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Books Like The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides · about this book

Loved The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides? If its suicide content, literary fiction and tragic hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Lovely Bones, All the Light We Cannot See and The Catcher in the Rye. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside The Virgin Suicides: Suicide Content · Literary Fiction · Tragic · Teenagers · Sisters

1. 

   The Lovely Bones

   Alice Sebold

   Suburbia · Haunting · Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Death of a Sibling

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   All the Light We Cannot See

   Anthony Doerr

   Loss of Innocence · Haunting · Tragic · Literary Fiction · Teenagers

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   The Catcher in the Rye

   Jerome David Salinger

   Loss of Innocence · Depression · Death of a Sibling · Teenagers · Literary Fiction

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4. 

   Never Let Me Go

   Kazuo Ishiguro

   Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Haunting · Nostalgic · Literary Fiction

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5. 

   Atonement

   Ian McEwan

   Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Haunting · Sisters · Literary Fiction

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6. 

   Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All

   Laura Ruby

   Haunting · Sisters · Coming of Age · Atmospheric · Lyrical Prose

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7. 

   The Book Thief

   Markus Zusak

   Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Death of a Sibling · Literary Fiction · Teen Protagonist

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8. 

   We Begin at the End

   Chris Whitaker

   Loss of Innocence · Tragic · Coming of Age · Literary Fiction · Teen Protagonist

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9. 

   Night Watch

   Jayne Anne Phillips

   Haunting · Literary Fiction · Atmospheric · Bleak · Teen Protagonist

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10. 

    The Hounding

    Xenobe Purvis

    Sisters · Literary Fiction · Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Teenagers

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11. 

    The Mad Wife

    Meagan Church

    Suburbia · Depression · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Nostalgic

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12. 

    Human Acts

    Han Kang

    Tragic · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Bleak · Lyrical Prose

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13. 

    Frankenstein

    Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

    Tragic · Death of a Sibling · Haunting · Bleak · Literary Fiction

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14. 

    Tom's Crossing

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    Literary Fiction · Coming of Age · Teenagers · Teen Protagonist · Haunting

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15. 

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Brontë

    Tragic · Haunting · Literary Fiction · Bleak · Atmospheric

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16. 

    Lolita

    Vladimir Nabokov

    Loss of Innocence · Suburbia · Tragic · Haunting · Literary Fiction

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17. 

    The God of Endings

    Jacqueline Holland

    Death of a Sibling · Haunting · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction · Bleak

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18. 

    Girl, Interrupted

    Susanna Kaysen

    Depression · Suicide Content · Haunting · Coming of Age · Teen Protagonist

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19. 

    A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

    Anthony Marra

    Haunting · Tragic · Sisters · Literary Fiction · Lyrical Prose

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20. 

    The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding

    Holly Ringland

    Sisters · Death of a Sibling · Suicide Content · Lyrical Prose · Literary Fiction

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