Books like The Edible Woman
12 books with a reading profile close to The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
After the funeral of Molly Lane, her two former lovers—Clive Linley, a celebrated composer, and Vernon Halliday, a newspaper editor—forge a mutual euthanasia pact to avoid a similar cognitive decline.
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The Sun Also Rises
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Jake Barnes, an American journalist living in Paris, lives with a physical wound from the Great War that leaves him impotent.
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The Winter of Our Discontent
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Ethan Allen Hawley, a scion of a formerly wealthy New England family, works as a grocery clerk for an immigrant shopkeeper in the fictional town of New Baytown.
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ILL - One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
In Dale Wasserman’s 1970 stage adaptation of the Ken Kesey novel, the narrative centers on Randle P.
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La tregua
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Martín Santomé, a widowed Montevideo office worker, is nearing retirement.
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A Thousand Ships
Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Natalie Haynes reimagines the Trojan War through a choral narrative that centers the women, goddesses, and victims usually relegated to the margins of epic poetry.
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The History of Love
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
The story follows Leo Gursky, an elderly locksmith in New York who avoids solitude by making himself seen in public, unaware that a manual he wrote in Poland sixty years ago survived the Holocaust.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Set in wartime Manhattan, the narrative follows an aspiring writer who becomes fascinated by his upstairs neighbor, Holly Golightly.
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Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Based on the true story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, this novel follows the final months of the last woman executed in Iceland.
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The Interestings
by Meg Wolitzer
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
The story begins in 1974 at a summer arts camp where six teenagers—Jules, Ash, Goodman, Ethan, Jonah, and Cathy—form a tight-knit circle based on their shared creative ambitions.
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The Marriage Plot
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature
Set in the early 1980s, the story follows three Brown University graduates navigating the transition to adulthood.
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