So I’ve been getting into reading for the past year, and have been focusing on classic literature. I have just finished Middlemarch, I really enjoyed both Crime and Punishment, and Anna Karenina. I have read some Jane Austen, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, but these are not women I relate to. I would like to read more modern literature, but still well written. I would like to read fictional work about women like Mata Hari, Madame Claude and Belle de Jour. I am also interested in mental health, such as I enjoyed The Bell Jar. Can anyone steer me in the right direction for my next book?
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*Girl, Interrupted* by Susanna Kaysen?
*The Witches of Eastwick* by John Updike?
*The Virgin Suicides* by Jeffrey Eugenides?
*Bunny* by Mona Awad?
Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead is a modern retelling of Dickens’ David Copperfield, set in Appalachia from the 1990s to the present. It’s very, very good, and I think if you like 19th century prose and storytelling you will probably like it.