Books like The Discomfort of Evening
12 books with a reading profile close to The Discomfort of Evening by Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchison. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Love Is a Dog from Hell
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Published in 1977, this collection gathers Charles Bukowski’s poetry written between 1974 and 1977.
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Rejection
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tony Tulathimutte’s story collection centers on the psychological mechanics of social and sexual exclusion in the internet age.
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3
Bridge of Clay
by Markus Zusak
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Matthew Dunbar, the eldest of five brothers, tells how the boys were raised alone in a Sydney house after their mother's death and their father's disappearance.
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4
Boy, Snow, Bird
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
In 1953, Boy Novak flees her abusive father in New York City and settles in Flax Hill, Massachusetts.
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Oscar de León is an overweight Dominican nerd living in New Jersey who obsesses over science fiction, fantasy novels, and falling in love.
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The Topeka School
by Ben Lerner
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Adam Gordon, a poet who first appeared in Ben Lerner's Leaving the Atocha Station, is now married to a psychologist, Jane, and the father of two daughters.
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Intimacies
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
An unnamed female interpreter moves from New York to The Hague to work at the International Criminal Court.
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Second Place
by Rachel Cusk
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
The story follows M, a woman living in a remote coastal marsh, who invites a renowned painter named L to stay in her guest cottage, which she calls the second place.
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Bad Girls
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
In the city of Córdoba, Argentina, a group of trans women, travestis, work at night in a park and live together in a boarding house.
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10
Men Without Women
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Across seven short stories, various men cope with the physical or emotional absence of women in their lives.
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The Nix
by Nathan Hill
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Samuel Andresen-Anderson, a disappointed English professor who is addicted to an online video game, sees his mother Faye on the news after decades of absence: she has been arrested for throwing gravel at a right-wing pr…
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12
Milk Fed
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Rachel is a twenty-four-year-old assistant in Los Angeles who manages a strict cycle of calorie counting and punishing exercise to suppress her physical and emotional desires.
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