Top 10 novels about neighbors

Ayşegül Savaş is a Turkish writer living in Paris.

Her first novel, Walking on the Ceiling, was published in 2019.

Her new novel is White on White.

At the Guardian Savaş tagged ten books that "investigate lives at close proximity, at once familiar and distant," including:

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

How could I not include this enchanting book, which I read and re-read in the years that my family lived in the Danish commune. It must, in part, be responsible for my fascination with neighbours and their secret lives. The borrowers are tiny people who live in the walls and under the floorboards of an English house and “borrow” from the big humans. Though the house’s tenants are unaware of their miniature neighbours, one boy starts a friendship with the young borrower, Arrietty Clock.

Read about the other entries on the list at the Guardian.

--Marshal Zeringue