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Books like The Virgin Suicides (Bloomsbury Classic)
A hazy, hypnotic elegy for lost girlhood, told through the obsessive memories of the boys who watched them from afar. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The Virgin Suicides (Bloomsbury Classic).
- dreamlike
- hazy
- elegiac
- suffocating
- suburban-gothic
- 01
The Lovely Bones
Alice Sebold
A hauntingly beautiful exploration of a family's grief, narrated from the ethereal vantage point of the daughter they lost.
- 02
The secret life of bees
Sue Monk Kidd · 2002
A sun-drenched, honey-sweetened journey into the heart of found family and maternal love.
- 03
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
A tender, devastating exploration of two broken teenagers finding a fleeting, beautiful world in each other.
- 04
The Girls
Emma Cline
A sun-drenched, dread-soaked fever dream about the intoxicating, dangerous hunger of teenage girlhood.
- 05
Suicide notes from beautiful girls
Lynn Weingarten
A dark, breathless descent into the intoxicating and dangerous world of an all-consuming teenage friendship.
- 06
The cheerleaders
Kara Thomas
A dark, tangled web of small-town secrets and survivor's guilt that pulls you into a chilling search for the truth.
- 07
Less than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis · 1998
A sun-bleached, cocaine-dusted descent into the moral vacuum of 1980s Los Angeles.
- 08
A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby · 2005
A darkly funny, deeply human exploration of four strangers who accidentally save each other's lives by being entirely, messily themselves.
- 09
Housekeeping
Marilynne Robinson · 1980
A luminous, water-logged meditation on grief, transience, and the quiet unraveling of a family.
- 10
The hours
Michael Cunningham · 1998
A luminous, deeply interior meditation on the quiet tragedies and fleeting beauties of a single ordinary day.
- 11
Dear Zoe
Philip Beard
An intimate, heartbreakingly honest letter of a novel that captures the messy, tender reality of growing up while grieving.
- 12
Hold Still
Nina LaCour
A tender, aching exploration of the quiet spaces left behind by loss, and the slow, messy art of learning to breathe again.
