Books like Ghost World
Enid Coleslaw and Rebecca Doppelmeyer, best friends who have just finished high school, kill the summer mocking the people and places of their nameless American town, while the future starts to pull them apart.
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Beverly
Linked comics stories about suburban Midwesterners, teenagers, parents and strangers, whose ordinary days turn slightly and disturbingly sideways.
Roaming
Three college friends meet up for a spring-break week in New York and watch the triangle of their attention bend, crack, and set in a new shape.
Banal Nightmare
After a decade in the city with a domineering partner, Moddie moves back to her hometown and falls in with old friends now nearing middle age, until an artist arrives for a residency at the local university.
Summer Sisters
In 1977 Caitlin Somers, rich and reckless, chooses Victoria Leonard, quiet and from a struggling family in Santa Fe, to spend the summer with her family on Martha's Vineyard, beginning a friendship that runs through the next two decades.
You Think It, I'll Say It
Ten stories of women and men misjudging one another: a book club, a celebrity, an old school rival, a couple playing a secret game about the people they meet.
The Idiot
A Harvard freshman falls for a maths major she emails constantly, and her overanalysis of every interaction becomes a comedy of intellectual self-consciousness.
The Stories of John Cheever
Sixty-one stories of the American suburbs and cities after the war, from The Enormous Radio to The Swimmer.
Generation X
Andy, Dag and Claire, three twentysomethings who have walked out of their careers, work dead-end jobs in Palm Springs and tell each other stories to make sense of a world that seems to have no place for them.
Hear the Wind Sing
Murakami's debut: in the summer of 1970, a college student home on break drinks beer with his friend the Rat at J's Bar, meets a girl with nine fingers and listens to the radio, learning how to be alone.
Aya of Yop City
Young women navigate love, ambition, and family in 1970s Abidjan.
The Graduate
Benjamin Braddock, home in California after college with no idea what to do next, is seduced by Mrs Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner.
The Virgin Suicides
Five sisters in 1970s suburban Michigan kill themselves one by one, and the neighbourhood boys who loved them from afar spend decades trying to understand why.