Books like

Books like The Names

12 books with a reading profile close to The Names by Florence Knapp. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

1

I Know This Much Is True

by Wally Lamb

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Dominick Birdsey spends his life anchored to his identical twin, Thomas, whose paranoid schizophrenia leads to a violent act of self-mutilation in a public library.
2

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.
3

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.
4

Little Altars Everywhere

by Rebecca Wells

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Siddalee Walker is a successful theater director in Seattle who must reconcile with her difficult mother Vivi, one of the Ya-Yas, a group of Louisiana women who have been friends since childhood.
5

The Prince of Tides

by Pat Conroy

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Tom Wingo, an unemployed teacher from the South Carolina lowcountry, travels to New York City after his twin sister, Savannah, attempts suicide.
6

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.
7

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.
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

More Happy Than Not

by Adam Silvera

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

In the wake of his father’s suicide, sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto struggles to find happiness in his Bronx housing project.
10

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.
11

The Girls

by Emma Cline

Also inward-looking · narrative, psychology

Set in Northern California during the late 1960s, the narrative follows fourteen-year-old Evie Boyd as she becomes mesmerized by a group of older girls led by the magnetic Suzanne.
12

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.

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