Julian Barnes 2013
- What it is
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Learning to live after a loss · comforting, like coming home
- Genre
- Literary Memoir History
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Melancholic and unhurried · funny and sad at once
Girl, Interrupted
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A farewell that moves you · it leaves you shaken
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A farewell that moves you · it's hiding a secret
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Living with grief and memoir
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Readers put them together in To walk through grief
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Like yours: living with grief · it makes you laugh
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Only melancholic and unhurried
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf 1925
Comforting, like coming home · it stays with you
Atonement
Ian McEwan 2001
A farewell that moves you · no clean hands here
Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro 1994
Comforting, like coming home · funny and sad at once
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson 2004
Melancholic and unhurried · tender and sad at once
Son of the morning star
Evan S. Connell 1984
Sad, and in no hurry · you end up rooting for the wrong people
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Only living with grief
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Grouped with yours in To walk through grief
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Toni Morrison 1987
Like yours: living with grief · it leaves you shaken
Guncle
Steven Rowley 2021
It makes you cry, in a good way · funny and sad at once
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson 2010
In common with yours: living with grief · a love story that hurts
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Only memoir
Just Kids
Patti Smith 2011
Comforting, like coming home · it makes you laugh
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson 1600
It leaves you shaken · you end up rooting for the wrong people
Eat, pray, love
Elizabeth Gilbert 2001
Sad, but it leaves you hopeful · funny and sad at once
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
Ina Garten 2024
It makes you laugh · you come out liking people more
Don't sleep, there are snakes
Daniel Leonard Everett 2008
Full of big ideas · one to read slowly
All That Remains
Sue Black 2021
It makes you laugh · it makes you think, without a lecture
The secret race
Tyler Hamilton 2012
No clean hands here · fierce and defiant
Touching the Void
Joe Simpson 1988
It leaves you shaken · fierce and defiant
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams 2014
It makes you laugh · you'll want to talk it over with someone
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot 2019
It makes you cry, in a good way · nobody is entirely good
Communion
Whitley Strieber 1987
It'll scare you · it won't tell you everything at once
Walden, or Life in the Woods
Henry David Thoreau 1854
One to read slowly · it's an essay
Mr Wilder and Me
Jonathan Coe 2020
Comforting, like coming home · a small, intimate story
White Hunter, Black Heart
Peter Viertel 1953
Not the same, but close: atmospheric and morally grey
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