The Next Best Book Club discussion

Err, sorry that the topic of this post is a little vague but I'm not entirely sure if I'm even describing the following correctly (it might be called something else, I'm not sure)...

Anyways, I'm just wondering if anyone could please recommend me a novel (or novels) that is featuring/is predominantly made up of internal dialogue/drama? Examples that come to mind are Ian McEwan's Atonement and Owen Sheers' Resistance (which is sitting on my eReader waiting to be read at the moment but I've heard that a lot of the drama is internalised within the characters) and I would say Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Aleksandr Pushkin's Eugene Onegin as well.

Any genre is welcome =) Thanks in advance!

how about Crime and Punishment or American Psycho..

Barbara wrote: "Great question! There are so many! William Trevor's Felicia's Journey: A Novel is an extraordinary work of character-driven suspense. I loved Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides,Mickelsson's Ghosts by ..."

Thanks for the recommendations! I've been meaning to get around to Middlesex for ages now; going to have to bump that up in my list. The others sound intriguing too =)

Mab wrote: "how about Crime and Punishment or American Psycho.."

Thanks! I do remember Crime and Punishment being quite the internal drama...it's been a few years since I've read it though so I think it's time for a revisit ;)

Just finished The Good Father there's much internal drama in this.

Jane wrote: "Just finished The Good Father there's much internal drama in this."

Sounds intriguing! Who wrote the novel? (I tried looking it up on the search and got a number of hits with the same time)

Noah Hawley is the author. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did if you decide on it.

I suggest Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. It's a stream-of-consciousness type novel, so it's all about what's going on inside the characters' heads. You might also try Mrs. Bridge, which is about a suburban housewife and gets most of its plot from her emotional development, Frankenstein, where most of the drama comes from Victor and the moster's internal conflicts, and Dracula, which is told in diary entries and letters and therefore contains a lot of people's inner thoughts.

How about John Cowper Powys? He's often likened to Dostoyevsky and I can't think why, other than his internal drama. He's a writer of the psyche and no mistake.

Thank you for the recommendations everyone, I'll definitely look into them!

Definitely curious about John Cowper Powys, I think I came across his name while looking something up on English literature. Will definitely look into his stuff =)

Lianne wrote: "Definitely curious about John Cowper Powys, I think I came across his name..."

Happy to hear this, Lianne - I'm a recent convert and think he's just marvelous.

Hi Lianne, What about the 1890 psychological novel by Knut Hamsun, HUNGER

One of my all-time favourite books.

NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND by Dostoyevsky too perhaps.

Internal drama...


by
Matthew Akers

The protagonist wrestles with himself - original story.
See an in-depth description at:
http://www.sonofadam.org

A ballerina caught in a career change to choreography -- this is mainly an inner fight in Our Lives as Kites. Character-driven, impressionistic.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

John wrote: "NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND by Dostoyevsky too perhaps."

Oh yeah, Notes from the Underground definitely counts! It's been years since I've read that book, I think it's time for me to revisit it...