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A tender, delightfully weird exploration of lonely people fumbling toward connection in the most unexpected ways. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with No One Belongs Here More Than You.
- intimate
- surreal
- bittersweet
- lonely
- 01
Get in Trouble
Kelly Link
A darkly playful plunge into a world where suburban anxieties and teenage sleepovers collide with ghosts, superheroes, and the uncanny.
- 02
Oblivion
David Foster Wallace · 2004
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the hyper-articulate and deeply lonely labyrinths of the modern human mind.
- 03
Bad behavior
Mary Gaitskill · 1988
A raw, disenchanted plunge into the longing and angst of an urban fringe generation desperate for connection.
- 04
Magic for beginners
Kelly Link
A surreal, pop-culture-infused fever dream where the mundane and the magical bleed seamlessly into one another.
- 05
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace · 2001
A dizzying, darkly hilarious plunge into the neurotic, self-justifying minds of profoundly alienated people.
- 06
Reasons to live
Amy Hempel · 1985
A masterclass in saying everything by saying almost nothing, wrapping profound grief in sharp, brittle wit.
- 07
The tsar of love and techno
Anthony Marra
A darkly funny, deeply humane tapestry of interconnected lives surviving the absurdities and tragedies of a fractured empire.
- 08
This Is How You Lose Her
Junot Díaz
A raw, rhythmic autopsy of heartbreak and self-sabotage told by a narrator who can't stop breaking his own heart.
- 09
Pastoralia
George Saunders · 2000
A hilarious, heartbreaking funhouse mirror reflecting the soul-crushing absurdities of modern work and life.
- 10
One more thing
B. J. Novak
A rapid-fire carousel of modern fables that masks its tender, beating heart behind layers of sharp, absurdist comedy.
- 11
All Fours
Miranda July
A wildly original, fiercely funny fever dream about blowing up your domestic life just to see what the pieces look like.
- 12
A manual for cleaning women
Lucia Berlin
A sharp, unsentimental, and deeply empathetic tour through the messy, beautiful lives of working-class women.
