Books like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
12 books with a reading profile close to The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon. Inward-looking, contemplative and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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1
Elizabeth Is Missing
by Emma Healey
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
Maud Horsham is an eighty-year-old woman living with worsening dementia.
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2
Everything I never told you
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, mystery
The story begins in 1970s Ohio with the discovery of Lydia Lee’s body in a local lake.
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3
Nothing Can Hurt You
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In 1997, college student Sara Morgan is murdered by her boyfriend, Blake Campbell, who escapes a prison sentence through a successful temporary insanity plea.
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4
Broken Harbour
by Tana French
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
In the ghost estate of Brianstown, a coastal development stalled by the Irish financial collapse, Detective Mick "Scorcher" Kennedy investigates a triple homicide.
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Goodbye, Vitamin
by Rachel Khong
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, psychology
Ruth, thirty years old, has lost her fiancé and her job, and she goes home to California to help care for her father Howard, a retired history professor with Alzheimer's.
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An American Marriage
by Tayari Jones
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Celestial and Roy are a young Black couple in Atlanta building a life together when their marriage is fractured by a wrongful conviction.
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7
More Happy Than Not
by Adam Silvera
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In the wake of his father’s suicide, sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto struggles to find happiness in his Bronx housing project.
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8
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Leonard Peacock carries a P-38 Nazi handgun in his backpack on his eighteenth birthday.
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9
The Likeness
by Tana French
Also inward-looking · narrative, mystery
Detective Cassie Maddox is pulled back into undercover work when a young woman is found murdered in a derelict cottage outside Dublin.
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10
When We Were Orphans
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, mystery
Christopher Banks, a celebrated detective in 1930s London, remains haunted by the unexplained disappearance of his parents in the International Settlement of Shanghai decades earlier.
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11
Stay with Me
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In 1980s Nigeria, Yejide and Akin navigate a marriage defined by their mutual decision to reject polygamy.
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Vom Ende der Einsamkeit
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Jules Moreau and his two siblings, Marty and Liz, grow up in a protected household until a car accident kills both of their parents.
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