Books like The Pisces
12 books with a reading profile close to The Pisces by Melissa Broder. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Following the history of the Roux family across three generations, this narrative centers on Ava Lavender, a girl born in 1944 with a pair of functional, feathered wings.
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The Binding
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
In a world where books are physical vessels for human memories, Emmett Farmer is sent to apprentice under a Binder.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
by V.E. Schwab
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
In 1714, a young French woman named Adeline LaRue strikes a deal with a god of darkness to escape a forced marriage and live without belonging to anyone.
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Alone With You in the Ether
by Olivie Blake
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Aldo Damiani, a doctoral student obsessed with the theoretical mechanics of time, meets Charlotte Regan, an artist and counterfeit analyst struggling with bipolar disorder, in the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Circe
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
On the island of Aiaia, the exiled nymph Circe transforms from a rejected daughter of the sun god Helios into a formidable witch.
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The Song of Achilles
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
In this reimagining of the Trojan War, the awkward prince Patroclus is exiled to the court of King Peleus, where he forms an unlikely friendship with the golden demi-god Achilles.
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The Ten Thousand Doors of January
romance, literary
Set in the early 1900s, January Scaller lives as a ward in the sprawling mansion of Mr.
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Big Swiss
by Jen Beagin
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Greta lives in a drafty, unheated farmhouse in Hudson, New York, where she works as a transcriptionist for a sex therapist.
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The Night Circus
romance, literary
Celia Bowen and Marco Alisdair are two young illusionists tethered to Le Cirque des Rêves, a traveling venue of monochrome tents that appears without warning and opens only at night.
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All the Ugly and Wonderful Things
Also inward-looking · romance, literary
Wavy Quinn is the daughter of a meth dealer growing up in a chaotic, neglectful household in rural Kansas.
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Bone Gap
by Laura Ruby
literary, fantasy
Bone Gap is a small Illinois town where people sometimes vanish.
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