Books like The Binding
12 books with a reading profile close to The Binding by Bridget Collins. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V.E. Schwab
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1714, a young French woman named Adeline LaRue strikes a deal with a god of darkness to escape a forced marriage and live without belonging to anyone.
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2
The Song of Achilles
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In this reimagining of the Trojan War, the awkward prince Patroclus is exiled to the court of King Peleus, where he forms an unlikely friendship with the golden demi-god Achilles.
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3
Circe
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
On the island of Aiaia, the exiled nymph Circe transforms from a rejected daughter of the sun god Helios into a formidable witch.
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4
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
romance, narrative
Set in the early 1900s, January Scaller lives as a ward in the sprawling mansion of Mr.
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5
The Night Circus
romance, narrative
Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair are two young illusionists tethered to Le Cirque des Rêves, a traveling venue of monochrome tents that appears without warning and opens only at night.
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6
The Gargoyle
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
A man, the narrator, is horribly burned in a car crash and spends months in a hospital burn unit, planning his own suicide.
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7
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Wavy Quinn is the daughter of a meth dealer growing up in a chaotic, neglectful household in rural Kansas.
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8
Big Swiss
by Jen Beagin
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Greta lives in a drafty, unheated farmhouse in Hudson, New York, where she works as a transcriptionist for a sex therapist.
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9
The Pisces
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Lucy is a PhD student stalled on her dissertation about Sappho and recovering from a messy breakup in Phoenix.
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10
The Deep
narrative, literary
Inspired by a song by the group clipping., this novella follows the wajinru, water-breathing descendants of pregnant African women thrown overboard during the Atlantic slave trade.
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11
Once Upon a River
narrative, literary
On a winter night at the Swan Inn along the Thames, a wounded stranger staggers through the door carrying the lifeless body of a small girl.
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12
Tipping the Velvet
by Sarah Waters
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
In 1890s Whitstable, Nancy Astley lives a quiet life shucking oysters until she becomes obsessed with Kitty Butler, a male impersonator performing at a local music hall.
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