Hi! I’m looking for book recommendations and trying to better understand my own taste
I loved A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. What I think I liked most was the deep focus on the character’s inner world rather than plot, the depressive tone and the way both books sit with emotional discomfort instead of resolving it neatly.
I’m drawn to flawed or unlikeable protagonists, themes of isolation, trauma, numbness, or existential sadness, and writing that feels introspective and heavy.
I’m not looking for feel-good books, I prefer literary fiction that’s dark and emotionally intense.
Any recommendations would be appreciated!
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Eileen by Otessa Moshfegh
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
The Laughter by Sonora Jha (this one is a bit different in so far as the flawed weird girl in this novel is the object of the narrators sexual obsession)
My Nemesis by Charmaine Craig
The Coin by Yasmin Zaher
Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
Hunchback by Saoi Ichikawa
Milkfed by Melissa Broder
The Pisces by Melissa Broder
Motherthing by Ainsile Hogarth
Chlorine by Jade Song
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder (for transparency, I wasn’t a fan of this, but a lot of folks love it)
Try reading The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath