Books like

Books like The Girls

12 books with a reading profile close to The Girls by Emma Cline. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

1

Sorrow and Bliss

by Meg Mason

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Martha Friel is forty years old, her marriage to Patrick is ending, and she has spent most of her adult life navigating a severe, unnamed psychiatric disorder.
2

Sing You Home

by Jodi Picoult

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Zoe Baxter and her husband, Max, have spent years trying to have a baby, going through hormone treatments, IVF, and miscarriages.
3

Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead

by Emily R. Austin

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Gilda is a twenty-something atheist lesbian burdened by intrusive thoughts about mortality and a paralyzing inability to say no.
4

Diary of a Void

by Emi Yagi

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

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5

The Names

by Florence Knapp

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Set against the backdrop of the early twentieth century, Florence Knapp’s historical narrative follows a group of young people navigating the shifting social hierarchies and industrial changes of their era.
6

Little Fires Everywhere

by Celeste Ng

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Set in the planned community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, the story follows the collision between Elena Richardson, a woman dedicated to order and rules, and Mia Warren, an itinerant artist and single mother.
7

Eileen

by Ottessa Moshfegh

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Set in a 1964 New England winter, the story follows Eileen Dunlop, a young woman trapped in a cycle of self-loathing and squalor.
8

An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones

Also inward-looking · 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.
9

Difficult Women

by Roxane Gay

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Roxane Gay’s collection of short stories centers on the private lives of American women navigating a broad spectrum of class, race, and trauma.
10

Still Born

by Guadalupe Nettel

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

In Mexico City, Laura and her close friend Alina reach their thirties with a shared resolve to remain childless.
11

She’s Come Undone

by Wally Lamb

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Dolores Price begins her story as a smart-mouthed girl in the 1950s whose life unravels after her parents’ marriage collapses and a neighbor commits a violent act of sexual assault against her.
12

We Are Water

by Wally Lamb

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Annie Oh, a Connecticut artist, leaves her husband of twenty-seven years for her art dealer, Viveca, a woman, and announces their wedding.

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