Books like Surfacing
12 books with a reading profile close to Surfacing by Margaret Atwood. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Asterios Polyp
Also deep and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Asterios Polyp is a high-concept architect who has never seen one of his blueprints actually constructed.
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2
Freshwater
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Adaeke Emezi’s debut novel focuses on Ada, a young Nigerian woman born with fractured consciousness.
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3
Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
The narrative follows a woman in Brooklyn, referred to as "the wife," as she navigates the transition from an ambitious intellectual to a mother and spouse.
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4
The Vegetarian
by Han Kang
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Yeong-hye, a South Korean housewife, suddenly stops eating meat after a series of visceral, bloody dreams.
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5
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
by Max Porter
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
In a London flat, a structural linguist and his two young sons struggle to function following the sudden death of the boys’ mother.
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Homesick for Another World
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Ottessa Moshfegh’s short story collection tracks the internal lives of social outcasts, addicts, and neighborhood creeps inhabiting gritty urban landscapes and neglected suburbs.
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Normal People By Sally Rooney & Milkman By Anna Burns 2 Books Collection Set
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
This collection brings together two distinct portraits of Irish life and social pressure.
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Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Jean Rhys recontextualizes the silent madwoman from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by tracing her origins in the Caribbean.
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Rosemary Cooke begins her college years by narrating her family's collapse, a disintegration sparked by the disappearance of her sister Fern and her brother Lowell.
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The Good Soldier
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
John Dowell, a wealthy American, narrates the decade-long history of his friendship with Edward Ashburnham, a British captain, and their respective wives, Florence and Leonora.
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No Longer Human
by Junji Ito, Osamu Dazai
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Yozo Oba lives behind a literal and figurative mask, faking a persona of a cheerful clown to hide his profound alienation from the human race.
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Lost Children Archive
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
A family of four travels by car from New York City to the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona.
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