I really loved this book. It’s such a good depiction of what living with loneliness and low level depression can look like - but also what life can look like as someone who is just a little “different” than mainstream. I love these characters. A Man Called Ove, Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, maybe even The Helpline. Similar vibes.

I’m a librarian and I tell people about this book all the time. It TRULY captures what depression is like.

Heft by Liz Moore!!! One of the most underrated/unknown contemporary novels. Very similar to EO.

That’s one of my favorite books. Books don’t normally make me cry, but that one does me in every time.

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I loved it too! Another in the same vein is The Funny Thing about Norman Foreman. Delightful book!

You may also enjoy Cassandra in Reverse.

Agreed! Have you read A Man Called Ova?

Try Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland

And now I have my winter reading list - thank you Redditors!!

Found it in a “little library” and brought it along on a trip to read. Random, but turned out to be a great choice. I felt really engaged, intrigued and impressed.

Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent is similar, but with a suspense/thriller aspect.

And then there’s She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb, which is both heartbreaking and beautiful.

OMG!!! I remember reading this in winter last year while sitting on a park bench behind my apartment in Tokyo. It was 10 PM, snowing a little bit and felt magical <3

Yes it’s a great book.

It’s absolutely beautiful. In my opinion quite realistic. Good plot twist, and in general very heart warming. I wish I could recommend you something, but there’s nothing like it. I loved Autumn, by Ali Smith, though. You can give it a try.

I think the book made a lot of damage to the author, though. After Eleanor’s success, she got a contract for her second novel yet to be published. It’s been six years, and it seems like it’ll be released in 2025… I have the impression that she feels pressured to write a book as successful as her first.