Books like The Woman Upstairs
12 books with a reading profile close to The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud. Inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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House of Sand and Fog
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Kathy Nicolo, a recovering addict, loses her small California bungalow due to a bureaucratic tax error.
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The Days of Abandonment
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
When Mario abruptly announces he is leaving their fifteen-year marriage, Olga is stranded in a Turin apartment with two young children and a dog.
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The Idiot
by Elif Batuman
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Set in 1995, the narrative follows Selin, a linguistics student navigating her first year at Harvard.
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Still Born
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · 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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Did You Ever Have a Family
by Bill Clegg
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
On the night before her daughter Lolly's wedding, June Reid's house burns down, killing her daughter, Lolly's fiancé Will, her ex-husband Luke and her boyfriend Adam.
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The Death of Vivek Oji
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
The novel begins with the discovery of Vivek’s lifeless body on his mother’s doorstep in southeastern Nigeria.
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Real Life
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Wallace, a Black queer doctoral student from Alabama, navigates a tense weekend at a predominantly white Midwestern university.
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Transcendent Kingdom
by Yaa Gyasi
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Gifty is a PhD candidate in neuroscience at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she studies reward-seeking behavior in mice to understand the neural pathways of addiction and depression.
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Runaway: Stories
by Alice Munro
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Alice Munro's collection has eight stories, many set in rural Ontario.
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Cat’s Eye
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
Elaine Risley, a middle-aged painter, returns to Toronto for a retrospective of her art.
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Crossroads
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, psychology
In suburban Chicago on a single day in 1971, the Hildebrandt family faces individual crises of faith and morality.
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