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• The Book of Goose

  Li, Yiyun, 1972-

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  A novel about two young girls growing up in post World War II France. Suggested because you like My Brilliant Friend.

• The Door

  Szabó, Magda, 1917-2007

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  A translation of a Hungarian literary classic set in the communist era about a writer and the housekeeper she becomes dependent on.

• Farewell, My Orange

  Iwaki, Kei, 1971-

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  Early Bird Books suggests this novel for viewers who liked the TV adaptation of My Brilliant Friend.

• Forbidden Notebook

  a Novel

  De Céspedes, Alba, 1911-1997

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  This Italian novel from the 1950s was translated by the same translator as The Neapolitan Quartet.

• The Group

  McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989

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  A group of women who were friends in college are brought back together by the passing of one of their number.

• More Than This

  Ness, Patrick, 1971-

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  This dystopian science fiction novel avoids easy answers as it explores the human psyche. Suggested because you like Genesis by Bernard Beckett.

• Never Let Me Go

  Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954-

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  This literary science fiction novel won multiple awards including the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.

• Oryx and Crake

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  A classic dystopian science fiction novel.

• Small Things Like These

  Keegan, Claire

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  Suggested because you like Elena Ferrante.

• Station Eleven

  Mandel, Emily St. John, 1979-

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  A theatre troupe travels in the aftermath of a devastating plague in this literary science fiction novel.

• The Year of Magical Thinking

  the Play

  Didion, Joan

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  Suggested because you liked A Very Easy Death by Simone de Beauvoir.