Books like The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
12 books with a reading profile close to The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit by Michael Finkel. Inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Bruce Perry illustrates how extreme trauma and neglect reshape the physical architecture of the developing human brain.
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2
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
In Love’s Executioner, Irvin D.
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3
The Solitude of Prime Numbers
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Alice and Mattia first meet as teenagers in an Italian town.
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4
Left Neglected
by Lisa Genova
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sarah Nickerson is a high-achieving executive and mother balancing a demanding career and family life until a car accident causes traumatic brain injury.
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5
This Is How It Always Is
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Rosie and Penn Walsh are parents to five boys, the youngest of whom is Claude.
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The Most Fun We Ever Had
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
The story spans several decades, tracking Marilyn and David Sorenson and their four adult daughters in suburban Chicago.
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Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Brian Weiss, a psychiatrist trained in conventional methods, describes the case of a young patient named Catherine who came to him with anxiety and phobias.
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Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery
by Henry Marsh
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Henry Marsh provides a candid account of his decades spent as a consultant neurosurgeon, focusing on the high-stakes reality of intracranial procedures.
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Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Sebastian Junger examines the psychological rift between modern individualistic society and the ancestral need for communal identity.
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Tell the Wolves I'm Home
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Fourteen-year-old June Elbus struggles to navigate a world that feels increasingly narrow after the death of her uncle, Finn Weiss, a renowned painter who dies from AIDS in 1987.
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11
My Heart and Other Black Holes
Also inward-looking · narrative, accessible
Sixteen-year-old Aysel is a physics enthusiast who believes her depression is a physical weight, a "slug" consuming her from the inside.
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Also inward-looking and contemplative · narrative, accessible
Eleanor Oliphant lives a life of rigid, isolated routine in Glasgow, working as a finance clerk and spending weekends with frozen pizza and vodka.
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