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Books like Bliss, and other stories
A delicate, luminous exploration of the quiet epiphanies and hidden sorrows pulsing beneath the surface of everyday life. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Bliss, and other stories.
- luminous
- bittersweet
- stifled
- quiet
- 01
A haunted house, and other short stories
Virginia Woolf
A shimmering, impressionistic journey through the quiet ghosts of memory, time, and the profound weight of everyday moments.
- 02
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 2001
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the neurotic, self-justifying minds of profoundly alienated people.
- 03
Short stories
David Herbert Lawrence
A feverish plunge into the untamed wilderness of the human psyche, where polite society is shed in favor of primal, dangerous awakenings.
- 04
Julia and the Bazooka
Anna Kavan
A startling, hallucinatory descent into the black holes of human consciousness, balancing vertiginous panic with tender beauty.
- 05
The orchardist
Amanda Coplin
A haunting, hypnotic immersion into the quiet sorrow of solitude and the tender, painful beauty of unexpected human connection.
- 06
Pond
Claire-Louise Bennett
A shimmering, eccentric deep-dive into the hyper-sensory solitude of a woman left alone with her own mind.
- 07
Winter
Ali Smith
A surreal, fiercely intelligent, and ultimately tender exploration of a fractured family trapped together during a bleak cultural winter.
- 08
No One Belongs Here More Than You
Miranda July
A tender, delightfully weird exploration of lonely people fumbling toward connection in the most unexpected ways.
- 09
Reasons to live
Amy Hempel · 1985
A masterclass in saying everything by saying almost nothing, wrapping profound grief in sharp, brittle wit.
- 10
Winesburg, Ohio
Sherwood Anderson
A quiet, piercing look behind the closed doors of a small town, revealing the profound loneliness and hidden desires of its inhabitants.
- 11
Bliss
Lynsay Sands
A fiery battle of wills transforms into a passionate surrender in this spirited historical romance.
- 12
Lives of Girls and Women
Alice Munro
A sharp, unsentimental portrait of a young woman's intellectual and sexual awakening in a suffocatingly small town.
