Books like The Virgin Suicides
If you liked The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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White Oleander
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age, tragedy.
Astrid cycles foster homes after mother Ingrid murders boyfriend.
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Where the Crawdads Sing
Because shares tags: mystery, literary fiction, coming of age.
Delia Owens's Where the Crawdads Sing: Kya the Marsh Girl, Tate and Chase, the 1969 murder in Barkley Cove, and what the trial misses.
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Because shares tags: mystery, coming of age, literary fiction.
Curious Incident retold: Christopher finds Wellington dead, maps primes, seeks truth in Swindon.
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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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She's Come Undone
Because shares tags: literary fiction, 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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My Dark Vanessa
Because shares tags: literary fiction, coming of age.
Vanessa recalls teacher Strane abuse as adult reckoning looms.
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Madame Bovary
Because shares tags: literary fiction, tragedy.
Emma Rouault marries Charles Bovary for romance, then seeks lovers and luxury until debts ruin them both.
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A Thousand Boy Kisses
Because shares tags: tragedy, coming of age.
Poppy and Rune bind promise jar kisses before illness parts them.
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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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If He Had Been with Me
Because shares tags: coming of age, tragedy.
Childhood friends Autumn and Finn drift apart in high school until one August night changes everything.
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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.
