Books like You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
12 books with a reading profile close to You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense by Charles Bukowski. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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1
A Man Without a Country
accessible, literary
This collection of short essays serves as a final public address on the state of American life and the health of the planet.
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2
Pizza Girl
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Eighteen-year-old Jane is pregnant, grieving her alcoholic father’s recent death, and working as a pizza delivery driver in suburban Los Angeles.
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3
Monster
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon sits in a courtroom facing charges of felony murder for his alleged role as a lookout in a drugstore robbery.
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4
Prep
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Lee Fiora, a girl from a modest family in Indiana, wins a scholarship to the Ault School, a prestigious boarding school in Massachusetts.
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5
Tampa
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Celeste Price is a beautiful, married eighth-grade teacher in Tampa, Florida, who is sexually obsessed with fourteen-year-old boys.
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6
Sweetbitter
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
The story follows twenty-two-year-old Tess, who moves to New York City and secures a position as a backwaiter at a high-end Union Square restaurant.
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7
Handle with Care
by Jodi Picoult
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe's second daughter, Willow, is born with a severe form of osteogenesis imperfecta, a condition that causes her bones to break easily.
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8
How I Live Now
by Meg Rosoff
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from New York to the English countryside to live with cousins she has never met.
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9
Fleishman Is in Trouble
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Toby Fleishman is a forty-one-year-old hepatologist navigating the immediate aftermath of a bitter divorce in Manhattan.
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10
Vladimir
accessible, literary
A popular English professor at a small liberal arts college faces a social crisis when her husband, the chair of the department, is investigated for past sexual misconduct with students.
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11
Long Way Down
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
Fifteen-year-old Will Holloman sits in an elevator with a gun tucked into his waistband, intending to kill the man who shot his brother, Shawn.
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12
The Rest of Us Just Live Here
by Patrick Ness
Also inward-looking · accessible, literary
In an unnamed town where "indie kids" are busy fighting supernatural soul-eating Immortals, Mikey Mitchell just wants to graduate and work up the courage to ask out his crush, Henna.
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