Elif Batuman's most recommended books

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Books like The Idiot

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Books like The Possessed

Book lists with Elif Batuman's books

4 authors created a book list with a book by Elif Batuman as one of their picks.

• Experience college without going into debt
• Exploring how place shapes community
• Relationships and dating in the modern age
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• Coming-of-age horror
• Starring empowered women
• Historical bildungsroman coming-of-age
• Protagonists coming-of-age facing challenges
• Fiction about queer millennials
• Big, lyrical, and packed with poetic prose

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