Books like One girl at a time by Roberta Leigh

Eighteen‑year‑old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital in 1967, where she documents life in the psychiatric ward, exploring mental illness, recovery, and the cultural landscape of the late 1960s.

A love marriage on shaky ground: Jane Roberts marries Nicholas Hamilton, unaware that his union is motivated by a will that would disinherit him if he refused.

In the turbulent final years of the 1960s, a lonely teenager from Northern California is drawn into a charismatic cult, where her longing for acceptance and connection with an older, enigmatic girl brings her dangerously close to violence.

Kate McNaught navigates a professional and personal tension with her charismatic yet domineering boss, Gregory Courtney, as their work relationship blurs into attraction.

Tessa, a successful surgeon with a demanding career, and Patrick, a driven businessman building an empire, clash over love and family life in a battle of wills that could reshape their futures.

A novel set against the backdrop of the Cold War, featuring a man trying to distance himself from his past and an artist struggling for independence, exploring themes of masculinity and societal norms.

At eighteen, Sara believes Gavin Baxter is her destined love, but her youth and inexperience split them apart. Now, with growing maturity, she questions whether she can rekindle their bond or if her doubts have torn it beyond repair.

A work in progress at the time of Pasolini's murder, Petrolio is made up of a series of notes - some extended and polished narrative passages, others cryptic messages from the author to himself that consist of no more than a few words. At the novel's center is Carlo, an oil executive who undergoes a profound personality split: Carlo 1 is a super-Machiavellian power monger; Carlo 2 lives only to satisfy his perverse and insatiable sexual desires. Carlo also experiences a sexual metamorphosis in which he becomes, at will, female. The story of Carlo is interspersed with re-visions of myth - Oedipus, Medea, the Argonauts - and of Dante's hell. The teller of this story is also dual in nature. There is the author - the external shaper of the novel - who interrupts the text to comment on its mechanics and its meaning. And there is the narrator, whose cynical and seductive perspective comes from within Petrolio's fictional world. Fragmentary, deliberately self-referential, meta-literary, schizoid, a devotional exploration of the male libido, an ode to the lust for power and the power of lust and, above all, a wrenching attempt to define the intellectual and his responsibilities, Petrolio is a postmodern masterpiece.