Books like Release
12 books with a reading profile close to Release by Patrick Ness. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
This Must Be the Place
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Daniel Sullivan, an American linguist, lives in a remote farmhouse in Ireland with his second wife, Claudette Wells, a famously reclusive former film star.
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2
The Wife
by Meg Wolitzer
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Joan Castleman has stood beside her husband Joe, a celebrated novelist, for decades.
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3
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Deesha Philyaw’s short story collection centers on the private lives of Black women navigating the tension between traditional Christian morality and their own physical desires.
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4
Same As It Ever Was
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Julia Ames is fifty-seven when her life begins to unravel through a series of unexpected encounters in a grocery store and the complicated return of her adult son.
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5
Animal Dreams
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Codi Noline returns to her rural Arizona hometown to care for her father, a doctor descending into Alzheimer’s disease.
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6
Deep Cuts
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Deep Cuts investigates the evolution of independent music scenes and the technical shifts in how listeners discover underground artists.
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7
French Braid
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The Garrett family of Baltimore are followed over several decades, starting in 1959 when Mercy and David Garrett go on a family vacation to a lakeside spot.
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8
The Unseen World
by Liz Moore
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a 1980s computer science laboratory, the story follows Ada Sibelius, a young girl homeschooled by her father, David, a brilliant researcher developing an artificial intelligence program nicknamed ELIXIR.
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9
We the Animals
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Three brothers, the youngest of whom narrates, grow up in upstate New York with a Puerto Rican father and a white mother who love them fiercely and also hurt them.
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10
If I Had Your Face
by Frances Cha
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in contemporary Seoul, the novel follows four women as they navigate a rigid social hierarchy dictated by plastic surgery, debt, and the commercial sex industry.
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11
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
by Angie Cruz
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Set in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the narrative follows Cara Romero, a woman in her sixties who loses her factory job of twenty-five years.
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12
So Late in the Day
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
On a bright Friday in Dublin, Cathal sits at his office desk counting down the hours until the workday ends.
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