Books like The Vegetarian
12 books with a reading profile close to The Vegetarian by Han Kang. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Freshwater
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Adaeke Emezi’s debut novel focuses on Ada, a young Nigerian woman born with fractured consciousness.
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
by Max Porter
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
In a London flat, a structural linguist and his two young sons struggle to function following the sudden death of the boys’ mother.
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Surfacing
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
An unnamed female protagonist returns to her childhood home on a desolate island in northern Quebec to investigate her father's unexplained disappearance.
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Dept. of Speculation
by Jenny Offill
Also inward-looking and open-ended · psychology, literary
The narrative follows a woman in Brooklyn, referred to as "the wife," as she navigates the transition from an ambitious intellectual to a mother and spouse.
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Asterios Polyp
Also deep and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Asterios Polyp is a high-concept architect who has never seen one of his blueprints actually constructed.
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Greek Lessons
by Han Kang
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
In a classroom in Seoul, a woman who has lost her ability to speak begins studying Ancient Greek.
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Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Set in late nineteenth-century Kristiania, the narrative follows an unnamed, destitute writer struggling to maintain his dignity while starving.
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Homesick for Another World
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · psychology, literary
Ottessa Moshfegh’s short story collection tracks the internal lives of social outcasts, addicts, and neighborhood creeps inhabiting gritty urban landscapes and neglected suburbs.
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9
Wide Sargasso Sea
by Jean Rhys
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Jean Rhys recontextualizes the silent madwoman from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre by tracing her origins in the Caribbean.
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Dom Casmurro
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Bento Santiago, a retired man living in Rio de Janeiro, writes a memoir to explain why he earned the nickname Dom Casmurro.
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In the Dream House
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
In this memoir, Carmen Maria Machado documents her experience in a psychologically and physically abusive same-sex relationship.
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The Unconsoled
Also deep and inward-looking · psychology, literary
Ryder, a world-famous pianist, arrives in an unnamed European city to give a performance that the local citizens believe will solve their collective social crises.
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