Books like What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
12 books with a reading profile close to What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire by Charles Bukowski. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
Same As It Ever Was
Also inward-looking · literary
Julia Ames is fifty-seven when her life begins to unravel through a series of unexpected encounters in a grocery store and the complicated return of her adult son.
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The Space Between Us
Also inward-looking · literary
Sera Dubash is a Parsi woman in Mumbai who has employed Bhima as a maid for over twenty years.
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The Unseen World
by Liz Moore
Also inward-looking · literary
Set in a 1980s computer science laboratory, the story follows Ada Sibelius, a young girl homeschooled by her father, David, a brilliant researcher developing an artificial intelligence program nicknamed ELIXIR.
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If I Had Your Face
by Frances Cha
Also inward-looking · literary
Set in contemporary Seoul, the novel follows four women as they navigate a rigid social hierarchy dictated by plastic surgery, debt, and the commercial sex industry.
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The Leavers
by Lisa Ko
Also inward-looking · literary
One morning in the Bronx, eleven-year-old Deming Guo’s mother, Polly, an undocumented Fuzhounese immigrant, goes to her job at a nail salon and never returns home.
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Ask the Passengers
by A.S. King
Also inward-looking · literary
Astrid Jones is a teenager in a small Pennsylvania town where everyone gossips.
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Deep Cuts
Also inward-looking · literary
Deep Cuts investigates the evolution of independent music scenes and the technical shifts in how listeners discover underground artists.
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The Wife
by Meg Wolitzer
Also inward-looking · literary
Joan Castleman has stood beside her husband Joe, a celebrated novelist, for decades.
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Run
by Ann Patchett
literary
Bernard Doyle, a former Boston mayor, has raised his sons Tip and Teddy, who are Black and were adopted, along with his biological son Doyle.
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Drown
by Junot Díaz
Also inward-looking · literary
Drown is a debut short story collection told mostly by Yunior, who grows up between a poor neighborhood in the Dominican Republic and the industrial towns of New Jersey.
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Honor
Also inward-looking · literary
Smita, an Indian-American journalist, returns to India to cover the legal battle of Meena, a Hindu woman brutally disfigured by her own family for marrying a Muslim man.
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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Also inward-looking · literary
Deesha Philyaw’s short story collection centers on the private lives of Black women navigating the tension between traditional Christian morality and their own physical desires.
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