I’ve read books like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine, The Bell Jar, Paper Castles (by B. Fox) and The Stranger, which I’ve all enjoyed very much! I was hoping people here could recommend me more books like those four 🙂
Stephanie Butland’s Lost for Words (alt title: The Lost for Words Bookshop).
Here’s a great paragraph from this book:
“Thanks, but I’m not very sociable,” I said. I’ve found this is the best way to stop people asking me to do things, because there’s not really a response, in the way that there is when you say that you’re busy (“It’s only a couple of hours!”), you’re skint (“It’s only a fiver! I’ll treat you!”), or you don’t think you’ll like it (“You never know! Give it a try!”).
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Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
Stephanie Butland’s Lost for Words (alt title: The Lost for Words Bookshop).
Here’s a great paragraph from this book:
“Thanks, but I’m not very sociable,” I said. I’ve found this is the best way to stop people asking me to do things, because there’s not really a response, in the way that there is when you say that you’re busy (“It’s only a couple of hours!”), you’re skint (“It’s only a fiver! I’ll treat you!”), or you don’t think you’ll like it (“You never know! Give it a try!”).
Maybe check out A confederacy of dunces