Hello everyone.
I’m a person who loves gossip, who will go to the window to watch people arguing on the street, and I know it’s a flaw haha but my curiosity will always get the best of me
That said, I’m looking for books that give off the same vibe as those situations, when you hear people arguing loudly on the apartment in front of yours so you *have* to go and check. And you stay there like that gif of michael jackson eating popcorn haha
Of course, it doesn’t have to be the whole book like that (I feel that would be impossible), but books that have quite a few moments like that. My mind went to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice when I thought about this haha
I accept any genre, I’m open to anything. Thanks in advance!
by EeveeNagy
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This is such a funny prompt, I love it.
The books that came to mind for me were “The Vacationers” by Emma Straub and “Little Fires Everywhere” by Celeste Ng!
Wuthering Heights is told from the perspective of a man who finds out that his new neighbor/landlord is rather messed up.
The Family Next Door by Sally Hepworth is a suspense novel with that vibe.
A difficult question lol, maybe the Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy? Or the Cazalets by Elizabeth Jane Howard?
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf by Edward Albee. It’s a play but it hits exactly what you are talking about, miserable older couple invite new colleagues over for dinner and drunkenly disintegrate in front of them. Twenty years since I read it so if that synopsis is wrong please blame time.
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Normal People by Sally Rooney
You are looking for *The Woman Upstairs* by Claire Messud! It’s a little bit like trying to look away from a car crash…
The southern sisters mysteries by Anne George. The first one is Murder on a Girls Night Out
A Civil Campaign by Lois McMaster Bujold – it’s Pride and Prejudice in space