Books like

Books like The Interestings

12 books with a reading profile close to The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.

1

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.
2

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Helen Graham arrives at a desolate Yorkshire estate under a shroud of secrecy, sparking intense local gossip and the unwanted attention of a neighboring farmer, Gilbert Markham.
3

Galatea

by Madeline Miller

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

In this short story, a statue carved from ivory is granted life by a goddess, becoming the wife of her creator, Pygmalion.
4

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

by David Wroblewski

Also inward-looking · narrative, classic literature

Edgar Sawtelle is born mute in rural Wisconsin, into a family that breeds a special line of dogs, the Sawtelle dogs, chosen for their intelligence and character.
5

The Accidental Tourist

by Anne Tyler

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates traveling.
6

Silver Sparrow

by Tayari Jones

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Dana Yarboro knows her father, James Witherspoon, has another family.
7

The Winter of Our Discontent

by John Steinbeck

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.
8

Hag-Seed

by Margaret Atwood

narrative, classic literature

Felix Phillips is a theater director ousted from his festival job by a treacherous associate.
9

A Thousand Ships

by Natalie Haynes

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.
10

The History of Love

by Nicole Krauss

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.
11

The House of the Spirits

by Isabel Allende

Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

The story spans three generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed Latin American country through the twentieth century.
12

Go Set a Watchman

by Harper Lee

Also thought-provoking · narrative, classic literature

Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch returns to Maycomb, Alabama, from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus.

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