Hey. I reread Solitaire by Alice Oseman recently and got said again because I still relate to tori (mc) so much. She's probably depressed, she thinks everyone in her life hates her partly because she understand that she's not always a very good person. She's isolating herself, spends most of her days alone on her computer.
So anyway, I'm not 14 anymore, I'm 23 now and I'd like another book to overly identify with. About a young woman who's dealing with loneliness and life is not the way you imagined and you're really really lonely.
Less teen angst and being a bad person because you don't know what you're doing (tori will heal and grow out of it). More 20s frustration and trying but failing socially. If there's romance, it doesn't magically fix her.
Genre doesn't really matter but what I'm thinking will probably fall into contemporary, literary fiction (other genres welcome)
Thanks in advance!
by arabellaellaellaeheh
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Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman! It is a little hard to read at times (main character has a lot of trauma) but it is really excellent!
Maybe some Japanese literature? “There’s no such thing as an easy job” by Kikuko Tsumura comes to mind, or “Convenience Store Woman” by Sayaka Murata.
A bit further away from your request would be “The briefcase” by Hiromi Kawakami, but there’s a romantic. relationship in that story. Or “I who have never known men” by Jacqueline Harpman. That is a story centered around a woman who is technically not alone, but very isolated in her experience and later also in real life. This was my favourite book last year, it’s very very good.