Books like The Liars' Club
12 books with a reading profile close to The Liars' Club by Mary Karr. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Girl, Interrupted
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Susanna Kaysen recounts her eighteen-month stay at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility, after a suicide attempt and a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder in 1967.
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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Kay Redfield Jamison provides a clinical and personal account of living with manic-depressive illness while maintaining a career as a professor of psychiatry.
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This Boy's Life
by Tobias Wolff
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Tobias Wolff’s memoir recounts his nomadic upbringing in the 1950s as he travels across the United States with his divorced mother to escape an abusive boyfriend.
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Autobiography of a Face
by Lucy Grealy
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Lucy Grealy describes her childhood diagnosis of Ewing’s sarcoma and the subsequent removal of much of her jawbone.
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Wat ik nooit eerder heb gezegd
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Set in 1970s Ohio, the narrative begins with the death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a mixed-race couple.
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The Year of Magical Thinking
by Joan Didion
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Joan Didion documents the first twelve moon cycles following the sudden death of her husband, writer John Gregory Dunne.
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The End of Eddy
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Eddy Bellegueule grows up in a poor village in northern France, in a family where men are expected to be tough and unemployment and alcohol are common.
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Uçurtma Avcısı
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in Kabul during the final years of the Afghan monarchy and the subsequent rise of the Taliban, the narrative follows Amir, a privileged boy haunted by his failure to intervene during the assault of his servant and f…
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A Place for Us
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
In California, an Indian-American Muslim family reunites for a wedding, marking the return of the estranged youngest son, Amar.
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
James McBride alternates between his own upbringing in a Brooklyn housing project and the oral history of his mother, Ruth Jordan.
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Moab Is My Washpot
by Stephen Fry
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
In this memoir, Stephen Fry recounts his first twenty years, focusing on his turbulent education at various English boarding schools and his eventual imprisonment.
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