Chicks On Lit discussion

Hi everyone! (I hope I'm posting this in the correct forum) 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!

Maybe Left Neglected? It's told in the first person and is about a woman overcoming a debilitating brain injury.

JenC. wrote: "Maybe Left Neglected? It's told in the first person and is about a woman overcoming a debilitating brain injury."

Sounds intriguing, thanks for the recommendation!

I am reading and I believe that it fits your description.

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Yes! THE PAINTED VEIL is a must! Beautiful! Also I recommend a gorgeous novel from Michael Ondaatje, THE ENGLISH PATIENT which you may know. Not all is internal drama, the dying man goes in and out of consciousness, but so do some of the other characters. I thought it was brilliant, so was the movie! Happy reading!

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Thanks for the recommendations everyone! I have The English Patient on my list of want-to-read (I remembered enjoying the movie) and I've been meaning to check out The Painted Veil for ages now...definitely need to bump them up my list now =)

The Elegance of the Hedgehog is mostly internal from what I remember.

Jennifer W wrote: "The Elegance of the Hedgehog is mostly internal from what I remember."

Ahh, yes it was! =) I had a friend recommend it to me a few years ago and the philosophical musings and reflections were very much internal. I greatly enjoyed the novel, thanks for reminding me =)

How about Life of Pi?

On second thought, The Memory Palace is probably a better idea than Life of Pi. It is a memoir of a woman who grew up with a schitzophrenic (spelling?) mother.

Just saw above Remains of the Day is recommended - so beautiful! Also, I just finished Margaret Atwood's Surfacing, which is entirely internal. I believe large portions of Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses has a lot of internal drama as well.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone! They sound like great suggestions. Been meaning to check out Margaret Atwood for ages now and I remember seeing The Memory Palace all over the place some time ago. I've also been curious about Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses; I greatly enjoyed his other famous work, Midnight's Children.