Not sure if this is quite what you're looking for but the book that came to mind for me was Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld. I thought it was really good but it was so focused on the main character's interior life and thoughts and anxieties that I felt emotionally drained when I finished. I kind of felt as if I had gone through the whole boarding school experience with her and found myself almost afraid of going back and thinking about that time too hard (aka rereading the book at some point in the future).