A year ago I started to read what I call "Girls Going Through It" books. I didnt want a quirky, not-like-other-girls main character. I just wanted your average woman, written by a woman, going through something. I've since started reading and collecting books in this category and my list as of now is:
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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Otessa Moshfegh
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I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
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Just Emilia, Jennifer Oko
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Orlando, Virginia Woolf and/or Orlanda, Jacqueline Harpman
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Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
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Westward Women, Alice Martin
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The Correspondent, Virginia Evans
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On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle
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The Natural Way of Things, Charlotte Wood
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There Lives a Young Girl In Me Who Will Not Die, Tove Ditlevsen (poetry)
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Patient, Female, Julie Schumacher (short stories)
What am I missing?
by CatAndBoots
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Educated by Tara Westover and Malala.
The glass castle. Not normal family though.
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb.
Animal – Taddeo
Eileen – Moshfegh
Milk Fed – Broder
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir
This would be on the lighter side but The Husbands by Holly Gramazio.
Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan
Stone Yard Devotional also by Charlotte Wood (much quieter and more introspective)
All’s Well by Mona Awad
We Need to talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver as my wild card recommendation
All of Emily Austin’s books. Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead is my favorite.
Also, Nothing To See Here by Kevin Wilson
Margo’s Got Money Troubles is definitely about a regular woman going through it, written by a woman.
Writers and Lovers by Lily King
Evil Eye and A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
Short story: Bliss by Katherine Mansfield
Anna Karenina -Tolstoy
Not fiction but Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Thirst trap by Gráinne O’Hare
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
The Color Purple (heaviest of going through it)
The Cherry Robbers
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Poisonwood Bible
The Wedding People
The Midnight Library