Looking for more contemporary books like The House of Mirth or Anna Karenina that really delve into women's lives and the lengths they are driven to by a world that judges them and restricts their movements. One book that might fit this bill is The Guest by Emma Cline.
Looking especially for new fiction that's been published recently and set in contemporary times! Would also love books that tackle non-white non-Western cultures and how these impact the characters!
by FewAcanthopterygii95
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Fall Baby by Laksmi Pamuntjak
The Majesties by Tiffany Tsao
My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig
Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-ju fits your description perfectly.
[here](https://zilu.app/book-results?query=Women%E2%80%99s%20dread%2C%20disorientation%2C%20confusion%20and%20anxiety) are some books about women’s dread, disorientation, confusion and anxiety
White Ivy
also
Margo’s Got Money Troubles
and
The School for Good Mothers
A couple of my favorites are Anita de Monte Laughs Last by Xochitl Gonzalez and both A Woman is No Man and Evil Eye by Etaf Rum. Gonzalez is Puerto Rican American and Rum is Palestinian American, and both of them have insights into their respective cultures and their impacts on the characters.
woman at point zero
If i had your face
women talking by miriam toews
childhood, youth, dependency by tove ditlevsen
the girl with the louding voice
tomorrow i become a woman
breasts and eggs
10 minutes 38 seconds in this strange world
the swallows of kabul
reading lolita in tehran (nonfiction, memoir but worth a read imo!)
Apartment Women by Gu Byeong-mo. It follows 4 couples that move into a co-op housing unit that requires the women to have a certain number of children within a few years. The story is more understated and captures details of the women and the one daughter as they navigate the patriarchy (esp as the men in the story are often unaware of how they further perpetuate the patriarchy). It’s understated and I feel like it’s the kind of book where you either notice the details because you’ve experienced them yourself or you don’t (I bet a lot of men won’t notice what’s wrong if they read it).