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Books like Cracks
A feverish, sun-drenched descent into the intoxicating and cruel world of adolescent obsession. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Cracks.
- claustrophobic
- sun-baked
- feverish
- dread-soaked
- 01
Waiting for the Rain
Sheila Gordon
A heartbreaking exploration of a childhood bond slowly fractured by the inescapable weight of systemic division.
- 02
What was she thinking?
Zoe Heller
A deliciously toxic and claustrophobic descent into the mind of a fiercely observant, dangerously lonely woman.
- 03
Everything good will come
Sefi Atta
A fierce and intimate exploration of girlhood, grief, and the divergent paths of two friends navigating a society that demands their submission.
- 04
The secret life of bees
Sue Monk Kidd · 2002
A sun-drenched, honey-sweetened journey into the heart of found family and maternal love.
- 05
The driver's seat
Muriel Spark · 1970
A razor-sharp, deeply unsettling descent into the mind of a woman seizing terrifying control of her own destruction.
- 06
Surfacing
Margaret Atwood
A chilling, atmospheric descent into the wilderness that strips away the veneer of civilization to reveal the feral, wounded self beneath.
- 07
Crocodile burning
Michael Williams
An impassioned and urgent journey where the theatrical stage becomes a vessel for righteous anger and desperate hope.
- 08
Little Bee
Chris Cleave
A devastating and beautiful collision of two worlds that asks what we owe to each other in the face of unspeakable trauma.
- 09
Icarus Girl, The
Helen Oyeyemi
A lyrical and unsettling descent into childhood imagination, where cultural duality and mythic doubles blur the line between reality and the spiritual world.
- 10
Still missing
Chevy Stevens
A breathless, claustrophobic descent into captivity and the messy, agonizing work of surviving the aftermath.
- 11
Five quarters of the orange
Joanne Harris
A sensory, memory-laden journey where recipes and long-buried secrets simmer together in a quiet French village.
- 12
Pages for You
Sylvia Brownrigg
An intoxicating, deeply literary exploration of the all-consuming nature of a first queer love.
