Books like Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
12 books with a reading profile close to Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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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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2
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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Nightbitch
by Rachel Yoder
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
An unnamed artist pauses her career to stay at home with her toddler, only to find the monotony and isolation of domestic labor triggering a physical mutation.
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Going Bovine
by Libba Bray
narrative, literary
Sixteen-year-old Cameron Smith lives a listless existence until he is diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal condition commonly known as Mad Cow Disease.
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Wonder Boys
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Grady Tripp, a middle-aged English professor in Pittsburgh, wrote a successful novel years ago and has spent seven years trying to finish a second one, which has grown to thousands of pages.
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Writers & Lovers
by Lily King
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Set in 1997 Massachusetts, the narrative follows Casey Peabody, a thirty-one-year-old waitress mourning her mother’s sudden death while struggling to finish a novel she has worked on for six years.
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Fleishman Is in Trouble
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Toby Fleishman is a forty-one-year-old hepatologist navigating the immediate aftermath of a bitter divorce in Manhattan.
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Vladimir
narrative, accessible
A popular English professor at a small liberal arts college faces a social crisis when her husband, the chair of the department, is investigated for past sexual misconduct with students.
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Ripe
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Cassie works at Veda, a high-pressure tech company in Silicon Valley where she endures toxic corporate hierarchies and the skyrocketing cost of living.
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Sweetbitter
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The story follows twenty-two-year-old Tess, who moves to New York City and secures a position as a backwaiter at a high-end Union Square restaurant.
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A Spark of Light
by Jodi Picoult
narrative, accessible
The novel takes place in a single day at a women's reproductive health clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, where a gunman takes hostages.
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Tampa
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Celeste Price is a beautiful, married eighth-grade teacher in Tampa, Florida, who is sexually obsessed with fourteen-year-old boys.
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