Books like The Sculptor
12 books with a reading profile close to The Sculptor by Scott McCloud. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; an easy read.
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Death Valley
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
An unnamed narrator flees a Los Angeles hotel and her dying father’s bedside to seek isolation in the high desert.
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The Lover's Dictionary
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
This novel constructs the history of a single romantic relationship through a sequence of dictionary entries ordered alphabetically.
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Ghost World
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
Set in a fading American suburb, the story follows Enid Coleslaw and Rebecca Doppelmeyer, two cynical teenagers drifting through the summer after high school graduation.
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Bad Girls
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In the city of Córdoba, Argentina, a group of trans women, travestis, work at night in a park and live together in a boarding house.
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Boy, Snow, Bird
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In 1953, Boy Novak flees her abusive father in New York City and settles in Flax Hill, Massachusetts.
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Nightbitch
by Rachel Yoder
Also inward-looking · narrative, literary
An unnamed artist pauses her career to stay at home with her toddler, only to find the monotony and isolation of domestic labor triggering a physical mutation.
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Ripe
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Cassie works at Veda, a high-pressure tech company in Silicon Valley where she endures toxic corporate hierarchies and the skyrocketing cost of living.
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Intimacies
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
An unnamed female interpreter moves from New York to The Hague to work at the International Criminal Court.
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No One Belongs Here More Than You
by Miranda July
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Miranda July's debut collection brings together sixteen stories about lonely, odd and hopeful people.
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Luster
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Edie is a young Black woman working an insecure publishing job while navigating a series of chaotic sexual encounters in New York.
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First Person Singular: Stories
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Eight stories by Haruki Murakami, most narrated in the first person by men looking back at odd episodes in their lives.
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Rejection
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Tony Tulathimutte’s story collection centers on the psychological mechanics of social and sexual exclusion in the internet age.
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