Books like My Dark Vanessa
If you liked My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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She's Come Undone
Because shares tags: literary fiction, trauma, coming of age.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
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White Oleander
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Janie Crawford tells Pheoby about Eatonville life with Logan Killicks, Joe Starks called Jody, and Tea Cake.
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The Virgin Suicides
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Five Lisbon sisters die in 1970s Grosse Pointe as boys watch.
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The Paper Palace
Because shares tags: literary fiction, trauma.
Elle faces Jonas choice at Cape Cod while assault memory returns.
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Kafka on the Shore
Because shares tags: coming of age, literary fiction.
Fifteen year old Kafka Tamura flees Tokyo while old Nakata, who talks to cats, drifts toward the same library town in Shikoku in parallel.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Nine year old Oskar searches New York for a lock matching his father's key after 9/11.
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Because shares tags: coming of age, literary fiction.
Paul Bäumer enlists at nineteen and faces the trenches of World War I in Remarque's 1929 classic, told from the German side of the wire.
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Speak
Because shares tags: coming of age, trauma.
After calling police at a party, ninth grader Melinda stops speaking until art helps her tell.
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Demon Copperhead
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Born in a Lee County trailer, Damon Fields survives foster care, football fame, and opioid addiction in Appalachia.
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Call Me by Your Name
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
One summer on the Italian Riviera: seventeen-year-old Elio and grad student Oliver circle each other through swims, talks, and missed…
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Norwegian Wood
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Toru recalls 1969 Tokyo, torn between fragile Naoko and lively Midori after a friend's suicide.
