Books like Written on the Body
12 books with a reading profile close to Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson. Deep, inward-looking, open-ended and thought-provoking; a moderate read.
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The Passion
Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary
Henri is a young French peasant who becomes Napoleon's personal cook and follows the emperor's armies, as he worships the emperor.
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Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel
Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary
The narrative follows K, a primary school teacher, who maintains a quiet devotion to his best friend, Sumire.
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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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The French Lieutenant’s Woman
by John Fowles
Also deep and open-ended · romance, literary
Set in the 1860s in the coastal town of Lyme Regis, the narrative follows Charles Smithson, a gentleman naturalist engaged to the wealthy Ernestina Freeman.
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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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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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Freshwater
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Adaeke Emezi’s debut novel focuses on Ada, a young Nigerian woman born with fractured consciousness.
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Jesus’ Son
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Eleven linked stories follow a drifting narrator through the drug-addled margins of the American Midwest and Pacific Northwest in the 1970s.
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9
Weather
by Jenny Offill
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
Lizzie Benson is a university librarian and former addict who begins answering mail for a climate change podcast hosted by her old mentor.
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The Lover
Also deep and inward-looking · romance, literary
Set in 1930s French Indochina, the narrative centers on a fifteen-year-old French girl from a financially destitute family who begins a clandestine affair with a wealthy Chinese heir.
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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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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Also deep and inward-looking · literary, experimental
This collection of short stories presents the domestic lives of working-class people living in the Pacific Northwest and American West.
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