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Books like Eileen
A delightfully repulsive plunge into the mind of a deeply unhappy woman waiting for a spark to ignite her suffocating life. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Eileen.
- claustrophobic
- grimy
- bleak
- unsettling
- 01
McGlue
Ottessa Moshfegh
A claustrophobic, knife-sharp voyage through the foggy, drunken recollections of a heartless narrator facing intolerable memories.
- 02
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Ottessa Moshfegh
A pitch-black, narcotic comedy about checking out of a superficial world to find a blank-slate salvation.
- 03
Foster
Claire Keegan
A quiet, sunlit ache of a story about the profound weight of ordinary kindness.
- 04
Bones & All
Camille DeAngelis
A tender, blood-soaked road trip through the lonely landscape of adolescence and monstrous hunger.
- 05
The enchanted
Rene Denfeld
A devastating, luminous fairy tale spun from the darkest corners of a death row prison.
- 06
The Loney
Andrew Michael Hurley
A damp, creeping tide of folk horror where rigid faith collides with an ancient, unforgiving landscape.
- 07
The Winter People
Jennifer McMahon
A bone-chilling, dual-timeline ghost story where the desperate weight of maternal grief bleeds through the frozen Vermont earth.
- 08
Good me bad me
Ali Land
A deeply unsettling, claustrophobic thriller that traps you inside the mind of a girl terrified she might be a monster.
- 09
Notes on an Execution
Danya Kukafka
A ticking-clock thriller that subverts the serial killer narrative to focus on the women caught in his wake.
- 10
Darling Rose Gold
Stephanie Wrobel
A claustrophobic, deeply unsettling game of cat-and-mouse between a toxic mother and the daughter who learned all her worst tricks.
- 11
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid
A claustrophobic road trip into the darkest, most surreal corners of the human psyche, where every thought feels like a trap.
- 12
Manhattan Beach
Jennifer Egan
A salty, shadowy plunge into a wartime Brooklyn teeming with mobsters, deep-sea divers, and dangerous family secrets.
