Books like South of the Border, West of the Sun
12 books with a reading profile close to South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Normal People
by Sally Rooney
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · romance, narrative
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 deep and inward-looking · romance, narrative
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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Hot Milk
by Deborah Levy
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Sofia Papastergiadis, a frustrated doctoral student, travels with her mother, Rose, to a private medical clinic in Almería, Spain.
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4
The Virgin Suicides
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
Set in a 1970s Detroit suburb, the novel follows the five Lisbon sisters—Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary, and Therese—who all commit suicide within a single year.
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Eileen
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Set in a 1964 New England winter, the story follows Eileen Dunlop, a young woman trapped in a cycle of self-loathing and squalor.
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Conversations With Friends
by Sally Rooney
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Frances is a university student and aspiring poet in Dublin who performs spoken word pieces with her former girlfriend and best friend, Bobbi.
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Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki And His Years Of Pilgrimage
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Tsukuru Tazaki is a railway engineer in Tokyo whose life is defined by a sudden, unexplained rejection from his tight-knit group of high school friends.
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The Idiot
by Elif Batuman
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Set in 1995, the narrative follows Selin, a linguistics student navigating her first year at Harvard.
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History of Wolves
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Fourteen-year-old Linda lives in a former commune in the woods of Northern Minnesota, isolated by her parents’ counterculture lifestyle and her own social alienation.
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On Chesil Beach
by Ian McEwan
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Set in 1962, the novella follows Edward Mayhew and Florence Ponting on their wedding night at a hotel on the Dorset coast.
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11
L'Avversario
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
On January 9, 1993, Jean-Claude Romand killed his wife, his children, and his parents before attempting to take his own life.
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Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, psychology
The novel documents the twenty-four-year marriage of Lotto and Mathilde Satterwhite, beginning with their impulsive college graduation wedding and following their ascent into the New York elite.
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