since I haven’t read all the books on your list (but noting them for my own!)
some options (some more, some less) along these lines:
You too can have a body like mine, Alexandra kleeman
Treasure island!!!, sara Levine
The new me, Halle butler
The hole, hiroko oyamada
Play it as it lays, Joan didion
The faces, Tove ditlevsen
Eileen, otessa moshfegh (preferred this to my year of r&r, personally)
The flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner
Queenie, Candice carty-Williams
the quick and the dead, joy Williams
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orbital - samantha harvey
the mortal and immortal life of the girl from milan - domenico starnone
small things like these AND foster - both by claire keegan
five-carat soul - james mcbride (short stories but they go by quick)
lie with me - philippe besson
if an egyptian cannot speak english - noor naga
the boy and the dog - hase seishū
home - toni morrison
scattered all over the earth AND the emissary - both by yoko tawada
franny and zooey- j. d. salinger
the black tree atop the hill - karla yvette
the white card - claudia rankine
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Fiction:
In Watermelon Sugar-Richard Brautigan.
Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada.
Death in her Hands-Ottesa Moshfeg.
Mist-Miguel de Unamuno.
Animal-Lisa Taddeo.
This is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill.
Death With Interruptions-José Saramago.
The Family of Pascual Duarte-Camilo José Cela (This one is extremely violent and graphic, so beware).
Flowers in the Attic-V.C Andrews.
100 Years of Solitude-Gabriel García Marquez.
Non-fiction:
Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs.
Educated-Tara Westover.
I’m Glad My Mom Died-Jennette McCurdy.
May 30, 2024
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Put on the robe, turn on adult swim or whatever, crank the ac, eat a late night snack in one bed and sleep in the other. The freedom of impersonal liminal space.
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The context may be different but no emotion is completely new— i can cope
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