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A harrowing, beautifully written descent into the wilderness of a young girl's trauma and her fierce, bloody fight for survival. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with My Absolute Darling: A Novel.
- dread-soaked
- feral
- claustrophobic
- lush
- 01
My dark Vanessa
Kate Elizabeth Russell
An uncomfortably intimate, dread-soaked psychological deep dive into the agonizing process of unlearning a foundational trauma.
- 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
The Way I Used To Be
Amber Smith
A raw, aching portrait of a girl fracturing under the weight of a secret, and the slow, nonlinear journey to piece herself back together.
- 04
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah
A sweeping, emotionally grueling portrait of a family unraveling in the beautiful but deadly isolation of the Alaskan wilderness.
- 05
My Name is Lucy Barton
Elizabeth Strout
A quiet, deeply intimate exploration of the unbridgeable gaps and enduring tethers between a mother and daughter.
- 06
Turtles All the Way Down
John Green
An intensely intimate, philosophical dive into the claustrophobia of the mind, anchored by the fierce, messy bonds of teenage friendship.
- 07
Far from the tree
Robin Benway
A beautiful, interweaving exploration of what it means to find, keep, and love a family.
- 08
The God of the Woods
Liz Moore
A thrilling, multi-threaded plunge into the dark secrets and class divides of a powerful family after a sudden disappearance.
- 09
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
A fiercely voiced, heart-wrenching epic of survival that immerses you in the beauty and devastation of modern Appalachia.
- 10
Our endless numbered days
Claire Fuller
A haunting, atmospheric descent into the wilderness where survival is entangled with dark family secrets and a fractured reality.
- 11
Tell me lies
Carola Lovering
A thrilling, dual-perspective dive into the intoxicating and destructive gravity of the one person you can not let go of.
- 12
Bones & All
Camille DeAngelis
A tender, blood-soaked road trip through the lonely landscape of adolescence and monstrous hunger.
