Might not all fit that solemn sort of vibe exactly, but:
Hysteria by Jessica Gross
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
All Grown Up by Jamie Attenberg
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
The Upstairs House by Julia Fine
Luster by Raven Leilani
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
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My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Food and Loathing, Betsy Lerner
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Animal by Lisa Taddeo; All’s Well by Mona Awad; Yellowface by RF Kuang
Also it has a mixed rep but I loved Marriage Plot by the Virgin Suicides author. Also another great memoir that gives a little G,I vibe is Chronology of Water by Lidia Yukanovich– changed my life.
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The girls by Emma cline has a similar vibe
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It’s a little bleak, but {We Had to Remove This Post} by Hanna Bervoets really fits the vibe for me.
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The Closed Garden (1928) by Julien Green. Early 20th century France, this middle class girl lives with her older sister and her tyrannical father and is obsessed with her neighbor, a doctor. She becomes increasingly unhinged as the story progresses. The only issue with this suggestion is that I randomly found it in a used bookshop and I don’t know how hard it is to find normally.
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Same!
The Bell Jar? Kind of the OG for this genre
Might not all fit that solemn sort of vibe exactly, but:
Hysteria by Jessica Gross
Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
All Grown Up by Jamie Attenberg
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
The Upstairs House by Julia Fine
Luster by Raven Leilani
Boy Parts by Eliza Clark
My Dark Vanessa, Kate Elizabeth Russell
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson
Food and Loathing, Betsy Lerner
Animal by Lisa Taddeo; All’s Well by Mona Awad; Yellowface by RF Kuang
Also it has a mixed rep but I loved Marriage Plot by the Virgin Suicides author. Also another great memoir that gives a little G,I vibe is Chronology of Water by Lidia Yukanovich– changed my life.
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The girls by Emma cline has a similar vibe
It’s a little bleak, but {We Had to Remove This Post} by Hanna Bervoets really fits the vibe for me.
The Closed Garden (1928) by Julien Green. Early 20th century France, this middle class girl lives with her older sister and her tyrannical father and is obsessed with her neighbor, a doctor. She becomes increasingly unhinged as the story progresses. The only issue with this suggestion is that I randomly found it in a used bookshop and I don’t know how hard it is to find normally.
That or The Yellow Wallpaper.