I’m burned out on romance arcs in everything, even when they’re subtle. Give me your best books where romance isn’t even part of the equation. Any genre is fair game—just no will-they-won’t-they stuff. Bonus if it’s beautifully written!
by High-Low4253
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* *The North Water* by Ian McGuire — brutal Arctic whaling voyage, zero tenderness, pure survival
* *Suttree* by Cormac McCarthy — lonely, slow, and soaked in despair, not a love story in sight
* *My Struggle (Book 1)* by Karl Ove Knausgaard — dude writes 400 pages on life’s minutiae and still somehow hooks you
* *The Wall* by Marlen Haushofer — quiet apocalypse, one woman alone with nature
* *The Things They Carried* by Tim O’Brien — war, memory, masculinity—no time for love tropes
No kissing. Just raw story, clean prose, and actual stakes.
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