Books like The Dinner
12 books with a reading profile close to The Dinner by Herman Koch. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Confessions
by Kanae Minato
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Yuko Moriguchi, a middle school teacher, announces her resignation following the death of her four-year-old daughter, Manami.
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2
The Perfect Nanny
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · thriller, narrative
The story opens with the discovery of two murdered children in a Parisian apartment.
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3
Fight Club
thriller, narrative
An insomniac office worker finds relief from his corporate boredom by engaging in underground bare-knuckle boxing matches orchestrated by Tyler Durden, a charismatic soap salesman.
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4
Room
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Jack lives in a single, locked room with his mother, whom he calls Ma.
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The Guest
by Emma Cline
thriller, narrative
Twenty-two-year-old Alex is cast out of her older boyfriend Simon’s wealthy Long Island home after a breach of etiquette.
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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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Winter in Sokcho
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In a decaying guesthouse in the South Korean port city of Sokcho, a young woman of French-Korean heritage works for an eccentric manager during the frigid off-season.
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The Push
Also inward-looking · thriller, narrative
Blythe Connor is determined to be the warm, nurturing mother she never had, hoping to break a multi-generational cycle of maternal detachment.
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10
Penance
by Eliza Clark
thriller, narrative
Set in the seaside town of Crow-on-Sea, this novel uses a fictional true-crime format to document the murder of sixteen-year-old Joan Wilson.
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11
Flesh
by David Szalay
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Set in the heat of a Mediterranean summer, the narrative tracks the physical and psychological decline of a retired civil servant as his body begins to fail him.
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Leave the World Behind
by Rumaan Alam
thriller, narrative
Amanda and Clay, a white middle-class couple from Brooklyn, rent a remote vacation home in Long Island with their two teenage children.
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