent Julian Loscalzo.
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The Silent Wife
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
Todd and Jodi share an affluent life in Chicago, maintaining a twenty-year domestic partnership built on silence and denial.
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Confessions
by Kanae Minato
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
Yuko Moriguchi, a middle school teacher, announces her resignation following the death of her four-year-old daughter, Manami.
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The Dinner
by Herman Koch
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
In an upscale Amsterdam restaurant, two couples meet for a multi-course meal to discuss a horrific crime committed by their teenage sons.
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The Perfect Nanny
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
The story opens with the discovery of two murdered children in a Parisian apartment.
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The Killer Inside Me
by Jim Thompson
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
Lou Ford is a deputy sheriff in Central City, Texas, who presents himself to the town as a polite, slow-talking, and dull-witted lawman.
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The Last House on Needless Street
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
In a boarded-up house at the end of a dead-end street, Ted Corden lives in isolation with his daughter, Lauren, and his religious cat, Olivia.
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Room
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
Jack lives in a single, locked room with his mother, whom he calls Ma.
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9
Invisible Monsters
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
Shannon McFarland is a rising fashion model until a gunshot destroys her jaw, leaving her unable to speak and hiding her face behind a veil.
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10
Fight Club
thriller, psychology
An insomniac office worker finds relief from his corporate boredom by engaging in underground bare-knuckle boxing matches orchestrated by Tyler Durden, a charismatic soap salesman.
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The Collector
by John Fowles
Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology
Frederick Clegg, a socially isolated clerk who spends his time identifying and pinning butterfly specimens, wins a large sum of money and uses it to purchase a secluded country estate.
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