Books like Wellness
12 books with a reading profile close to Wellness by Nathan Hill. Deep, inward-looking and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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1
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Also deep and inward-looking · analytical, narrative
Jia Tolentino examines the psychological distortion caused by living within systems that prioritize marketability and digital performance.
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2
ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
Also deep · analytical, narrative
Omar El Akkad’s collection of essays examines the cognitive dissonance inherent in Western humanitarian responses to global atrocities.
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3
Swing Time
by Zadie Smith
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Two brown girls in a London council estate meet at a dance class in the 1980s.
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4
Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
A Black writer, whose name we never learn, is on a book tour for his novel, and the story follows him as he travels and tries to carry on while his mind seems to drift.
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5
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Also deep · analytical, narrative
This collection of seven essays blends technical reporting with personal anxiety to examine how American mass culture consumes its participants.
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6
Wolf in White Van
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Sean Phillips is a man living with a severe facial disfigurement after a gunshot injury in his teens, and he spends his days alone in Southern California.
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7
BRAWLER
by Lauren Groff
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
This short story collection tracks people navigating the friction between their internal desires and the physical environments of modern Florida and historical Europe.
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8
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
by Anne Tyler
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
Pearl Tull is abandoned by her husband Beck and raises three children, Cody, Ezra and Jenny, in Baltimore on her own, with a mix of strictness and bitterness.
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9
Acts of Desperation
by Megan Nolan
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
In Dublin, a twenty-something narrator becomes ensnared in a toxic relationship with Ciaran, an emotionally distant and beautiful man.
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10
The Sentence
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Tookie, an Ojibwe woman who survived an unusual incarceration, works at a small independent bookstore in Minneapolis.
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11
The Gathering
by Anne Enright
Also deep and inward-looking · narrative, literary
Veronica Hegarty is a middle-aged Dublin mother of two who attends the wake of her brother Liam, who drowned himself in the sea at Brighton.
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12
Dream Count
Also inward-looking and thought-provoking · narrative, literary
The novel centers on Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer living in America during the pandemic, as she examines the intersections of her past romances and her current desires.
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