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12 books with a reading profile close to These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever. Inward-looking; a moderate read.

  1. 1 The Silent Wife

    The Silent Wife

    by A.S.A. Harrison

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    Todd and Jodi share an affluent life in Chicago, maintaining a twenty-year domestic partnership built on silence and denial.

  2. 2 The Killer Inside Me

    The Killer Inside Me

    by Jim Thompson

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    Lou Ford is a deputy sheriff in Central City, Texas, who presents himself to the town as a polite, slow-talking, and dull-witted lawman.

  3. 3 Confessions

    Confessions

    by Kanae Minato

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    Yuko Moriguchi, a middle school teacher, announces her resignation following the death of her four-year-old daughter, Manami.

  4. 4 The Perfect Nanny

    The Perfect Nanny

    by Leïla Slimani

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    The story opens with the discovery of two murdered children in a Parisian apartment.

  5. 5 The Last House on Needless Street

    The Last House on Needless Street

    by Catriona Ward

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    In a boarded-up house at the end of a dead-end street, Ted Corden lives in isolation with his daughter, Lauren, and his religious cat, Olivia.

  6. 6 The Dinner

    The Dinner

    by Herman Koch

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    In an upscale Amsterdam restaurant, two couples meet for a multi-course meal to discuss a horrific crime committed by their teenage sons.

  7. 7 Invisible Monsters

    Invisible Monsters

    by Chuck Palahniuk

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    Shannon McFarland is a rising fashion model until a gunshot destroys her jaw, leaving her unable to speak and hiding her face behind a veil.

  8. 8 Fight Club

    Fight Club

    by Chuck Palahniuk

    thriller, psychology

    An insomniac office worker finds relief from his corporate boredom by engaging in underground bare-knuckle boxing matches orchestrated by Tyler Durden, a charismatic soap salesman.

  9. 9 Room

    Room

    by Emma Donoghue

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    Jack lives in a single, locked room with his mother, whom he calls Ma.

  10. 10 My Absolute Darling

    My Absolute Darling

    by Gabriel Tallent

    Also inward-looking · psychology, literary

    Turtle Alveston is a fourteen-year-old girl who lives with her father, Martin, in an isolated house on the coast of Northern California.

  11. 11 The Push

    The Push

    by Ashley Audrain

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    Blythe Connor is determined to be the warm, nurturing mother she never had, hoping to break a multi-generational cycle of maternal detachment.

  12. 12 The Collector

    The Collector

    by John Fowles

    Also inward-looking · thriller, psychology

    Frederick Clegg, a socially isolated clerk who spends his time identifying and pinning butterfly specimens, wins a large sum of money and uses it to purchase a secluded country estate.

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