Books like Transit
12 books with a reading profile close to Transit by Rachel Cusk. Deep, inward-looking, contemplative, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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Lost Children Archive
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
A family of four travels by car from New York City to the Chiricahua Mountains in Arizona.
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Assembly
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
In this concise novel, an unnamed Black British woman prepares for a weekend party at her white boyfriend’s family estate.
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Interior Chinatown
by Charles Yu
Also deep and open-ended · literary, experimental
Interior Chinatown follows Willis Wu, a background actor trapped in the repetitive hierarchy of a procedural television show titled Black and White.
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Pastoralia
Also deep and thought-provoking · literary, experimental
George Saunders' collection mixes satire, dark comedy and surreal settings, with working-class characters who struggle against a strange economy.
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5
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
by Ocean Vuong
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Structured as a letter from a son to his illiterate mother, the story follows Little Dog, a Vietnamese American man coming of age in Hartford, Connecticut.
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The Hour of the Star
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
In Rio de Janeiro, a self-absorbed narrator named Rodrigo S.M.
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
J.D.
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
by Max Porter
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
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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Bliss Montage
by Ling Ma
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · literary, experimental
Ling Ma’s collection contains eight stories where the surreal intersects with the mundane.
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10
100 Selected Poems
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
This collection showcases Edward Estlin Cummings’s rejection of standard grammar and punctuation in favor of visual typography.
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The Promise
by Damon Galgut
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
The narrative follows the Swart family, white farmers living near Pretoria, across four funerals spanning four decades of South African history.
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12
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
by Elif Shafak
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Tequila Leila, a sex worker in Istanbul, has been murdered and dumped in a trash bin.
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