The 8 books on this stack
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Mary McCarthy 1968
Why it's on the stack
Funny and sad at once
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
Portrays the lives of eight women graduated from the same class at Vassar.
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John Updike 1968
Why it's on the stack
Nobody is entirely good · a small town hiding secrets
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
The provocative novel about sex in suburbia, striking in its complete sexual frankness and rightly praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrayal of love, marriage and adultery in…
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Jenny Jackson 2026
Why it's on the stack
Funny and sad at once · it raises the temperature
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
When writer Caroline Lash arrives in Greenhead, she falls immediately for its scenic beaches and New England charm - and even harder for Van Whittaker, a gorgeous, fleece-wearing, litter-collecting…
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Meg Wolitzer 2013
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself."--"The New York Times Book Review" "A victory .
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Claire Messud 2006
Why it's on the stack
Sad, and in no hurry · it leaves you thinking
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Danielle, Marina and Julius are young, bright New Yorkers living at America's beating heart in the early years of the twenty-first century.
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Donna Tartt 1992 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you'll keep turning it over for days
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the…
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Sally Rooney 2017
Why it's on the stack
Funny and sad at once · a love that builds slowly
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
A sharply intelligent novel about friendship, lust, jealousy, and the unexpected complications of adulthood in the 21st century.
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Gabrielle Zevin 2022 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Melancholic and unhurried · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green.